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by swang 10y ago
That reminds me, I need to cancel my AMEX...
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by swang 10y ago
FYI a Burger King marketing exec modified the entry on Wikipedia to be more "Ad-like", initially using the name, "Burger King Corporation" before that was banned for having a promotional name. Then the ad guy came back u
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by swang 10y ago
> A statement on Syrian state TV said "American aggression" had targeted a Syrian military base with "a number of missiles" but gave no further details.
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by swang 10y ago
I don't recall the animated movie mentioning it but Stand Alone Complex series she was part of a UN task force, and it's heavily implied she had much more experience before that.
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by swang 10y ago
Is this condominiums/highrises? When I was looking for my apartment here no one ever asked for that. But I also didn't really look at places that had a leasing office either.
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by swang 10y ago
Huh? Is this a viewing or something else? I have rented apartments and looked at housing in several places in CA, not once has anyone asked me for my ID. Only when it got down to the serious brass tacks was that required.
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by swang 10y ago
i just tried this out on the web. if you reply to a tweet, and that tweet mentions someone else's name, your tweet will have both their names included just like before (except their names are now in a link above the textbox). however i
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by swang 10y ago
where do you get your numbers from? saying 20% of senior executives leaving a company in a year seems to be a high figure. let's set that aside for a moment, because you're saying this is completely normal for a large company. but
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by swang 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing it here, but your points (mostly 1&2) seem to make Google's case _stronger_. I haven't heard about the point that Google let Levandowski sell tech to other companies. Also Google did their own internal i
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by swang 10y ago
i'm guessing you mean hillary didn't bring up jobs in rural america vs jobs in general? because hillary literally had outlined how we as a country would move ahead and sustain our jobs/economy (basically: more education, inve
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by swang 10y ago
"wealth redistribution" is not giving them free money, or "welfare" as you call it. it is an attempt to provide them with funding for better schools, better healthcare, better access to training. hell, better funding for
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by swang 10y ago
If a movie reviews poorly but does well at a box office. Were the critics/reviewers necessarily wrong? You think people who gave Batman v Superman a bad review thought it still wouldn't be a huge box office draw? I doubt anyone wh
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by swang 10y ago
i remember "using" orderahead ~4 years ago. there is a popular lunch spot in sf/soma called hrd. if you've ever been there you know the line gets ridiculously long. i saw they had orderahead available so i dled the app,
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by swang 10y ago
i understand uber needs to use my location for their service. i don't expect them to use it to determine whether or not i should be allowed on their service. and also i don't expect them to continue using my location once i leave
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by swang 10y ago
"we need to permanently track your location on the app to better serve you. unless you are a possible government official, in which case we will track your location to block you from the service" yes definitely not scary at all th
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by swang 10y ago
my viewpoint was once there is a breach there will be anger and maybe 20% of our customers don't come back. not resetting passwords and possibly further endangering your customer base seems like a bad idea. but i can see someone taking
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by swang 10y ago
> As executives reflect on LivingSocial’s fatal moment, all point to a security breach in April 2013. Hackers gained access to the account information of 50 million subscribers, and LivingSocial forced all of them to reset their password
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by swang 10y ago
ah yes, besides this fiasco... * trying to dredge up dirt on journalist for being negative towards your company * having the ceo say an incident involving a uber driver choking a passenger "never happened" * offering customers ri
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by swang 10y ago
You're assuming the playing field is level. That men somehow don't inherently have advantages like having the proper "look" consider the stereotypes of computer programmers "wear hoodies, look kinda disheveled and d
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by swang 10y ago
it doesn't seem to matter since _ANY_ service that CF gave data to could possibly have cached it and thus have a random site's secrets.
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by swang 10y ago
this is why i'm not completely 100% with google photos. i'm ready to spend the monthly fees to store all my pictures in its original resolution, use google photos to manage/search my photos. except i don't want to commit
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by swang 10y ago
See also the documentary 9500 Liberty. I believe you can find it free online legally.[0] TL;DR: Prince Cook County in Virginia instituted a similar check required by police officers to ask for legality if there was "probably cause.&quo
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by swang 10y ago
i may have posted this before. when i use to be active on wikipedia editing mainly video game and sports articles, i stumbled upon a large sockpuppet that was constantly adding incorrect pieces of information to articles pertaining mainly t
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by swang 10y ago
It would be nice if this could be applied to places where I don't have a bank account and just need say, $500USD converted into another country's currency. My bank here allows me to withdraw twice from foreign bank ATMs but I have
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by swang 10y ago
the 4th one has mention of "these viruses on my computer"
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by swang 10y ago
https://twitter.com/xdelmar59/status/829026587437780992 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-educat...
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by swang 10y ago
It's good to be rich. Donate to a whole bunch of Senators, win a job despite having no qualifications for that role.
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by swang 10y ago
If you guys can't watch the videos on twitter essentially she held a phone that was turned off kinda in front of the machine, then it turned on and a "battery" showed on the screen with a 3 frame animation of it "chargin
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by swang 10y ago
Uh, then maybe Carmack shouldn't have sold id software to Zenimax? id software was a independent company, not beholden to any public shareholders so it was a conscious decision to sell to them for $$$.
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by swang 10y ago
seriously. fox news. cnn. msnbc. EVERYONE said it. 538 said it was 66/33 or 75/25 or something similar (i forget, but it wasn't 90/10 in favor of Clinton) and they got roasted over it when they don't even control an

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