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by hulahoof 8y ago
Would you fire the nukes if a non-mainland territory like Guam or Puerto Rico was invaded? What if the invaders are non-nuclear armed? There is a wide range of responses between nothing and total nuclear annihilation, even without world pol
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by hulahoof 8y ago
If you're a telco this is trivial for your customers.
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by hulahoof 8y ago
Anything non-localised has been pretty good on DDG recently, much better than a few years ago. I tend to only pull up google for searches like 'XXXXX Opening Hours' and maps related queries nowadays.
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by hulahoof 8y ago
Tellingly, it was changed to "Do the right thing." after the alphabet split.
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by hulahoof 8y ago
I think it's pretty safe to say, while these games are always cat and mouse, that globally cyber defense is not approached with the same determination as cyber offence, and perhaps it can't be with resources in the same order. I t
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by hulahoof 8y ago
> Yes, but all that proves is that some subset of humanity is capable of doing it. Not humanity as a whole. What's the point of this argument? Yes, humanity as a whole has become very specialised. With the consensus of the community
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by hulahoof 8y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'd much rather be a five eyes member than not - but I think it's naive to think any of the member states are innocent of the majority of these statements.
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by hulahoof 8y ago
Lifeline Australia 13 11 14 Stay strong brothers. You are useful and wanted.
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by hulahoof 8y ago
Perhaps similar to a printing press however
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by hulahoof 9y ago
Right, but putting a face to a blocker in a project is hard to remove mentally. In an ideal world, IT and Devs would be on the same page - after all who will be first contact when an end user encounters an issue? The separation of developme
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by hulahoof 9y ago
Why all the downvotes? We have serious social issues for not taking male mental health seriously.
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by hulahoof 9y ago
For one, a potential employee may find it worthwhile to take an unpaid personal day to complete the challenge of they are compensated. It also shows the company is semi interested and not just meeting the consideration requirements before s
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by hulahoof 9y ago
To be fair, In my (admittedly limited) experience contracting at BigCorp - the IT department's procedures are often a bottleneck in a workflow or solutions. We all know they are following business procedure, but there will always be so
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by hulahoof 9y ago
I often hear this, and for the sake of discussion I tried to find some numbers. I could mainly find presentation notes[1], and half page (quite similarly structured) posts, even from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority[2] Does anyo
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by hulahoof 9y ago
I recall begging my parents to let me print out the 40-60 page 'intro to HTML', pouring over it for hours and being way too excited when I 'discovered' marquee's. Was definitely my gateway into the world of developm
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by hulahoof 9y ago
The flavour I'd always heard was a day of coding saves an hour of planning
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by hulahoof 9y ago
I think I miss the customisation the most, whenever I look back on that time and forward to the gender-in-tech discussion I can never stop thinking about how almost all my female friends would spend hours adjusting, tinkering and just plain
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by hulahoof 9y ago
Yes, I think in its own little way it promoted learning html to younger people. (I personally got my start on my Neopets page)
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by hulahoof 9y ago
The flip side is better targeting should result in less collateral deaths
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by hulahoof 9y ago
Anecdotally, I often receive ad targeting topics only mentioned in messenger conversations.
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by hulahoof 9y ago
A bit less extreme, but I put my phone silent mode about 6 months ago and never set it back. I was probably checking it more for the first month to be honest, but after breaking my own and others expectations of a swift reply I find it much
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by hulahoof 9y ago
Unfortunately if everyone took this route, we'd encounter a whole new stack of problems.
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by hulahoof 9y ago
Sure it's easy a few hundred years later to look back and say that it was a great idea, but what amounts to a multi-generation exile was probably a bit overkill for many (not all) of the prisoners.
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by hulahoof 9y ago
To the surprise of everyone involved, I'm sure.
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by hulahoof 9y ago
From a resourcing, cost and safety (for the captors) perspective - no.
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by hulahoof 9y ago
Extremely valid observation, I would just like to add that the grandparent post referenced hand written specifically, which is just as important when the outcome isn't binary.
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by hulahoof 9y ago
There is always the possibility that the amateur techies were fall guys, I agree that it is odd that no major market had significant ties
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by hulahoof 9y ago
I did think it was outrageous, however I didn't consider it from this angle. If you were the Japanese government, what method would you use to keep your professionals? They are a country that isn't embracing mass immigration, with
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by hulahoof 9y ago
IIRC in this talk by Chris Rock at DC24 he mentions this tactic as part of creating the environment for a coup: Edit - direct link https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lhGqNCZlAusg=AFQjCNHkUHeVThw...
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by hulahoof 9y ago
The benefit is with accessing single files and not requiring a 1,000,000 directory listing lookup

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