gpawl

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by gpawl 9y ago
Nice victim-blaming, bro. Just because some people push back against misbehavior doesn't mean the misbehavior is right to continue wherever it's not checked.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Your anecdote of your fuzzy memory is not research. When measurements are taken, there is a clear pattern: https://www.forbes.com/sites/womensmedia/2017/01/03/gal-inte... https://hbr.org&
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by gpawl 9y ago
Talkington, quite the aptonym for this article.
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by gpawl 9y ago
In this modern age, why bother trying to deal with customer service, when going through Amazon reviews is so easy and efficient?
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by gpawl 9y ago
Yep, they respond to every negative review with a free replacement, in order to keep ratings afloat long enough until the product is no longer a best-seller. (I experienced this with an aftermarket battery replacement. Apple original lost i
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by gpawl 9y ago
Thank you for sharing your personal essay here. But I don't understand why you would write it, since nobody interesting would read it, as you argue.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Browse any unmoderated forum to disabuse yourself of the boundaries of self-unawareness of stupidity.
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by gpawl 9y ago
> Men generally don't hang out on sites to talk about their burrito shits, they don't bond over their gender. reddit.com would like a word with you. One of the most active websites in the world, especially social websites. And
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by gpawl 9y ago
Scott Aaranson thought the experience went pretty well for him: https://www.quora.com/What-was-it-like-for-you-to-be-widely-... "destroy his life" is comical hyberbole, and shows the same absurd provincialism that
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by gpawl 9y ago
Stop exploiting white male retired coal miners living on welfare in trailer parks for your own attacks on middle-class women. Please refrain from using white male retired coal miners living on welfare in trailer parks as rhetorical hit poin
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by gpawl 9y ago
That doesn't help. Your new password might be the same as the twice-previous password.
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by gpawl 9y ago
Ah. Thanks for clarifying. Still, permutations longer hashes don't require substantially more space. Password storage is a completely trivial fraction of total storage -- Compare to a single photo, or a video! And further still, they d
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by gpawl 9y ago
longer passwords don't hash to longer values (within any reasonable variation of order of magnitude in input size). That would defeat the purpose of hashing
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by gpawl 9y ago
How do you know that the finger data the scanner uses is present in oil prints? If this true, someone would have created a working demonstration in the past 5 years.
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by gpawl 9y ago
> why is 35-44 years group least likely to use adblockers? They don't, not according to that graph. Some national segments do, others don't. Looks like margin of error to me.
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by gpawl 9y ago
You think that trying to teach a computer everything about everything doesn't support ad revenue? Google has a lot of ads customers. Why do those customers use Google?
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by gpawl 9y ago
Do young people use gmail?
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by gpawl 10y ago
Relax, parent poster was simply clarifying that the 'competitive' referred to programming "sports" contests, not competing for a programming job.
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by gpawl 10y ago
They don't have a word for it, that doesn't mean they don't feel it. Every culture has words of some concepts and not for others. An American has a hard time grasping the Asian concept of "face".
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by gpawl 10y ago
it Primes the market?
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by gpawl 10y ago
Amazon comingles _reviews_ for _different_ similar products.
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by gpawl 10y ago
Mars-bound Musk
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by gpawl 10y ago
That's the much-derided "MBA" concept.
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by gpawl 10y ago
and that's why Nintendo hardware is a letdown -- instead of designing ideal experiences, they take solutions and go hunting for problems.
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by gpawl 10y ago
This is equivalent to a software program where the basic and Pro versions are the same code, but some Pro features are locked by a software gate. Ammiibo hacking is buying the basic version of a software program, and then bypassing the secu
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by gpawl 10y ago
I think you mean you are being an inconveniently regular person, for having a common name. > It made me want to leap through my screen and scream at her in person. That would be attacking the victim, not the person who deserves to be s
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by gpawl 10y ago
Sounds like a check card at Bank of Amazon, that maybe isn't a "bank" because of loopholes in the banking law.
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by gpawl 10y ago
"insane" is only a synonym for "extreme" when speaking in loose slang.
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by gpawl 10y ago
It's explained in the article: “He has made up many stories about working and studying here which are untrue"
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by gpawl 10y ago
"The New Jim Crow", sort of like "neo-Nazi" http://newjimcrow.com/

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