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> politics US almost had a female president. Germany, which is the most powerful country in the EU has a female chancellor. The UK has a female prime minister. > workforce https://www.theguardian.com/money/2015&#
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> women could become part of the workforce too > women's rights and their participation in many other areas. > Since the decades following industrial revolution, they became more and more present steadily in politics, academi
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> My mother taught me to flip all pro-nouns to female There are languages where pronouns are not gender-red, they are neutral and you see the same results. > I've come to realise how gender biased the world is A lot of it is due
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> You assume that just because someone doesn’t want to got through all the hassle of being GDPR compliant that the website is somehow bad? If they are not collecting any personal data, there is no hassle. Do you think it's somehow
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> the result will probably be that a lot of free websites ban EU users Good riddance, at least we know what websites we shouldn't have visited in the first place. > smaller companies take their place with products that either co
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People thought they understood it, they started applying policies around it and then their assumptions turned out to be false, hence me saying it's not well understood.
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> If you break them, you contribute nothing to resolving any social issue—all it does is rile up the other side and fan flames—but you do contribute to destroying this community. That's bad for all of us. You allow flamebait politi
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> You can't conclude too much from an isolated example. You can conclude that the effects of implicit bias are not well understood and maybe we should study it a little bit more before we treat it as absolute truth and factor it in
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> we know we have unconscious biases to people who are of the same race If that would be true, this wouldn't happen: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria... > Especially for int
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> the left gets saddled with names like “snowflake” when such small & reasonable actions routinely ruffle feathers on the right. The "left" wants to police speech because they can't even handle a bad joke or unwanted
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> you seem to be intentionally misrepresenting this. Top level comment in this thread: > Not getting root on your own machine as a developer? Maybe I missed the part where this thread transitioned from dev to prod. I have no reason t
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If all I need to do is gain admin to my dev machine and then I'm free to nuke your production database, your company is doomed. > If you believe that devs require root then that’s an indicator that your build/test/deploy&#
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> They install bitcoin miners. You can do that without root. > They install malware. What developers are you talking about? I want to know what developer would risk their career and prison time. And if a developer has no problem with
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SO is a website where people ask technical questions and get technical answers, by default nothing about a users identity is exposed. This posts just looks like a a poor attempt at jumping on the whole "helping the marginalized" b
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Same source: > It can also mean opposition to and total rejection of the EU (anti-EU-ism). > Viktor Orbán is the soft Eurosceptic
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Orbán is not Euroskeptic, he does not want to leave the EU. CNN can't even write a title without falsehoods. > Orban has criticized the European Commission despite Hungary's status as one of the largest recipients of EU develop
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> Should we give Trump the right for his bankruptcies to be forgotten? Those records are all available in a publicly accessible registry maintained by the goverment. > Do we give child molesters the right for their crimes to be forgo
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> Writing "hug" won't get you banned from a technical community. Then why did they explicitly put that into their CoC? > Grow up and realize that context is important. I think I'm going to stop here, because I don
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> This CoC can be summarized as "don't be a jerk to other people" That is true if in your world saying or writing the following is being a jerk: - hug , <3 - smoking is bad for you, you should eat healthier food, I th
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Some of us don't want to be part of a community that ejects you for writing: " hug " Some of us just want to keep politics out of tech. We are probably the weirdos I guess.
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> As you can see above, we are using the npm package serve to serve static files. I would recommend using nginx or apache instead. You get more performance and better configurability.
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It was possible to do face swap images in photoshop for a long time and people learned not to trust random nude celebrity images, I believe it's the same thing now with video. There are some fun grey areas where you have someone doing
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> “keep their streak up” I think that `how much code has been changed by developer` is not a good metric for performance. There might be weeks when I'm barely writing any code and getting the most work done. Issue trackers on the o
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> It lets content creators put their content on the web without fear of everybody ripping it off? It doesn't prevent anything, I can still rip off the content if I want to. DRM was never affective at anything, other than making lif
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Relevant videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgyTzqDJhM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMALm1VthGY
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I agree with your points, there is another part to this though: production code has to be easy to understand. If a developers has a habit of writing code that is more complex than it needs to be, it would definitely raise some red flags for
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The most time I'm willing to dedicate to these sorts of assignments is 1 hour. If they don't think my time is valuable, then I probably wouldn't want to work for them. There was this one time when I got the job despite refusi
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That's just the poster's consulting price, you can learn everything for free online.
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> Finally doing too much in Jenkins makes it impossible to test Jenkins locally, which means you can neither debug builds locally without pushing new code to build, nor can you test alterations to Jenkins itself locally which makes it m
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I don't understand why can't we leave crimes to the police. It's like people don't see that this is mob justice, which we deemed a horrible practice a long time ago, seems though that we are getting back to it.

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