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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
ycombinator funded reddit. And ycombinator is part of the group at the forefront of the internet censorship movement. > This is a legitimate discussion. Since when did that matter. It's discussion they don't want, legitimate or
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> If you look at all your experience since you are born, it all happened in your mind, exclusively. It happened in your brain. Whether it happened in your mind or even whether the mind exists is up for debate. As we learn more about the
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> There is nothing unconstitutional about repealing an amendment. The Constitution details the mechanism for amending it. I didn't say it was unconstitutional. The constitution makes it very difficult to repeal for a reason. It&#x27
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
And Cambridge Analytics isn't the only election campaign "influencers". But for some reason, the focus is only on facebook and cambridge analytics.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
The problem with voat is that it is based in europe and if voat ever got traffic, the european authorities would shut it down. We need something in the US where we have free speech rights.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Societies evolve and social views change. That's why we have principles and constitutional rights. So that our rights aren't taken away on a whim of societal change. I'm from NY and I've never owned a gun and I prob
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Are the big social media companies working together to ban content? What are the odds that reddit and youtube ban similar content on the same day? What a sad day. Reddit used to be something so special. If only tech giants stood together an
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Discovery was ruined on purpose. Bingo. And it has gotten worse in recent months as they had to censor and cater to the mainstream media. > Results aren't complete (they probably create a short search table/cache every few
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13708453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14506287 Enjoy. If you want to dip your toes in the water, you can go through https://learnxinyminutes.com/
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
I worked for a NYC startup that was eventually bought out. Nobody cared about the VC and their hiring practices. We were busy working 24/7 to get the business profitable and we wanted investment to grow the business, hire more people,
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
That reminds me of me after browsing HN's flavor of the month. Go -> Clojure -> Ruby -> Rust -> F# -> ...
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Sad to read this. Most LatAm leftist governments tried the same formula over the past 2 decades, with disastrous consequences. Korea, Taiwan, Japan and china tried it with spectacular results. Also, latin america is a especial situatio
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Congratulations on your new career. On a side note, anyone else a bit worried that there being a tech or economic bubble? Reading this thread, I can't help but be reminded of the dotcom bubble when everyone was getting into tech or the
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Considering that Trump owes his presidency to the midwest/rust belt, it doesn't take a genius to see that the heartland will see improving conditions going forward. Trump will almost certainly advance policies that will benefit th
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Something I've never understood and would greatly appreciate understanding: could someone ELI"5" how the concept of "parallel universes" will not always be a metaphysical instead of a scientific question? At th
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
If you have a degree in CS, you could go into software development. Or even teaching. I hear that schools are desperate for CS teachers. Have you considered retirement? 20 years of IT is enough for you to retire on. Do you have any careers
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> So unless the attacked application uses a superuser for database access (which is a big security hole to begin with) or uses a superuser account with a weak password and allow superuser access from the outside, I don't see how th
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> The most unappreciated aspect of the helicopters' impact, though, is the noise. They ruin the possibility for enjoyment of the waterfront for a several block radius around every pier that they use. Agreed. I wish helicopters were
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> The latter attribute, creativity, is something I have always thought was necessary to foster with freedom in thought and expression, two things I see incompatible with the authoritarian system currently in place in China. This is such
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
My point is that alphabet is still 1 company. Standard Oil was broken up into many different companies. Alphabet wasn't broken up. It is 1 company. There is a difference between reorganization within 1 company and breaking up a company
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> This doesn't sound like advertising to me, this is manipulation and brainwashing. If advertising isn't manipulating and brainwashing, what is it? As far as I can tell, advertising is precisely that.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> I think they're great though, if you take the time to understand them. Regular expression is useful for sure. What is terrible is that every language, shell and platform has different "styles and implementation". On wind
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
I was directly responding to your point. You said shilling is bad. I agree. But it doesn't do your argument any favor when you use two shill sites to defend your position. Russianlago is a shill subreddit. Everyone knows this. Thinkpro
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> I am not sure that one massacre, no matter how bad it is, defines a whole war. Considering that millions of vietnamese were massacred during the whole war, you are right. My Lai was just a microcosm of an even greater atrocity. > Th
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> There are actual reasons to be worried about this kind of thing: I suppose. Why weren't people worried about this during obama's campaign? > - The advertisements were not overt ("fake news") - It raises the barri
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> I agree with his rant about "CS departments' algorithmic analysis" failing to cover these real-world hardware issue. I disagree. CS algorithms is about the logical/mathematical understanding of algorithms. If you wa
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> Also, in case the blog author's name (Jon Skeet) didn't ring a bell The guy is a legend. If there was ever an MVP in the C#/.NET space, it's this guy. His books are great too.
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
Did you really link to russianlago, an actual shill subreddit? Also thinkprogress is a shill advocacy organization. > However that's not what has been done, but the a) use of shills and fake personas to pump up opinion b) creation o
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
> I remember when the Obama campaign hired data scientists and used targeted social networking tools to pursuade voters who were on the fence and it was heralded as brilliant and the future of politics. If you go back to 2008 election, t
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by zombieprocesses 9y ago
I do agree that reading the documentation is helpful. But nothing beats using it. If people have a test machine or a VM to download/install git and create toy projects to learn the basics of git, that would be far more effective. Try

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