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by sudojudo 9y ago
Another commenter pointed out that company culture is most likely the underlying issue with people not being honest during their post-hire interviews. If that's the case, then the culture is already damaged. Maybe they could begin to
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by sudojudo 9y ago
The Independent isn't a reliable news source and it has no place on Hacker News. Their advertising is over-the-top because it's a dying business. They don't even print anymore, they're just an online tabloid, and when t
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by sudojudo 9y ago
3) Lose the reputation of being a scummy company (or just stop being scummy). After seeing what Walmart does to small town economies, and knowing that my taxes help compensate for them not paying a livable wage, and reading about their awfu
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by sudojudo 9y ago
You guys have digressed a bit from the original topic, but I wanted to jump in and say that I agree with you, and so do a lot of other people. I go to great lengths to keep Google and the like out of my life, and I find it really strange ho
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by sudojudo 9y ago
There's evidence that multivitamins are useless, and that they actually cause health problems [1]. As for OPs theory, it's strange to think of such a thing happening during an obesity epidemic, but many people do seem to be lackin
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by sudojudo 9y ago
Ever heard of the Panopticon [1]? The NSA is a modern, digital, version of it. There was a time when a person could go online to look up recipes or shop for backpacks [2] without thinking twice about it. Not anymore, Panoptes has eyes on
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by sudojudo 10y ago
Forgive me if I don't link it, but there is an alternative to the "liberal facts" presented on Wikipedia. If you want the alt-truth about things like evolution and the Obama administration, I'm sure you can find the site
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by sudojudo 10y ago
|Not sure where that stands today. Then why say anything? You're referencing an article from 2014, on howtogeek.
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by sudojudo 10y ago
Rural anecdote from the northwest: The stream I played in as a kid is now polluted by a feed lot. Cattle are everywhere. Invasive weeds are also everywhere. Native insects are dying off, while their replacements decimate forests, one mou
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by sudojudo 10y ago
Could the next person please source their comment. Kratom seems a bit controversial.
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by sudojudo 10y ago
It's really nice that you share, and encourage an open community, people like you have certainly helped me out in the past. Open wireless routers were far more common 10-15 years ago, when ISPs first started pushing them. Most people h
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by sudojudo 10y ago
There are workarounds (e.g. the key is also the dongle, like with many cars) but for the sake of this argument, yes, you'd need to carry both. The car analogy is a good one, actually, because keyless entry has become commonplace in tha
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by sudojudo 10y ago
My point was that anecdotes are pretty useless. Some installations run brilliantly, others are a huge pain. After all, we're not talking about a single distro on identical hardware. To answer your questions- Linux is my primary OS, a
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by sudojudo 10y ago
I've been running Linux on all of my home machines for many years, including an HTPC, and I've yet to have an update break anything. Should we trust your anecdote, because it has more words, or mine, because it mentions more than
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by sudojudo 10y ago
The app knows the number of whatever phone it's installed on, it also knows all of the phone's contacts, and much more. The author agreed to share this information when he installed the Facebook app. Perhaps the wrong number was
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by sudojudo 10y ago
What's the best way to get a correct answer on the Internet? Give an incorrect answer. >Probably I have accepted all your terms and conditions Yes, you did accept their terms and conditions. How does Facebook not have your mobile
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by sudojudo 10y ago
To prevent annoying messages about your ad blocker, run a JavaScript blocker.
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by sudojudo 10y ago
Nobody else has mentioned this, so maybe I'm an odd-ball, but I don't like giving out my phone number to ad-based services, especially social media sites. What do they do with that information? It feels like data collection veil
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by sudojudo 10y ago
| Is it even possible to use the web nowadays without JS enabled? Yes, but results may vary. I can do 99% of my daily browsing without JavaScript enabled, and for the sites where it's needed, NoScript can be told to always allow it (o
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by sudojudo 10y ago
It's odd that their browser of choice is from a company that was founded by a couple of Jewish dudes. Also, aren't these the folks who are obsessed with the New World Order , and wouldn't Google be a key player in that schem
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by sudojudo 10y ago
Boot to a live CD/USB based OS. Keep in mind that even outside of a corporate environment, Windows is not private.
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by sudojudo 10y ago
Two of them are circa 2012 Samsung SCH-S720C (1GHz CPU / 512MB RAM), running Gingerbread. I don't want to pull the third one down to look, but it's a little newer, maybe a Galaxy S3. They're not nearly as old as the whi
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by sudojudo 10y ago
The advantage over Google is that DuckDuckGo is private. https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
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by sudojudo 10y ago
Though it's not on this level of sophistication, I'm using three old Android phones as wireless security cameras. Anyone else doing the same? The phones are running a free IP camera app, while in airplane mode, with WiFi turned o
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by sudojudo 10y ago
Windows 10 already says this, but with a different definition of bug .
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by sudojudo 10y ago
I surely fall outside of where they gathered their statistics, but living in a rural area, and going to small schools (circa 1995), my car alarm was quite useful. It's different when you live in a place where people know one another,
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by sudojudo 10y ago
If you're a careless user, don't root your phone. If you pay attention, use common sense, and don't have a thousand Play store apps installed; you'll probably be okay. Another way to look at it is by comparing your pho
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by sudojudo 10y ago
I'm running NoScript, uBlock Origin, and Disconnect. No issues at all. I'd imagine NoScript is to thank for not having the scroll issue that you're coming up against.
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by sudojudo 10y ago
>alcohol makes someone more confident, or more likely to do stupid things. Reminds me of the "say the alphabet backwards" challenge that cops often present in sobriety tests. Drunk: ZYX... ZYXW... wait-wait... okay, ZYXTW, u
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by sudojudo 10y ago
So true. I've got a humbling anecdote to emphasize this point... Had a non-tech friend ask me to put some music on his iPhone. I didn't have iTunes installed, so that was step one. I had Windows and IE running because I had bee

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