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by jdpedrie 10y ago
It's like pornography. You know it when you see it.
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Are some people fundamentally more deserving for having the time to wait in line outside a venue, or click reload on their computer for hours? It's funny that we implicitly accept that money is the way of assigning resources to their m
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The quoted text is a reference to Orwell's 1984.
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"When did you stop beating your wife?"
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The ethical issues surrounding dogs are entirely different from those surrounding people. Additionally, humans didn't specifically select for traits in other people which caused genetic disorders to become rampant in an entire bloodlin
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Not that I'd advocate something like this, because you could get some innocent homeowner in a bunch of trouble, but it generally doesn't take long to drive or walk around and find an unprotected access point on a personal router.
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http://www.thewrap.com/donald-trump-embraces-gays-in-histori...
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You do realize a Republican President was just elected who supported gay marriage, right? It wasn't a show stopper for him. The cognitive dissonance is strong in this thread.
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I reject your premise, but just to play along for a minute... https://chanzuckerberg.com/
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The problem is that the moment Uber is in a position to exploit its newfound monopoly, new competition springs up. Without regulatory constraints, transportation on public infrastructure just isn't a natural monopoly business.
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Perhaps, but it's not as though the popularity of oil pipelines is especially high. They still get built! If anything, much of the bureaucracy and public would far prefer to build high speed rail in place of a pipeline. Certainly neith
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I'd love to see that rail happen. Nowhere near Texas, but it would be cool. That said, Texas isn't really representative of the rest of the country.
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> a dorky status symbol perceived as being for tech-obsessed rich buffoons I think this is pretty key. Whenever I hear about Segway, my first thought is Gob Bluth from Arrested Development riding around on one with his name plastered acr
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> oil company build a pipeline This happens. > rail company build a high speed train track This doesn't. There are actually companies that want to build oil pipelines. How many privately funded companies are there that want to (a
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This is nothing new. Those on the right have felt the same squeeze you're describing over the Obama years in the form of politically targeted pressure from the IRS. The lesson /should/ be that when the government is powerful
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> the American oligarchs ousted noncompliant professional politicians and assumed direct power through Donald Trump and his cabinet. This strikes me as an extremely odd reading of the election results. The establishment (which oligarchs
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FCA plans to produce Chrysler Portal concept after 2018(detroitnews.com)
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Unfortunate that it isn't published on Packagist, or installable via Composer.
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> The first and the most probable trend is the complete dominance of PHP 7.x in all aspects of PHP development. I don't see how this conclusion follows from anything in the article. As long as big players (specifically WordPress) ho
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> Only new installations for newly purchased devices would not be possible. That's a good point, and definitely true. That is probably even worse for Nokia though. If existing users can continue relatively unaffected, but new custom
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> Apple hasn’t pulled the Withings apps from the App Store yet but it probably wouldn’t hurt to download them if you think you will need them…just in case. Pulling the app from the app store strikes me as a whole different ballgame from
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
Haven't used the service personally (though I have received a couple things from them), but the Cards Against Humanity people run a fulfillment company: https://www.blackbox.cool/
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I've noticed that spear phishing attacks have become quite a bit more sophisticated lately. This is a good example of it, but I've gotten emails supposedly from Stripe, my bank (not a common one that would suggest a mass attack),
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by jdpedrie 10y ago
It's definitely everyone except you. Thank goodness you're so enlightened!
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It's not that strange really. I don't think most poor people hold the wealth of the rich against them so much as they resent the feeling that the rich think they're superior, or that the rich dismiss and ignore everyone, and
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Is *.google.com really "of unknown provenance"?
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Largely the large price increase for a small improvement in specs. I've been waiting for the new machines to upgrade, and want a 15". Prices starting at $2400 are hard to stomach. I also consider the touch bar to be a wash or a sl
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Can anyone comment on how effective WSL is for normal web developer tasks in Windows? I'm a longtime Mac user who is really disappointed in the latest Macbook Pro. At this point my decision is essentially a coin flip between a 2015 Mac
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That's about 5 miles from downtown. Within the city limits, but that's about it.
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I got this email yesterday, and called today to cancel my service. The guy spent several minutes getting more and more belligerent, telling me that I was mistaken, that there had always been a data cap, in fact the data cap was being raised

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