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by ianmobbs 6y ago
What SCM has sequential commit IDs, rather than hashes?
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I think it was common knowledge but unconfirmed, if that makes sense - no rep had actively referred to it as a coup before despite it clearly being one
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Senator Chris Murphy – “We tried to organize a kind of coup [in Venezuela]”(twitter.com)
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There are also huge swathes of the world where nobody has credit cards or bank accounts. This isn't an argument for Bitcoin as much as it is for physical currency
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Who is the one backing those paper bills? This brings back centralized banking, which is what most folks in favor of replacing fiat currency with Bitcoin are working away from
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There is a difference between "funding a Roadster" and "designing and fully understanding the physics and mechanics of the Roadster".
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They already had the Roadster, Musk just funded it.
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Because there's a difference between having "a head for physics and numbers" and "working with physics and numbers for your career". Fundamentally, he is a CEO, who's job is not to work on any of the underlying
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
Most of the achievements people ascribe to him aren't even his. Musk bought the company then gave himself the title of 'founder'. He's a businessman, not a scientist
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They're just doing what they've been told is best for them by Bolsonaro, the same way the largely-impoverished American South votes for Trump. (I assume it's a similar voting block in the UK for Johnson but I haven't loo
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
Does Amazon provide company phones or just install an MDM profile on your personal phone? I have TikTok installed on my phone, and if my employer said I had to remove it to access my work email, I'd ask them to buy me a work phone. It
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You don’t have to look at 1918. You can just look at nearly every other country in the world and how it’s been impacted. South Korea, Italy, China, and so on are all reopening or have been reopened despite having been hit just as hard as th
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
> The Constitution is meaningless without a culture that backs it up. This is true for corporate charters as well, but it doesn't mean that either a corporation or a government "don't have purpose" without a culture t
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Yeah, this was my exact problem with that comment. They ended it by saying apps like Facebook/Gmail/etc don't collect nearly the same amount of data, but I'm very hard pressed to believe that. I'll believe it when t
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
> The west offered two-way street which China declined to walk on. What?
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No more so than Gmail/Yahoo Mail/etc is for the average end user
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Working for Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy isn’t always easy(vox.com)
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What? In what world would anyone find that offensive? It sounds like you're making up a situation, then using it defend not speaking up about things.
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
Implying we need India to "defeat" China then going on to list all the reasons Chinese citizens are doing better than Indian citizens seems to completely invalidate your argument.
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Looking Forward to the End of Humanity(wsj.com)
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
Could this be used to run an iMessage proxy on a server?
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Not OP. I've been providing my own meals and snacks working from home (like I'd imagine most people are?), but the free food at work is usually better/more expensive than I'm willing to make for myself for any given lunc
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
Why do you say Google is worse than Amazon and Facebook put together?
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
Gitlab's compensation calculator will show you how much less or more you can expect to make based on where you live (if employed at Gitlab, of course) https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/total-rewards/compensati
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
Fortunately, Facebooks ToS[0] is not full of legalese or jargon, and I'm sure anybody with enough technological education to sign up for Facebook can understand it too. [0] https://www.facebook.com/terms.php
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
I think the biggest assumption you're making here is that most people care about ads - and they don't. Fundamentally, when I'm scrolling through Facebook or Instagram or Reddit or whatever, I just don't care that I see a
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Is this "the free market regulating itself" I hear so much about?
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
Is pinch-to-zoom native on Firefox yet? Last I attempted to switch, you had to install an extension to enable it, and even then it was far "choppier" than Chrome's pinch-to-zoom experience. I've got pretty bad eyesight a
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by ianmobbs 6y ago
In what world is having an Airbnb empire, significantly increasing rental costs for actual residents of the city, morally equivalent to childcare?
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Why do some Pantone colors have actual names?(graphicdesign.stackexchange.com)
1 points by ianmobbs 6y ago|0 comments

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