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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Wow... "My wife just lost her job, and I'm not sure how/if I can pay the rent this month. So yeah, I'm right in that category. Only I'm not ashamed, I'm angry." That's not middle class, that's ca
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I think it's just supposed to be noteworthy because it is unusual for them to pay that much, and it was specifically to get an early iteration of this particular model. I wonder if there's some reason they specifically went for on
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Key quote from one of the comments: "The secret shame of the American Middle Class is that they listen to people telling them 'it's not your fault' too much."
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No cash? No credit? No problem!
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
He actually claims to be making a decent income, the issue is his spending habits, not his career choice.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I personally blame marketing and advertising for this trend. They've sold people that they not only can, but should, live beyond their means.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I was being generous and assuming they meant "every time a user logs in, a software engineer thinks about security" because the alternative is literally meaningless. To elaborate, statements like "every time you shake hands w
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Perhaps it's just wrong? A software engineer doesn't think about user authentication and encryption every time someone logs in to any popular service. That would be silly, and impossible. I mean, maybe it's just being hyperbo
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I don't particularly remember, or particularly care, I just remembered the "hack" such as it is, and how it highlights the inherent flaw I'm talking about in these proxy metrics. The issue is that the platform uses &quot
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Isn't this payment scheme similar to Spotify's model? I thought that was broken too, considering some artists have 10min "silent" songs that they encourage their fans to play over and over during the night so they can ge
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
After a scare like that I'll bet she never makes that mistake again and makes sure to triple check for typos in dangerous commands.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I got that when I uploaded a picture of a pine cone...
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
This is just a taste... Now imagine what it must feel like to be a celebrity and have this be an every day occurrence-- hounded by paparazzi.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
You'd have to go REALLY back to basics... a lot of chipsets have backdoors themselves.. some of which the FBI ironically pushed for. So no matter how securely you make your own OS if you don't also make your own hardware it's
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Presumably the FAA would have records of all flights as you have to submit flight plans to ATC. Then they just see how many crashes there were that resulted in loss of life. I mean, I don't know where I would personally pull those numb
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Azure does that too, you can create a Web Application project in Visual Studio and publish it directly to your Azure subscription, it provisions everything it needs automagically and just works. I haven't played around with testing tha
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Some people would argue that social capital provides a better balance. Allowing, for example, the Sherpas to go home without fearing starvation or poverty.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
It depends, if you think 100% pure unadulterated capitalism is a good thing, then "pure" is "good". If you think capitalism needs some checks and bounds then "pure" is "bad". In the former case, &quot
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I agree wholeheartedly; you basically summarized my thoughts on the matter. And it isn't just mobile games, not is it just games. There's a race to the bottom in the entire content creation industry.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Interesting idea, I guess a tech comparison would be revamping the server side code considerably but not making an announcement so users wouldn't think they had to be on the lookout for bugs / quirks that weren't originally p
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I mean, for what it's worth they say quality of life barely changes once you're past a threshold.[1] So I wouldn't worry about it too much. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/money-impr
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
But without those walls you'd be as dysfunctional as the author in his first few years of experiencing emotion. Having some measure of "thick skin" is part and parcel for existence as a social animal.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Terribly sad and beautiful book. Totally recommend it to anyone who hasn't read it already.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
It's hard to imagine what it must be like to go from feeling no emotions to feeling them all, like the colourblind glasses. It's relatively easy to imagine seeing the world in black and white and then having the colour switch flip
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Very insightful comments... apparently just a little too insightful.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
But in practice there usually ends up being no difference in score under either ruleset, or by at most 1 point difference.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
I just started playing Go this January. The game was fairly overwhelming at first. The path I followed to get a decent understanding of the game (I'm about 13kyu now) was this: 1. Start by playing a few games, doesn't really matte
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Jon Oliver lies to me about Geography on a regular basis, and I'm ashamed to admit I only catch it once every so often...
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
It's because comedians tell jokes, but the mainstream media is a joke.
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by mfoy_ 11y ago
Also "where" vs "were"-- if we're nitpicking.

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