hummingurban

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by hummingurban 8y ago
^ this. the fact that some people can be pre-IPO yet hire mostly students who work for nothing, get all pissy when people ask for a raise for staying past 5 consistently, and to boot, writing fake glassdoor reviews because you can't hi
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by hummingurban 8y ago
They don't call it junior devs but "university grads". Allegedly EA has found that the latter is cheaper and just as good as senior devs. Not sure what that implies but it is EA after all. Then you have piece of shit companie
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by hummingurban 8y ago
the conspiracy goes back to the 1980s, with corroborated witnesses from both American and Russian elements . The watergate journalist wrote a book on him. The guy who prosecuted watergate is looking at finances , money laundering specif
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by hummingurban 8y ago
your whatboutism to compare a street gang to justify the Chinese intimidation. That's a horrible comparison. A street gang actually don't touch civilians because it attracts negative attention and feud with other Crips members. Th
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by hummingurban 8y ago
what can Google do? Train their engineers to start taking the LSAT so by the time they get to trial, they will have the skill and experience to take on professional lawyers?
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by hummingurban 8y ago
If DOJ can show evidence of cartels, terrorist cells, and other unsavory entities laundering their money through bitcoin, ICOs, ethereum, altcoins and tether, then anyone who has ever taken crypto to work on a project, anyone who handled th
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by hummingurban 8y ago
> You seem to agree with me that a dictatorship can last longer in a trade war? No. You are connecting two separate ideas to say that I agree with you. I did not agree. I don't know who will last longer in the trade war. I do know t
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by hummingurban 8y ago
okay be honest...how many of you tried drawing a penis?
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by hummingurban 8y ago
How much sleep would he lose when you realize the very educational institutions which he attended were designed by large to benefit the military's R&D? Anything we invent or discover can and will be used by the military or intellig
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by hummingurban 8y ago
Whoever simply makes more money from the goods they export. In this case, China has more to lose. You forget that in China, you have a dictator who uses violence and fear to keep people in check. They are stuck with his foreign policy abili
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by hummingurban 8y ago
how do you claim ownership of data you release publicly at no charge to the users? how do you enforce anyone who copies it by hand or programmatically, does the minimum work to derive some insight and then copyrighting that? You can't.
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by hummingurban 8y ago
it's not legally binding and not the law. The TOS can forbid all they want. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-pub... suggests there is little to no recourse for IMDB and the likes.
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by hummingurban 8y ago
post 3taps, craigslist won't be able to stop scrapers. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dc-court-accessing-pub...
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by hummingurban 8y ago
> How about six American Carrier groups against the other six?? How will you divide them equally and pit them against each other?
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by hummingurban 8y ago
china and india have pollution from burning coal to generate electricity. China and India alone makes up 70% of the world's top 10 biggest coal powered generator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_power
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by hummingurban 8y ago
> No, that's not why. Gasoline is still largely king because it's the legacy technology, so it has a very wide install base and it's still cheaper. Do you know why it's so popular? You can fill up anything from cars,
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by hummingurban 8y ago
I think that's a poor analogy. Notification spam was invented because people weren't checking their spam folder. Those ppl are unlikely to open themselves up to an even more intrusive medium to deliver unwanted messages. Sure ther
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by hummingurban 8y ago
When a foreign adversarial state launches 'cyber 9/11' it would imply a few things: 1) The offending country is willing to escalate/desires to provoke skirmishes that may lead to major battles with or without conventiona
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by hummingurban 8y ago
I see lot of good suggestions for starting out in meditation but I see lots of "use this app, go to this camp, read this" While in reality meditation is an exercise you need to practice in order to build that muscle. I don't
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by hummingurban 8y ago
To me, this is akin to a game company raising the price of a game. The costs are already sunk. The only thing that counts is setting a price on copies of that game. Those who pirate copies of the game incur to loss of revenue because those
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by hummingurban 8y ago
You literally just went in circles saying "China is not a credit bubble because I read a book on it once"
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by hummingurban 8y ago
2018: This time we mean it.