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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
New York Post has got you covered! https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coro... PS> knew I'd have to scroll to the bottom to get some sense out of this place!
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
considering the strong rumors that this is an engineered biological warfare agent escaped from the lab, authoritarianism still isn't looking so hot right now.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Hollywood provides the same variety of courtesy censorship for anything which might offend the CCP. The TV and the movies are primarily there to lie to us now.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Step 1) get a degree to jerk around with docker all day for money Step 2) realize that this computer shit is hard Step 3) let google do it instead
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
you should self host EVERYTHING
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
1986 computing: solving real-life problems for a reasonable price 2020 computing: extracting sensitive information from and selling digital cornfields to morons I posit that the latest "value-add" to come out of internet-age compu
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
As you broaden your domains of expertise, it becomes increasingly clear that most news media is astroturf.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
" encryption on the Internet is performative " Security on computers is performative. Intel, Cisco, Broadcom, Apple, Google, deep state, and God only knows who else can crack these pieces of garbage like an egg. Whoever wrote t
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
The infinity-plus-oneth HN pigpile-on-the-C-luddite thread. Ugh...
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Silly Germans, AT&T is always busted. BTW, if these tutanota guys were smart, they'd be pitching their services to AT&T instead of dragging them through the mud. Last I checked, AT&T had subcontracted Yahoo as their mail ha
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
This reminds me to take a Wikipedia snapshot. It seems like it has become more of an ideological battleground lately, and I'm not sure how long their editors will be able to hold the line against various manifestations of astroturfer.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
The whole AT reaction is naive. Keynes was a flagrant homosexual who recorded his sexual exploits in considerable detail. Did he get chemically castrated? Of course not! He had power and international recognition in his own time. Aside f
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Charles wrote probably one of the best explain-the-computer-to-grandma books ever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code:_The_Hidden_Language_of_C...
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Considering the "butterfly ballot" and the "hanging chad," what on earth made someone think an app was a good idea where people can't even figure out paper? The process needs to be dumbed-down--kindergaten style. G
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Many of these jobs can be performed anywhere--even on the go. Whatever the ultimate corporate goals may be, this topic is clearly a control issue, not a talent one. In software, talent can do what it wants wherever it feels like doing it--b
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Print people at the time had no idea what 640x480x24 even means. That was all IT dorks and amateur self-styled "designers." (i.e. barbarians) The Bringhurst book was published 1992. Web tech learned zero from that book.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
It is always a good time to shatter a megacorp. The true innovation in this field was all defense spending in the first place. Not going to shed a tear over a setback to a bunch of grifters who cashed in on the public's investment.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Web technologies are barbarianism. We've been laying out pages for hundreds of years. I suspect that this would be a much shorter article if Microsoft/Netscape/Opera/et.al had consulted with experts in that business fir
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
The early works alone were enough to gain him a loyal and devoted gang of students. Start at opus 1, no encore. Terrible philosophy--like cyanide in a candy shell.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
This music will destroy you. He barely survived it himself. Very skilled though... Hit it a time or two on YouTube, then move on. Don't linger!
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Why welcome people who run from problems rather than fixing them--especially when many are of considerable wealth, and are disproportionately responsible for the unsatisfactory condition of their own countries? If we shut the door on wealth
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
It's ok to take the convicted pedophile's money. Just don't put his name on any buildings! That would cross the line.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Let me guess... IT guy?
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
My personal experience from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22135940
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Undertaking nerd-duel with low pay disrespected computer lab janny is shameful. Would not share...
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Everything in awful awful IT requires babysitting--even cron jobs.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
HTTPS PR is not the internet's defense against hackers. It's FAANG's defense against Comcast and AT&T.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Without HTTPS, Russians could MITM my knitting blog any minute now! Indefinitely babysitting letsencrypt is a small price to pay to keep those grannies safe!
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
ADHD is a blessing, not a curse. So many things now would be better left undone. If I were a doctor or a pharmacist, I'd be more interested in inducing this condition than curing it. Personal procrastination deep-dives have rewarded m
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
" If by "democracy" we mean the form which the Third Estate as such wishes to impart to public life as a whole, it must be concluded that democracy and plutocracy are the same thing under the two aspects of wish and actuality

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