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Explosion Destroys Mysterious Monument in Georgia, Authorities Say(nytimes.com)
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> Obviously most people have phones but there are legitimate cases where employees don’t or can’t use their device. There do exist quite some privacy-conscious people who for this reason don't have a mobile phone and very actively d
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> And, if you make it a precondition for something they want to do, they'll be motivated! For me, this was rather the beginning of my insanely deep hate for authorities and the power that they (ab)use.
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Archive.is: https://archive.ph/0JOIS
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> but that I'm still a bit peeved. You are spoiled.
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> Just get a STEM degree and it’s hard to do poorly afterwards. Wait until the winds of the economic climate change their direction again; until this moment, celebrate and post such texts on HN that will become bad advice.
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> Not sure why they disappeared. Likely cost savings combined with design considerations ("these knobs look ugly").
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> I think what they want is a privacy protecting smart phone built on open source components. I don't think so. If the smart phone was about protecting privacy, the amount of functionality that has to be disabled (or rather: not the
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> That's why being a homosexual is not a disorder In the past, it was: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homosexuality_and... "As a result of this scientific research, the American Psychiatric Ass
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Relevant: Quote from The Jargon File: "Many hackers have noticed that mainstream culture has shown a tendency to pathologize and medicalize normal variations in personality, especially those variations that make life more complicated f
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> Playing devil's advocate here: For all practical purposes you need an account for macOS, iOS, and Android. What is so different with Windows? Who says that your parent is not similarly opposed to these accounts?
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Developers already have to check license compatibility. If copilot implemented such a feature, this would just represent the status quo.
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> You can make a model that is trained only with BSD and MIT code, and IIRC/IIUC the result can be used with any license, including proprietary code. BSD and MIT license still require attribution of the used source code (there exist
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Relevant: > https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/3n4fjv/why_did_elitist... on the question "Why did Elitist Jerks die out?": "A not insignificant number of prominent theorycrafters now
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> If I take an O(n^2) algorithm and I modify it using an "upper triangle" optimization, I cut the time in half, but it's still O(n^2). That is why the Landau symbols are a strong simplification to get an estimate how fast
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> Is there any leaked Microsoft code on GitHub? There seems to be. Google 'windows nt source code leak github': https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+nt+source+code+leak+... First search results: Windows NT 4
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> He’d just fork the entire blockchain. > Normal users don’t have that luxury. Everybody else can fork the entire blockchain, too. The difference is that if a "normal user" does such a fork, hardly anyone does care. The cent
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Everybody who is insanely dissatisfied about the direction some blockchain develops into can drum up a following and do a hard fork of the blockchain if they desire.
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> EVs hurt nature because of battery disposal issues The difference is that EVs are marketed to be environment friendly.
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> If a good or service was worthwhile, it wouldn't need to try to get my attention. This might hold under the assumption that you invest nearly all of your free time informing yourself about possibly interesting offers. But this is
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> used to routinely frighten its users by falsely accusing them of crimes. > "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." It does not accuse the user of a crime, but the program (which, by the
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> Very rarely do you see a startup hiring to solve brand new technical problems. At the end of the day, most engineering work boils down to implementing CRUD apps with textbook architecture. If this was true, it would bring a significant
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> My occasional 50-60 hour weeks with a deadline approaching are easy compared a normal week for my rancher grandparents. The huge problem of the modern workplace is the psychological pressure that is applied by bosses such that deadline
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> Contrast that with other professions, like law, or medicine. Where it's not just "experience" working in your favor. But actual knowledge of the existing laws and medical practices. In my experience knowledge decreases
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> Your point is what? "Education is worthless"? "Qualifications are useless"? Education typically teaches different skills than management.
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> I can't get on the "It is a hard-knock life for Software developers" train. We are very-very well compensated, and we are insufferable. The compensation can be high if you work in Silicon Valley (even though the cost of
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> In the UK I understand they now have acccelerated promotion programs for more educated candidates, designed to get them into management more quickly. Not every educated person is a good manager.
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> Here "the alphabet" is assumed to mean the English alphabet. OK: 1. Do we include the ampersand as last letter of the English alphabet? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_alphabet&...
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> For an advertising company Google is not an advertising company, but a provider of space for advertising.
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> So getting it into Codium would require a clean room implementation, essentially ... if you want to go the legal route. ;-)

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