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by jamaicahest 9y ago
> I just read the post and there are points where it flat out lies about what a source said. Thank you. I was just about to comment the same. But I suppose accurately quoting the Wired article didn't support their opinion, so they d
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
>On the other hand, it's hard to ignore the fact that typically these people have already profited enormously from these companies and they will never have to face any sort of real ramifications or consequences for the net harm that
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
As someone who actually bothered to sit down and spend the effort learning SQL, I agree. I've seen many colleagues in my career say "Oh SQL is hard/stupid/broken/whatever. MongoDB is so easy, it just works." an
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But what is the value in knowing that it is newer, if you know nothing else than that it is newer?
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
> While difference between 1.2.3 and 1.4.5 is instantly apparent to any human? The author's point is that the difference between 1.2.3 and 1.4.5 can be anything from a bugfix to the software going from self-hosted photo software to
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
>If the return reason is "defective," why would mark as sellable ever be possible? Because customers don't always tell the truth, as in your perception of truth might be different from my perception of truth, meaning what&
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
>Sellers just have to assume a 10% loss of gross margin due to issues like this. It's not the end of the world, but that's where the cost is. Cost of doing business. Reminds me of the book "What I Learned Losing a Million
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
Just like roads don't get you from A to B, cars do using those roads, cables don't transfer your internet traffic from your house to the website you're trying to reach, ISPs do using those cables.
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
>There are times where you don't have the energy to stand but need to work - so just sit Then what's the point of not getting a table that can go up and down?
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
Move to Europe https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwaa5/the-europe...
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
>A limited number of episodes of a television show may be called a miniseries or a serial or limited series. Television series are without a fixed length and are usually divided into seasons (U.S. and Canada) or series (UK), yearly or se
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
>Twenty-one percent of respondents told industry site StackOverflow that MongoDB was the most popular database, second only to versions from the dominant technology, SQL, which traces its roots back to legacy technology companies such as
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The End of Privacy(nytimes.com)
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>I think one of our problems is that people have downgraded the importance of this. Much code nowadays (rightly or wrongly) is considered "disposable" - people think that the likelihood of any given piece of code they are writi
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
Indeed. My father died a few years ago, at age 64. His death could have been avoided, had he simply gone to the doctor regularly to get a health check-up as he died due to atherosclerosis and we didn't know he had that. I don't kn
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
We have a concept here in Denmark, which directly translated would be "total contractor", which is a person who manages all the different contractors, schedules when they show up and do their work, handles any problems that arise
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
"widely known" is useless in science. Anyone can claim that they know something is X, i.e. pretty much every one of Trump's statements is him claiming that "I know <insert subject> is bad, therefore we must do <
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
You're not going to suddenly build a logistics system for dairy farmers, because you're not a dairy farmer and you don't know what kind of problems they have. But look at your own daily life. Your kids school might have some
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
Or Snapchat. Did kids and teenagers have problems connecting with other kids and teenagers before Snapchat existed? I know I didn't. My parents didn't. Their parents didn't and so on. Until Snapchat showed us that we couldn&#
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
>Sure its safe when you dump all your waste in another state. If your state that created the nuclear waste had to keep it, it would be a different story. The article says safest, not safe. And if we compare nuclear waste to carbon dioxid
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
> Our contract also allows for verification, "If the Employer suspects abuse, the Employer may require a written medical certificate for any sick leave absence." That sounds pretty standard in any contract here in Denmark, and
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
Isn't that the case for almost any metropolis? Tech scenes tend to be focused in the capital, in most countries.
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
>> Thinking is an activity too—don’t undervalue it. Make time and space for it in your daily work schedule. >This is why I find it impossible to work effectively in open-plan offices. That, and the fact that open-plan offices are,
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by jamaicahest 9y ago
The article is taking about average salary, which is a society topic, i.e. social.
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Same thing happened in Denmark. Several operators advertised a rise in prices with the exact reasoning: To pay for the loss of roaming charges. They actually advertised that the price rise was to pay for their lost income, as if to somehow
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by jamaicahest 10y ago
> Also pretty much every Samsung or LG washing machine i see in promotion has 10 years warranty on engine, though i would be afraid about electronics. So if the engine breaks, they will fix it. But what if the engine works fine, but the
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by jamaicahest 10y ago
That might work. If said 3rd parties were interested in helping. Most of them might be but it just takes one party refusing to help and then you've still got the data out there.
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I think the point is this is not reddit, jokes not very constructive in a debate, however funny.
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> I posit that someone who's banned from shopping at AMZN is more dangerous than someone who plays card games with a dark sense of humor. How does that even happen? So now you've conclused she's dangerous, based solely on
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by jamaicahest 10y ago
Are you actually suggesting US companies compete on a free and open market, with consumers deciding which services and products deserve to survive based on the quality and price of the service/product? Then they might risk failing as a

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