haram_masala

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by haram_masala 6y ago
As far as I can tell from the screenshots, it’s GSlack.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
This is great. I have one of those cheap RTL-SDR units, and it was well worth the $8 to pull in and decode ADS-B signals from overflying aircraft. There’s something exciting about obtaining data “over the air” in a way that completely circu
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by haram_masala 6y ago
Huh? These are private citizens monitoring the police, which is pretty much the opposite of the Chinese surveillance you’re referring to. In fact it’s pretty much an antimetabole (“In the United States, people spy on cops!”).
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by haram_masala 6y ago
I'd say it's that, plus tensions manufactured by social media and angry clickbait, plus a general sense of increasing income inequality. Humans are sadly well-attuned to how well-off their fellow humans are.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
There have been plenty of good reasons to leave Facebook, for many years. If you only now want to dump FB because they didn’t muzzle Trump, you are probably part of the problem.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
I would say if there are two things in this world that Mark Zuckerberg are not, it's stupid, and anti-semitic.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
I didn’t know one way or the other, which is why I asked. Perhaps the unspoken bias I’m putting on display is the assumption that no independent observer could possibly think their actions were ethical.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
After reading your various comments, I have to ask if you have any relationship with Triplebyte and/or its founders beyond merely using the service. And yes, I would greatly appreciate an answer to this.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
No, the profiles have other information too, like what geographical regions you want to work in, what kind of job you’re looking for, etc. This could give away information to one’s employer that they might have preferred to keep quiet. I pr
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by haram_masala 6y ago
This is awful. And announcing this late on a Friday is what news organizations call “taking out the trash,” publicizing something when people aren’t paying attention.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
Why would Google do this, though? They seem to have mostly ceded the Chinese market.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
This has downstream implications for global stability. Much of that money comes from Gulf states, including Saudi Arabia, who need investment returns to replace dwindling oil revenues. Revenues which prop up an extremely generous entitlemen
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by haram_masala 6y ago
Jason Calacanis, repeatedly, and vociferously.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
Makes you wonder if the infamous OPM breach ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... ) has been distributed beyond China.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
Agreed, it seems like yet another iteration of a company that starts off by disrupting a market to make it more liquid, but whose endgame is becoming the dominant or sole rentier in that space.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
Side note, San Antonio is a wonderful city. Friendly people, good food, nice downtown.
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by haram_masala 6y ago
Many restaurants are still "profitable" because the restaurateurs use the business as a tax shelter. For sure, this isn't the only type of small business that does so, but based on my observations, it's far more rampant
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by haram_masala 6y ago
I’m finding myself to be terrible working from home, but (a) I have kids, one of whom needs a lot of supervision, (b) the only real focused workspace I have is in my unfinished basement, and it’s as dank and awful as most such basements are