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by rmc 10y ago
Stopping another Holocaust or Nazi regime is not a good reason?
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by rmc 10y ago
I doubt a regular employee has much say on policy. But you can leak things. Leak like a sieve! Get all the embarassing details, company memos, internal private statistics out there. Tell the world what's really going on.
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by rmc 10y ago
We all know what China is going to use this for. And it's not going to be for fighting spam.
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by rmc 10y ago
Wait till you hear about US Employment law! Your London salary includes a lot of things that are uncommon for US tech salaries.
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by rmc 10y ago
> - 100 Women 2016: Big names, astonishing untold stories: Find out who is on the list That's actually an annual award/list thing from the BBC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_Women_(BBC)
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by rmc 10y ago
> It rather easy to assume someone's identity online So you just tell you friend "Only run a binary when I physically come over to your house with a USB drive" or "Only when I call you on the phone"
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by rmc 10y ago
Have you seen how the French protest? Especially the unions (which tend to be left wing). They were almost burning cars to stop Uber http://time.com/3935645/paris-taxi-drivers-protest-uber/ How long do you think
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by rmc 10y ago
France doesn't ask for or record race/ethnicity on its censuses for exactly this reason. If you don't store it, you can't be made to give it up.
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by rmc 10y ago
Looks like the EU decision that people shouldn't have to transfer data to the USA is a good move.
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by rmc 10y ago
> They're definitely going away ... in USA. Many other countries which drive on the right sell lots of manual transmission cars. So they'll keep making them.
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by rmc 10y ago
> To be honest I'm surprised the most that America doesn't have that same psuedo masculinity requirement thing happening. I am not saying it's good to have, just that I am surprised it's not there. Oh there's p
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by rmc 10y ago
Big difference between "run a binary from me " and "run a binary from anyone "
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by rmc 10y ago
It might not be "publically listed". You'd be suprised at the lengths people will go. To them, it's one weird trick to get past the call centre
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by rmc 10y ago
Fun fact: In Svalbard it's common to see people entering a (the?) bank wearing a balaclava and carrying a gun. Balaclava for the cold, and gun for the polar bears.
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by rmc 10y ago
> Sure there are some convenience trade offs and edge cases Some convenience trade offs? You're suggesting that people don't use any modern bank, don't use any hospital, don't interact with any state body at all. Sh
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by rmc 10y ago
No, get people to make safe and proper websites. The internet is becoming too important to our lives, we can't just say "presume everything is public" Your advice means that someone should refuse to visit a doctor or hospital
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by rmc 10y ago
You can do what Facebook does without storing the passwords as lower case. If someone tries to log in, and the password doesn't match, then just transform it that way and try again.
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by rmc 10y ago
Socialism. Neoliberal capitalism isn't work. Why not take the wealth from the very wealthy and give it to those who don't have it? Income and wealth redistribution>
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by rmc 10y ago
Wait till you find out about Ireland's abortion laws! Trump is incredibly liberal on abortion when compared to Ireland's law!
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by rmc 10y ago
This isn't the 19th century anymore. You can just send the drones in to kill everyone. Or use missiles, or nukes in a last resort.
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by rmc 10y ago
> I actually think that as president he's going to be a lot more moderate than many on the left fear. Just like how he was much more moderate once he got the nominatim and didn't have to appeal to just the republican base?
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by rmc 10y ago
Well the USA is able to enforce it's laws globally
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by rmc 10y ago
> Europe already does this through their 'right to be forgotten' laws. Criminals routinely use it to hide their past indiscretions. EU "right to be forgotten" only applies to things which are no longer relevant. If
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by rmc 10y ago
> This is completely pointless. They'll just add some form you have to sign before giving you service and that's about it. > > After all, do you read and act on the privacy notifications other providers give you? So tha
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by rmc 10y ago
What an incredible journey!
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by rmc 10y ago
> All of this affects you less if you are in a shared flat compared to renting it alone. The flat can be vastly more expensive as you are pooling the money It can still be a massive impact, because the increase can be split between all
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by rmc 10y ago
> Rent increases can only be performed every two years in Ireland from Dec 2015. And you must have 90 days notice of a rent increase. More info on this link: Yep that's a new law and step in the right direction. But it doesn't
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by rmc 10y ago
> Serious question: Why is it not very popular in other countries? Because some countries have much, much worse tenants rights. I moved from Ireland to Germany and in Ireland: * There is basically no protection for rent increases, som
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by rmc 10y ago
Or what if you view personal information? Under data protection law, would that could as a data breech?
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by rmc 10y ago
> The problem with non-code assets in git is (or at least it was for us) not with such assets being large blobs with weird in-git storage model, but with such assets being _unmergeable_ in case of two parallel edits of the same object.

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