mjolk

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by mjolk 13y ago
Yes, to fix the "girls named Larry" bug.
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by mjolk 13y ago
It really doesn't though. The ease of consumption of the political topics is killing the depth of discussion on hackernews and forcing people elsewhere, especially when comments like "wow don't gitmo me bro" are now con
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by mjolk 13y ago
You're kidding right? Guessing gender for a "show hacker news" with a .io domain is a clear case of "done is better than perfect."
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by mjolk 13y ago
>We have already seen a much greater abuse of this data: cooperation between the NSA and law enforcement agencies, along with a conspiracy to lie to judges, defense attorneys, and even prosecutors about how evidence was collected. Link t
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by mjolk 13y ago
Stop trying to link the TSA and people denied at the border (there's no inalienable right to people coming into the country) with the NSA. What is your point? The NSA might be greedy for info, but they're not stupid or act [as an
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by mjolk 13y ago
>What makes you believe that some individuals within the NSA are not of that type of person? Because the NSA just records the information, they don't get to make the call on detention. Gitmo isn't full of people that called th
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by mjolk 13y ago
Can you provide a link to prove this? And come on, there's no need to be pleasant the umpteenth-thousand time that someone mades a snide, ultra-paranoid remark about America that scrapes the bottom of Godwin's law.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Because you're not dangerous or a threat. Not that I love the idea of someone awkwardly thumbing through content that my mind has created, but why would the NSA care to detain a foreign national over being smug?
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by mjolk 13y ago
>"and hope I don't get black bagged to your fancy Cuban torture prisons if I ever cross into the USA." Oh give me a break with the hyperbole. The NSA likely doesn't give a fuck about your activity of pissing and moani
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by mjolk 13y ago
In Made-up City, Smuglandia, obviously.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Working in the same 100km radius is hardly "nomadic." The only real move the author did was to Canada, before relatively quickly moving back home.
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by mjolk 13y ago
I agree, indulging narcissism is perhaps _the_ most important issue of our day.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>NYTimes and Twitter are lame targets? Yes. A declining media/entertainment company and an advertising firm? >In the US, at least, you don't get a much higher profile non-government target than the NY Times. Google, Academi
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by mjolk 13y ago
Why do you suspect this is sanctioned by Russia? What would they have to gain from pestering a couple media companies, especially at the risk of losing their business? What is your logic here?
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by mjolk 13y ago
From my experience, the obsession lies somewhere in the overlapping segment of the euler diagram of "nerd-cred", liking the tactical feel, and nostalgia.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>Is this a common practice? No, a 3-5 month interview process is not common.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>"Or to say that people who try to do things they're not good at deserve to be scammed." It's more often the case that the hire isn't as good as he believes. Which is perfectly fine, because the person/&quo
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by mjolk 13y ago
Sure, but you hire professionals to perform and inspect this work, and at the end, have a local official verify the work has been done. Your example really stretches the analogy as buying/renting a structure is not at all similar to t
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by mjolk 13y ago
>Businesses require teams of talented people who can trust one another. Not everyone knows everything -- and if you think that everyone should just take advantage of each other, well, remind me to never hire you. Or work for you. Keep in
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by mjolk 13y ago
If you want to open a restaurant, you sure as hell better know how to screen for qualified waiters/bartenders.
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by mjolk 13y ago
Perhaps I'm a jerk, but I don't feel bad when non-technical people get taken for a ride when hiring people for a tech-startup. I have no business trying to start a hair salon on the cheap, so why should I feel sorry for someone w
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by mjolk 13y ago
Meeting a guy/gal is a major biological driver in life. Other than food/physical safety, what is more important in life?
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by mjolk 13y ago
Thanks for the response; still a helpful answer.
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by mjolk 13y ago
It's close enough to a solved problem and I want the web history. My machine fingerprint is hugely generic -- Chrome on OSX with a couple plugins coming from NYC. Advertisers/jerks could use the visited link color hack with firs
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by mjolk 13y ago
>On a final note. I'm Irish and lived (US) here 12 years. My family and I can move to Ireland at any time without worry for some of the larger barriers; visa and language. An aside, but why did you move from Ireland to the US? I&#x
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by mjolk 13y ago
I'm not sure that I qualify as 'sane,' but I do it to block tracking/breadcrumb JS. I don't want to pay extra cash for a flight because airlines know that I've been looking extensively over the last few hours.
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by mjolk 13y ago
30 votes on a hacker news post is hardly "high ranking" and if someone argued based on the quality and content of this blog post, I'd laugh all the way into making all his/her commits come from pull requests.
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by mjolk 13y ago
>It's a new story, and gender dysphoria is a topic that I think is well worth discussing. It's hacker news, not the comments section of deviantart.
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by mjolk 13y ago
How would that notification go? "Hey guys, we're going to bully the boyfriend of a reporter for you. High five?"
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by mjolk 13y ago
>If you can't see it, there is no point explaining. There are significantly more than 7 users. I can see it. But you're acting as if Google just blackholed orphans from getting food. >Microsoft are trying to provide access

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