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by secstate 11y ago
But the problem is that discrimination is a function of perception, and that is 9/10ths of reality. What the company was trying to do was correct a perceived culture wrong that some people were compensated less because their job was pe
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by secstate 11y ago
Sure wish they had sent out an email notification to users instead of a slashdotted blog post. Now the question is how long can Linode stand in the face of these sorts of hacks and network attacks in the face of stiff VPS competition.
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by secstate 11y ago
Not trying to troll here, but in my experience this is true as well. You know what the culprit usually is? PULSEAUDIO ... oh my. I appreciate that audio is a complex solution, but it seems that even suspend issues often come back to, "
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by secstate 11y ago
I'm not the parent, but I have the same experience with Ubuntu 15.10 on a Lenovo T440s. And I know, I know, Lenovo and their spyware are awful. All the more reason to dump their stock Windows install for linux ;)
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by secstate 11y ago
Thanks for the kid-gloves reply :) I hadn't considered that there isn't really a central authority for controlling who runs a peer, aside from ICANN, but they have pretty loose reins. Funny that everyone waxes poetic about bitcoin
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by secstate 11y ago
Given my ignorance of much of these issues, I probably shouldn't be commenting (take my comment with a huge grain of salt). But the idea of depeering networks on the Internet for misapplication of a voluntary protocol seems like the be
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by secstate 11y ago
For starters, Orion is still planned to cost from $500 million to $1 billion PER LAUNCH. Given that this is a government project, I'm gonna guess closer to the high bound. Second, the Saturn V/Apollo mission was a diplomatic show
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by secstate 11y ago
Exactly! The Burj Dubai is an impressive landmark to construction, and so are the Pyramids of Giza. But one took 40K manual laborers and decades of work, and the other took a crew of thousands and a couple of years. There are more things at
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by secstate 11y ago
The problem with your logic is that the current highest hurdle to any of those goals, even the Oort cloud is how much it costs to get anything into orbit. We already know how to construct things in orbit. Getting the massive equipment cheap
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by secstate 11y ago
Eh, but you're assuming that money to charities is always a good thing. There are a) some pretty terrible charities out there and b) some patently fake charities that are designed as money laundering schemes. The tax code works because
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Microsoft cuts support for IE10 and older(wind8apps.com)
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by secstate 11y ago
Cynical, yes. Accurate, unfortunately so. I worked for a small weekly paper for a number of years. Weeklies are still very community oriented and immune to many of the diseases that afflict large city dailies or national news outlets. Still
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by secstate 11y ago
Having worked as an education beat reporter in a number of really small, really wealth-divided communities for many years, I can tell you that state education is unlikely to ever be the solution to the wealth gap. Honestly, from my time in
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by secstate 11y ago
Not to go all anti-objectivist, but I've yet to see a consistent equation where (quantity of work) * (quality of work) = wealth There's a myth of the hustle that gets perpetrated whenever a feel-good story about a hard working, in
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by secstate 11y ago
Hrm: https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=http%3A%2F%2Fdeirdre.net%2F... I think the more likely reason why validation errors show up all over the internet is because for 99% of business/entertainment/service on
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by secstate 11y ago
Probably one of the ones Apple wants you to throw away after two years.
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by secstate 11y ago
I might argue the same things is true about getting everyone in North Korea to switch from wheat to growing cotton. An amazing technical achievement perhaps, but is it the right thing to do? That's not to say that upgrading to iOS 9 is
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by secstate 11y ago
Yeah, the quote from one of the characters above summed it up pretty well. I've never seen either movie version, but Lem's book (and much of Lem's writing) tends to focus not on the boundless possibilities of space, but the f
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by secstate 11y ago
Did we ever leave feudalism, at a fundamental level?
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by secstate 11y ago
As you note at the end, human history is nothing if not a lesson in the build up of power and influence and eventual corrosion of the same. There's a cycle to these things, and I think the great issue is that we've all begun to be
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by secstate 11y ago
Maybe the parent didn't have to cock the gun, but for goodness sakes, don't pull the trigger ;)
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by secstate 11y ago
"This time posts by friends got priority over posts from pages." Say it ain't so!!!! :) I know marketing has a reason for existing, but sometimes I wish it didn't. Maybe if you figured out a campaign to get friends of fr
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by secstate 11y ago
Just a guess here, but true object-orientation is really hard to get right. It's not like OS X was going to be built on Smalltalk. And if you're going to half-ass OO with an implementation like structs+functions, you're usual
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by secstate 11y ago
That's a really excellent point. As I was reading it I thought maybe the author didn't really get why the IOC exists, but your suggestion, that this is mostly satire, makes way more sense.
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by secstate 11y ago
The boiling frog is a great analogy for what's become of Apple's UI and UX
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by secstate 11y ago
That's pretty much exactly what the OP is complaining about. Sure you can do that, but Cmd+Shift+G? Not the most discoverable interface in the world.
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by secstate 11y ago
Well said, and honestly, I think this goes deeper than just CS. It's probably a shitty thing for me to argue standing here with a BA, but I don't think the vast majority of people earning BA's today are actually using univers
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by secstate 11y ago
I would argue you can learn the efficiency of a binary tree search in a few months on a job too. And no, often times those people can't learn git on the job because in so doing the mess things up so thoroughly in the repo half the time
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by secstate 11y ago
Pretty disappointing that their big selling point is moot when it a) can't be sold outside US/Canada and b) aggressively tries to up-sell a subscription which actual people in poverty will have no interest in being tied to The who
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by secstate 11y ago
Just looking at the product page makes me feel like I'm in a PKD short story.

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