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by hallihax 7y ago
I didn't make any comment at all about whether Russia does the same. I assume that any major power is constantly propagandising its own people, and those of other countries. The issue is that this propaganda has become a mainstream new
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by hallihax 7y ago
It's been pretty obvious from day 1 that the whole xenophobic anti-Russian scaremongering was being inauthentic and confected. It's all just noise. There's no substance to any of it - just vague circumstantial nonsense and wi
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by hallihax 7y ago
It's possible I missed the point - but I'll leave it to the OP to correct me. My point was that 'vegan vs non-vegan' is not a choice people make based on factors like those they might use to make a decision between petro
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by hallihax 7y ago
On average, in cities like London, driving is more or less the same speed as walking.
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by hallihax 7y ago
Feels != facts
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by hallihax 7y ago
This is true of non-vegan burgers too, surely?
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by hallihax 7y ago
Do you think vegans eat 'nothing but carbs and butter'?
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by hallihax 7y ago
I'm guilty myself - my city has exploded with vegan stuff over the last couple of years and my waistline has expanded in-line with it :P
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by hallihax 7y ago
Speaking as somebody who does enjoy a vegan boiger - 'health' and 'nutrition' are not things I'm looking at when I want a burger. This whole debate is one big straw-man. I'm a vegan. I don't need burgers.
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by hallihax 7y ago
It's more or less just capitalism in the tech era. Google became 'evil' as soon as it realised that exploiting user data was the route to profit. We live in the information age - any for-profit business is going to pursue tha
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by hallihax 7y ago
You're confusing correlation with causation. It doesn't matter who or what stood to gain from Clinton's emails being published; unless you can demonstrate an illegal conspiracy (which you can't), there's nothing to
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by hallihax 7y ago
This is just a spurious argument - and setting aside the Guccifer 2.0 sub-plot to the whole scam - Wikileaks has absolutely no requirement to be neutral. Their job is to publish things powerful people don't want published. That'
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by hallihax 7y ago
> - I'm not good at understanding existing codebases. It is not that I can't fix a single bug or implement a new feature, it is just I'm slow. How can I improve this? I'm looking for something like a job simulation a
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by hallihax 7y ago
The idea that WL is responsible for Clinton's loss - rather than her being a terrible candidate - is laughable. To credit Assange with Trump's election is a complete joke - not least because the same people attacking him for relea
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by hallihax 7y ago
You're assuming that an alien race isn't partisan. Any intelligent alien species intent on harming humans would probably seek to exploit existing weaknesses and increase division. Who's to say they wouldn't ally with the
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by hallihax 8y ago
Sure, it's definitely a possibility - but not a likely one. The people in charge of any such operation against Wikileaks would be particularly mindful of their own operatives leaking to WL itself. There's no reason whatsoever to a
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by hallihax 8y ago
I doubt anybody involved in targeting and suppressing Wikileaks post-2016 is leaking their plans to Wikileaks itself.
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by hallihax 8y ago
Do you / have you ever played any instruments before? Maybe it's just case of associating something else with the sound the instrument makes - for example perhaps you need direct experience of producing say, a guitar sound, in ord
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by hallihax 8y ago
I don't know why you keep talking about pay. That's not what the conversation is about - and is irrelevant to the discussion at hand - which is about the security of employment for those who write software for a living. Many sec
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by hallihax 8y ago
> In Germany et al employing a worker is seen as a favor to this worker whereas in US it's the other way around. But again, this is only true because of the delusional rock-star fantasy which grips the tech industry. The vast, vast
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by hallihax 8y ago
> If a company tries to automate a good SWE's job to save $100k they are just digging their graves. Everybody says that about highly skilled work. Humans excel at making skilled jobs obsolete. You don't need a perfect replacem
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by hallihax 8y ago
The same way you automate any other job: break it up into easily-definable processes and then automate those.
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by hallihax 8y ago
> The power balance is so skewed in the direction of the employee in the software industry I really don't think this is nearly as true today as it was say, 20 years ago. Anecdotal evidence, sure - but my experience is that developer
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by hallihax 8y ago
I agree. Google has consistently gotten worse imo - I believe the general move towards third-party 'trust' verifiers, and Google's obsession with 'relevance' (as in, relevance to me ) has destroyed the entire point
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by hallihax 8y ago
Tests like these are a relatively effective way of weeding out people who simply aren't up to the job. You can say anything you like about yourself, and you can curate your online presence to make yourself look like an experienced, com
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by hallihax 8y ago
I agree in principle - but the hypothetical was about someone who was (presumably measurably) worth twice as much as other employees. I agree that it's difficult to measure productivity / output - but it's by no means impossi
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by hallihax 8y ago
If you have someone worth twice as much as your other employees at the same level, then you can promote that person or perhaps figure out why your other employees aren't as productive. I don't see why such a situation should need
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by hallihax 8y ago
This essentially just feels like a PR push so that Walmart can claim 'better than the competition' food regulation, without actually opening up the system to be....regulated. There's no wider benefit to the public from this u
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by hallihax 8y ago
I suspect a large part of the reason G wants this is because the government(s) want oversight. There has been a concerted effort in the last few years for governments to pressure web giants into creating centralised means of controlling w
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by hallihax 8y ago
Whenever I'm confronted with a situation like this - my first go-to response is to start documenting as much as I can. If the code is properly commented you may be able to use a tool like Doxygen to spit out some HTML documentation, wh

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