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by vacri 10y ago
At one place I worked, our commercial (wordpress) site got hacked and defaced by some Turkish outfit. The devs at our company reverted the site, and were joking about the hackers just being script kiddies. They didn't seem to understan
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by vacri 10y ago
> In a normal, non-sexist, non-racist sector, when people say they feel they are being discriminated, it would be investigated to see if there is in fact any real discrimination Can you give an example of such a sector? Because discrim
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by vacri 10y ago
Admittedly not European myself, and I know that there is some hunting in Europe (and used to work with a Polish guy whose family hunted pigs), but it doesn't seem anywhere near as pervasive as hunting in the US.
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by vacri 10y ago
> Thirty percent of underrepresented women said they were passed over for a promotion, a rate significantly higher than white and Asian women It's weird that racism outside of tech is generally considered "whites vs everyone
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by vacri 10y ago
> What could hunting and fishing look like should our public lands fall under state control? Turn to Europe ... where plenty of nations have Right to Roam over private lands for their citizens? Can't see that ever happening in t
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by vacri 10y ago
Atlassian's new 'blue' is eye-curdling. They're using it in the new BitBucket UI roll-out, and the first comment I've had from most of the devs here is about the disturbing blue.
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by vacri 10y ago
Germany has had democratic elements for half a millenium - the Holy Roman Empire was a sort-of democracy of nobles. But however you carve it, the current democracy in Germany is functioning very well, better and more representative than any
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by vacri 10y ago
> While he says most people understand, "we still piss people off." No great loss. Those kinds of people are self-entitled bad customers. Let someone else cater to them.
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by vacri 10y ago
The state government of Queensland (Australia) has forbidden any further contracts going to IBM. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-...
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by vacri 10y ago
> I'm saying that the way technology and telecommunication has changed our interaction is causing us to lose regard for the principles of free speech and open dialogue. You only need to go back a few decades to get to a point wher
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by vacri 10y ago
You have a bizarre picture of the past if you think that people were forced to fraternise. Similarly, the advent of the internet doesn't mean that people no longer interact physically. You say it's easier to remain close-minded, y
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by vacri 10y ago
> Ironically, rather than unifying mankind and increasing sympathy and understanding, we are using network technology to maximize comfort by crafting artificial "safe spaces" where patrons never even have to be exposed to thou
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by vacri 10y ago
A Bulgarian colleague of mine said that even surnames are gendered - her surname is Nakova, her father's is Nakov. It plays merry hell with admin software from anglo nations which assume surnames aren't gendered, apparently.
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by vacri 10y ago
Mining is actually not the predominant part of the national income - something like 8% of GDP. We're not as dependent on it as people think. Might be different for the state of QLD though. Another way to look at it - mining has been de
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by vacri 10y ago
Louis CK has a great bit about going into negative dollars when his bank charged him a fee for not having enough money. "Now I have negative ten dollars. I gotta raise ten dollars just to be broke. If something's free, I can'
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by vacri 10y ago
> As a reference, Walmart is largest company in the world by revenue at $438B. Apple $233B. Weird that the catchcry for one is selling the cheapest crap possible, and the catchcry for the other is premium blend, no discounts. What abou
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by vacri 10y ago
> Well according to the rules, if their first guess is wrong, they are considered fooled That plus they only get half a minute (usually less) of discussion time to figure it out.
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by vacri 10y ago
However, plenty of white-collar crime has physical effects. More than a few embezzled retirement funds have led to suicides, for example. How do you tell someone that a store clerk robbed at knifepoint is much worse than having their retire
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by vacri 10y ago
It's not about IQ, it's about knowing how to learn. Being able to teach yourself something is a skill, which most people don't realise. Knowing how to find information isn't something you're born with.
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by vacri 10y ago
> Why go on working? Money isn't everything.
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by vacri 10y ago
"talking it out" rather than "us versus them conflict" (court) is the 'progressive' thing. Mediation over strongest-takes-all. It doesn't have to be about welfare or underprivileged groups to be progressiv
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by vacri 10y ago
> The more heavily you regulate something, the less of it you’re likely to get. Sounds like Pai should talk to someone on a cardiac pacemaker.
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by vacri 10y ago
Taiwan hasn't seen the immense shift of rural to urban population than mainland China has.
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by vacri 10y ago
However being in a foxhole is an entirely artificial situation, and people in foxholes aren't known for their long-range planning and forethought. If you're being shelled, you're not going to be thinking about whether you can
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by vacri 10y ago
Fair point. The person who told me the above had just graduated from a Victorian law school. In any case, it's worth checking out how things are wherever you live :)
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by vacri 10y ago
The OP just said 'criminal', nothing about 'full force and power of the State'. Few criminals actually get that.
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by vacri 10y ago
> Then again, I'm a grammatical traditionalist: I consider English to have a male gender, but rather the three genders "inanimate", "female", and "animate". Ironically for a grammatical traditionalist
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by vacri 10y ago
It's worth noting that outside the US, things are different. Here in Australia, you can't have 'not talking to the police' held against you... unless you were already talking to the police and shut up when they started a
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by vacri 10y ago
People aren't conditioned to pay single-digit-dollars-if-that because of app-side shennanigans. They've been conditioned to pay that because of the vast array of free stuff out there. The difference between 'free' and &#
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by vacri 10y ago
The next line immediately after the one you quoted was "Admittedly, it seems that their efficacy to help people in crises (not necessarily suicidal) is far greater than their impact on suicide rates." Crisis hotlines are definit

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