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by holidayacct 6y ago
This is the dumbest idea and it screams that the House just wants to appease their constituents. You can't break up tech companies; we've been through this before with Microsoft. What happens is, congress breaks up a big tech com
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by holidayacct 6y ago
In some places it is an organized effort of a small number of people. It's literally small groups of people independently doing this all over the country.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
It's because Human Resources, public relations, advertising and marketing are the very departments that are taken over by people with an agenda. I have no idea why people are so naive, there are literally people in government who are t
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by holidayacct 6y ago
The Russian government compromised Microsoft in early 2000 and the source code for windows 2K XP and 2003 were all leaked on usenet over a decade ago. Why is this news?
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by holidayacct 6y ago
I dismissed the article because I refuse to click on link-bait titles just to generate ad impressions.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
There are all sorts of problems with technology but technology "sucking" isn't one of those problems: The problem is people: 1.) Don't remember far back enough to when everything was literally more difficult to do. They
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by holidayacct 6y ago
Conspiracy theories are a way for people to create rationale when they experience cognitive dissonance. Almost all conspiracy theories can be disproved if you consider if they are: 1.) Reasonable given the circumstances. (i.e. is there a s
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by holidayacct 6y ago
What makes you believe this is a consolidation of power? Some of these companies may not be able to survive a long term recession.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
Never believe stories like this, measuring productivity is an impossible problem. Microsoft spend something in excess of 3 billion dollars trying to quantify productivity in the 90s and they couldn't do it. One of my college professor
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by holidayacct 6y ago
I'd love to but I've signed NDAs for the companies I've worked for. If you like advertising that will put on the right path.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
This happens repeatedly and isn't anything new. This happens because there are a bunch of mentally ill people running tech companies that want jobs to be about "belief". They don't want older people in tech because they
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by holidayacct 6y ago
You're looking for Germany and Suse Linux.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
The US govt can't protect the chip manufacturers from malicious actors. It takes an obscene number of people with the right culture and expertise to have a company that can secure its chip platforms. Even then, the chips and associate
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by holidayacct 6y ago
Facebook isn't returning to its roots. This is just another re-branded social media site meant to capture the attention of another generation of college students for advertising purposes.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
Management in many companies are just puppets installed for the purpose of keeping a person or group of persons in control. You'd be surprised at how many companies have management that has the decision making capabilities of a toddle
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by holidayacct 6y ago
If you resent people who have children at your place of employment you have too much time on your hands.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
likely? It's completely filled with bot traffic. At some point someone needs to create verified accounts on LinkedIn.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressive_aphasia Speak to a neuroscientist if you don't believe me.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
I'm having a difficult time believing that someone picked up coding and is proficient in doing so at 40 years old unless they had prior experience in something that was similar. It takes years to become proficient in coding to the poi
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by holidayacct 6y ago
There are anxiety-like responses in animals but nothing similar to what we consider anxiety in humans. The key take-away is that most of the anxiety behaviors are found in prey animals. Most predators have a social system that removes mem
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by holidayacct 6y ago
Anxiety is a disorder of the nervous system that is a by-product of civilization. We are one of the only mammals that gets anxiety, if you get anxiety in the wild you won't be alive much longer. Depression and PTSD are not responses t
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by holidayacct 6y ago
I'm not in favor of removing qualified immunity because I have former classmates who are police officers and some of them work in places where they are constantly dealing with violent crime and they occasionally have to things that ap
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by holidayacct 6y ago
There was also a piece of software in the early days of optical mouse sensors that let you use your mouse as a scanner.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
The reality is we need fewer, higher paid police with an extremely high barrier to entry. They should be required to go through the kind of training the military goes through for months so you see how they react under pressure. They shoul
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by holidayacct 6y ago
Now you know, life isn't fair. The rules don't apply. No one wants to see a demonstration of his advertising budget.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
Read the documentation. It should be clear.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
Privacy doesn't exist: see http://dev.ti.com/tirex/explore/node?node=AB64dFbicd2BPc23jv... The minute there was technology available that allowed people to see and hear through walls privacy died. It now co
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by holidayacct 6y ago
This doesn't seem like a complete story or any kind of rationale for taking down apps, if you have a problem with hate speech you should probably get off the internet.
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by holidayacct 6y ago
You're delusional if you think individual people aren't threats to governments of multi-billion dollar corporations. There are people with information that no one wants leaked because the information is incriminating without prope
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by holidayacct 6y ago
I hope you're not this naive. Gang stalking is a real thing, when I was a child people used to call each other up to and gang stalk anyone who had just moved into the neighborhood just for shits and giggles. It was just a bunch of ki

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