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by noarchy 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
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>Is China running some indirect social public relations in the style of Russian Facebook ads for Trump? One possible answer to your question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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If only there was a monopoly. It isn't as if you suddenly can't get these device any longer.
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You can find instructions on both getting the source code, and building from source here: http://tools.android.com/build
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>Agile is a good case study for how good ideas get perverted quickly by consultants and companies. The points made in the Agile Manifesto having me nodding my head in agreement more often than not. But the implementations , like Scrum,
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I don't think this is a failure of regulation (or the lack thereof), but a QA/testing failure.
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Prime Music launched in Canada a few months ago, and the catalogue size is very much an issue. It is barely worth using, at this stage.
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>My biggest complaint is that GoPro mounts are cheap and there isn't a high quality gimbal for the GoPro. I went through two of GoPro's awful, plastic mounts before buying a metal, third-party mount, and never looked back. The
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I have an account on their site, but that apparently doesn't let me get these books without having to manually enter my info... unless I've missed something?
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> It's like a game where everyone pretends while simultaneously knowing that everyone else is pretending too. To be fair, that sounds a lot like job-hunting, in general. The whole process can be filled with rituals meant to obfuscat
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West Quebec here. They do indeed take care of sidewalks here. They do on the other side of the river, in Ottawa, Ontario, too.
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An even worse version of the 1998 ice storm could really cripple the northern cities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_ic...
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>I'm sure your team had an incredibly productive December and are ready to get migrating on the double! Oh, wait, you're probably catching up from a month full of time-off and holidays and were planning on hitting it hard on ne
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This gives my current team two months to find a new solution. Buddybuild, aside from the odd issue from time to time, had been a great solution for us. Now we're suddenly wondering where to go next. Not to mention, we now face the ques
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>but rather a badge of honour saying “look, we’re professionals doing things properly.” I don't doubt that this is the case. I worry that this begins to approach a "cargo cult" manner of thinking about development. I can&#
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Is it developers who are pushing for Jira? I've always seen it as a management-driven thing, effectively cementing the dominance of management methodologies like Scrum.
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Maybe not, but it becomes compelling when you consider what it means for a state to go as far as to block web sites in such a manner. It isn't merely a simple act of blocking. It brings with it an entire mindset as to how the state sho
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It seems like what the UK government is saying is: A. Either we outsource security-related tasks onto you, as companies (which I think has huge ramifications), or: B. We shake you down as a penalty (arguments about whether the tax should be
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I think there's probably something to this. Plenty of people complain about the HRM, myself among them. Weird things like spikes of 170+ bpm while doing nothing but walking, while at the same time recording 100 bpm while doing sprints?
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They may be affluent, particularly when compared to people struggling to buy food. That doesn't make them tax evaders. Though it should be added that the tax situation regarding crypotcurrencies isn't clear in every country.
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A ban won't stop crypto any more than it stops illegal drugs, prostitution, etc. That said, there would be an effect on the crypto markets if a handful of major nations took action. So the question I have would be: will they aim for th
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I suspect we'll see other states angling to see what kind of tax revenue they can squeeze out of crypto, rather than banning it. The problem, of course, is how to set up such a system. They can enforce it with the exchanges (witness th
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Where I live (in Canada), it isn't just the lottery. Some provincial governments run full-fledged casinos, and pocket the revenue from that. It can be quite easy to sink a great deal of money into casinos, and unfortunately, some do.
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The good news for the rest of us is that it is very difficult to "ban" cryptocurrencies. That's a feature of them, of course. You can try to crack down on exchanges and methods for converting crypto to/from state-backed
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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At the very least, we should try to control the vocabulary here. Instead of using their terms (like "seize" or "asset forfeiture"), we should call this theft, robbery, and so forth, to reflect what's happening. Th
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The most I've ever personally seen a company do is require a VPN for their privately-hosted repos. For others using GitHub or Bitbucket? Never anything beyond a standard login.
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Fair enough, I just wanted it to be clear that you are for some kind of legislation (or other government involvement) in this matter.
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>I didn't say legislate; Are you sure? You also said: >While I’d advocate outlawing tobacco, I think products based on sugar should carry a hefty tax to fund healthcare costs and dissuade their consumption. Were you talking about
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This holds for bodybuilding, too, though that is admittedly a very subjective (appearance-based) sport compared to powerlifting where there are real numbers by which to compare everyone. Dexter Jackson placed 4th at this year's Mr. Oly

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