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by tajen 11y ago
It's not about shutting down VW, it's about jailing one person, the CEO. Or, if he proves he wasn't aware or wasn't in control of his company, the lower level of management, recursively. It will lightly hamper VW, but pr
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by tajen 11y ago
GP's point was "tax the fuel". It doesn't matter what the govt does with the revenue - for my pov, current taxes on fuel don't compensate the huge externalities and side costs of it: Half the police is dedicated to
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by tajen 11y ago
One usecase of RSS is, ahem, porn (yes that's part of life, especially Tumblr). That's a non-trivial usecase which is the reason why I donated to TheOldReader but refuse to pay a subscription; and RSS readers stubbornly trying to
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by tajen 11y ago
I would argue that IBM's business is selling golf courses and Orlando software-and-wine conferences to CEOs, for having witnessed it, because honestly, which sysadmin would accept to run such horrible pieces of software (IBM Rational
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by tajen 11y ago
Wake up at 4. Take the subway to the train station at 4.45. Reach the train station at 5.15, half an hour earlier in case of subway problems, and walk through the statin to fund the platform. Take the 5.50 train, reach the airport at 6.35.
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by tajen 11y ago
US doesn't have a map/list of the people in China. Think about it. Facebook basically has a map of all the people in the world except China.
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by tajen 11y ago
They might already have it. The NSA, on the other hand...
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by tajen 11y ago
It's 3 companies. Truth is, I don't mind having them as managers as long as promotion is fair and as long as I learn how to become a manager. Which I didn't either.
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by tajen 11y ago
This is still blaming nerds for something they really can't do anything about. There's really a gap between "scientific surveys" and the terrain I've seen. In my last project as contractor there were 9 male/dev
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by tajen 11y ago
Besides, it's forbidden to install a fresh version of windows on an OEM, unless you purchase a full $300 Windows license. Moreover, if you do so, you lose the warranty. PC manufacturers have only their shoulder to sob upon.
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by tajen 11y ago
Apart from exposing a pesonal situation, I was also answering the parent's "I was younger". Yes it is possible to find friends, a partner, maybe even love, but it takes much time and effort, and until I build that, adult life
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by tajen 11y ago
I was beloved. By my parents.
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by tajen 11y ago
When you have a company, your name and contact is on every commerce registry document.
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by tajen 11y ago
Banks? Any order system? Screenshots are very often used in customer problem resolution.
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by tajen 11y ago
Nuclear fusion (the next gen of energy - as opposed to the current, radioactive fission ) requires temperatures of 1m degrees. In case of meltdown, would the sand be enough, or would we have something closer to a China Syndrome?
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by tajen 11y ago
Sustainability requires rearchitecturing your city and your leisure time, and it's gonna be so costly and long that you'll never be able to afford it. From Europe, it looks like the US cities belong to the past, to the era where y
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by tajen 11y ago
> mandating fuel efficiency Despite your other excellent points, this one is "typical American", even though you might not be American. I once went to a conference from Jancovici (He did an excellent job at touring France to ex
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by tajen 11y ago
...and better proveability. Most people are actually unarmed. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/01/black-america... While we're here, let's go the full way and set up a proveable and
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by tajen 11y ago
Have we ever trid asking a private insurance for a coverage? We often have the problem that the state tries to play the insurance role, whereas if every damage were to be paid for by an insurance, they'd "gide us" through res
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by tajen 11y ago
Protecting their source?
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by tajen 11y ago
Why not going for encryption? The reasons usually provided by detractors aren't satisfying: "Police needs to access consumer data because they need to investigate terrorism". This is false because the police doesn't even
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by tajen 11y ago
Light rail is extremely comfortable. People actually open their laptops and do work. There are a bunch of reasons for that which were discussed in another thread yesterday. From there, it doesn't matter whether it's 20% faster (wh
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by tajen 11y ago
I read my national newspaper just the same as I browse 9Gag. They both compete for my leisure time. If they closed, I would probably read a book instead. News are optional, until they enable me to discuss with high educated people - but aga
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by tajen 11y ago
1. Comcast (the US ISP) inserts advertising in http webpages, to the point that it breaks webpages, delivers malicious content, or replaces a 404 with a "Do you want to download [that IE toolbar/Chrome extension which inserts ads
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by tajen 11y ago
That's because Google rewards on page speed, and SSL used to make you lose the game. So if you want your wordpress to be well referenced, it used to be better to have it insecure. Additionnaly if you published both on HTTP and HTTPS, y
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by tajen 11y ago
Google should do it on 8.8.8.8 just to make it more famous, but in general think about the meta websites defined in the W3C/IETF standards, such as: http://example.com
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by tajen 11y ago
If indeed Tesla uses a custom version of Ubuntu, then it is guilty of not redistributing the source code. As per the license... the license to use it is revoked, not until they distribute the code, but until all licensors grant a new one. I
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by tajen 11y ago
Tomorrow we'll have infinite disdain for binary-party democracies, just like we currently have for monoparty democracies. It baffles me that people still immigrate to Singapore. What a total disrespect for a thousand years fighting for
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by tajen 11y ago
Dang, Can we ask for an investigation here? I'd like to know: - Do the IPs of the 3 people who posted the articles match an IP of Tesla Motors? - How did the 3 people discover the articles? - How come they posted different urls, with d
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by tajen 11y ago
Tesla heavily disappoints me here. This looks like pure PR: - It is a blog with only 1 entry. - The Whois entry is "WhoisGuard Protected" in Panama: http://who.is/whois/www.su-tesla.space . Very bad timing wi

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