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by vageli 7y ago
> Not a fan of Slack but they do have more than chat: voice and video, screen share, drawing on screen, shared control Most of the features are a no-go in large enterprises and from what I've seen, enterprises will also choose bette
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by vageli 7y ago
> Mattermost is a fantastic open source alternative to Slack, nicely integrated with Gitlab. > We used Slack on a few projects, but the thought of using a third-party to host corporate development discussion was an absolute no-no in t
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by vageli 7y ago
I agree the whole thing is complicated and especially hard to navigate without guidance. I was merely responding to parent asking to validate their reasoning.
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by vageli 7y ago
The government can freeze access to your assets unilaterally without your input if they deem it necessary. They can even take your cash and charge it with crimes! That's not even including things like the US government OFAC list which
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by vageli 7y ago
> Sounds like $30k is an improvement in their lives then, so is it really "too little"? Being put in prison is an improvement for many individuals in so far as they are guaranteed three square meals and a warm place to lay thei
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by vageli 7y ago
> Nobody moves for $30k a year. I personally know people who have moved for half that amount.
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by vageli 7y ago
> ...which it's unlikely to happen because of the NDA's they have to sign. > If there's something wrong with this reasoning, please elaborate. I would be utterly surprised if an NDA could be used to prevent an employee
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by vageli 7y ago
> It’s either sour grapes post-hoc rationalization or it’s just alt-right fanfic. If it were actually real, he would have filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination. Does that mean that people who don't report abuse aren't victim
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by vageli 7y ago
> Assuming a uniform distribution, the probability is 1/365 for any person#. Those probabilities add up linearly if the people are guaranteed to have different birthdays (union/OR). Otherwise the probability of NOT having someo
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by vageli 7y ago
This is _exactly_ the point stakhanov is making.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Maybe we need to question whether the government should have the power to unilaterally block a transaction. Just because they’ve been able to in the past doesn’t mean we have to artificially limit technology to let them keep that power
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by vageli 7y ago
> > - A currency outside of traditional governments would theoretically be free of currency manipulation by those governments (ex. China and the Yuan) > You can't live your life outside your country's currency though. It
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by vageli 7y ago
> Dancard works for local payments, but the discussion here is about the growing demand to transact with foreign companies online. For example, if you're in Denmark and you want to buy a SaaS subscription from a US company, you&#x27
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by vageli 7y ago
> I don’t recommend that people use Go to write complex multithreaded code that accesses shared state. My point is that I doubt many people are doing this while erroneously thinking that their code is guaranteed to be memory safe. In oth
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by vageli 7y ago
> If you don't believe that making clear promises and delivering on them is, then what would you suggest is a better reason? How is "being opinionated" and "making clear promises and delivering on them" equivalen
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by vageli 7y ago
> Here is some anecdotal historical context. Recently my parents were reminiscing at a family event about mid 20th century small town American life. The local telephone exchange operator (always a woman) could freely listen in on any tel
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by vageli 7y ago
> From some discussions about this letter I gather that it can be easily dismissed by court because it reeks of "bad faith" and not a legitimate concern. Do you have more details about which particular sections "reek of ba
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by vageli 7y ago
> I use the analogy of letting strangers record you using the restroom. Same questions: Do you lose anything? Why not let them do it? There is a lot of cognitive dissonance in a society that is embarrassed to fart in public but claims th
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by vageli 7y ago
> That's a thing in the UK: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-23869462 7p/minute, but still not bad. > The whole problem with robocalls is that your provider gets paid some small pittance to terminate
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by vageli 7y ago
> 1) if it does turn out to be true that we need "fewer workers", that's great, we just move to a 30-hour work week (or 20, or whatever). We once had 6-day work weeks, or sometimes even 7, and it was productivity gains tha
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by vageli 7y ago
> Would “what is one of the most interesting bugs you’ve ever encountered?” allay your concerns? I think that’s the main intent of the question above. I prefer the even more casual, "What's an interesting bug you've been b
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by vageli 7y ago
> That's a great point. Someone else could have even modified the page content before taking the screenshot, which would make the modifications undetectable. > It seems like the agent has to claim he took the screenshots himself;
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by vageli 7y ago
> When I am on the other end of that table, I will have already asked for a portfolio of sorts: school work, personal projects, anything that you want to represent you. > I will spend some arbitrary amount of time finding code snippet
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by vageli 7y ago
> "A human paying attention assisted by a computer paying attention is always going to be safer than either separately." > No. Stating something as a fact without analyzing it in the slightest is bad. > Example: > (1)
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by vageli 7y ago
> Yes, because the alternative is the government forcing a 3rd party to provide a platform for speech they disagree with. And since that platform isn't free, you're also forcing them to spend their own resources to support it.
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by vageli 7y ago
> I work on one of the densest power grids in the world (NYC) on the team which does emergency transformer replacements and can possibly answer questions about this. From failure to in service for a single transformer in Manhattan is dow
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by vageli 7y ago
> The reason why consumers are unwilling to pay for service is because VCs have funded companies ability to give away tremendous value to achieve fast growth. Because of this consumers now have an expectation for free. > Previously wh
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by vageli 7y ago
Ah wow, yeah I had thought sling _was_ slingbox.
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by vageli 7y ago
> You can't steal information We already have legal terms for information that is property, namely intellectual property, the theft of which is routinely prosecuted (regardless of ideological beliefs on the nature of information).
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by vageli 7y ago
> Streaming "cable" providers (Sling, Youtube TV, Playstation Vue, etc.)can get you up and running in minutes and usually come with a 7 day free trial. It doesn't solve every issue with trying to get legal, but it at least

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