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by speeder 10y ago
Aaron Swartz case... And a bulling case I forgot the name (they used the same law that was used in Aaron Swartz to argue that the bullying people were criminals because they broke MySpace TOS). And a bunch of other cases... In US breaking T
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Ask HN: Remote workers not on first world, where you found work?
3 points by speeder 10y ago|0 comments
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by speeder 10y ago
Larry is Gorean Goreans are people that agree with philosophy of professor John Lange, that writes his philosophy in porn books with pen name John Norman What got Larry kicked out is that similarly to Abrahamic religions, Goreans believe th
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by speeder 10y ago
I use a macmini for my dev work. Almost every time it freezes out of the blue the culprit was some html based "app" frequently with process nwjs using 100% of cpu and huge amounts of ram. This includes chrome and electron based st
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by speeder 10y ago
Maybe a population that want to be able to support themselves? Check where trump had overwhelming support: it was mostly in areas with lots of unemployment or underemployment. The people there don't want free stuff, they want to work.
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by speeder 10y ago
They made the kid when both were employed, and got immediately fired (for reasons unrelated to kid)
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by speeder 10y ago
I think opportunity is MUCH more important than IQ. I know lots of intelligent people, some of them that do have measured IQs in very high numbers, that are in really crappy situations right now (example: one friend has a small kid, and bot
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by speeder 10y ago
I am from Brazil, that theoretically has a fully modern democracy... Parties learned to "negotiate" so well they became meaningless, frequently absurd laws pass that all parties allowed, you see multiparty tickets that include ext
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by speeder 10y ago
Question: can bank defends themselves when the DNS attacked is client-side? I am from Brazil, and many, MANY, MAAAANY times I saw my bank webpage be slightly off, and I noticed it was fake, every single time after tracking down the problem
940.
by speeder 10y ago
I used to buy books at Fictionwise, because it was the only place that sold certain books I liked in my country, all other stores only sold to some random northern-hemisphere country (seriously, what people that sell digital stuff have agai
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by speeder 10y ago
Read UN human rights list. It states right there that schools should be mandatory and mandatory teach about the UN. And in another section of the document it says rights are "universal" to people that aren't against UN intere
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by speeder 10y ago
I wonder why this got flagged.
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Drupal developer asked to leave project because of "belief system"(theregister.co.uk)
43 points by speeder 10y ago|34 comments
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by speeder 10y ago
I think part of the reason os that it os a chance to explore and "tame" new lands. I am from Brazil, that is a gigantic country with stupid amounts of land. Also I really wanted to live on a rural community and farm a bit, yet som
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by speeder 10y ago
Yes. Sort of... But that is how much the government theoretically pays in interest. For this reason people don't bother in investing in companies (when I had startups, people would batantly tell us they wouldn't invest because buy
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by speeder 10y ago
I am from Brazil, here people demanded that I should go to university to get a degree to get a job. I can say now that trusting the adults was stupid idea, I ended getting student loans, got a degree, but no job. I am 29 now and my governme
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by speeder 10y ago
I am from Brazil... Let me see. Laws requiring 30% of election candidates be women? check. University quotas? Check. Arguments about "not enough women in <insert random profession here>" because it is not 50% split? Check. I
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by speeder 10y ago
I am helping my dad code programs that generate some documents that are mandatory to make business in the country... But that is basically endless work, because the government here keeps changing the laws constantly. We also have a gigantic
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by speeder 10y ago
I would flip the headline around a bit. It is more like Young men are blocked from job market and forced to spend their time gaming. Some people then ask me, forced how? They can't do anything else? Well, I know I can't... I don&#
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by speeder 10y ago
Once I made the mistake of using demo-related tools to craft my own gamedev tools and engines... (for example using kkrunchy to pack my stuff). One day I decided to isntall anti-virus and... whoooops, everything was nuked (the AV deleted wi
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by speeder 10y ago
I have impression JEDEC constantly underestimate what manufacturers can actually do... I bought last year DDR3 RAM, 2400mhz. So, when DDR4 started to be sold, capped at 2133, DD3 2400 was already sort of easy to find (and it is faster than
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by speeder 10y ago
I am from Brazil... here car manufacturers are wildly profitable, it is not uncommon for some models be sold to final costumers with profit margins after taxes of around 30, 40%. EDIT: also in US in recent years, C-level people had income i
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by speeder 10y ago
I never played it myself, but I last I checked the game is still running just fine! (as in, there are official servers to pay subscription and play the game).
954.
by speeder 10y ago
What to do if you don't have resources to do that? (Example: me. No friends, negative net worth, zero income, no car, no bicycle, no bus money, most clothes have holes in them)
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by speeder 10y ago
Samsung tried to hire me a couple times, but their side always went missing out of the blue. One day I saw them complaining in a major magazine about not finding anyone, and I not only reapplied but wrote an almost angry email detailing pas
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by speeder 10y ago
Slavery is a subject I find fairly interesting, but sadly, it only 'appears' to be discussed, frank discussions of slavery have the problem that most people or assume that anyone with any slight impression of defending slavery in
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by speeder 10y ago
This can happen BECAUSE economy is shit. I am in Brazil, right now completely unemployed (technically I never was employed in first place, so I don't count as unemployed in statistics), and out of work. So I am thinking of what busines
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by speeder 10y ago
Brazil
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by speeder 10y ago
You need to check walls too... I live in a third world country, security is very important, my house got people jumping inside at least 7 or 8 times, that we know... maybe it was more and we failed to notice. One year, while my family was o
960.
by speeder 10y ago
I am 29, my parents stove+oven already existed when I was born. I already had to deal with new ones 4 times, including one I personally purchased when I lived alone for a while... None of them ever got close to the 'granny' versio

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