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johnnyfaehell
6y ago
I guess the thing is, if drugs were legal the chances are lots of drug dealers would be doing some other crime. There are obivously drug dealers that sell just to pay for their own drug usage. But there are lots and lots are in it for the m
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> You make it sound like the main reason Europe still doesn't have a viable Google/FB competitor is the fact that their citizens have access to Google/FB. This sentence seems wrong on multiple levels. One it implies that E
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6y ago
If they banned them one would pop up real quick.
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> From a user security standpoint, absolutely. But given that Europe relies on the US for military protection and trade, it’s unlikely to happen. Military protection from whom? Russia? Russia is not in a place to attack Europe. And the U
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6y ago
> Users with the software can be profiled and tracked by the Chinese government pretty easily. This is true of all apps coming out of the US with the NSA. Should Google, Facebook, Netflix be banned in Europe? > and we're enterin
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> Just like most of the rest of Epic's announcements about their conflict with Apple, this just seems like more empty propaganda. Well, it is. They're in a PR battle with Apple. And weirdly this massively rich company that is c
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6y ago
To be fair, the leavers outlets seem to be the ones covering it the most. It's also a big deal because the country just made the agreement, it's not like it's 35 years old and everyone who made it is no longer around. It was
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> Ooh yes is so blatantly obvious that this is just some developers' vanity project that he enthusiastically promoted in order to get his own promotion. To be fair, if it was a project to get promoted it wasn't really a vanity
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6y ago
To be fair, this seems reasonable. There has to be a line that is drawn. Having everyone wearing full body pods isn't feasible. If you honestly feel like you need a full body pod, maybe you should seek a different mode of transport.
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6y ago
> Unfortunately in Britain, the BBC largely decides what people care about, or are even aware of. I would disagree with that. There are multiple massive news outlets, majority of which have a larger user base for their online offering th
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6y ago
> "sent to the US which doesn't really affect people" the exact opposite is true, this case can have a very real effect on US whistle blowers, a group of people who play a vital role in keeping the government and corporati
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> I'd love to see bbc reports on each day of Assange's hearings, in the sort of detail they did for Depp's case. But for some reason they are not reporting it. I wonder why? Because no one cares? The BBC is there to provid
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6y ago
But even if she wasn't watching a video, as far as I remember, there was nothing that could have been done. It was an accident that would have happened if it was a manually operated car with an alert driver, no?
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6y ago
> It's not OK to say: well you didn't make your project GPL, so you don't get to complain. I kind of agree with you and kind of disagree with you. You should be able to complain all you want. However, if explictly decide t
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> Sorry, do you expect him to run out of court and not be stopped by the bailiffs? Do you expect him to cause danger that requires the use of bulletproof glass after already being searched for weapons inside and out? Well, the baliffs wo
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6y ago
Last I heard FAANG pay between 70 and 80 in London for mid-level, no? There is a big difference between US and UK salaries. (Big difference in cost of living and taxes)
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6y ago
I think the main issue with imposter syndrome is everyone realises they suck but don't realise so does everyone else. If you look at the majority of private code bases in the world, they'll look like crap. Even the stuff getting l
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> Seems like nobody should really be treated that way though, so the fact he's being treated in accordance with others to me is more of an indictment of the system than his specific treatment. Why shouldn't people be stripped s
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> Feels like we are living in an underdeveloped country. To be fair, this is pretty much the definition of 1st world problems.
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6y ago
I read on bz-berlin.de that in an actual emergency they will have vans driving around with sirens. So my question is, why didn't they have vans driving around yesterday if it was a test?
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6y ago
They used the standard syntax used to quote? It doesn't appear to be edited.
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> According to his lawyers, Mr Assange was handcuffed 11 times; stripped naked twice and searched; his case files confiscated after the first day of the hearing; and had his request to sit with his lawyers during the trial, rather than
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To be fair, our lifestyles weren't sustainable in the first place. That's kind of the point.
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Honestly, I just assumed it was someone using Azure's basic services without being ready for a massive traffic spike. I was a bit miffed but understanding. But Microsoft not being able to scale on their own cloud service seems like a m
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6y ago
It's more I don't want to use Google than I want secure email or secure services.
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For me the key feature(s) I want that Proton doesn't have is the docs and spreadsheets. If you're already on Google Suites/apps it's hard to move over without those.
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6y ago
There is one guy at my company that goes to the office every day. He is often the only person in the IT department. Considering that even before Corona because was had a distributed team it's not so much different except for lunch.
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What I've noticed at my company is, the people who were massive fans of working from home are now the people who are missing the office the most, except for one or two people. Working from home has it's benefits but it's real
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Honestly, I think the biggest problem is our own expectations. The way IT recruitment is just now, is not substainable and makes little sense. * There are more developer jobs than developers * We're constantly afraid of developers who
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6y ago
Well, if you're using slack for example you'll normally find that business use it to send a lot more senstive stuff to each other than just API keys. If your slack gets breached you've pretty much got yourself a data breach t
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