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by tajen 10y ago
Curious to see whether websites will start using DRM features for this purpose. Also, as long as changing the User-Agent header is recognized by a jury as impersonation, I can imagine that some country with retarded lawmakers [1] could requ
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by tajen 10y ago
I reckon this is correct in France: As an employer, if you attempt to fire someone, you will almost automtically end up in a trial and be condemned, whatever indemnities you gave upfront. My father fired someone at age 55 (before it was for
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by tajen 10y ago
> now through technology the compression rate will be enormous In 1800, with steam power, the compression rate was enormous. And sudden. The population of humanity was fewer than a billion. It implied massive misery in coal mines and fac
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by tajen 10y ago
That's funny, because creating GIFs is what 9Gag does, and it requires very few humans. Actually admins create most gifs, give them 300 points, and reissue them every 3 months.
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by tajen 10y ago
Suicide is definitly bad by all standards set up by the living: It automatically revokes all insurance contracts including life insurance and it's heavily frowned upon in most religions and in most families. I find it gruesome. Revokin
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by tajen 10y ago
Just watched a documentary about Foxconn which tries to filter out suicidal employees. Sure Facebook's profiling would be useful for many companies who put a high pressure, and their HR depts. Not sure humanity is progressing, though.
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by tajen 10y ago
> configure a root cert and use verify-full Edit: The interpretation below is incorrect, see the answers to understand why. I don't understand why the post insists on using self signed certificates and ?sslmode=verify-*. It's M
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by tajen 10y ago
I'm absolutely certain it isn't hardware: It started to happen the same week I upgraded to Mavericks. Besides, it's a Macbook Pro 2013. I had noticed several comments on HN about kernel panics in Mavericks, I didn't want
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by tajen 10y ago
Exactly! And the gold weapon would be able to see all employees' corporate and private emails, along with their search queries. Uh oh.
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by tajen 10y ago
That Apple doesn't do quality anymore? For Mac OS, system bugs are increasing release after release, kernel panics were introduced in Mavericks and didn't go away with El Capitan even though it was supposed to be a bugfix-centric
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by tajen 10y ago
> MS could look up those org charts That's the best remark in the whole thread. Employee poking at competitors. Sales teams looking up the right people to connect with. Thanks to the LinkedIn share button, like Facebook, they can ha
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by tajen 10y ago
Was the money even good?
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by tajen 10y ago
"Sent your resignation letter" seems like the more appropriate action.
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by tajen 10y ago
Bullies buying bullies.
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by tajen 10y ago
Forced Windows 10 upgrade became a meme on 9gag ("Went to the toilets and saw this", etc). I learnt about the story over there before it was on HN. I'm not saying 9gag is representative, but I counter the "no-one noticed
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by tajen 10y ago
I don't mind the downvotes, please explain first how parent's 8 examples are different, and how people being trained in enemy military camps and coming back doesn't raise the POW legislation.
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by tajen 10y ago
I don't see what degree of difference there is in your first 4 examples: They're all armed people in a situation of war. Of course the last 3 are murders (although we know that the Allied erased most of German and Japanese cities,
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by tajen 10y ago
Where are we supposed to get opinions from? Would we have a success if we started "OpinionStack.com"? I believe if we did so, we should outdate the votes, so the top answer would be the most fashionable nowadays .
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by tajen 10y ago
Aplications for blind people probably still need the rendering, or at least something close to it to read the text in order.
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by tajen 10y ago
I vote close to extreme right in EU. The only people I want deported are illegal immigrants. I also want talent/work-based immigration and fewer visas for familial regroupement (as in, get one member in EU, get all your relatives in
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by tajen 10y ago
> that we have the option to browse with uBlock Origin Isn't it ...copyright infringement? Sigh... DRM are incoming...
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by tajen 10y ago
At one point you cease wondering what is fiction and what isn't: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pied-piper https://www.pierpiper.com Oh and Google went ahead and registered... http:/&#x2
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by tajen 10y ago
Isn't a big federation required if we want to have any weight in negotiation against the USA? I mean all small lonely countries of the world are merly more than banana republics. But I retain your point.
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by tajen 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11233898 Basically you can drive a Tesla past 8 years, but after any repair, it can only be re-validated for the road by Tesla. Given Tesla has no warranty after 8 years and no published
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by tajen 10y ago
You forgot: the TSA, the "warning shots in the chest" (it's a meme), the 6% of black people currently in prison, the 1% of all population currently in prison, the freedom you export (another meme - yes I'm talking about
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by tajen 10y ago
Bonus question: In countries that are still exempt from highway police robbery such as in Europe, what can we do to avoid gliding towards it? Isn't HPR a natural evolution of the increased number of police agents after massive terroris
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by tajen 10y ago
I've made a product which uses Postgres' unique capabilities (It's the only one with transactions covering DDL). Side-effect: Not supporting all DBMS is a no-no when you need funding/convincing anyone. Hence the lowest-c
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by tajen 10y ago
It will have to: Car makers will have to compete with the same amounts of production. Owning a petrol car at the time of global warming doesn't make you the boss anymore.
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by tajen 10y ago
How do you deal with the 8-year limited lifetime? I evaluate a Tesla at 4x the cost of a normal car: I can get a new car for €15k lasting 15 years with a lively second market, Teslas are ~€30k, with free supercharger network, and 8 years wa
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by tajen 10y ago
In other words, it means your employer is collecting proof that you can't perform in order to fire you.

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