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by pierat 3y ago
Yeah I refuse these take-home tests. I counter with "put me in the room with one of their engineers and let's solve a real problem". I also judge them by how much skin they put in the game too. Ive done the "2-4h take ho
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by pierat 3y ago
I heard from someone you said a racist word. I advocate for you to be locked out of all your stuff, with no trial or anything.
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by pierat 3y ago
Reddit's /r/piracy has completely moved to https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy after Reddit de-modded the top mod. And /r/piracy went to NSFW and now porn and john oliver. We're all in on Le
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by pierat 3y ago
> People are given power with the expectation that they wield that power responsibly. The purpose of the visibility feature is to allow moderators to create private communities, not to shut down thriving public communities as a form of
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by pierat 3y ago
I wrote about this exact phenomenon yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36409577 This scheme is basically dumping, where you (a company) lower the price of your good and then flood the market to kill all competi
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by pierat 3y ago
So... why have the feature of "Public, Restricted, Private" if you punish people for using a feature you all put in place? If they don't want private subs, then convert them to public and turn that feature off. What all this
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by pierat 3y ago
Let me make this blatantly clear. I am not advocating "shooting up the bosses house", arson, assault, etc. I AM advocating education, by both employees and companies' legal council. Go study your union history. Teach it to
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by pierat 3y ago
I was not calling for violence. But having companies continually violate the law, and having no real repurcussions does create a very BAD situation. People pushed into a corner react very badly. And perhaps companies can go back to WHY the
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by pierat 3y ago
These companies need to remember that NLRB and unionization was an agreement to take harsh violence off the table. In the old days, when First International and IWW was created, unionization efforts were to "set the bosses house on fir
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by pierat 3y ago
We used to enforce monopoly regulations, and similar types of anticompetitive behaviors that kill swaths of markets. And that's exactly what happened with what you described with Google maps. This scheme is basically dumping, where you
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by pierat 3y ago
You can excuse or justify it however you want. But it's still false and deceptive advertising to use "free" in situations like this. To say some service is "Free" (for now) means you're paying something that is
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by pierat 3y ago
Its definitely NOT a coincidence :D Enjoy!
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by pierat 3y ago
This applies to the SaaS Gitlab ONLINE. This doesn't apply to Gitlab you install on your hardware. I mean, online resources on other peoples' servers cost money. A better law would be to forbid "free" offerings by compan
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by pierat 3y ago
It's still up... On Piratebay. hXXps://thepiratebay DOT org/description.php?id=18642823
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by pierat 3y ago
That's the point: we just don't know what Facebook/Meta is planning. However, we DO know that Eugen Rochko signed the NDA with Facebook/Meta from https://433.world/@Yuvalne/110566872225488614 (scree
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Meta/Facebook is inviting Fediverse admins under NDA for “meetings”(mstdn.social)
92 points by pierat 3y ago|45 comments
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by pierat 3y ago
Alienation from the act of production- In the capitalist mode of production, the generation of products (goods and services) is accomplished with an endless sequence of discrete, repetitive motions that offer the worker little psychological
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Square space buys Google Domains for $180M(domainnamewire.com)
2 points by pierat 3y ago|0 comments
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by pierat 3y ago
Out of its ashes, something new will take its place. I was a former lead mod a year ago of a large subreddit. I saw the writing on the wall THEN, and took the sub private, and booted the other mods I brought in. I then started purging conte
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Nintendo Switch Piracy Subreddit Shut Down (/R/NewYuzuPiracy)(ign.com)
1 points by pierat 3y ago|0 comments
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by pierat 3y ago
What I don't get is the following: If your nuclear waste is that "hot" (highly radioactive), then you're not draining as much energy out of the material. Ideally, the closer to lead you are, the more energy is drained ou
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by pierat 3y ago
> Instant Brands was purchased by private equity firm Cornell Capital in 2017. And although https://cornellcapllc.com/investments/ provides the shell companies they own, who knows what's under each of those she
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by pierat 3y ago
Now why don't these companies keep the drives in-house instead of destroying? That, I don't know. But aside that, regarding the encryption... If you used the drive without encryption at any time, then its possible to recover the u
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by pierat 3y ago
To be fair, he seemed to line up pretty strongly with Ned Ludd, and the evils of capitalism in relation to 'who owns the machines'. Note: the original Luddites weren't against technology. They were against technology minimizi
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by pierat 3y ago
Wow, go figure. Thats pretty much what I was envisioning. Except it's pretty pricy. I was also thinking a clip-based device, but I can see how an eyeglass would also be good. (I was thinking of a clip so you could have white balanced L
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by pierat 3y ago
Absolutely true. In fact this was the 1980s republican plan. Lee Atwater has a great hot mic moment about this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “Ni*er, ni*er, ni*er.” By 1968 you can’t say “ni*er”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuf
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by pierat 3y ago
Was thinking about this with my SO doing fiber arts today. Was thinking about a small 2d scanner/ccd camera in the profile of a SpO2 sensor. Connects with Bluetooth. Would take pictures of garments, fabric, yarn, etc for purposes of co
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by pierat 3y ago
How are motor vehicles subsidized? ---------------------- Loosely enforced speed limits Arbitrary setting of speed limits Free, off-street parking mandated in building codes Low Housing density induced sprawl and car requirement Exempting p
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by pierat 3y ago
Common American reply. It's turned into "freedom". Public transit can easily be 1st class transit with freedom, as long as it's prioritized as such. When transit has to fight with vehicles, it's strictly worse, and
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by pierat 3y ago
Do you know what happens when you pay blackmail or protection money? It keeps happening, and at more cost each iteration. If they came out with a reasonable set of conditions to do API access, people would be a lot less upset. But they didn

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