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by retox 8y ago
Been plainly clear for many years. Gamergate really has a lot to answer for in terms of allowing people with first-hand knowledge of a topic to see how blatantly and maliciously falsified it is in all quarters of the media.
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by retox 8y ago
People are getting e-irate at so called "net neutrality" but don't care when corps force their opinions and business decisions on users, or even block them entirely from working with their competitors. (See goog blocking YouT
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by retox 8y ago
Probably the same ignorance that leads all port scans from Russian VPNs to be labeled as RUSSIAN HAX. Some were paid for is rubles but anyone can do that. Here is the first image I clicked on at random. What is this evidence of? https:&#x2
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by retox 8y ago
They want to do away with unaccountable physical cash. Another method of tracking and control. They will keep their gold of course.
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by retox 8y ago
Big pharma are untouchable on TV (the silence around mass shooters and prescription meds is deafening) so my guess is you will soon see more pharma ads on YouTube etc. Can't upset the sponsors now.
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by retox 8y ago
I think someone of the change has come from the realization that you can turn likes/eyeballs into IRL money. Whether its from things like youtube monetization or being paid to promote products and lifestyles, as I've heard people
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by retox 9y ago
t. "dumb fuck" https://www.businessinsider.com.au/well-these-new-zuckerberg...
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by retox 9y ago
I wonder what their rational for this is. I know in the past malware have modified the hosts file to block malware removal tool domains but why ignore entries for Facebook? I heard that blackholing requests to Microsoft telemetry URLs also
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by retox 9y ago
>people from Facebook were assisting them on site to make sure everything went smoothly. Facebook make the same offer to the Clinton campaign and they turned down the offer.
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by retox 9y ago
I refuse to create accounts on site that require even a phone number, let alone government ID. It will eventually get lost and things like passports being faked can land you in prison or watchlists if someone like Israel decides to steal yo
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by retox 9y ago
The population is so high we need to stop having kids, and the population is so low we need to import low skilled workers, and the job of the future will be fully automated. Modern policy is a cognitive dissonance minefield.
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by retox 9y ago
DO NOT ACCEPT ANY DIGITAL ONLY VOTING SYSTEM. UNLESS THERE IS A WAY TO PHYSICALLY AUDIT THE SYSTEM, AND ESPECIALLY YOUR OWN VOTE, ALL SUCH VOTES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED NULL AND VOID. DIGITAL ONLY VOTING IS A FORM OF VOTER SUPPRESSION AND CANN
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by retox 9y ago
I've worked on this problem in the past for modernization and migration away from legacy languages to modern ones. You need to write a parser for the source language, but that is a one-time upfront cost. The parser should populate an i
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by retox 9y ago
>one of our engineers figured out we could get our demo rigs working by setting the clock back a few days The real MVP of this story. Sometimes a dirty hack is good enough.
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by retox 9y ago
Did they ever come out and repute this article about faking results for "racists"? Yes, it's on cracked but many a true word was spoken in jest. http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-2522-inside-shad...
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by retox 9y ago
What's the point of acquiring wealth if you cant enjoy the fruits of your labour by providing for your family?
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by retox 9y ago
There is hate and bile on Twitter because people are full of hate and bile. This is a frightening time to be alive for a lot of people, full of uncertainty and a feeling that they have been hard done by and manipulated by faceless bureaucra
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by retox 9y ago
They may have hired remote workers from a firm called 'Vaco', which employs people from abroad and asked them to moderate.
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by retox 9y ago
Pure submarine marketing.
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by retox 9y ago
They should go the FB/Goog route and claim it was a bug.
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by retox 9y ago
Every time they get caught doing something shady it's a 'bug'. Same for Google sniffing up all the WiFi signal data from the streetview cars. It fucking stinks.
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by retox 9y ago
It feels in some quarters like there is a focussed, well organised effort to take Dr. Peterson down, either by slandering or by association. Some people are genuinely afraid of his way or thinking and will go to any lengths to poison the we
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by retox 9y ago
Couldn't it just be explained by saying that as more women enter a field typically dominated by men, the pool of potential employees expands and so the expected income from one of those positions decreases. I'd say it's also
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by retox 9y ago
"Hacker News"
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by retox 9y ago
Employees is already used in the headline, so the editor would have been looking for a different word to use anyway.
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by retox 9y ago
I thought 'staffer' was only used when talking about people working in government or for a political party. Aren't 'staff' or 'employees' just as good for the headline?
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by retox 9y ago
The goal is to do away with physical cash to better monitor the flow of capital, with absolute control and oversight into every penny spent. Fight against digital only currencies at every vote.
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by retox 9y ago
Let's not forget that this is a direct effect of the outrage culture coming from North America. By spuriously reporting videos and organising email campaigns, or in the case of the Wall St Journal publishing national stories, about ads
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by retox 9y ago
Have a look on AliExpress or gearbest etc they make a huge range of things. I've always been happy with their stuff too, though they are getting more expensive.
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Twitter responds to Project Veritas allegation that it can share Trump's DMs(foxnews.com)
4 points by retox 9y ago|1 comments

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