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by berrypicker 12y ago
Are there no smaller, 'independent' ISPs which aren't part of conglomerates that are unlikely to remain net-neutral?
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by berrypicker 12y ago
I don't see a problem. You can switch ISP if your current one isn't net-neutral. Why should you force businesses to operate in certain way? They're not breaking any laws.
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by berrypicker 12y ago
This is hardly "inadvertently" revealing your location: (1) they've told you where they are (extra from the actual Tweets, not the photos) and (2) these places are all near well-known landscapes. I mean good job on taking the
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by berrypicker 12y ago
What's the average age here? I feel like I'm in a no fun allowed zone.
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by berrypicker 12y ago
An example of something similar that actually happened: tax in the UK was temporarily lowered from 17.5% to 15% or something and it cost more to reprogram cash registers and computers than the 2.5% savings.
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by berrypicker 12y ago
I think during the 70s LSD was being used to rehab alcoholics, it's a shame such practices and psychedelics in general are all illegal now.. but ignoring the law, from what I've read and personal experience, LSD works well too.
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by berrypicker 12y ago
I never used Android Studio, only Eclipse, since it was what everybody else was using. This was my experience from around 2012/13 sorry for sharing it but it put me off Android.
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by berrypicker 12y ago
Perhaps you're already aware of Eclim, if not, check it out. Really useful for doing Android/Java in Vim.
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by berrypicker 12y ago
Part of why Android development is so frustrating for me is the tools we have to use. If I'm not bashing my head trying to understand fragments and layouts, I'm battling with Eclipse -- constantly closing/refreshing project -
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by berrypicker 13y ago
I've emailed for the Matasano challenges three times from two different email address and never received anything. Is it okay if I ask somebody here to send me a copy?
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Here's the problem summarized by an old-time female hacker: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software Whenever gender and software appears in a discussion, the same bs comes out every time. It's
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by berrypicker 13y ago
I wonder how much input Will.i.am has as the "director of creative innovation" at Intel. In general, are these just extended marketing schemes or do they think bringing actors/musicians in will be of any benefit to the produc
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by berrypicker 13y ago
There's nothing wrong with this submission and it has actually raised an important discussion on whether they need better marketing or not.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
>It slows down positive growth If we ignore race, this model of 'aid' (at this particular stage of development) seems to hinder growth and can not lead to self-sustained communities. Think about this: I could teach somebody how
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by berrypicker 13y ago
If you're interested in something more scholarly, read John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism .
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by berrypicker 13y ago
As usual arguments against free market ideologies are based on misunderstanding. They don't assume an idealized market model and don't derive conclusions from it. I don't see why I should elaborate when you're happy with
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by berrypicker 13y ago
So you just disproved free market economics with "very simple" reasoning along the lines of "their assumptions are wrong".
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by berrypicker 13y ago
The funny thing is women and minorities are rarely offended by these sort of things but the White males of HN seem to think everyone else is a damsel in distress in dire need of their protection.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
This could be abused and will render the whole thing pointless for everyone: make private repository, write bot to commit every day... now you have 4000 useless commits on your profile which an employer is supposed to think are legit.
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Is opposing affirmative action programs, which have historically proven to be largely failures, being a "sexist asshole"? I'm looking at this from a purely economical perspective because I really do not care about what people
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by berrypicker 13y ago
What's with all the Academic credentialism? I've just read the entire thread and there are an incredible number of people who seem to think whether a person should be taken seriously or not is largely determined by if, what and wh
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by berrypicker 13y ago
This is going to sound like an is-therefore-it-ought-to-be fallacious argument but it makes sense to me that there are more female nurses simply because women are better suited to the task and more importantly want to be nurses? I mean th
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Adding "This isn't rocket science" or equivalent at the end of a post doesn't make you right by the way, it does make you sound arrogant though. There are reasons to believe that skill and interest in genders vary, the
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by berrypicker 13y ago
I definitely felt a sense of bitterness towards the rich: >But it’s too much to ask bankers to justify the bonuses they sucked off the public teat. >A culture that forbids employees from comparing salaries helps companies pay women an
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by berrypicker 13y ago
>they do want more men involved. Why is it so important in modern society that every area has an even split of men and women and the right quota of every ethnicity?
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Since when are posts restricted to news?
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by berrypicker 13y ago
In college cryptography was my main interest, but it was mostly theoretical (math) and little programming, which meant I was in fact useless when it came to practice because I had no experience in implementation and (I found) there are so m
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by berrypicker 13y ago
The trend is that certain ideas are offensive and are therefore kept censored or ridiculed, until people can overlook those societal views of past generations and assess the ideas with a fresh perspective, at which point they become accepte
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by berrypicker 13y ago
"... how much you learn in college depends a lot more on you than the college. A determined party animal can get through the best school without learning anything. And someone with a real thirst for knowledge will be able to find a few
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by berrypicker 13y ago
Yes. Prohibition does two things: 1. Pushes drugs to a black market, which increases violence and cutting drugs with even more harmful chemicals and 2. Wastes money on a useless 'war'. Notice I didn't say it decreases use, b

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