lotsofcows

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by lotsofcows 9y ago
Dickens taught us to look at the poor and think, "There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford." At some point this transformed into looking at the poor and thinking, "Loser." Governments should lean on our media t
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
Procrastination.
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
Find something better? Are you one of those people who wonder why the oppressed don't "just do something about it"? I suppose we could organise a revolution. You go first.
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
You're right. Let's stick to the current system of exploiting the poor.
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
Neither. When Google finds someone willing to train its AI for free, it likes to take advantage.
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
Before Facebook existed, if I didn't see someone for a year, I could pretty much guarantee I wouldn't see them again (barring odd coincidences). These days I can arrange to hook up with an old colleague through Facebook because of
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
Christ, I'm the opposite. I like Facebook for getting all the banal minutiae about kids and holidays and who's fucking whom out of the way so on the rare occasion I hook up with friends we can talk about whatever it was that drew
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
Ahhh, the American Dream! "No one is forcing them to do it." There's a plethora of well paid jobs out there that they could be doing instead but, for reasons unknown, they prefer to be under-dressed roller skating companions.
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
>employer simply doesn't extend the employment Simple! Simple for the employer but a major issue for the employee. Americans value corporations over people. In Europe it's the other way around.
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
By sticking the same base code into Google Authenticator or similar?
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
How would you suggest measuring happiness other than by self-reporting?
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
I think the down votes are a result of your slight topic shift and lack of historical perspective.
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); Wonder what the returns in their Java>JavaScript framework?
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by lotsofcows 9y ago
Variation on that was to say something like, "Linux sucks! It won't do x." If the answers weren't sufficiently straight-forward, you could follow up with, "It's so much easier on MS!" Required a thick skin
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
He's amusingly high-energy. Have a look at his youtube stuff. He magnifies it for effect. To look at someone on a stage and discuss/dismiss them the way you have seems to miss the point of putting someone on a stage. Given his out
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
What's the difference between dual-pane and two windows? I tend to start with spotlight rather than with a home finder pane.
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
Navigate, open, close, cut, copy, paste, rename, delete - what's missing?
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
Normally /usr/share/dict/words Def on my Mac and CentOS boxes. Package is words.noarch for the latter.
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
AI? 10 or 20 years? You're out by at least an order of magnitude. The upcoming unemployment wave will be caused by the automation of middle class jobs exacerbated by the failing economy caused, ironically, by the decreasing population.
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
Ha. When my career started I was one of the first in the office with a relevant degree. Everyone else had started as an accountant. Which, if you think about the evolution of business computing, makes perfect sense. Tangentially, presumably
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BBC Will Use Wifi Detection Vans to Catch TV Licence Evaders(metro.co.uk)
2 points by lotsofcows 10y ago|1 comments
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
So once he had access to your box he lulled you into a false sense of security so you didn't go looking for his proxy? Nice.
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
Are you saying you have evidence that the actions you list (even ignoring the obvious cultural entrenchment) are more common in the poor than the rich? Can you provide a link please?
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
It's a pretentious but arguably valid Latin singular. "Arguably" because the word comes to English from French not straight from the Latin.
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
"Move to where the money is." Ah, yes, immigration. Very topical.
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
This idea that paying less tax is a good thing boggles the mind. Do you think tax payer money is just burnt or something? Paying taxes provide services that maintain the sensible level of social movement and pay differential that has been
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by lotsofcows 10y ago
It presents emotionally loaded imagery that is easily corroborated but has no relevance to the rest of the article. This is an attempt to look like journalism. It then drops into a bunch of paranoid raving with nothing to back it up. "
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Depends where you are, obviously. Good javascript devs were on £30k a few years ago. Now it's £50k. We've had javascript dev positions open for over a month now, £25k to £55k. ...if any javascript devs are after a job in Brighton,
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Is it presentable in court? Depends on your jurisdiction. Can they use it as I can - to translate SSIDs into locations? https://wigle.net/
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by lotsofcows 11y ago
Much easier just to log whatever SSIDs the phones are broadcasting. My phone currently knows about 20 wifi networks from which I can work out where I live, where I work and where I've been on holiday.

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