hugh4life

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by hugh4life 8y ago
I've never reported a bug to Ubuntu, but I've frequently have used Ubuntu bug report threads to find work arounds to problems.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
One thing the tech giants could do is collude to compete greater with one another... there are too many advantages to the dominance in an market segment and so they don't bother competing with one another. Google+ was a bit half-assed.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I'm not a big fan of where the tech giants have brought the internet... the internet today has become too much of a walled garden and there is not enough competition and there's not enough cooperation between entities. But we live
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I use RSS Bridge and a couple other services(twitrss.me from the top of my head) and the only thing this has that I'm missing is github trending projects.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
There would be no Silicon Valley without the military industrial complex. Period. But I think there are problems with getting too close to the Pentagon and then trying to operate internationally as a purported neutral information platform.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"The company’s self-driving unit continues to be a drain on cash" Uber should not have a self-driving unit. Self driving cars are only going to be safe to use on infrastructure specifically made and certified for self driving cars
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I have no idea why you're being voted down. When the western nations got more assertive about regulating the internet then they give ideological justification for more authoritarian governments wanting to do the same. And so the corpor
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"Recently, idiotic stories attacking Chicagoese were in the news. These were based on a blasphemous survey from YouGov that found our Chicago accent to be the least attractive in America. Garbage. Lies. All lies." I went to a scho
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"But the real name of the user should be revealed only to a small circle of people involved in the court case, Spero said."
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"It seems to me that the presence of any international company could only act as a wedge to gradually loosen censorship controls over time." But future demands may go beyond censorship...
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"There are lots of bias in the comments. Some blame culture, which is wrong." Regardless of culture, no other nationality really has near the opportunity to profit by stealing technology and returning with it to their homeland.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Well in the short run, many people had a habit of recycling(like my parents) who don't anymore sense the local place doesn't take the materials anymore.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"However, he has been a Bank of America customer for 20 years and was born a U.S. citizen, so he figured it could be a scam and that the bank would follow up if it was legitimate." There is a lot of scamming going on. Just last we
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by hugh4life 8y ago
It's not really collection that's the big issue... the big issue is that the federal DNA database only stores a very small portion of the DNA so familial searches on it are only accurate up to 1st cousins. And there are privacy an
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by hugh4life 8y ago
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/false-paternit... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-paternity_event#Rates_of_n...
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Um no... it's no more than 1-2% in western societies.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
A little OT and most here probably already know, but genetic genealogy(GEDmatch basically) is starting to be used to solve rape and murder cases. Here's a recent murder case solved a couple weeks ago they announced just on friday that
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"In particular I'm always amazed that, in my experience, the vast majority of the professional software programmers I encounter never bothered to learn how to touchtype proficiently. " I can't remember a single programme
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Check out his instagram: https://www.instagram.com/waspa_art/
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"For one, Rockefeller grew rich quickly coz there wasn’t as much regulation as compared to what Bezos had to face." Eh, Bezos got rich off of not having to pay state sales taxes while his brick and mortar competitors did. But AWS
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by hugh4life 8y ago
One annoyance with Java(and Kotlin too) is that it's pretty much the only language left that you really ought to use a specialized IDE with while pretty much every other language(including C#) you can get adequate support in VS Code or
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by hugh4life 8y ago
The serious way to boost diversity: go to poor/minority communities in west and then developing countries in general and give young children the Raven's Progressive Matrices test and recruit the best scorers into specialized acade
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I strongly support anti-mask laws... especially in situations when you have two political opponents coming up to one another in the streets. Masks make it way too easy for some kind of provocateur to instigate fights or start a stampede. A
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"To put it in perspective, lets count all x86 sales: all the desktops, all the laptops, all the servers, all the weird little things like x86 chinese tablets, all of it. Combined Xbox One and PS4 sales (both massive APUs, essentially)
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by hugh4life 8y ago
A little OT, but I think I remember reading Chinese users on quora who were a little worried about how Microsoft would handle takedown notices for sensitive topics as gitHub was pretty resistant to China's complaints.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
"Is it customary to store other details in separate tables" It's quite common to store just what's needed for logins in it's own table.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
The interdependence neutralizes to the chance of a full out war but it also neutralizes consequences to pursuing expansion into the South China Sea.
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Even if China completely banned Apple it would not be Apple's downfall. And frankly it would be dumb for China to pick too big a fight with Apple(and Foxxcon). There would be retaliation and rerouting. And I'm sorry, we can't
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by hugh4life 8y ago
I'm neutral on the tariffs, I am(or was) actually excited about China getting into the memory market to help keep the other memory makers honest... but it's important to have an alternative source of those components in case there
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by hugh4life 8y ago
Maybe there needs to be a tld for Europe that is not mean the European Union. ".euro" or ".europe".

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