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by guelo 7y ago
Right, any talk of principles is a smoke screen, the only thing they care about is power.
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by guelo 7y ago
As if a celebrity sex tape is so much worse then attacking the core of democracy by deliberately spreading disinformation.
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by guelo 7y ago
If you don't support the right of others to say things you don't like then you don't support free speech.
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by guelo 7y ago
Facebook took down an ad by a left-leaning politician that said Lindsey Graham supports the Green New Deal. It's only Republicans that are allowed to lie in Facebook ads. It's transparently a Trump-reelection strategy.
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by guelo 7y ago
kotlin copied a lot from C# first.
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by guelo 7y ago
The missing ternary operator makes no sense considering they have the ?: operator for null checks.
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by guelo 7y ago
You happy employees is my opportunity. - Bezos, almost
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by guelo 7y ago
I wonder if Java's speeding up of new language features over the past several years, after many years of a stagnant feature set, is a direct result of pressure from the likes of kotlin.
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by guelo 7y ago
According to this[1] that graph is frequently used by climate skeptics but it is outdated and incorrect. [1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-what-greenland-ice-cor...
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by guelo 7y ago
Warning: if you click that link on some browsers it will remove your back button history by opening a new tab and killing the previous one. Instagram is aggresively user-hostile and if you work there you should feel bad.
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by guelo 7y ago
I realize we live in an upside down world nowadays, but I'd like to point out that FISA reauthorization votes in the past have been unanimously supported by Republicans while half of Democrats would vote against them.
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by guelo 7y ago
Why do you bring in the left/right partisan divide into this? The left has been criticizing the secret FISA process since the Bush Patriot Act days. The IG report did not find any evidence of political partisan spying, it only faulted
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by guelo 7y ago
Since the FCC sanctions stingray use for law enforcement I'm sure they make sure that any new mobile radio technology is compliant with police spying requirements.
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by guelo 7y ago
Apple might see this as a warning to existing engineers but it is also a warning to potential hires. Don't work at Apple.
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by guelo 7y ago
What are the error bars on those percentages? It might not be a significant difference.
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by guelo 7y ago
> "Silicon Valley" is a metonym for the tech industry generally I dispute that. I've never seen it used in that way.
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by guelo 7y ago
This company is based in New York not Silicon Valley.
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by guelo 7y ago
There are a lot more people that have the idea of learning a language than there are people that actually go through with learning a language.
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by guelo 7y ago
Humans have cooperated plenty. Many universal or nearly- universal treaties have been signed by all nations. In fact humans already cooperated on an atmospheric pollution treaty when we prevented the destruction of the Ozone layer.
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by guelo 7y ago
Me three.
891.
by guelo 7y ago
Are you proposing that Larry and Sergey are starting a secret society of billionaires who are withdrawing their genius contributions from society as a protest against government regulations?
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by guelo 7y ago
The solution to this type of problem is not to weaken or get rid of these cops. We should give them more resources, more power, more independence to resist political pressures, more ethics rules and internal affairs, more respect and leeway
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by guelo 7y ago
I suspect that the advertising industry is offering the TV manufacturers incentives to add tracking "smarts". The dream of tracking TV ad views and even personalized TV ads is worth billions.
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by guelo 7y ago
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
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by guelo 7y ago
What struck me about this list is how old these companies are. It's sad because that web gold rush seems to be over. Do the lessons from that generation of startups apply to the much more consolidated web of today? Instagram 2010, What
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by guelo 7y ago
One of the issues with React-style "declarative" UI frameworks is that they have a hard time modeling transitions and animations. I'm not a Rustacean but that would be one of the things I'd look for here.
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by guelo 7y ago
What do people use these VPN services for? Is it mostly for pirating, or public wifi users, or people that don't want their ISPs to know what they're doing? It all seems like niche use cases.
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by guelo 7y ago
But in that case the real national divide, rural vs cities, would be won in favor of the blues.
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by guelo 7y ago
You probably didn't hear a few weeks ago that Visa will vastly expand it's SF headquarters. Since San Francisco is despised by conservatives we get this constant schadenfreude highlighting of any SF bad news by people who need the
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by guelo 7y ago
> forward the users' IPs Seems doubtful since that would be contrary to DDG's main marketing message and their reason for even existing.

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