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by smtddr 11y ago
The OP's comment used that as an example: ">>Free lunches _do_ exist as well, as anyone with a good friend or child will attest to. Then the reply: >> Those aren't free lunches though. They are paying with futu
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>>Your phrasing kinda implies the "Zuck" person of your sentence is more important than the "POTUS" person. I like Obama 'n all, but in today's world of technology (this is about a student building a cl
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by smtddr 11y ago
If you wanna telecommute on some days, or need a modified schedule besides the standard 9-to-5, you should just arrange for that. Having coworkers just showing up and leaving at any random time during the day I think messes with morale&#x2F
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>My concern is, do heads roll at the FBI and U.S. Attorney's office after a failure like that? Is there accountability? There should be a minimum $500k USD awarded to anyone who's arrested by USgov but then found innocent
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>Yes, poor people tend to have rigid work schedules. If congestion pricing were implemented, employers would have to be more flexible or pay their workers more. The employer won't be more flexible nor will the salaries go up;
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by smtddr 11y ago
Today's America has a stronger phobia of getting hurt.... or maybe of getting sued. http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/may/21/children-weak... http://www.bustle.com/articles&#x2
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>This is all why I, personally, do not plan to bring children into this world until I can afford the time to raise them with the love and attention they deserve. So that the availability of finances has no bearing on their future. I
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by smtddr 11y ago
Is it, in itself, unethical? No. Will it be used in so many unethical ways to harass people for any coincidental info, that'll overshadow whatever benefit it was suppose to provide? You bet.[1] Will someone find an exploit to disable a
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>I could never be an alcoholic, alcohol does nothing for me except dulling the senses. I think one of the common (if not primary) ways people become alcholics is when their senses keep delivering overwhelmingly negative signals an
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by smtddr 11y ago
I know that's how I function. Any new gig I'm in (which happens to be right now) , I start in super-professional super-PC mode. As I get to know my surroundings and happen to overhear other conversations and jokes, I get a better
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by smtddr 11y ago
I commented on this a year ago or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8154909 My opinion on this is unchanged and I'm still disturbed by the greed behind this lawsuit.
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by smtddr 11y ago
Based on the current social economic structure of USA, OP's statement is pretty true. This prank video is like a small example of USA's issues. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U0tDBvdunu0 ...try reversing the ethnic
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by smtddr 11y ago
You have no idea how much I agree with you. http://qz.com/476722/be-careful-your-love-of-science-looks-a... I submitted that article awhile back, never made it anywhere. The incredibly unyielding trust in scientific me
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by smtddr 11y ago
http://digg.com/2015/ashley-madison-hack Not a complete answer, but: "MOTHERBOARD: How did you hack Avid Life Media? Was it hard? The Impact Team: We worked hard to make fully undetectable attack, then got in and
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by smtddr 11y ago
I don't condone this hack, but morals/ethics aside for a moment: The one positive thing this hack has done is really give serious ammo to the battle for online privacy, because the demographic hit by this hack is the most politica
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by smtddr 11y ago
I don't know where you are... but in Bay Area, California my experience with Home Depot locations around here have always been very positive. There's always someone walking around with those orange aprons and they always know wher
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by smtddr 11y ago
Here's my main concern: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/for-profit-unive... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-meszaros/for-profit-coll... Other than the rare exception
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by smtddr 11y ago
I have a blog explaining how to watch the traffic of a Nintendo Wii console using a USB-ethernet adapter. http://smtddr.hatenablog.com/entry/2014/02/16/tvclb_part1 It's probably overly complicated,
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by smtddr 11y ago
Anyone who even knows HN exists will be tech-savvy enough to find all the sites, or torrents, providing the data without having to read a comment on HN.
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by smtddr 11y ago
I thought of it as how a CPU appears to be running several programs at the same time in a home PC, but we know the OS is actually switching between all the processes at an extremely high rate. :)
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>I went to delete my account only to discover they wanted $80 to do so. Well, I discovered their brilliant business model. Hmm, so... did you pay? And if you did, have you verified your data is _not_ in the torrent dumps? It&#x27
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by smtddr 11y ago
The scandals this data leakage reveal are way too tantalizing for anyone to care how it all happened to begin with. Most of the twitter posts have applied their morals/ethics/whatever, replaced the word "hackers" with
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>I've deactivated all reporting and services that call back home (at least which I was aware of). In addition I've installed glasswire to check the network activities. I'm going to recommend to you, or anyone, wantin
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>Is there anyone else who hates Twitter because of its 140 character limit and overall focus on broadcasting rather than sharing? I actually love twitter for those reasons.
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by smtddr 11y ago
FYI, for others reading this comment: The wrongful practice implied here is the stoning, not being gay. Took me awhile to figure that out. I almost went on a rant.
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I thought it was. From sports teams to software engineers, people with exceptional talent also seem to have exceptionally large egos to match. A team of normal people can usually tolerate & use one of them to their advantage, but a whol
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by smtddr 11y ago
We already have problems taking each other seriously just based on gender, race and other such things. The movie, the planet of the apes, is pretty much what I think would happen if apes started talking to us.
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Be careful, your love of science looks a lot like religion(qz.com)
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by smtddr 11y ago
This is a grey area. Not everyone is going to agree. For example, if some email client can cause arbitrary command execution by adding a malformed email as CC, like nobody@file:///calc.exe or something, vendor patches it, th
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by smtddr 11y ago
Angry birds, and all merchandise around it, also sold really well.... is that an AAA game too? CandyCrush? Farmsville back in the day?

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