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by mjolk 13y ago
While this thread is bound to fill with anecdotes... > Tourists are already turned off from coming to the US because of the TSA issues. I'd love to agree with you, but there's that pesky reality that disagrees with your claim:
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by mjolk 13y ago
> All of a sudden, we were forced to figure out, how much we actually sold in each of those states, where we hired people Not to be offensive, but differences in state rules should have been expected, given the name of the country. How
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by mjolk 13y ago
Yes, American cities are literally akin to 3rd world countries.
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Are they using more than the road?
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by mjolk 13y ago
babushka is a word for an older woman. what are you trying to say?
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by mjolk 13y ago
It's just linkedin, don't take it so seriously. It's just a website.
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by mjolk 13y ago
That's kind of crazy -- more than one out of ten is an illegal hotel as per their own statistics.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Yeah, I also get the impression that Android devs aren't eating their own dog food. I'm actually surprised at how inferior it is to iOS in almost every way.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Sigh. Read the comment, it's totally justified.
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by mjolk 13y ago
America is pretty good -- don't anecdotes from the internet says deter you. We're a collection of states that each are allowed to do things more or less their own way. Texas is one of the states with serious issues surrounding il
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by mjolk 13y ago
Shut up. This snide comment isn't even cute. The US is vastly better than many parts of the world and we get a disproportionate amount of attention on our ills because we're an economic powerhouse that does many things. The coun
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by mjolk 13y ago
I bought the Motorola flagship phone[1] of last year and it's just as bad as he's describing, if not worse. Unfortunately, it goes way beyond just small UI and physical design issues: -The "Play Store" is filled with low
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by mjolk 13y ago
Uber doesn't have the same model as a taxi company -- what would stop a driver from staying logged into the Uber application whenever she's running errands? Taxi drivers drive shifts in which they're using cars that are the
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by mjolk 13y ago
If this is the case, then my employer is also responsible for actions I take while I'm on-call (with the important distinction that my on-call is not opt-in and is per the terms of my employment contract). If I break the law and hack s
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by mjolk 13y ago
The site has a ranking system for posts that handle this question.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Is your assertion that the maximum utility of an topic is realized on the first discussion?
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by mjolk 13y ago
What's your point? It's possible to have an enriching conversation and/or discuss things that are more than a few hours old.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>If so, then I would hesitate to hire you because ethical and conscience-based decisions are key to having trust in employees. Because every employee working for the NSA is doing a-thing-that-you-don't-like(tm) and not something dif
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by mjolk 13y ago
It seems like most of the tension was caused by having a terrible boss.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>If you're the kind of person they want to hire, you have lots of fantastic other choices. So choose something else. I am the kind of person they'd want to hire and what has kept me from applying is the relative low pay and not
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by mjolk 13y ago
....ohhhh (I feel dumb now). Thanks!
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by mjolk 13y ago
>Refuse to work with/at NSA until their policies change When the NSA demands your data, you're not really entering a business partnership. >Refuse to participate in any committee/standards body, conferences, with NSA em
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by mjolk 13y ago
If when you join a company, you lose your personal identity, your employer has gotten a bargain on your hourly rate. There will always be another job.
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by mjolk 13y ago
I'm not going to jail due to fighting the government about disclosure of the users of my dumb smartphone game. It's fun to play the moral high ground, but let's not pretend we're the bastions of society because we encry
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by mjolk 13y ago
"Likely the most impactful thing you can do right now is to add the banner to your own site and ask the companies you work for to do the same." Why do you feel this is the most impactful thing that [I] can do? Specifically, do yo
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by mjolk 13y ago
I don't understand - why would it be offensive to have to use the formal case with each other in a parliament? Is the idea that вы ('vih'/'vy') implies formality/lack of familiarity and the Polish wanted
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by mjolk 13y ago
Stop muddying the waters with tangents. You clicked on the thread, we didn't collectively wander to earshot of your soapbox.
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by mjolk 13y ago
You don't what? You can type full sentences, there's no word limit here.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Bitcoin is not the same thing as mobile payments. I send mobile payments, I don't do bitcoin, and I'm a nerd. What percentage of the population do you think really is interested in ever using bitcoins?
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by mjolk 13y ago
Linux and BSD have the security advantage of having their ugliness shown to the world for decades. When you push a change that everyone can see, you don't have the option of hiding your ugliness behind a compiler.

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