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by rmc 9y ago
Y'know Bill Gates' current charity, and anti-malaria work, do make me forgive him for his anti-competitive behaviour in th 90s/00s. How the world changes, eh?
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by rmc 9y ago
In many ways, you're not allowed "do what you want" with your car or headphones. For example it would be illegal to work as a taxi driver and say "I don't pick up black people"
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by rmc 9y ago
It's a very diverse campaign! They're targeting all 50 states!
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by rmc 9y ago
One way to explain it is to ask if your phone company (which is your ISP) should be allowed to block Skype/Facetime. After all, if you're skyping (or facetiming), then you're not paying them for a phone call! (Or should Skype
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by rmc 9y ago
reddit itself used fake users at the start to make the site look more busy
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by rmc 9y ago
And get yourself banned from reddit.
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by rmc 9y ago
> Reddit is still a really great site when you unsubscribe from ... any sub that has gone "critical shill" at about 100k or more subs. AskHistorians is still a great sub, at 620k subscribers. It's (intentionally) not on
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by rmc 9y ago
The title of the article is "How we hacked reddit...", this submission currently says "How to go viral by using fake reddit likes", and is more accurate. They didn't hack reddit, they bought upvotes.
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by rmc 9y ago
The OpenStreetMap website and editing API is written in Rails, not PHP. I think it was initally some other form of Ruby web application. OSM started in 2004, but the editing API was ported to Rails in 2007ish.
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by rmc 9y ago
The UK (or English?) law about self defence is "back to the wall", i.e. you can invoke leathal force to defend your own life when your back is against the wall, when you have no other option, and no way to escape. In other words,
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by rmc 9y ago
Most of those laws are self defence laws. The US & the UK have slight differences, but you're often allowed to use leathal force to prevent yourself being killed.
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by rmc 9y ago
> it means keeping your work environment as professional and politically neutral as possible unless absolutely necessary. This sounds good, but I think to some people in tech "professional" and "political neutral" a
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by rmc 9y ago
That doesn't tell how many trans people there are. Which seemed to be one of the initial point of the survey.
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by rmc 9y ago
That'll work for a year or so. The problem is that they will write about it afterwards (like this), and then you're reputation (in this area) is even worse, because now people won't be believe you.
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by rmc 9y ago
> mentions meritocracy as an evil, not a goal to strive for? I think the main objection to "meritocracy" is that often there is no real meritocracy, and people use it as a way to ignore claims that the place isn't a meri
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by rmc 9y ago
Or on your own website. Get your own domain! Host some static files!
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by rmc 9y ago
This can be solved by moderation. Not voting, old school approach of moderators removing things. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/ still has quite a high standard, and that's because they have strict mo
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by rmc 9y ago
When you're getting bad press, doing nothing/very little can be a bad PR move.
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by rmc 9y ago
Plenty of places have legal prostition. It doesn't mean that bosses don't get sued for sexual harrasment. (Prostitution should be legalised anyway, but maybe not for that reason)
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by rmc 9y ago
> it's because the individual in question has a responsibility to make a neutral judgement call that will have a meaningful impact on your life. The other reason: Sometimes an issue goes your way when you sleep with the powerful p
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by rmc 9y ago
Wasn't the Snowden releases part of the motivation for Let's Encrypt? If the web is "encryption for everything by default", then dragnet survellance from the NSA (etc) is much harder.
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by rmc 9y ago
No-one did free which works in all browsers before.
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by rmc 9y ago
I (an Irish person) wouldn't pronounce Saoirse as "seersha", more like "sayr-sha". And in Ireland the pronouncation of the name is pretty well understood. Would you phonetically spell out American names like Barack,
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by rmc 9y ago
> At what point does a company cross the line and become one that the EU feels can no longer promote their own product? When a company uses a monopoly in one field (web search) to boost their other businesses. It's the same when M
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by rmc 9y ago
> Almost all Americans think this sort of thing is nonsense. But the average American has little standing to hold the American bureaucracy accountable for its nonsense. True. But you can not organise conferences in the USA. You can tel
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by rmc 9y ago
> Is there any open repository of house images (OpenStreetMaps, etc.) that could be used as a substitute in the interim? OpenStreetMap doesn't store images, just map data. Mapillary and OpenStreetCam are "crowd sourced Google
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by rmc 9y ago
> Even if we fully mirrored the rise of the Nazi party (in the political sense), it would not necessarily imply that we would mirror their actions (genocide, etc). It's a debate within historians if this is true. Some people conte
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by rmc 9y ago
Minor nitpick: The nazis never won a majority of the vote, needing to use another party to prop them up, and were not in support of democracy. There were various steps on the way to the Nazi dictorship which all had the veneer of democracy,
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by rmc 9y ago
Oh boy. In some countries the government gives you free university education. Imagine someone going into debt to get loans for high school.
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by rmc 9y ago
Sounds a lot like what happened with LiveJournal. About 10-15 years ago LJ was where all the LGBT and niche erotic interests where, like fanfic. It's been bought by a Russian company and they've been turning the screws on the LGBT

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