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by radcon 7y ago
I can't find much info on the fingerprint protection. Has anyone tested it thoroughly? Do we know if it's effective against current fingerprinting methods? Can we actually rely on it, or will it simply be a matter of days/wee
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by radcon 7y ago
I grew up in a house that looks like the first picture in the article ("An open-concept house in Massachusetts in 2005"). To me it always felt more like a hotel than a home, and the way sound traveled was horrible. You couldn&#x27
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by radcon 7y ago
On that note, does it make a difference that they're collectively refusing work rather than collectively setting prices ? Uber and Lyft are still the ones actually setting the price. In the end I don't think it will matter, Ube
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by radcon 7y ago
Average starting salary for CS undergrads today is $57,000. He did say "entry level dev gig". If you live alone in a major city, have student loans, and don't have great healthcare benefits from your employer, you'd be l
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by radcon 7y ago
> we work in software, where socking away your first ten thousand dollars happens automatically after landing an entry level dev gig, provided you don't go out of your way to blow your entire outlandish salary on silly possessions.
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by radcon 7y ago
This seems like it could also torpedo their Contractor vs. Employee argument. Contractors get to set rates, employees don't. So you can't say they're contractors AND accuse them of committing fraud when they try to set their
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by radcon 7y ago
> but the point is that the processed diet drives more calorie consumption My main gripe with this line of argument is that people rarely take price into account. It's pretty expensive to eat 2,000 calories of fresh food vs. 2,000 c
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by radcon 7y ago
> aside from the knockoffs They're essentially the same problem since inventory can get mixed together. You could have fake Nike shoes from a 3rd party seller mixed in with Amazon's Nike inventory. Even 3rd party sellers compla
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by radcon 7y ago
And a significant portion of those 40% are spamming all of their competitors with fake negative reviews and/or false infringement claims to get their listings buried or removed. Both of those tactics are surprisingly effective and you
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by radcon 7y ago
Using pictures of starving children as props to collect our personal information is a new low for them. I can't believe this made it through any sort of approval process.
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by radcon 7y ago
> Because what people (women and men) are buying is aspiration wrapped in dead plant fibers. I suppose it's possible that there's a man out there somewhere who thinks like this, but I've never met him and this is the first
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by radcon 7y ago
Whether or not the uninformed masses care is a pretty poor measure of a problem's importance. But I'm sure they'll care when they're arbitrarily banned, or when someone they agree with is banned.
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by radcon 7y ago
> They have no obligation to allow all speech. Their legal obligation is one thing, their moral/ethical obligations are another. So are you technically right? Yes. But are you completely overlooking the real problem here? Also yes.
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by radcon 7y ago
Even the most diehard Star Citizen supporters will readily admit that there is no game right now. Tech demo is the best way to describe it, as ssully already said.
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by radcon 7y ago
Not sure what the other commenter was referring to, but to me it's amusing because Elite: Dangerous is a (somewhat) similar game that followed the opposite path of Star Citizen: They started with an MVP, got that to market and have bee
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by radcon 7y ago
> clearly was not paying attention at the time of the crash. This is the fundamental point that I'm disagreeing with though. As far as I know, Tesla has a very crude system for determining driver attentiveness. They rely ONLY on ste
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by radcon 7y ago
> Yet he persisted in both using the system and ignoring the alerts that the system apparently gave him to put his hands on the wheel and take full control. "Hands not detected" does NOT mean "hands not on wheel". Tes
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by radcon 7y ago
I was considering "pledging" to this game a year or two ago. Luckily I didn't, and it was because the supporters on every SC forum were the most cult-like, rabid fanboys I've ever encountered in the gaming world. It felt