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by mundo 10y ago
"unsafe" has become a bit of a buzzword in the interminable red-vs-blue wars, but everything else about this would've played out the same way if she had said he was "inappropriate" or "unprofessional". Loo
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by mundo 10y ago
> The people getting more than they put in are parasites; the people getting less than they put in are suckers. You're describing the same people at different stages in their lives.
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by mundo 10y ago
The reason you see people concerned about this is because most people assume Trump will defer to his VP on most policy stuff, and his VP is very, very anti-gay. The reason people assume this is that one of the other people considered to be
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by mundo 10y ago
I just switched my mom from Skype to talky.io and I'm never going back. Try it out (or any of the million other free webrtc sites)!
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by mundo 10y ago
"Contact info storage service for ex-colleagues I wasn't chummy enough to add on a real social network" pretty much sums it up for me.
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by mundo 10y ago
I don't bother (with filter questions). If weeding through some bad resumes is the price I pay to make sure the best candidates will apply, I'll pay that happily. Part of the job. Related: It's amazing how many HR depts are
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by mundo 10y ago
Agreed! Every time I'm hiring, I insist that my job posting has a "email your CV directly to the hiring manager" link, and it astounds me how much push-back I get. It boggles the mind that a company can devote half a dozen d
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by mundo 10y ago
Now I want to know if anyone else uses the Galaxy Song from _Monty Python's Meaning of Life_.
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by mundo 10y ago
Reminds me of an old VP of mine who came thundering out of his office, absolutely livid, shouting, "What idiot gave me permissions to delete the source backups???"
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by mundo 10y ago
Not for nothing has "demagogue" been in use for hundreds of years...
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by mundo 10y ago
Somewhat related: this memorable 20-second _Kids In The Hall_ skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-pzFNTo8L8
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by mundo 10y ago
Thanks, sounds like good fun and I will check it out! And in return, I presume you've probably read Diamond Age and Snowcrash, but if not, get thee hence, they're both great.
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by mundo 10y ago
It means "shower" in French.
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by mundo 10y ago
Well, it's not as bad as _The Cat Who Could Walk Through Walls_ by Heinlein. That book's protagonist is a gruff-yet-lovable aging sci-fi writer who, despite his advanced age, has hand-to-hand combat training, a hot young wife, an
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by mundo 10y ago
Just the one book, I had heard the series improves, but there's too much other good stuff out there. Also, I really didn't like the protagonist, he seems too obviously to be a thinly-veiled idealized version of the author. He mig
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by mundo 10y ago
Nothing! But I was surprised that _Dresden Files_ was aimed at adults. I thought the first Harry Potter book was more complex, both in plot and writing style.
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by mundo 10y ago
I didn't care for it much - it seemed like something aimed towards young adult readers more than adults - but it's light-hearted, has magic spells and PG sex scenes, and you can easily read it on a plane flight.
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by mundo 10y ago
> I recently spent a couple of months writing and reading as badly as possible, a practice I now recommend. Reminds me of author Jim Butcher's claim that he wrote the first volume of the _Dresden Files_, "as if I was some kind
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by mundo 10y ago
> "have you seen this question before" interviewing I suspect that this was meant to refer to interview questions with an "Aha!" answer, that are unlikely to be answered correctly by people who don't already know
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by mundo 10y ago
A way for investors to invest in real estate while _lowering_ the overall home ownership rate? A way for short-sighted home buyers to trade a portion of their equity for an extra bedroom and a pool? A way for corporations to reap the main
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by mundo 10y ago
This echoes the point made in the article: > One clinician quoted in the book more or less admits defeat: “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”
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by mundo 10y ago
Doesn't this "fundamental strength" also doom it to be abysmally slow? Quick proof: If there were a network like Freenet (meaning, nodes can't control what content they host) that wasn't abysmally slow, companies th
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by mundo 10y ago
> So, IPFS is explicitly censorable; if enough IPFS nodes refuse to carry some content, then that content is effectively unavailable. This is not a definition of censorship I'm familiar with. If no one wants to host a file, there&#
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by mundo 10y ago
This is a cop-out. There is nothing anyone does that couldn't be plausibly cast as an evolutionary imperative. You gave your kid the last bite of your dinner? Obviously you were trying to maximize his chance of surviving and reprodu
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by mundo 10y ago
Most of the sacrifices I make for my kids feel like the exact opposite of self-gain. "Do something I want to do" vs "do something the kid would benefit from" is a choice presented to every parent every day. I don't
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by mundo 10y ago
All of them. A general purpose computer (e.g. a linux box) is one that can run arbitrary code. A special-purpose computer (e.g. an ATM machine) only runs what the manufacturer intends it to run. The former is powerful-but-dangerous, and
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by mundo 10y ago
He didn't dismiss the mobile revolution, he dismissed consumer Apple products. Not quite the same thing, unless you think the impoverished masses were uplifted by itunes.
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by mundo 10y ago
It's hard to get because iphone users want it to be an open general-purpose computer that they own, and it masquerades as one most of the time. Remember when the apple-using-world lost it's collective shit over a free U2 album?
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by mundo 10y ago
Spoiler: Mantra is a collection of free and open source tools integrated into a web browser, which can become handy for penetration testers, web application developers, security professionals -- https://sourceforge.net/proje
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by mundo 10y ago
But it has a powerful set of tools!

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