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by furyg3 12y ago
If the company claims that salaries are truly algorithmic and based on experience level, they should have no problem publicizing the salaries of each employee on an internal wiki. I see a lot of HR departments put a huge effort into making
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by furyg3 12y ago
I know that many public transit services are (highly) subsidized, but it's a bit shocking to me that a) there is a huge demand for more capacity and b) it is simply a matter of adding more trains. It would seem to me that this is an e
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by furyg3 12y ago
I'm not quite sure what the appeal of free VPN services are, or why anyone would trust them. Setting up a VPN server takes very little time. From a default Ubuntu installation you only need to install the OpenVPN Access Server package
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by furyg3 12y ago
"More than half again the cost" was clear to me, although my feeling is that this is a bit antiquated (possibly still used in England?). I would probably write "one and a half times".
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by furyg3 12y ago
If you're specifically targeted by the state (especially extralegally), you're screwed. Personally, I just want to be in control of my data, and don't want others (government or otherwise) to be indexing or 2 clicks away fro
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by furyg3 12y ago
I work in this space, and I will say that consumers can do a lot here to change the behavior of these mega companies when it comes to treatment of farmers. Consumer choices and/or bad press makes big companies move, sometimes very qui
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by furyg3 12y ago
> "We have cases where phones get seized, and they are not necessarily taken from an arrested person - but we don't know the details of these cases as there is not a reason to keep records of this," she added. Christ, this
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by furyg3 12y ago
The churn in the top .0001% means basically nothing as to how serious wealth accumulation is. It's a horrible indicator. Looking at the world cup results of 1982 (Italy, W. Germany, Poland, France) and 2014 (Germany, Argentina, Nether
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by furyg3 12y ago
I can't speak for him, but it terrifies me that we expend so much energy and capital to completely remove any sort of human reflection from the operations of our global economy.
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by furyg3 12y ago
This is very shortsighted. Most people in the US use their car to get to work. Lenders have a vested interest in their borrower's current and future ability to earn money.
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by furyg3 12y ago
I almost did this to my friend group (who use iMessage and WhattsApp exclusively) Maybe I'm making perfect the enemy of good, but I won't be 'pushing' my friends to move to anything other than textsecure. Unfortunately
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by furyg3 12y ago
While I don't know everything about either the US or NL prison systems, I have lived in both places and do know both a guard at a non-maximum security correctional facility in California, and several psychologists who work at TBS &#x27
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by furyg3 12y ago
Slightly OT, but what is everyone's favorite minimalist printer? Are there any? I avoid printing like the plague, but sometimes you just need to print a ticket, letter, or a photo of a document you have on your computer. I don't
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by furyg3 12y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I've had this functionality on the iOS version of Hangouts for a while (I already have Google Voice). Outgoing phone calls from Hangouts show my GV number as caller ID. Incoming calls also ring on my Hang
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by furyg3 12y ago
Price would be a handy metric...
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by furyg3 12y ago
This. In Holland we have chip and pin, which I've got to say goes much faster than someone can fish out cash from their wallet, certainly faster than someone can make change. Recently many places also support RFID with no pin required
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by furyg3 12y ago
This is paranoia. Much more likely that your card was flagged as bing possibly compromised by some other factor than your spending behavior. For example If a a bank sees that many cards used at a particular retailer end up having fraudulent
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by furyg3 12y ago
Yes, if you're in Germany your programming is for Germany whether or not you have a US or German account. The bad news is that you'll have to use a VPN to pretend to be from some other country (US) in order to get some of the show
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by furyg3 12y ago
> Now, I'm sure if I were in the situation of this enabling me to have a biological family then I'd want it [...] Personally, I wouldn't be so sure. Having kids is a leap of faith and involves risks no matter what you do,
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by furyg3 12y ago
This this this. There are some huge players in the online advertising world who are supposed pillars of innovation and sustainability, but they have really failed at keeping sketchy, scammy, or downright malicious advertisers away. Inacti
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by furyg3 12y ago
> Prime Minister David Cameron and his Lib Dem Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will tell a special cabinet meeting on Thursday that emergency legislation is necessary to keep the country safe. Safe from what, exactly?
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by furyg3 12y ago
I sometimes barbecue on my sidewalk where I live. I assume it's legal (I'm taking a risk), or at least it's tolerated by my neighbors and police officers walking by. This is probably because it's only me, I'm not c
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by furyg3 12y ago
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1329/
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by furyg3 12y ago
I'm also only about a quarter through, but so far it's interesting for non-economists. Some tolerance of technical explanations and simple formulas (i.e. not panicking at greek symbols) is required, but nothing unusual for the HN
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by furyg3 12y ago
Preface: I know nothing about this game. I feel like this is a preference setting. Either at match level or user-level (e.g. when two 'pro' players fight each other in the game coolant dump is disabled)?
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by furyg3 12y ago
If someone wants to use a 250 character truly random password with crazy characters, let them do it. If they used a long password with an excellent mix of upper-case, lower-case, and special characters, but no numbers, it's a good pas
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by furyg3 12y ago
I find this kind of surprising. First off, I'd figure that NASA would set up a few UHF stations around the world in locations with decent internet access (friendly countries or military bases), and route comms via that. Maybe you don
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by furyg3 12y ago
In the same vein, here is a live speedrun of Mega Man X, accompanied by live music as the game is played. They look like they're having a blast playing this music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnQ7bDGhOLI I'd
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by furyg3 12y ago
If the problem is caused by a culture of consumerism and economic efficiency, do you expect to fix it with a focus on efficiency or cultural change? Educational and stimulative efforts (through fines or rewards) have been successful in the
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by furyg3 12y ago
Ethics? I don't think it's necessarily cost-effective for many places to have accessible toilets. They do it because they've decided it's the right thing do to, or because society has decided this and made a law. Nor d

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