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by sputr 9y ago
Ah, no matter how much we are aware of it filter bubble still get's us.
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by sputr 9y ago
"I think cryptocurrency ought to be cheap, so people don't hoard it." More importantly it needs inflation. I just don't see how a currency with builtin deflation can ever be used for anything but a value store. I still d
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by sputr 9y ago
Likely, yes and I think that is probably the right course of action, but IANAL, at least politically. As I understand the US situation the federal level, the signatory of the treaty, didn't actually legalize anything. The states did, i
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by sputr 9y ago
Yes, the one. Unfortunately at least for my country Uruguay does not seem to be a valid trendsetter and are still waiting for a western nation to do it.
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by sputr 9y ago
Seems I have been, and not been, missinformed :). They have passed a law, but as it does not yet break the treaties they still have "time" to do something about it. http://globalnews.ca/news/3606927/after
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by sputr 9y ago
The negative health affects are definitely there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yewlM8CtbQU But that does not mean that we should not legalize it. I would even argue they are THE reason why we should legalize. A legal mar
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by sputr 9y ago
Two things: 1. Legal weed is not almost here because of the 68' treaty that strictly prohibits it. That's the reason we see all of these "decriminalized" and "tolerated" scenarios. No one has yet to decide to j
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by sputr 9y ago
Drush was amazing ... but only in the context of the hell that Drupal 6/7 was.
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by sputr 9y ago
Manjaro, it's a no-hassle arch distro. I used to use Kubuntu. But trying to upgrade to the latest version was a nightmare (latter realizing it's because the distro is abandoned). Tried other KDE, ubuntu based distros - always the
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by sputr 9y ago
FYI: The uBlock origin link (to subscribe to the list) does not work (seem to just be a copy of the ABP link).
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by sputr 9y ago
Actually what is needed is MORE lobbying ... just for the right things by the right people. We'll never stop lobbying by those who are already powerful. But those who are not can empower themselves. PS: Event doing what you propose &qu
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by sputr 10y ago
So this is a problem the Slovenian free and open wireless network project had. People were worried about what others would do on their connection. So now the firmware you flash on the router you'll use as an access point is preconfigur
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by sputr 10y ago
I thought so too. I fought hard against going to a roling release. But so far THIS SPECIFIC CASE seems the superior option.
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by sputr 10y ago
Try using any non-US settings and it will break :). Unless they fixed it, but I know it went unfixed for more than a month because a friend of mine tried as well and got a similar error.
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by sputr 10y ago
I've recently moved to Manjaro (Arch) after trying to upgrade from Kubuntu 14.04 to Kubuntu 16.04 and finding out (you don't wanna know how much time I wasted) that Kubuntu is practically unsupported atm. So I tried Neon (the &quo
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by sputr 10y ago
Well this sounds exactly like the project I ran for the local Pirate Party during Slovenian elections - nadzorovan.si ("you are monitored" in Slovenian). You can see the map of cameras here: http://nadzorovan.si/ze
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by sputr 10y ago
The main problem I'm seeing with this kind of topics is this notion that "management" and "coding etc." are on the same vertical. That as an end result of a successful career as a professional is to move into manage
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by sputr 10y ago
This website is not intended for people who know what Javascript is or even how to turn it off. Most of the web are not (us) geeks, and not everything revolves around us. Plus, there is such a thing as ROI.
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by sputr 10y ago
A good example of a DX initiative done right is the PHP framework Symfony2.6+. Using it is just ... heaven. Can't really describe it any other way. When ever I'm forced to use something different (Wordpress, or even worse, Drupal)
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by sputr 10y ago
Not calling it Boaty McBoatface will just be a massive missed opportunity for effective science outreach and a crappy PR move. You say it's going to be doing important research? Great! Add a social media presence, pull in people with t
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by sputr 11y ago
Don't use the red-green combination in charts as it makes it really hard to read for those of us with a degree of red-green color blindness (which is the most common type in the ~5% of the male and ~1% female population that has it).
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by sputr 11y ago
Ok, so how they treat their employees sucks. Now comes the famous but . Why did she take a job she could not afford - from what I understand she's making a monthly loss of $700 + groceries, gas, etc. Why move to SF, to take a sales jo
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by sputr 11y ago
That's the exact case I just tried to make in a blog[1] yesterday. Ads are a BAD solution to the problem of financing content creation. There are business models out there, not fringe ones, but big examples, where free content with vol
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Adblock is destroying ads. Good(thescepticalpirate.eu)
10 points by sputr 11y ago|0 comments
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by sputr 11y ago
Damn, this is something I've been saying for a while (and also written a more succinct blog about[1]). The anti-vaxxer parents are victims of fraudsters who do this for monetary gain. It's the same story as with all pseudoscience.
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by sputr 11y ago
This reminds me of the copyright/piracy debate. The copyright industry was screaming about lost profits , but would not change it business models. Well, it turns out, all they had to do was change their business models to something peo
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by sputr 11y ago
Actually, it can (and is routinely) done. https://github.com/brockwhittaker/Detect-Adblockers
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by sputr 11y ago
It's a Samsung GT-I8260. I got it on contract (I was really low on cash and with a broken phone) and it was marked at 160€. It's not unlocked and not rooted. Cynogenmod is not supported for the device (as far as I know).
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by sputr 11y ago
There is also another factor that may influence this statistic: most android phones in the general population are slow as hell. While in IT, especially in mobile development, phones are fast-ish. Developers keep adding features (OS as well
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Facebook chat: Not exactly messaging for teams(thescepticalpirate.eu)
1 points by sputr 11y ago|0 comments

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