shard972

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by shard972 10y ago
While i agree with the idea of being able to install whatever you want. What's wrong with it being behind a developer mode? I would bet that 99%~ people don't need or even want that kind of absolute freedom. As a chrome user, the
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by shard972 10y ago
> The Germans went mostly through Low Countries, violating the neutrality of Netherlands and Belgium, not just Ardennes forest. Would be pretty interesting to see Mexicans reroute to come through canada. I say it in joking, but if you fl
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by shard972 10y ago
So leave the fence as it is?
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by shard972 10y ago
> Having to fly a drone back and forth takes time Time by whom? Self driving drones already exist right? Just set up a flight plan, get about 20 of them and you now have a fleet of carrier drones.
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by shard972 10y ago
Even if companies are paying the same as local workers, there is still the issue of the employer having so much power over the worker. Normally jobs are a two way relationship, with either party being able to back out if things are working
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by shard972 10y ago
I mean, it's not like your people are being forced to use and buy products from these companies. So why should the US be forced to take in workers from other countries?
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by shard972 10y ago
> Wouldn't offering visas to "rising" countries allow us to pick off much of their best talent, thus boosting the US and lowering the other countries? I haven't seen H1B visa's used like this in my personal exper
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by shard972 10y ago
I think Google's quiet transformation from a search company to a data company that is trying to learn everything about everyone is the prime example. Google buzz was also one of the early moves that showed this, opting everyone who use
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by shard972 10y ago
It's kind of expected when in the US you have a culture of "everyone has to go to university or you are worthless".
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by shard972 10y ago
I will say this can go the other way in the hands of someone who doesn't understand what they are doing. I recently started work at a startup where the codebase is running PHP/MYSQL which in itself is ok, but the database was horr
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by shard972 10y ago
Wouldn't it be interesting if the Trump administration was actually better at processing FOIA requests? To be honest it will be difficult for them not to be, can't imagine he will be getting any less than Obama.
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by shard972 10y ago
And he wasn't wrong when he said in that recent super bowl interview "we aren't so innocent". Everyone is still jumping on him like he was saying the US is just the same as Russia, unable to accept the nuance that Americ
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by shard972 10y ago
This seems odd to me, living in Australia where alot of roads are asphalt I don't know how it would be cheaper to repair them like they do out here. The just have a truck roll around and dump some more asphalt in the holes, tap it with
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by shard972 10y ago
The main one I see is that it is too hard for programmers who don't fully understand haskell/functional programming. I see people complain at times about it's performance but there is always someone there to rebut that it&#x2
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by shard972 10y ago
I really want to see a comparison of a language like go to something much more in the functional sphere when it comes to maintainability of a large codebase. I really feel like that one of the big issues we as programmers want to get a bett
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by shard972 10y ago
I don't remember reddit banning anyone when a subreddit falsely accused some kid of being the boston bomber. Infact I don't remember the admins even saying a word about it.
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by shard972 10y ago
Myself. I've been harassed by two different subs including SRS with people trying to dig up info on me for daring to post to /r/worldnews comments about global warming. Not even denying it but pointing out how climate science
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by shard972 10y ago
whoops yea i should add one for HN. I wish I could say something intelligible, but it's so complicated I don't even know what's going on anymore with western culture.
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by shard972 10y ago
Then why on earth is /r/shitredditsays still around? They have been getting in trouble for doxxing for years along with constantly brigading which apparently is another bannable offense. As someone who has been dogpiled by that su
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by shard972 10y ago
More immigration will fix this.
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by shard972 10y ago
So, what happens in the Models S runs into issues transitioning to mainstream scale? Considering they are heavily leveraged off Elon's other companies, unless Solar city makes some great deals isn't Elon at risk of a credit crunch
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by shard972 10y ago
Asking for forgiveness instead of permission is something I tell work colleagues.
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by shard972 10y ago
Nope, wrong again. It was on who published it ;) The NYT is a company, it can't write articles, only people can Look at my original comment, when did I even come close to mentioning the author or his track record in particular? I menti
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by shard972 10y ago
> With easy information, however, news travels faster, and more elaborate plans can be worked out in the same time, and hence it is easier to account for minority interests. I don't see how this at all explains the fundamental ideol
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by shard972 10y ago
Maybe public education is causing some of these issues, I don't know too many private school kids who get out of high school and can't read. Such things seem to be readily accepted in public high schools. I remember in my first ye
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by shard972 10y ago
So based on your last two quotes, it's not just technology but the dumbing down of the school system in the US that is creating unemployment problems?
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by shard972 10y ago
> Believe me, most Americans agree with you that our elections have become a joke. Congressional districts have been redesigned in the past 10 years to give Republicans a huge unnatural advantage in the House of Representatives. And the
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by shard972 10y ago
> The quality of life for the 'rest' is declining but none of these executive orders have even begun to address that problem. What about the restarting of the keystone XL pipeline? With the added bonus of having the project bui
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by shard972 10y ago
I'm not dismissing the argument outright, i'm just giving my opinion piece ;)
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by shard972 10y ago
It's time to turn off immigration from countries that have cultures that actively conflict with western culture and it's values. As a homosexual, I don't want immigration from countries where 90% of the population think it&#x

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