throwaway1974

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by throwaway1974 10y ago
I am Irish and work in tech BUT I do not know how to feel about this fiasco. On one hand: * Personal taxes and various hidden charges (and no we do not have free healthcare like the NHS, unless you are unemployed) are massive * Small compan
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-provider-pia-exits-russia-serve... Russia is not a friendly country to do business in China is closed off behind the Great Firewall and probably already has a local netflix clone India, I do not
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Is this resistant to domains being taken down for "copyright" reasons, which has shown that one does not really own the domain and is at a whim of a registrar.
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Just don't call it "Ecoin" please, do not want to upset Evil corp
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
I thought they were dead myself, they really missed the boat in creating the original reddit type site
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Well the ads can always be included server side, but advertisers don't want that due to not being able to track.
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Here is a tip, anytime you a filling up on petrol check your pockets first if you find some coins as you are bound to have some, then add them up For example last time if filled up I had a 10euro note in wallet and had about €5.60 in coin c
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
I do not think he is "naive" I think he is being paid to drum on the "OMG US want to invade Russia" drum Just yesterday we had this UNCONFIRMED article appear in all Russian news outlets https://www.reddit.com
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
If it was not for DRM removal tools I would have recently been screwed by Amazon, here is my story: I was a longtime customer (easily 10 years or more I think) and have bought every version of Kindle to have come out over the years (unfortu
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Of course I did not want to generalize and stereotype Yes PHP makes it easy for ANYONE to stumble into scripting/programming But IMHO that is a good thing, the world needs more people getting into programming, if they make mistakes so
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
PHP "can be" used as a templating engine, but its not the right way to do it nor do you have to use it in that manner. The correct way is to use Twig for your templates PHP is alot more than a "templating engine" if that
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
"The very existence of PHP is a contradiction" Uhm no for me coming from a C background I love PHP since its basically C with a lot of the boring/repetitive stuff abstracted away Good PHP code exists, it only got a bad name d
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Its worse than that he scammed many people with Ripple in past, then he proceeded to rebrand as Stellar (and somehow suckered in the guys from Stripe who are being very qiuet about it now) and is repeating the same steps as before.
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Will domains still be taken offline for various "copyright" reasons?
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Except somehow it endsup doing just that (strangling competition from outside of China)
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
Debates like this make me realize we as a species have little hope. Brexit, Trump, Climate Change just shows he who shouts loudest and repeats the most lies gets attention and support.
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
And if the west goes back in you be screaming "interference" damned if you do damned if you dont
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by throwaway1974 10y ago
So is Saudi and Qatar and UAE, I do not see queues of refugees fleeing there despite sharing the same climate, religion and culture.