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by ythn 9y ago
Social security isn't a Ponzi scheme because enough people die before getting the benefits that it covers those that do. For example smokers will never see a cent of the social security they pay because they will die first.
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>Can we come to terms that if stories are getting voted up, it means people want these? Only if you can come to terms that if comments like the parent are getting upvoted it means a large chunk of people don't want these stories?
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I'm surprised more ignorant folks aren't outraged at Buddhist temples being a "hate symbol"
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Ugh, I always wondered who is endlessly spinning these nearly identical candy crush clones (only thing different are the name and graphics) and now I know. They are all just auto generated from a template.
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> You just get your UBI, done And what about the people that waste their UBI and can't afford to pay the rent or for food? The existing social safety nets can't go away, otherwise people who are irresponsible with their UBI wil
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by ythn 9y ago
This may be slightly on a tangent, but how would UBI be distributed to the homeless - esp. people who have no address or documents or identification of any kind? Is step one everyone needs a national ID in order to receive UBI?
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I've run into tons of compiler errors, especially compilers generated by Yocto project. I've also had weird behavior from compilers when running in a VM. For example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/454242
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by ythn 9y ago
Are there any supported fastcgi libraries these days? It seems like the official C/C++ one (fastcgi.com) disappeared from the internet.
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> Her response was "just take the pills." There's a fairly big camp of people both online and in real life that is strongly against questioning medical authority. I've encountered it before. For example (and I know th
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Literally anything you do at scale will kill people unless your factories are 100% in equilibrium with nature.
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This book was my first introduction to dystopian societies and I've had a fascination with them ever since.
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Pedantry like this is what scared OP away to begin with. Sometimes you have to resist the urge to correct or convey technical details for someone who will not understand the technical details anyway. For example, when explaining bitcoin to
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> I am a woman, not a woman with an asterisk. I think the information the asterisk conveys is important. For example, I don't think trans women should be allowed to compete against cis women in sports on even terms since it is physi
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On the flip side, it would be much easier to change identities if you didn't have to list previous names which would be heavily abused by criminals, etc.
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Docker is building, running, and sharing VMs from the command line.
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Is there a bash-like shell based on Python? I would love something like that.
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Yes, my local work machine is completely locked down by corporate IT. They have a list of "pre-approved" things we can install like Chrome and Firefox and Notepad++, but everything else requires a ticket...
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> Why do you feel like you need root access? Because I'm a developer and I need to install things to develop. For whatever reason, the vast majority of windows packages require admin to install. If you think it's great that I h
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> Presumably any process that can use the heat directly Maybe build a massive seawater pipeline and create desalination plants that can then be redirected to California/Nevada
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I would rather work at a company with few rules than one where there is red tape around everything. For example, at my current company I don't even have root access on the machines I develop on, and I have to submit tickets to IT to ge
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His point is that innovation is both something that we all want, yet something that is often inadvertently stifled by regulators or competitors. Perhaps the energy innovation that would benefit society most is not pursued because it's
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by ythn 9y ago
More context: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/78aa07/red...
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Subscription option for people that don't want to be tracked, served ads, and kept addicted.
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Work for a boring telecomm corporation for a few years and you'll have a bazillion ideas for services and products to streamline things.
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> All arguments against salary transparency seem to be that people will be unhappy when they find out that the company has screwed them over and therefore it's better for these people to be ignorant. Why do you assume someone making
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Even worse than password rotations are site-specific password requirements. Every site has different requirements that require my algorithm to take different branches. To remedy this, I have a google doc that has a list of sites I use along
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> and attempts to determine if the password is based on an algorithm. How is it going to do that? Especially since every website has different length and character requirements?
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At that point just use a manager. The point of an algorithm is that you can generate it using only your brain. Your brain can't easily calculate hashing digests.
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> We refute them every time they come up. They don't work. They "don't work" in theory, but in practice hardly anyone is individually targeted by attackers. 99.9% of compromised accounts are due to automated attacks c
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Experts don't care about usability or convenience, only security. I use password algorithms because managers are so darn inconvenient. Especially when I need to type my password into an Xbox, for example, or on my wife's computer

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