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by pille 9y ago
I think the argument is about whether someone has the freedom not to have their info on the site. It’s well known that FB has shadow profiles with no active accounts. You’re on there whether you like it or not.
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by pille 9y ago
There are quite a few better options for trustworthy databases. One is my employer, MarkLogic, which is an ACID compliant NoSQL document db with a lot more indexing capabilities. Especially if you’re using the search tools to retrieve data,
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by pille 9y ago
> most businesses want to have assured support and upgrades. And not to get sued into the ground.
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by pille 9y ago
Could you give an example? Not saying there isn't one, but I haven't noticed a major trend of increasing fuel efficiency for a given model over the past 10 years. It looks like the difference would have to offset 2000$/year (
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by pille 9y ago
I suppose DDOSing a law you disagree with is one approach. Seems pretty high-risk vs. the usual way of buying off the flyover congressmen for a couple grand a pop.
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by pille 9y ago
Except that there's plenty you could do with venture capital.
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by pille 9y ago
I'd take the word "can" out of your first sentence, but I do agree with you in general. Airbnb, however, is a huge corporation with lots and lots of money. It's not a myth for them.
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by pille 9y ago
Probably some selection bias in the stories. It's not as much fun to read about a pretty good place to work.
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by pille 9y ago
Airbnb is a profit-seeking corporation, not a public interest group. They're not out to fight the good fight against "arbitrary regulation" any more than hotels are being evil by supporting it. If you don't like the law,
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by pille 10y ago
> just how in blazes do these actually make money?! I'm guessing they expect to make it back on the occasional whale who can't control their spending on these types of games.
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by pille 10y ago
I think it betrays a pretty limited understanding of design, to declare a design task impossible because color-coordination can't be scoped in. Prioritizing aesthetics over function usually defeats both.
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by pille 10y ago
"female independence through hyper sexual objectification" is meant as a single element in that list, at least that's how I read it.
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by pille 10y ago
> intervine between consenting adults Buried in a setting that defaulted to the change that FB wanted. If you were to sneak in a change to a contract in the same way, I think a lot of courts would throw it out, or maybe even consider it
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by pille 10y ago
3rd paragraph FTA: > As for the really expensive Apple Watch Edition, it seems like Apple is killing the product. The company probably wanted a flagship model to show that it was serious about fashion. But now that the Galeries Lafayette
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by pille 10y ago
Deutsche Telekom was doing this and advertising it in Germany a few years ago but they've since stopped[1]. Spotify data didn't count against your (usually very slim) mobile data limit. [1] http://www.golem.de/news
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by pille 10y ago
Even then, they still wrote the automation. It would be a prudent move to involve human review before emailing someone and accusing them of making a bigoted slur.
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by pille 10y ago
Exactly. The point of my comment was just that automation is no excuse for this kind of thing. For me it's still about the organization, and singling out individuals is about as productive as yelling at customer support on the phone.
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by pille 10y ago
Someone had to design that automation. And it sounds like the message was at least made to look like it came from a person.
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by pille 10y ago
That's oversimplification. Even if it is just her own personal incompetence, if GitHub just hired her and let her loose as some kind of independent repo ombudsman to scold users, then yeah, that's a terrible management decision
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by pille 10y ago
Maybe she actually could've read the text and figured it out herself before sending out the note? Just firing off a warning based on a simple text match seems high-handed and/or incompetent enough to consider leaving.
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by pille 10y ago
1. ... If Deutsche goes bust.. winter is coming. How, exactly? And if that's the case, isn't it already the failure that we're letting DB hold the world hostage? The world would be a different place if post Lehman governme
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by pille 10y ago
> there are laws saying banks cannot receive state aid > every rule is meant to be broken if the situation warrants it Why did anyone bother with the rule in the first place then? Wasn't this exactly the kind of situation it was
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by pille 10y ago
Yeah, I'd stay far away from anyone who thinks you need 8 months to grasp the concepts of Agile. Sounds like @horse_recruiter is running the talent search. That ridiculous expectation is probably a symptom of some pretty dysfunctional
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by pille 11y ago
It doesn't matter how much of a hack any actor is, it's an order of magnitude more hacky when the soundtrack is dubbed into another language.
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by pille 11y ago
I think most people's asymmetric bandwidth rates would get in the way of a p2p solution being usable. Maybe if there were some way to break the stream up into individual media files, and then you could download one identical file from
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by pille 11y ago
1.25*(a really tiny risk of a heart attack on a given day) This same numerical trick happened when the WHO classified red meat as a carcinogen "in the same category as" cigarettes, and it was stated that it increased your risk of
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by pille 11y ago
If I can try to paraphrase: Criminalization has been so ineffective that you were simply expected to use meth at this one job you had, because everyone else was doing it. And you think this might argue in favor of continued criminalization?
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by pille 11y ago
Apple's mission isn't privacy advocacy, or serving as a platform for debate on privacy or human rights. Yeah, they advertise some kind of privacy protection as a product feature, and you can debate whether or not those advertising
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by pille 11y ago
> Why are people looking for a second Google in Europe? Because they are in Europe, not China. It's a British article.
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by pille 11y ago
Since you kind of elided it, their stated reason for killing is more or less "because you're not Muslim". We could take it at face value, but there's nothing useful you can do with that information. What would be useful

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