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by stef25 8y ago
Either you're leaving out a lot of important parts to the story or you're just being paranoid?
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by stef25 8y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Thiel went after Gawker (through Hogan) because they exposed him as being gay. He also happened to be in Saudi Arabia at the time. Whenever a magazine publishes some trash story attacking someone they should ask th
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by stef25 8y ago
> Rooms for 6-8 people isolated from external noises is a good sweet spot Sweet spot for me does not depend on the number of people. I used to work for a company in a huge open space with 25+ devs who understood the need for silence. Now
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by stef25 8y ago
That douchebag diver did succeed though. There were like a dozen people involved that were the best in the world at what they do and that's the plan they came up with and it worked. US and Thai navy seals couldn't do any better. M
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by stef25 8y ago
There are very few people in the world that can dive like these guys do. If I was that good at something, having some Silicon Valley billionaire show up to "help" with some outrageously stupid idea, that would also piss me off. Al
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by stef25 8y ago
If I remember correctly, those UK divers were asked to help here but refused. The only time they did so.
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by stef25 8y ago
Once they were all out a Thai official did say they were drugged.
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by stef25 8y ago
It's not for nothing that it's not the WHO list of essential drugs. It's a miracle drug in more ways that one, with it now also being used with success against depression in treatment resistant patients, to treat alcoholism e
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by stef25 8y ago
A psychedelic experience basically, why people take it recreationally in doses that don't quite knock you out. It's really bizarre and something best not experienced submerged in a cave. I was taught 20 years ago that it was still
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by stef25 8y ago
1. Do it propery :) Here's a good guide: https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ 2. Gitlab has solutions, Atlassian Bamboo, Buddy, FTPloy, Jenkins, etc. 3. Monolog https://github.c
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by stef25 8y ago
The biggest "what if" is, what if he actually did forget the password? I have an encrypted backup of an old computer that I actually have forgotten the password for. The only reason I keep it is because I think there's a smal
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by stef25 8y ago
How does not being able to force someone to decrypt their hard drive overlap with innocent men being imprisoned?
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by stef25 8y ago
Quality in online markets is better than from your dial-a-dope guy.
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by stef25 8y ago
Impossible here in Belgium now since the terror attacks. Tourists are having a hard time buying sim cards when they come here. Don't even know if it's possible at all. Dealers don't rotate their numbers so much any more, so I
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by stef25 8y ago
LA Times was blocked before but now loads fine in EU. The other two are still blocked.
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by stef25 8y ago
GDPR has had a very detrimental effect on user experience, with never ending popups and warnings about crap nobody understands. And being in the EU there's several US publications we can no longer access.
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by stef25 8y ago
It's very hard to draw a line between things that do and don't harm others. We should run an experiment among your friends and family, co-workers, measure any effects on your health and associated costs covered by the tax payer et
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by stef25 8y ago
Looks like nice, will definitely use this. Without knowing either program very well, how does it compare feature-wise to "DB Browser for SQLite" (apart from the GUI) ?
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by stef25 8y ago
Very recently there was an article in the NYT about the benefits of eating protein, and more so than the recommended amount, if you're trying to increase strength (something that's != body building). It benefits everyone, esp at o
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by stef25 8y ago
I think the satiating element is the fat rather than the protein, no?
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by stef25 8y ago
Even in Russia, Indonesia, ... ?
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by stef25 8y ago
Is the obvious solution Cloudflare? Otherwise I don't see how this isn't the perfect way to knock competitors offline.
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by stef25 8y ago
Back when I was a super junior php dev I stumbled across a post by Cal Henderson about using bcrypt https://www.iamcal.com/2012-06/use-bcrypt/ His lib is can be dropped in to any project (that doesn't have so
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by stef25 8y ago
Jail would be full of WordPress devs
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by stef25 8y ago
> I've had strange eye problems that my doctor hasn't been able to explain, and I feel like my cognition is declining Ageing? And basically what you describe. I wouldn't worry about it :)
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by stef25 8y ago
> A few months ago I was talking at a family gathering and learned that one of my distant relatives has CJD. They're a high-ranking company executive, but their cognition is rapidly wasting away and will be dead within a few years A
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by stef25 8y ago
Afghanistan used to be pretty accessible for certain periods of time. Friend of mine travelled back to Europe overland from India and crossed Afghanistan in what must have been the mid 90s, he had plenty of photos posing with mujahideen guy
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by stef25 8y ago
> Mobile phones, free wifi, Facebook, Instagram – and all that – have ruined backpacking. It's one of those arrogant, old fart things to say and you wouldn't understand it unless you'd lived it but it's 100% true. EDI
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by stef25 8y ago
Parents of a friend of mine were Swedish diplomats in Vientiane in the 70s, apparently the world of expats there at the time was very small? It must have been magical (communist dictatorship aside). Laotians to me always seem even happier t
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by stef25 8y ago
At the end of the 90s backpacking in Asia wasn't all that different. I did this for several months at a time without a cell phone, internet cafés were very slow and unreliable and there was no good way to book budget accommodation anyw

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