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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Touchscreens: cheap to design around, easy to rearrange into the latest fashion, hateful to use, and here to stay--and I don't even have an RSI! Don't have a child's fingers and a eagle's eyes? Suck it grandpa! You wer
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Atari 400/800, Amiga, SNES--the conductor/orchestra model of system design is the best.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Brand-new planes that crash, bridges that fall on the first day, the subordination of computing to advertising and surveillance, iatrogenics, plastics/xenoestrogens, environmental destruction, species extinction, paper-upon-paper of no
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Only homophobia there is the kind you imagined into it. Article discusses european privacy laws as they relate to romantic/sexual preferences/arrangements that stopped being taboo long ago. At the same time, most european countri
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
" But the tools of rationality have come a long way. " highly debatable
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
" Changing a company, government, industry, or society from the inside is hard. Deciding to get on a massive ship with a tiny oar in your hand and telling yourself that maybe you can help it avoid the iceberg is terrifying. " Terr
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Not everything in the produce section is an avocado. Many fruits/vegetables--especially ones in-season--are cheaper than junk food. Fact of the matter is, poors don't want them. If the inventory sold, the stores would carry it.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Shut up Paul, you're scaring off the W2s!
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
PS2 emulator works at full frame rate under it--ordinary GUIs should fly. There's something else going on there...
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Wine however, is awesome. For UI apps on Linux, I think Wine is a better platform than Qt/GTK/etc.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Looks like my entire wardrobe is coming back in style. About damn time!
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Do something else. My God there is so much that needs to be done outside of software, no one is doing it, and civilization is turning into shit because of it. If you need us to give you the secret sauce to doing software without feeling bo
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
This person is obviously not a disinterested party--yet still not wrong! I've done business in many different sectors over the years, and in every single one, the venality and nearsightedness of journalism was both strikingly obvious a
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
If I invest poorly, and have to eat $7M + losses, no. If I invest poorly, and get a temporary bail-out until my investments pan out, I'd still like that $120B please.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
If it is propaganda, who does it serve? And BTW, where's my $120B overnight loan?
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
" One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all " - Flora Thompson
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
I think that's putting the cart before the horse. With adults, strong math and language skills have been much stronger indicators of coding performance than specific training. So pin-down the basics, and you get a potentially great c
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Straight out of college, not straight out of prison for being an accessory to somebody getting loaded with buckshot.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Trust has to be earned--even for non-felons. After the debt is paid, I think that puts the balance at zero. How many tech firms hire at zero--other than in situations like this limited-time virtue signaling / PR fodder opportunity?
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
That is a nice anecdote. Is it good policy?
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
I'd also disregard a pot bust. This Aguirre guy in the article was at least an accessory to a shooting--even though they charged him with much more than that... not the kind of person I want near confidential information.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
How would, " What happens after prisoners become accountants / lawyers / bankers... " sound? To me, it says that trust in our profession is interchangeable with that of trained felons. I'd rather not have technical
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
" apps, kiosks, gender politics, and environmentalism as a for-profit startup--to do something that civilized people used to... " if the shoe fits.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
It would take a first-hand report from an entity that I trust. MSM deserves zero trust. For the entire postwar period, we move from one false flag intervention to another--Korea, Iran in '53, Vietnam, Cambodia, Guatemala, Honduras, Ha
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Old Jack seems a little wild these days--like some of that Paul LeRoux / John McAfee outlaw energy has entered his soul. Will keep my fingers crossed.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
desktop pc, left on. garbage move.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Had a guy mining Monero on his. Didn't find out until he left. Tacky, considering the kinds of salary this field draws.
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Also.. [Elliot Higgins] previously worked in finance and administration. In 2012, when Higgins began blogging the Syrian civil war, he was unemployed and spent his days taking care of his child at home So I guess we're every bit as
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
Bellingcat has received grants from Adessium, Digital News Initiative, Open Society Foundation, Pax, Porticus, National Endowment for Democracy, The Dutch Postcode Lottery, Zinc Network (funded by British foreign office) The National End
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by jstewartmobile 7y ago
According to who? The OPCW? The UN? All of these organizations are compromised. Per Wikipedia: It was argued by The Guardian's columnist George Monbiot that Director-General José Bustani was being forced out by the U.S. government,

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