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by tajen 9y ago
At least I'm confident the French, Turkish and NK governments don't have the keys. The FBI wouldn't share the secret with simple policemen, unless for extremely rare reasons, in which case iPhone security isn't your main
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by tajen 9y ago
One scenario would be SSN being massively used by pirates, so companies would stop trusting SSN altogether. Let's hope a startup creates a "proof of identity" service with a photo ID with a chip, a code, and an online certifi
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by tajen 9y ago
but you need love, don't you? That's when you need others to think positively about you, isn't it?
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by tajen 9y ago
Like I said, if your analysis for not listening to 62m people stops at putting them in a bucket of "They're are white supremacists", then all you get is Trump. Which you got. So it might be time to change your approach. Haven
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by tajen 9y ago
It's not only membership levels, it's cleverness. In France unions are often explicitly anticapitalist. There's little you can do to work with them. Most people believe their pay could be doubled without harming the company,
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by tajen 9y ago
Wifi isn't forbidden on planes?
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by tajen 9y ago
Startups?
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by tajen 9y ago
Plus, as long as both EU and US are part of WTO, they are required to enforce each other's laws. Otherwise Europe could legitimately raise tariffs for the whole IT sector...
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by tajen 9y ago
> Organizations are afraid of individuals deciding things, and individuals are eager to push their decisions onto a "process" or "policy" But! but we're in IT and the Agile Manifesto is the exact reaction to that
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by tajen 9y ago
The self-immolation of dozens of Palestinians and Tibetans didn't change much. Immolation might be good when the balance of powers is toi strong, but the conflict isn't muddied yet.
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by tajen 9y ago
> a mistake for Dems to give up on civil rights issues It's difficult to summarize why they've lost the election. But it's probable their focus on wrong civil right issues made them lose, when those rights were exaggerat
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by tajen 9y ago
But are those changes due to a shift in people's perception and values, inherent to evolution of newspapers and universities (or anything that changes culture, including the job market), or were these changes actually triggered by the
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by tajen 9y ago
Meanwhile, Estonia has a digital certificate on the chipset of their ID card for all their citizen... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_ID_card
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by tajen 9y ago
I think they've tried to convert those 50Gt into palatable comparisons: It equals to a 2 additional degrees increase of global warming, or reaching the 2100 temperature in 2080. But we're talking about methane – the original artic
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by tajen 9y ago
The hard limit is just that the ones who survive survive. And the reasonable people die. The reasonable are those who don't consume more resources than their environment provides.
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by tajen 9y ago
Drawings for example. Depictions of all kinds of underage porn are forbidden, yet not all hurt kids.
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by tajen 9y ago
That's why I take care that my OS doesn't know I'm French. But it's a luxury that most French people can't afford and they have to live with bugs. Ex: Having both a "Download" and a "Téléchargement&qu
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by tajen 9y ago
I wonder what happens if you book an airline ticket as "Miche" instead of "Miché". Will custom/CIA choke on the unmatching name?
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by tajen 9y ago
Given how many times it's been said and how sensible the question is, would you have a source for that?
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by tajen 9y ago
You may be a "zebra" = Belonging to 1% top IQ but not succeeding to communicate with people who don't notice patterns and second degree concepts that are obvious to you. There are help groups, although they won't help yo
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by tajen 9y ago
I rely on your experience for the non-existence of the 10x dev, but I've seen a x2 dev first hand, at young age. One of my interns did the same work in 3 months as the other in 6 months, plus various bonuses: Refactoring of old code in
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by tajen 9y ago
Why did you switch away from Fastmail? I'm there.
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by tajen 9y ago
The entire chain: the facebook likes are fake, the hipsters, the customers, even the press release? Do those restaurants even exist in reality ;) ?
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by tajen 9y ago
But Google is a free speech zone for Democrats voters, with company resources dedicated to promoting their point of view.
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by tajen 9y ago
Plus where is the outrage when newspapers title: "A scientist proves that women can do two activities at the same time" and "What makes women better at management"? Many women believe they're statistically more inte
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by tajen 9y ago
- Is LE worth contributing for, given it's a joint Google initiative? - FOSS really need to send out proper invoices, donations are a corporate risk and I have to spend time to my accountant to justify the necessity of donations, every
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by tajen 9y ago
I don't think he leaked the memo himself, did he? He showed it to coworkers, I don't think he expected viral sharing.
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by tajen 9y ago
To check the full extent of CA's reasoning: Is it ok to fire someone who fights for LGBT, black or women's rights, because it doesn't align with a company's opinions?
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by tajen 9y ago
Previous posts have been censored: They would appear in the most active list https://news.ycombinator.com/active and never be seen on the homepage.
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by tajen 9y ago
> violent revenge If not violent, we're creating the next generation of bigots. The current people identifying with James Damore (=men who were promised they would be selected on skills) are as young as 15 years old. Do we expect th

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