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by gspetr 9y ago
You mean modern Blizzard does that. Oldschool Battle.net had a 16 alphanumeric characters with underscore allowed and that was that. At least for Warcraft 3 it's been the case since 2002 for a very long time (until quite recently last
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_(software) 7 years ahead of node.js
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I think a solid argument can be made that Microsoft has abandoned this strategy. If they had not then the forced timed restarts of Win 10 (30 minutes and kiss your work goodbye), along with forced updates would not be a thing.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/antivirus-is-dead-long-l...
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/30/16945494/deepfakes-porn-f... Without any precedents YMMV.
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There's an opportunity in there for an AI approach to outsource requests like these to Fiverr.
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Monetary value, perhaps. Gaming value? Actually the reverse is true - everything in my i5-3570K's rig is from 2012, except for the GTX 1080 and it ran everything 2017 @1440p very well. Admittedly no BF1 or PUBG as I grew tired of the F
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Another former resident of Moscow here. I traveled through China recently. Forget Moscow. They got cities which previously had no Subway at all starting out with 20 stations from day one.
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> No buying or purchasing happens when things are priced at zero. One could make a good argument that the air is worth zero. Yet one would be wrong: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china&#x2F
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In 2017, far-right Slovak politician Marian Kotleba was criminally charged for donating 1,488 euro to a charity.
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> ethically they aren't that different Not the best things to compare. Builtin and culturally acquired anthropocentrism shall not be denied: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dom
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There would be nothing to be gained in that war for either country. You don't need territory (at least at a price that steep) and you certainly don't need slave labor in 2018.
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Trains to Auschwitz? Weren't they already in concentration camps? https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/01/31/germany-housin...
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I'll agree with the latter assertion (framework), but not with the former (character). People tend to default to conformism when they don't know any better. By that standard the older the man, the worse he is and you'll arriv
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> why someone would think that the idea of a general interest video hosting site and a political platform are somehow exclusive at all. A general interest here seems commercial in nature and is thus susceptible to whims of the owner(s) a
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“...great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil.”
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Some sites like NYT wouldn't even render text (!) for me by default with noscript on. Then there was that time when I read on HN about Forbes loading 35 MB worth of crap (lots of JS too) when you first access it, sure enough it's
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by gspetr 9y ago
Thank you for this list, greatly appreciated.
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Facebook is censoring people the US government sanctions(qz.com)
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There are quite a few countries where it's A-OK to give your entire salary to your wife, so it's more like not paying her your salary, but her giving you a fraction of yours.
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The very existence of open marriages defies your argument.
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Would he have not if he had been single? If he was single, should the cleaning service get a cut of his company? Should the Domino's get a cut of his company for keeping him fed during those midnight coding sessions? What about the was
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Pre-nups can get thrown out of courts if a court decides it was signed under "duress". E.g. less than 6 months before the marriage.
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by gspetr 9y ago
It's not 50/50 if your spouse gets alimony on top of your assets. It might even be permanent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimony#United_States EDIT: With regards to no fault divorce, you might want to take
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by gspetr 9y ago
The latter was a quote[0] from Thomas Sowell[1], who lacks neither qualifications (Being an Ivy League economics professor), nor privilege-blindness (Black man born in 1930). [0] https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status&#
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If you can convince an entire community to rearrange their finances, in certain jurisdictions you might get some interesting results even without UBI. For example if you were to pay taxes in gold: https://www.forbes.com/site
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Most Fortune 500 companies were founded by white men -> Most CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are white men. Is that problematic? Tax system already penalizes those who are producing wealth in order to subsidize those who are consuming
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That's highly unlikely as we've recently learned from "Internet Chemotherapy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15946095 ISPs are unfortunately the problem, not the solution.
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> McDonalds giving away food. Not the best example. McDonalds is so much more than food: http://blog.wallstreetsurvivor.com/2015/10/08/mcdonalds-beyo...
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Yeah, that gave me a pause too. Then again, he might not have a "hacking background" but might have a strong embedded/networking background so he knows where to look, considering how he found exploits that blackhats missed. S

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