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by sam0x17 5y ago
Well slashdot has editors. HN is all upvoting without real editorial selection going on, so instead of seeing the regularly scheduled yearly "year of the linux desktop" post you'll see it 2-3 times a month because it's a
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by sam0x17 5y ago
If that gives you moral pause you should perhaps stop paying U.S. taxes as a U.S. citizen and see where that gets you.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
No, they still allow all the gun-advocacy patreons and things like that. It's more because of regulations that make it harder to exist if your platform materially supports foreign war efforts. Cowardly stance, though.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Are we even at a point now where money can make a difference? It seems like within 2-3 days the existing governmental structure will be seized, along with (I assume) funds that are being donated. Is it plausible that Ukrainian gov officials
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by sam0x17 5y ago
When a conventional army starts using that channel's videos for training, does that mean they magically stop receiving funding?
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Not really. There are plenty of low-profile high-net-worth miners with that much. I used to hang out in the cex.io chatroom back in 2014 and there were fat cat miners in there who would say "watch this" and then the price would qu
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by sam0x17 5y ago
It most certainly is. In terms of the U.S.'s own involvement, we floated the idea of Ukraine joining NATO, but then did nothing to ensure it actually happened, and the end result is invasion. Staying neutral on the matter of a straight
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by sam0x17 5y ago
> It's worth noting that Taiwan is in a similar situation with respect to China. More than that, I think reading between the lines it's quite likely Putin and Xi Jinping have already agreed to back each other in the security co
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It's mainly the economics of "If you don't ship on steam, you miss out on the steam market" imo
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I usually surgically disable my CAPS lock in registry or firmware settings -- most annoying mis-click ever for me -- I just hold down shift if I need to
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by sam0x17 5y ago
"The year of the Linux Desktop" is sort of an in-meme that transported to HN over from Slashdot and has been around since the very early 00s. Nothing to see here on that one -- every year is the "year of the linux desktop&quo
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by sam0x17 5y ago
It isn't a good argument for why you shouldn't give out resources. Even if parents are going to "steal" the funds, as you say, you are still giving them that much more overhead, and research shows the vast, vast majority
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In both scenarios you have a massive entity with near-infinite resources acting like it's so underfunded it can't take care of it's own shit.
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Political will, yes, but if you think people aren't willing to receive help and all the resources we need are there you are so misguided my friend. We can't even fund student lunches in many states. The primary problem across the
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by sam0x17 5y ago
It's crazy the community has had to come together to create rag-tag tools like this to patch up what is supposed to be a trillion dollar search engine that should be the pinnacle of human civilization. But then I remember it's the
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Right but my point is there is nothing surprising or groundbreaking about the the fact that the journalist received the survey and that it contained the information that it contained, but media coverage of this is treating it like there was
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Could be something more, but Occam's Razor says it's just support being like wtf is this and dropping the ball in handling the request. If support at your company got an email saying "omg! sensitive information in our recordi
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by sam0x17 5y ago
The article was very sensationalist -- the survey was merely taking the title of the recording and trying to collect data on how users were using the platform. Normally I side against companies in these situation but there is literally no a
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by sam0x17 5y ago
That said, every single kid who I knew growing up who had access to these sorts of opportunities but did something "more interesting" has ended up regretting it in adulthood. This probably isn't true across the board, but amo
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For reference: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2 (I omitted the original bash.org link because they seem to be down at the moment!)
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Happy linode user since 2004 when I was 13 years old. Has always been my go-to for just having a linux vps running somewhere in the cloud. Really can't complain hope the acquisition doesn't change anything about how they operate.
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by sam0x17 5y ago
This really makes me think I wonder if someone could get a business model working for "permanent" web presences to be set up for small sites with a fixed amount of traffic per month, where you could pay an up front fee and it will
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I do miss the days when merely building a good + cool product was enough and organic search traffic would do the rest. The early 00s were great
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Don't forget toner has firmware in it these days ;)
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by sam0x17 5y ago
I agree that it's chump change. Many startups provide a $100/month budget for "whatever" self tech expenses that can be spent on things like games, etc. This isn't groundbreaking by any means. Still cool that they d
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by sam0x17 5y ago
This is really good news for consumer privacy everywhere. I was just in a meeting with some marketers in my org and they were quite dismayed so I'm conversely quite happy. I've been saying for years that content is king and tracki
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by sam0x17 5y ago
One thing I find irksome is all these ideas are put under the general category of "liberal" when really it's a bunch of leftist ideas with a few neo-liberal/centrist concepts thrown in for good measure. Credit where cred
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by sam0x17 5y ago
In reality they already do via the max storage that comes with a free account, and this has fallen over the years I believe. Conceivably, they could lower this to the point where anyone who has had an account for more than 5 years will like
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I did run a startup for a year that was on crystal, and I will say the community is quite good at addressing real bugs. There are a lot of "you don't know what you're doing" bugs and "this is already fixed but you h
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by sam0x17 5y ago
Sounds like a really good way for a manager with a hiring-based OKR to get short term good hiring numbers. Maybe the manager is also planning on leaving or maybe someone else is on the line for retention and this strategically benefits the

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