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by smtddr 11y ago
I suspect the only reason this hasn't happened already is because some very wealthy & connected people are profiting and avoiding taxes with bitcoin. Thus it's important that the masses use it too otherwise it'll just be
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by smtddr 11y ago
No, OP is right. It's a collective "we". http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014 Most people trust USgov; apparently just last year we were only 2 points behind Japan. My impression of Japan is that most people
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by smtddr 11y ago
Sure, the "super-good" at hiding it == They make sure it's not right up in your face & you can't feel it in your day-to-day life; especially sure not to let the non-minorities or affluent feel it. My family and wife
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by smtddr 11y ago
It's because of this: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014 The only difference between USA's corruption and others, is that USA is super-good at hiding it.
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by smtddr 11y ago
They don't have to reveal where the data came from. You got crazy(read: anti-status quo) ideas and you're getting close to being able to implement them? .... NSA leaks info to your opponent(s) and/or media (loves destructive
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by smtddr 11y ago
>>Or is it that recent generations are entitled to some better fate than previous ones? We should all be striving to make our children's lives & the world they'll inherit better than our own.
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by smtddr 11y ago
Actually, I totally agree. I'm almost sure that if any major corp gave out more info about how the final candidate decisions were made the number of lawsuits would increase no matter what. The reason being is that there is no fair algo
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by smtddr 11y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a Google fanboy, so feel free to discount this comment. Google's interview process is a magical opaque box. You have no idea what happened. All kinds of people who seem like an excellent fit somehow end up getting
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by smtddr 12y ago
I clicked on the word "tweeting" in the article twice before realizing it wasn't a hyperlink. I totally assumed it would be. And now I see why EFF didn't link to this. I'm sorry, but that tweet actually is threaten
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>As if having some image forcibly burnt into my brain will influence my subconscious desires enough to cause me to make a purchase sometime later. This idea is and has always been pure snake oil. http://en.wikipedia.org&
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by smtddr 12y ago
I don't know about a "violent revolution" , but I'm very skeptical of fixing a broken system while working within the rules of said system.
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by smtddr 12y ago
wow, is the CPU perfect? I cannot beat it. I keep ending up in a situation where the AI can beat me on its next turn in 2 different ways so I can't block both.
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by smtddr 12y ago
Oh, I could be very wrong. My own calibration settings for this is reading a bunch of comments on stormfront.org forums. While I dislike yummyfajitas's comments, they don't give me the same feeling I get from stormfront. I don&#x2
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by smtddr 12y ago
First, I downvoted your comment for the excessive negativity/abuse in it. You could have made your point just as clear without them. Second, I'm going to take your comment to point out something I've noticed when talking abou
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>Given the underrepresentation of women in tech I think I'm ok with them being chosen over satisfying your ambitions. This sounds like Affirmative-action; while having good intentions did not work out quite like they hoped. h
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by smtddr 12y ago
You said: >>"Your advice is, at best, useful only to those who already have their basic needs provided for. Trust-fund babies and the like." The OP said: >>"CS degree from a top-10, worked at a startup and a la
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by smtddr 12y ago
That part freaked me out because that was one of the ways I thought I could tell authentic from propaganda. I thought people in power didn't know how to blend in naturally to forums and their comments always stood out, but it looks lik
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by smtddr 12y ago
Got a 3 month old son and my wife is providing the milk. We're lucky in that, for some reason, oatmeal cookies or hot oatmeal cereal causes my wife to have an abundant supply. We're also lucky in that my high-paying tech job allo
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by smtddr 12y ago
And the scope of "purchasing anything from US, Saudia Arabia or Russian companies" ...is reasonable?
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by smtddr 12y ago
If you cast your logic-net wide enough, you can make all sorts of connections & correlations. Anything and everything indirectly funds anything and everything else. You can't decide to shutdown all USA companies; or if you did you
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by smtddr 12y ago
Your rant is perfectly founded. There is absolutely an issue in the current tech-scene of people with super-sized egos and the ability to justify nearly anything if it means their start-up idea will succeed. Most of these attitudes change w
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by smtddr 12y ago
If you, and the person you replied to, are troubled by me seeking the best that I can provide for my family.... I won't lose any sleep over it. I only comment to state that it isn't about status.
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by smtddr 12y ago
Not OP, but I can tell you what I've been experiencing. It's not about status, I don't care about impressing anyone else. After leaving at&t to work in trendy-SF-startup tech scene, my salary sky-rocketed. So I get marrie
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by smtddr 12y ago
While I personally don't mind Google having all my backup data, we must appreciate the fact that in this post-Snowden world some people will justifiably refuse to go with the big USA-corp players like Amazon or Google. rsync.net just s
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by smtddr 12y ago
Your downvotes are probably because of the blaming-the-victim section: >>in the case of this guy misbehaving it is in a very large part enabled by women in a combination of not standing up for themselves and sleeping with a jerk. you
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>Sometimes I think tech companies should set up some kind of internal dating or matchmaking site, and establish a rule that if an employee is interested in exploring romantic or sexual relationships with coworkers, they have to go t
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by smtddr 12y ago
Not the same. The GameGenie/GameShark/ActionReplay scene was much more accessible than hacking .apk files and jailbreaking mobile devices. I was messing with those devices even before I decided on a CS major. And it was as simple
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by smtddr 12y ago
Ah, so the pass-by-value vs pass-by-reference is a different topic IMHO than int *x or &x. The implementation of both I'm sure are extremely similar if not exactly the same, but I agree that if a developer doesn't understand p
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by smtddr 12y ago
>>4. Inability to comprehend pointers I love C, it's my favorite language.... but there is no way that pointers are important enough that not knowing them == bad programmer. There are plenty of good developers who've never
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by smtddr 12y ago
Wait a minute.... do people actually do that? Do co-workers ask each other for massages and/or rub their shoulders?! I've never heard of that, ever. Inform me please. How often does this happen? I've always though the "u

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