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by kbart 10y ago
" I know Google is planning on dinging sites that don't use HTTPS, is it possible they could ding sites for poor password policies?" How they gonna do that? Do you expect Google to audit every site in their search ranks?
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by kbart 10y ago
Facebook is not very big in Russia and I wouldn't be surprised if it is banned as LinkedIn soon. Most of ordinary Russians use VKontakte.
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by kbart 10y ago
And what do you say them when they ask: "where do we go then"? The real problem is, that there's no good enough alternative.
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by kbart 10y ago
I guess there's no point adding >14 on a gym wall as only a handful of individuals on the whole world could climb it.
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by kbart 10y ago
"It's the third time I have come across this situation; when you produce really good code, and you get fired without any reason" I doubt it has anything to do with his coding skills. You can be good at programming but still
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by kbart 10y ago
Yes, but living in developed Europe country vs SF you probably get: 1) free healthcare 2) free education for you and your children 3) better work/life balance* 4) better overall life quality* Sum that up and you shouldn't feel tha
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by kbart 10y ago
"A tremendous income generally comes from delivering tremendous value in the world to others" So, you want to say that Kim Kardashian[0] provides more value to the world per year than ~1230 paramedics[1] combined? 0. http:&#x2F
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by kbart 10y ago
I also keep my work and personal life separate and can't be happier about it. I don't give my personal phone number, online names or even email to anyone just because we work together. It's not 100% rule, if I find mutual int
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by kbart 10y ago
Yes, I don't get why we need that "wife/husband/spouse" name instead of "friend" or "buddy"? Wife/husband/spouse sounds very intimate, and I don't think it's a good idea to im
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by kbart 10y ago
The only effective solution I can think of is Tor, but then you automatically lose probably >99% of users. Everything else can be blocked easily.
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by kbart 10y ago
Not necessarily saltiness, I usually marinate chicken breast in a mix of olive oil, lemon juice and various herbs. The taste is so much better than the "plain" one.
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by kbart 10y ago
"People pay ~20$ per month for under 10GB cellular data." It depends on a country. Where I live, you can get unlimited 4G Internet for 15-30 eur/month (depending on a provider).
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by kbart 10y ago
"None of that is illegal but it doesn't mean it deserves a free open forum." Why not? If we silence them on few webpages, you think they simply will disappear? Trump as a president should be the wakeup call for everyone tha
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by kbart 10y ago
There are currently 3 articles (including this one) on the same topic on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12977904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12977612
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by kbart 10y ago
Isn't Lexus a Japanese car company?
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by kbart 10y ago
I often take my own food into a plane for the prolonged flights and it tastes ok, didn't notice any difference from eating on the ground.
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by kbart 10y ago
Driving well below allowed speed limit is dangerous, especially in high speed and high traffic roads, because a car behind you might be forced to brake, the car behind it brakes harder, next one even more harder creating a chain reaction th
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by kbart 10y ago
another anecdata: I once drove a car that reported negative fuel consumption when driving down the hill. EDIT: no, it was neither electric nor hybrid car, but some old petrol car with manual transmission (Saab 900 or similar).
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by kbart 10y ago
Ask 100 people what is evil and I'm sure you will get similar number of different answers. Is abortion evil? Is religion evil? Is being proud of your history and heritage evil? Is being gay evil? Not everything in life is black and w
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by kbart 10y ago
"Sure, but not everyone enjoys spending their time engaging with vegan rhetoric. There are plenty of places outside of Twitter where you can actually choose whether or not to have a discussion." By this logic, Twitter should ban
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by kbart 10y ago
""I don't like Goldman Sachs" is an opinion you can debate on its merits. "Kill all the Jew bankers" is not. The boundary is somewhere in between those two." I don't agree. "Kill all the X&quot
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by kbart 10y ago
Screamers is surprisingly underrated. It's one of the best pop-sci-fi movies from nineties imho.
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by kbart 10y ago
Or they simply use long wire buried in sand.
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by kbart 10y ago
"Interestingly, I find this somewhat similar to looking at landscape photography that people enjoy - especially from vacation destinations. Almost every picture now has more dynamic range, edge contrast, contrast, and saturation than
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by kbart 10y ago
"A good tinfoil hat approach is to use an iPod touch running an end-to-end encrypted messaging/calling app of your choice, connected to a secure hotspot." Yes, but it's not much of a phone if it's WiFi only. You
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by kbart 10y ago
How do you know then that CyanogenOS itself was not modified to include unwanted software?
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by kbart 10y ago
"If your threat model includes a three letter agency, then don't use Android. Full stop. The iPhone is the ecosystem you want." I wouldn't count on that either.. It depends on how "interesting" you are for th
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by kbart 10y ago
Get a phone that supports CyanogenMod. Sure, baseband still remains a blackbox and possibly backdoored, but at least you can get rid of most spyware/adware that comes preinstalled with Android. While we don't have fully open sourc
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by kbart 10y ago
Agree. While it's a cool story to tell your grandchildren, burying medals (of course, not on your own property) would be much faster solution.
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by kbart 10y ago
"Also, I have yet to figure out how to unhack the hackers" Couldn't read any further due to tears in my eyes from laugh.

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