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by sgift 7y ago
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39516346/ns/us_news-life/t/no-pay-... > The county does not have a county-wide firefighting service (...) Fire service: Not first world standard. We can argue that the r
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by sgift 7y ago
I invite you to Dachau if you want a tour there. Dachau never was a formal extermination camp, but it was the concentration camp after which all other concentration camps were modeled and then modified. Maybe after a tour there you learn to
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by sgift 7y ago
I don't want to pay 2k for my browser.
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by sgift 7y ago
Why are multiple requests needed? You do shit, you get a request to stop it, you don't do it, you get hit with a fine. How many requests do you expect the authorities to send? 5? 10? 100? If I get summoned to court and don't follo
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by sgift 7y ago
> Decades ago, instead of raising taxes, the city started borrowing money Also known as "starve the beast", a proud strategy still proposed by many of the so called elites in charge of tax policy and their good, rich friends. B
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by sgift 7y ago
If only this was true. People with unpatched software running are prime targets for inclusion in a botnet and then they are damaging other with their reckless behavior.
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by sgift 7y ago
That's one of the things being done. Problem is that for a while they didn't (that's what happens when you get people who think the market magically fixes things in power) and building new ones takes time. To get that time a
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by sgift 7y ago
> Java is a decent language with a decent type system (bar the lack of null safety and some other quirks). Optional is your (and my) friend. It has a small performance penalty and for historic reasons it will never be used everywhere, bu
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by sgift 7y ago
Can you give a few numbers what counts as "very small" here? Most of my big java projects take less than two minutes for a full compile and incremental compile of the whole project is usually in the range of 10 secs. If you run th
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by sgift 7y ago
If this were correct startups wouldn't have a chance to dethrone an incumbent, because companies would adjust course long before. The thing is: Some people may even see this. But then they have to convince their boss. And maybe that bo
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by sgift 7y ago
> I think it's pretty trivial for any company to argue that technical interviews are relevant to a developer job. Is it? Can you show, right now, that your companies technical interviews and job performance correlate positively? Cau
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by sgift 7y ago
That's the reason all real IQ tests (not the ones you find on the internet, the real ones) are secret/closely guarded: Knowing the tests beforehand skews the results. So: yes, it is the same in that way and has been theorized as o
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by sgift 7y ago
The thing is: The method described in the post has the same problem. It just doesn't look like it. Most of these types of interview templates are designed by one or two persons and then blindly applied. Sometimes you have a view modifi
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by sgift 7y ago
Good thing no one steals their content then. Or do they not have it anymore when a private viewing license is used? This is simple greed. And greed may be good from a business perspective, but morally wrong. Society doesn't have to hel
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by sgift 7y ago
Yes, until they alienate too many cause these games depend on a big player base. Then the whales leave too and having alienated all the non-whales the business is usually dead.
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by sgift 7y ago
"Shooting ahead" == repeating what the west did 50 years ago. Interesting definition of shooting ahead. The west (as if that's even a coherent body for topics like this) has many problems. Being overtaken by India isn't
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by sgift 7y ago
> The guy isn't wrong about twitter mobs mowing down everything in their path and that's stupid. But he is speaking about it now, when it affected him. He had a great podium - should have said something when it was directed at
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by sgift 7y ago
So, let's hunt them to make sure they get back into a more pressing category? Seems like a bad idea.
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by sgift 7y ago
Could've been different if web devs listened when they got told "your ads get overbearing, no one can even try to concentrate on the content anymore" - but they were greedy and ad blocking came about as self defense.
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by sgift 7y ago
If you really don't get any takers you can always later decide to change the modalities. No reason to start with something profiting only a few from the start.
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by sgift 7y ago
Thanks for the hint. That could be the reason I get this on nightly since .. about four weeks (or six weeks? something like that). Seems to concede with the time the new privacy protections went on by default.
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by sgift 7y ago
There's a difference between humanitarian aid and being the protecting power of NK. Without Japans rice people would die. Without Chinas help the regime would die.
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by sgift 7y ago
Happens in Germany too. It is illegal if that's the only criteria, but hard to enforce cause most banks will tell you that they used their "judgement" to decide.
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by sgift 7y ago
One of the reasons I like three lane Autobahnen. You have the left lane for the racers. You have the right lane for the trucks. And you have the middle lane to overtake trucks. It all works fine until some beep beep beep beep decides that s
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by sgift 7y ago
Which holds true for both IBM and Microsoft. Both still hold (virtual) monopolies in their respective markets: Mainframes / desktop OS. It's just that these markets are no longer the most important. That's also the reason the
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by sgift 7y ago
> What do you have to gain from interacting with the police? Now, compare this to what you stand to lose by interacting with the police. The job of the police is to help me. To do that effectively they have to sometimes talk to me. It is
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by sgift 7y ago
> But in this scenario the police are unprompted at your door and their first ask is to come into your house. If the police just want to talk to you because they're concerned about you personally they'll just ask to talk to you
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by sgift 7y ago
This post and the article have the same problem: Thinking the way police works/seems to work in the US (always out to get you) is universal to the world while it is the exception. Police in other countries usually works out of a desire
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by sgift 7y ago
What is "received a veiled threat"?
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by sgift 7y ago
> In my experience server-side generated templates lightly sprinkled with “progressive enhancement”-style JavaScript are still the best way to do that. Those apps are easier to develop, tend to be faster, tend to have fewer bugs, and you

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