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by jammygit 7y ago
Lowest-cost bidding among companies is going to do better? Security is often the first thing to go when your company’s survival depends on tiny margins
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> Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator. Canada is blocked?
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It may be sensible for the founders and investors, but is it sensible for the employees? Many startup employees are paid to a significant extent in stock and do not understand the situation they end up in. They are also powerless and just h
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by jammygit 7y ago
If by Kde you mean plasma, I found plasma is too modular: every part of every window is it’s own window that can be opened independently, making search and navigation very strange. I like manjaros package management GUI, file manager (for t
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by jammygit 7y ago
I personally hold that math is a science of sorts that is grounded in physical reality. What then if their maths were experimental in nature with less logical abstraction?
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I feel like legal manipulation is very bad for the startup ecosystem. Even here, at the YC forums, people assume their startup equity is worth $0 and advise you to go with a FAANG (or day that they broke even with friends at faangs after th
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by jammygit 7y ago
I installed Manjaro xfce recently and have been extremely impressed by how easy so many things are. I had been using gnome before that, Mac before that, and yet earlier Microsoft had not added telemetry so I used windows
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by jammygit 7y ago
Could you sue Google for slander in a case like this? They are explicitly labeling your messages as being manipulative or dishonest without any just cause. Why does it matter it’s an algorithm instead of a careless person in power?
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by jammygit 7y ago
Last month I was looking at the skipthedishes iOS reviews and they were flooded with these accusations. I’ve used the service for a few years without issue but some people have had bad luck
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Microsoft is pretty well funded too
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by jammygit 7y ago
A secure messenger is important for civil society, but that is a good amount of funding to play with. Time to send some extra money to other foundations? Which other tech foundations are worth donating to these days? Ideas: - EFF - Mozilla
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If could be very relevant for journalists in general. I wonder if they just use burner phones in conjunction with it
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There is also the matter of scale however: if you could grow your users, maybe you could secure more funding/donors long term as well
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Seems like a good time to ask: who is using source hut? How do they find the email driven merge request process?
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I used Ubuntu touch once and liked it. It just didn’t have an app or two I needed or else I would have stuck with it
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>Forecast suggests rainforest could stop producing enough rain to sustain itself by 2021 > The report sparked controversy among climate scientists. Some believe the tipping point is still 15 to 20 years away, while others say the warn
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Is there really anything simple about “running the media”?
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I had hoped that things under trump would have been much worse, so as to shock the public into re-evaluating their civic values.
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My wife’s Iphone lost most of its battery life since the update. Very dramatic difference
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I think you need to do things that build your self efficacy. If you start with small wins, larger things will not be as intimidating.
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Magic: The Gathering pro uses win to show Hong Kong protest support(arstechnica.com)
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> Let’s start with one very important and obvious change: we will drop Gtk2 support with Xfce 4.16. This will have a concrete effect on old Panel plugins or Gtk2 applications that rely on libxfce4ui. I read a blog by dedoimedo who compla
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by jammygit 7y ago
The main reason I use gnome is the keyboard shortcuts. I tried most other desktop environments and I just needed the mouse too often. Being able to see all open applications with Super is really nice too.
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I unfollowed everybody until my Facebook feed was empty. I still clicked compulsively for a while to look at my feed, but now I haven’t logged in in 6-12 months except to ask for somebody’s phone number
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Releasing things into our daily environment without adequate testing is likely why so many men are infertile now compared to a few decades ago and we don’t know why. Sperm counts are halved for example. At least there is some research in th
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No options for Canadians
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Blizzard is apparently giving out 24 hour band for talking about hk in hearthstone streams too. I don’t think anyone really doubts it’s to appease China
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I suppose we should talk about our favourite algorithms/data structures books here. I like Drozdek for data structures: very clear yet concise with both theoretical rigour and application
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I found tanenbaums book to be incredible, personally
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What is it that makes each fundamental?

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