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by latj 10y ago
"Its its got to be us or them, its going to be them." --The Humans
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by latj 10y ago
If you are using Tor Browser in Tails over a coffee shop wifi while you are laying down under a blanket in the back of a truck driven by a stateless hobo with no fingerprints who you intend to murder later in a country with a healthy democr
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by latj 10y ago
Yes, I think using FB login pretty much solves the problem as it is today. Take a look at civilbeat.com a regional news site by Pierre Omidyar (The Intercept). I'm fairly certain they only allowed comments via FB login for years. It me
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by latj 10y ago
There are plenty of PV suppliers out there. I believe FSLR is the largest. The deal does make sense to me though. In the beginning it worried me that Tesla only had one product. One major flaw in the product could have ended them and they w
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by latj 10y ago
Good things dont scale. Sergey Brin & Larry Page could have been the old Japanese man in the subway station sushi joint making the the best bites of a lifetime for a few hundred humans a day. They decided to go a different route.
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by latj 10y ago
The Processes of Life: An Introduction to Molecular Biology (MIT Press) Lawerence E. Hunter This book great for people who want more than a pop-science book but less than a textbook. http://amzn.com/0262013053
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by latj 10y ago
They dont have to fly anyone down to brazil. They had someone there. He was arrested a few months go for not fulfilling the request. Its all in the article we are commenting on.
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by latj 10y ago
You are missing the most important part of the story. Facebook and Whatsapp are not ignoring the request. They have said that it is impossible for them to provide the information requested.
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by latj 11y ago
Looks interesting. Are my only options to use root password or compile it myself?
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by latj 11y ago
The app is nicer and the barrier to start very low. I started using it when I got rid of Ally. Youre right there are no perks to Google Wallet Card but the perks from Ally and other banks are not very useful for the use described above. Bas
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by latj 11y ago
I dunno, there are huge institutions of scholars who study and prescribe changes to educational system. If it becomes a choice between making a school better or listening to them and defending the institutions, its going to be a tough sell.
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by latj 11y ago
Maybe not. There is more age discrimination in software than in other areas. But around 2000, it was out of control. There were fewer jobs and everyone wanted to hire "the kids in the garage" type developers. If he was engineer-ma
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by latj 11y ago
Thats not what I think of when I think of poverty. Paul got tired of being broke. When you're tired of being broke, but you're educated, young, healthy, and/or from a privileged class-- you go to school, open a business, hust
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by latj 11y ago
Telsa appears to have been overpriced for quite some time. The stock kept rising based on emotional reactions to videos of falcon doors, robot recharging arm, hypertube test tracks, and reusable space craft landing. If Elon Musk can make al
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by latj 11y ago
I recall reading that evidence Assange was being tried in absentia was leaked but not released. I cannot find anything about it now. I'm willing to accept that I am remembering incorrectly or it must have been a bad source. After all,
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by latj 11y ago
No one on Assange's side is worried about "questioning over the activities of Wikileaks" as BBC story put it. It is very likely he has already been found guilty in abstentia in a secret trial. You are arguing due process. Wha
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by latj 11y ago
My money is on incompetence too, but it certainly could be malicious. For example, imagine a small company run by two frat brother entrepreneur guys. They bribe some factory supervisor in Taiwan for the designs to a product. They cant under
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by latj 11y ago
The world wouldnt screech to a halt though. We're talking about what would happen if Google disappeared and its not a hypothetical situation. It happened in China for a five year period starting in 2010. People who used Google services
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by latj 11y ago
You admit you arent an expert and you dont have time to understand the data. Yet you have already drawn a conclusion. I am not an expert. I also do not have time to understand the data. That is why all I am comfortable saying is, my gut ins
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by latj 11y ago
Ok, we've heard your proposition. Now make some arguments. Now show some evidence. For example, mean pay for a software developer in state of California is $119,970 according to Bureau of Labor Statistics [1]. What is the minimum wage
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by latj 11y ago
I'm not who you are addressing exactly, but it is not "bigoted" to make the claim that bringing more workers into a workforce will drive salaries down.
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by latj 11y ago
The "metrics lag" you are describing is a kind of slack that occurs across industries. And, there is always someone who comes in, and often makes their career, by finding a new way to measure that is more precise or closer to real
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by latj 11y ago
What you are describing is what existed before what we have now. A group of people working for an employer would try to negotiate for safer working conditions, better benefits, etc. The employer would take the list of demands, fire the pers
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by latj 11y ago
Isnt self hosted slack IRC?
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by latj 11y ago
Yes! Close your eyes and flail your arms around and eventually you will hit something. The way I use Stack Overflow makes me feel dirty. Usually it starts when I Google an error message because I'm using a new (to me) combination of la
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by latj 11y ago
Perl's greatest features (for me) have always been community and documentation/literature. In the beginning I thought every technical community was like Perl just because it was all I knew. I was quite surprised to find out how po
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by latj 11y ago
What is confusing about 5 and 6?
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by latj 11y ago
It just seems like a nonprofit supported by participating universities might be better than charging authors. If Universities were paying $250k/yr for a subscription the old way why cant they pay $100k/yr to be a member of the non
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by latj 11y ago
>It's important to understand the implications of open access re: nature of funding. The model is inverted, with costs of publishing falling on the author (or institutional backer) rather than the reader. Traditionally, the cost bur
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by latj 11y ago
The good thing about becoming a Rupert Murdoch company is that you can save a lot of money by laying off the fact-checkers.

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