lerpa

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by lerpa 9y ago
Oh sure because satire wasn't commonplace in books long before the internet. How would those poor souls have figured it out it wasn't serious?! IMPOSSIBLE. Regarding Poe's law, if it looks like sarcasm assume it is and move o
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by lerpa 9y ago
Adds built-in ad blocker, removes competition from Chrome extensions store/site or even blocks installing them altogether though the browser.
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by lerpa 9y ago
Well then I guess now for you it's just a matter of going to live in the ideal world where all of that holds true, and you're golden to live without any care.
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by lerpa 9y ago
Because it's easier to exonerate ourselves from any responsibility for our own mistakes than having to deal with that.
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by lerpa 10y ago
> ease of use and near-native speed And still when we want actual speed we port it to C++ or at least need to use Cython.
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by lerpa 10y ago
> Pretty sure you could do that as easily in PHP PHP is awful but still the best option for making something simple very fast, as it is supported virtually in every kind of provider, even free ones.
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by lerpa 10y ago
>> why are people writing this stuff in C. It's so slow and you don't have as much control on memory. Write it in Assembly. >did anyone ever actually say this? Yes, in the 8bit era.
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by lerpa 10y ago
Spot on, I serioulsly don't understand people that are Java developers / front-end developers / technology X devs if you're not talking about you're currently working on, and instead treat that as their profession
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by lerpa 10y ago
Javascript, Java, it's all the same after all ducks
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by lerpa 10y ago
Same for Chrome: http://www.geekpen.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Chrome-Mor... Probably Firefox also has this.
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by lerpa 10y ago
> But it's crazy that 100 year old scientific works can still be under copyright and illegal to distribute. That's why it shouldn't be considered plagiarism for the author or someone eles to republish those works at freer
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by lerpa 10y ago
That may be a temporary bodge solution to this, but the final solution is to eradicate the kind of legal implications that being an employee entails, aside from the only fact that it is no different than you selling a service to the employe
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by lerpa 10y ago
> The evident conclusion is that there are none. You are selling all of your intellectual output. The conclusion is that we either reject this kind of slavery, or at least start charging the extra hours.
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by lerpa 10y ago
That kind of name calling is way over the top and inapropriate, but to be fair you can be a genius while having a lower bar for what is acceptable during an interview.
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by lerpa 10y ago
Not always, you could be planning on filling the data with something else. Very common to do that.
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by lerpa 10y ago
> Normally, I ask to be dropped off where it's most convenient for me, and the most convenient for me is the best drop-off experience possible. Big brother knows best, surrender now, you'll be assimilated.
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by lerpa 10y ago
"Uber now discloses it does this"
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by lerpa 10y ago
It can happen and if you treat your email with that level of seriousness it is a possibility to have in mind that it could have happened. The problem here is people taking an entertainment site so seriously, oh they are blatantly fucking up
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by lerpa 10y ago
> Where exactly do "progressives" think we are progressing? Originally, the answer to that would be Communism. It was looming, remember? Just a matter of time and it could be accelerated through different kind of policies... Ex
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by lerpa 10y ago
> but it ended up just magnifying whatever good and bad already existed in world before it came to the scene. And that's how technology works. While they are a lot of naive people around, it has been that way ever since, and humans
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by lerpa 10y ago
They can fact check whatever they want, it's their site. It's stupid but people that should leave to greener pastures, it's not like in the beginning there was Facebook and we're bound to use that forever. The problem is
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by lerpa 10y ago
You don't have freedom of speech in Facebook, if Facebook doesn't want you to, it's their platform... They may lose credibility doing that, and would be a worse place to discuss things, but that is up them unless you have som
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by lerpa 10y ago
The solution is simple, stop being gullible and stupid trusting things you hear or read without something credible to back it up. Facebook has it's own bias, most people do. Some professional reviewers and political commentators try to
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by lerpa 10y ago
Spot on. People have to realize promises have next to zero value, they would say anything in order to be elected. You have to judge those people by their track record, actual actions, not just empty words... which leaves both with very poor
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by lerpa 10y ago
Well yes, people lose they jobs and have to seek new opportunities. And that's good in the larger scheme of thing. Just let's not downplay the effect it can have to have to rethink the way you earn your livelihood, it's nothi
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by lerpa 10y ago
When people are looking for jobs is great, America was founded upon immigrants looking for good working conditions. Some people will end up unemployed because they aren't able to adapt, yep, but that in the end makes production cheaper
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by lerpa 10y ago
It's even worse in places where government, either directly or through unions, set the base salaries for people with certain education levels. Then you have higher education, no job, and are unable to be hired doing less education dema
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by lerpa 10y ago
It's the price of having to wait months in order to see a doctor I guess. That is if government thinks you are worth treating and you don't have to resort to medical tourism.
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by lerpa 10y ago
If people are so generous over there, why the need to put that burden to government and instead make funds so people can use what they need, and if a fund goes into corrupt hands you can always create a new one and vote with your wallet.
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by lerpa 10y ago
Exactly, I don't get the people that listen to whale music for coding. It's just... boring and makes me want to sleep... If I need silence let there be silence, otherwise I enjoy some podcasts or music that pumps me up.

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