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by fweespeech 8y ago
> ITT: people dramatically under-estimating the risk to their accounts from credential stuffing and dramatically over-estimating their security benefits from not running JS. Password are effectively obsolete and everyone should be using
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by fweespeech 8y ago
> This is diametrically opposed to the First Amendment’s intent. No, it wasn't. The assumption at the time was _money_ was the only barrier to distribution. Much like the reasoning behind Citizen's United (as much as I loathe t
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by fweespeech 8y ago
That was Voat. Gab is the same but Twitter. But for all their bitching, they are still active on both in large numbers. Both platforms really only engage in token bans.
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by fweespeech 8y ago
Reddit (among other platforms) have knowingly enabled neo-nazis and racists for years. They, like Twitter, really only react when called out publicly by media outlets with large scale distribution. Gab is only viewed special case because th
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by fweespeech 8y ago
Yeah, and they aren't the only one. Companies like https://hetrixtools.com/pricing/uptime-monitor/ are slightly more expensive but still alot cheaper.
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by fweespeech 8y ago
> a change in the types of questions I tend to ask as I have become a more experienced programmer. That is probably 50% of it. I find myself using google to solve problems about once a day these days. When I first started, it was easily
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by fweespeech 8y ago
> but it certainly is not a job for everyone and the rub is the folks who WANT to do it the most are often the worst at it. This is correct. As someone who has run forums for a number of years, I can honestly say I've fired 70% of t
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by fweespeech 8y ago
I directly reported to a manager, who in theory, was responsible for my performance/etc. It was his job to play the "good cop" unless I was really fucking up. However, on a day-to-day basis I was reporting to a project lead (
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by fweespeech 8y ago
Up to a point, yeah. However, if it impacts them negatively in any way (i.e. They overpromised) you will find that respect doesn't help.
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by fweespeech 8y ago
Danaher / Danaher Labs - assuming you can avoid having a bad manager. Our home room would regularly scold us gently for working late / weekends. The problem was, the home room wasn't really in charge.
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by fweespeech 8y ago
- Alpha male posturing - People expect you to care about your job.
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by fweespeech 8y ago
You have to live in the world and resist anonymously.
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by fweespeech 8y ago
I would suggest converting to a fixed dollar amount and fixed amount of equity. It encourages people to make choices that are efficient. (i.e. $200k -> 20%) You also probably want to organize group discounts for basically any common serv
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> Well here's your chance to agree with Donald trump: he made everyone sign an ethics pledge that they would not lobby within 5 years of their tenure in government. https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/20
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Small claims court goes with demand verbiage oddly enough in some states. So context matters.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
It is quite scary that it works, even on people I'd normally expect to be more discerning. The flip side of that is they can't really hide when they fuck up.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Yeah, but many people would choose not to pursue a business that sells out a large numbers of people on ethical grounds. That doesn't even get into his corporate backstabbing and other acts. Simply because he can exploit a large quanti
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> Why not? Zuckerberg is clearly a smart man, and he seems to be as qualified as any one else. Infinitely more qualified than the current occupant of the office. Just because you don't think of him as a politician doesn't mean
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by fweespeech 9y ago
It is a protection racket that shifts the risks and costs from the financial system to consumers.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Banks carry the risk like they do for credit cards, consumers carry $100 of the risk and the risk to their credit rating.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
I might be biased by the experience my friend from high school had up until he completed his service and got himself honorably discharged to make it stop. It started out voluntary enough but the lack of a sex life led to that sort of proble
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> Feeling alienated by your colleagues and bosses, feeling constantly underappreciated, or feeling ostracized by them. Lol. I find it funny I got attacked and censored for describing that and then being told it isn't related to burn
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Which means the one under the UCMJ is open to blackmail from their spouse if they fool around in a marriage in name only. Yeah. Totally a reason to stay married in name only.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
They don't but it takes two people to make a marriage. "Staying married in name only" means anyone under the UCMJ can't have sex _ever_ if its a marriage in name only.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Because adultery is something you get smacked for by the military legal system.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
It's far less likely real technology and far more likely massively undersold capacity in a Tesla. Laptop and phone batteries are physically close to heat sources + are used frequently to substantial degrees of discharge + frequency of
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by fweespeech 9y ago
Which is the most dishonest way to try to insult someone so 10/10 on that.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> After investigating the AdNauseam extension's behavior and the results for web publishers, the extension has been added to the Pale Moon blocklist with a severity level of 2 (meaning you won't be able to enable it unless you
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by fweespeech 9y ago
To be honest, the legal environment in Central/Eastern Europe in regards to speech would be a greater threat to me than the environment.
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by fweespeech 9y ago
> People's aversion to moving, especially after a major disaster, boggles my mind. Social connections, networks that enable employment, and a lack of serious financial reserves (which will always be true for ~50% of people) are the

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