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by bearbearbear 4y ago
> a lot of people who have returned to their offices for some or all of the week have found that they’re the only ones there, or others are staying isolated in their offices, and all communication still happens over email, Slack, or Zoom
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by bearbearbear 4y ago
It's not uncommon for corporations to pay money in bribes because in many countries it's a cost of doing business; it would be otherwise impossible to get anything done. If a company is required to pay, say, $3,000 to a corrupt of
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NordVPN has killed their warrant canary(pcmag.com)
111 points by bearbearbear 5y ago|24 comments
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
Also the fact that the market is over-saturated and nobody needs a photographer because literally anyone can point an iPhone at whatever they like and get a perfect photo. Photography was hard in the 80s when you had to do your own lighting
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
> As developers, we lead a very charmed life that others sometimes aren't even born with the chance to intellectually compete for; the author neglects to address how lucky we are to be able to do this at all, let alone to then find
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
The problem with blocking numbers in bulk is that phone numbers are recycled all the time. If you block 500 numbers and then you apply for a job and the person who wants to call you back about the job just got a new prepaid phone, you might
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
This is a longform ad for a book.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
There's just not anything more we can say. Or do. They're taking away all of our rights and there's nothing we can do about it.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
It doesn't matter if we protest they're going to do whatever they want and there's nothing we can do to stop them.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
If a highly skilled thief wants to break into my house they could jimmy the latch on the window and let themselves in. I don't have any bars on my windows to prevent that. You need to draw the line somewhere.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
> right now only the Edge browser Did you know if you force remove Edge from Windows 10 it will forever after ignore the "always use this" checkbox and prompt you to choose your default browser every time the browser is called
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
The most likely reason is there's a heavy handed government agency that relies on all the base addresses to be the same, who buys lots of Microsoft licenses.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
> They spent a decade linking in object code for which there was no corresponding source code. How would you go an entire decade without noticing this? Wouldn't you have to use that missing source code for something within ten years
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
Please keep in mind however that many of the world's "supercomputers" are simply "bigger dick" projects where some government or organization slapped a few thousand blades into a rack and connected them with fiber c
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
I've had a 15" Macbook Pro since late 2013. It was perfect in every way. It never crashed, it was never slow and it had GNU tools built right in, but out of the way so I could enjoy the simple and practical UI. Then one day my X k
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
> I live in France where cursive is the norm. I live in Silicon Valley where I don't care where people who live anywhere else do it because they don't matter.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
You can't miss these thirteen clickbait titles that about one weird trick and the internet is going crazy over it right now!
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
> An envelope had landed in our mailbox containing a check in the amount of $10.32 made out to one Anna Mae Heilman. The whole debacle of solving this mystery could've been avoided by not stealing mail from someone you don't kn
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
AOHell was just one of the first visual basic applications for manipulating AOL. There were at least a dozen well known ones used for different purposes. Some of them were for tormenting people by sending automated IMs, some were for floodi
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
We used to trade overhead accounts. Overhead accounts were subaccounts of AOL employees. There were different levels of administrative ability with different types of OH accounts. There was also an employee version of AOL that had special m
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
You could call up AOL's customer service line and tell them you were a teacher and they'd mail you a box of 100 CD-ROMs.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
You got lucky. Bank managers will have clerks randomly pick a stack of checks and reject them so their clients feel like there's some auditing going on.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
I know zero people who write in cursive. I know very few people who even hand write anything.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
Suing the CIA is like trying to get revenge on a table saw for cutting your finger off by punching feeding the rest of your arm into it.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
I think that's just you. He's literally tossing a salad in that drawing.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
Must be a cyber attack because if it was a technical problem the mass media would have reported it already.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
The iPhone X is targeted at a demographic of people with a lot of disposable income. The kind of people who, when their $1000 phone breaks, will simply go to the Apple store and buy another. So think of it this way: If having a fully glass
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
> there are some other tests showing the rear glass is almost impossible to break Citation needed. Also, it's not like SquareTrade have hidden their testing methodology.
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
Also consider the advantages to Apple. It's their most expensive phone, targeted to people who have lots of disposable income. The kind of person who, if they drop and break their phone, will simply go to the Apple store and buy anothe
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by bearbearbear 9y ago
True, however, Asians aren't even close to yellow.

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