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by razakel 9y ago
>as well as my experience here in the UK Asians tend to be quite liked. Worth pointing out that "Asian" in the UK would normally refer to South Asian people - i.e. Indians, Pakistanis, etc. If you meant Far East Asian people, y
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by razakel 10y ago
I don't think they really had much of a choice. It doesn't look good for a media company to allow neo-Nazi content to be posted.
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by razakel 10y ago
How about just not hiring assholes? If you must hire an asshole, keep them somewhere they can't do any damage to the culture.
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by razakel 10y ago
>Is OVH viable? Yes. They're getting silly amounts of finance each year. Plus, the CTO/founder is opposed to Internet surveillance.
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by razakel 10y ago
>Just curious, is a Go string a C string inside (rune array + nil) or a proper class array? I can't imagine how you would even implement a string as anything other than a rune array. Even a Pascal string is just the string length fo
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by razakel 10y ago
>And realistically no consumer needs more than that. Yet. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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by razakel 10y ago
>This dichotomy of depressives vs. optimists seems flawed to me. My optimism is often what creates the unmet expectations which lead to depression. An optimist will be continually disappointed. A pessimist either has the satisfaction of
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by razakel 10y ago
>I just watched, first the first two minutes and then the whole thing. Just... beautiful. Makes you want to get up and actually put effort into something, whatever that might be! The look in his eyes when he says "nothing I'll
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by razakel 10y ago
>That should give you a good head start. . . I read all this as a kid... :)
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by razakel 10y ago
>While your distinction about building a better mousetrap is true - the corporation building a better mousetrap needs more money to put into R&D and it can get more only if it is either marketing itself to investors (consumers in thi
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by razakel 10y ago
>Interesting to note that Phreaking is still very much alive and kicking. Any sites you'd suggest?
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by razakel 10y ago
>Yep, it was a cheap prepaid card from an Asian grocery store, so it just deducted the connection fee + minutes. I can't remember the cost, but it was likely less than a dollar for the call. I guess if you're hijacking hundreds
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by razakel 10y ago
>The more I read about that, the more I want to start an instagram of a stereotypical loser. It wouldn't be popular. People crave escapism. The very fact that you're satirising exactly that is what defeats the purpose.
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by razakel 10y ago
>Interesting, what do you think is the distinction? The greatest contributor to flourishing capitalism is strong consumerism. And the biggest driver of the consumerist mind is capitalist manipulation. They feed off of each other, and are
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by razakel 10y ago
>The latter two fund the reporting organisation. The Daily Mail are actually profitable, whereas The Guardian are struggling financially. The Guardian is financed by a trust. It doesn't necessarily need to be profitable. However, ye
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by razakel 10y ago
>You know your marketing yourself right now with your statements to the audience here, right? I understand your sentiment, but I believe that's a toxic worldview. >An audience built around silicon valley's capitalist culture
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by razakel 10y ago
>Does anyone else feel like HN has a really silly optimism about psychedelic drugs? Like it's just a foregone conclusion that if you are dying of cancer the best thing you can do is take drugs? I think it's silly to dismiss it
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by razakel 10y ago
>I had basically the opposite experience with acid. It took years for me to get back to being normal, with daily flashbacks for the first year. It was the dummest decision i ever made, taking psychedelics. Are you sure what you took was
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by razakel 10y ago
>The entire purpose of life is to market. Maybe my target market isn't slavish devotees of a vapid consumerist culture who assert their identity with commercial brands?
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by razakel 10y ago
I'm with Bill Hicks when it comes to advertising and marketing. I adblock. I pirate. I don't use Facebook or other social networking sites. I don't want advertising in my life. It's propaganda. It shits in your head. If
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by razakel 10y ago
>That fact that you can't call it the Jewish lobby is exactly the squeamishness I'm referring to. There's a pretty good reason for that apprehension. You're asserting that Jewish interests have disproportionate influe
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by razakel 10y ago
>On a sort of related matter if anyone would like to read a very entertaining novel about conspiracy theories, check out Umberto Eco's 'Prague Cemetery'. Would you say it has any parallels with Foucault's Pendulum?
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by razakel 10y ago
>Heck, I don't know em. Rosseau? You understood the question; that puts you in the bubble. >Anyway, the ignorant people may be quite proficient in stuff you'd be surprised at. I agree. Don't get me wrong, I'm not s
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by razakel 10y ago
>But even so, I thought it would be the sort of thing someone would know about just through a general awareness of current events. I've never taken a flying lesson but I know who the Wright brothers are, that their first successful
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by razakel 10y ago
>That happened at least 10 years ago with the publication of The Game Despite what you may feel about pickup artists, The Game is genuinely worth a read. The trick is not to read it as a "how to meet girls" manual. What's
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by razakel 10y ago
It reads like that "you'll never guess how this single mom earns a fortune working from home" spam. Fascinating article, though I dislike the specious critique of socialism that's been shoehorned in there, though I suppo
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by razakel 10y ago
>These days I don't blame them. I'm guilty of it myself. After Microsoft repeatedly dropped in the Windows 10 "updates" (including nag) under new names it got to be enough of a hassle to avoid them that I've basi
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by razakel 10y ago
>What is a good country to host an end-point in within a reasonable distance of the UK? Iceland.
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by razakel 10y ago
>Use better type-checking? You're not living in the real world. Users do weird things. At some point someone will legally change their name to an emoji and it'll break a whole load of systems. Nobody saw that coming when they o
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by razakel 10y ago
>App developers never need access to real data. Ever. What about if the app chokes on real data and it's not something covered by testing?

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