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The Zaventem-Maelbeek bombings in Belgium are the new normal(medium.com)
1 points by gizi 10y ago|0 comments
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by gizi 10y ago
Bash is the love of my life! I have been working for years on this problem now (not full-time of course), gradually moving in the direction of finally being able to challenge this: "Inappropriate use shell is the main domain specific l
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by gizi 10y ago
We already have good alternatives to these things. My financial life runs entirely in bitcoin, except for the shrinking list of payees who are still allowed to request payment in fiat money. Of course, I had to move out, live elsewhere, and
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by gizi 10y ago
The presence of honey attracts bees, the presence of horse shit attracts flies, the presence of sheep attracts wolves, and the presence of manipulable people attracts manipulators. If these people started visiting another part of the web, &
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If you wanted to get feedback on an idea, who would you ask for feedback?(medium.com)
1 points by gizi 10y ago|0 comments
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Airbnb hosts have finally found a way to indulge in their obnoxious hobbies(medium.com)
1 points by gizi 10y ago|0 comments
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by gizi 10y ago
For a starters, in any discriminatable situation, I do not show pictures of myself. That is indeed one reason on a long list, why I only work online. I simply do not accept job offers or service contracts in which I would have to disclose r
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How can we help people to finally cross the Dunning-Kruger line?(medium.com)
1 points by gizi 10y ago|0 comments
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by gizi 10y ago
> Why do people have problems with taxes? I don't. Never have. Fine. However, that is a personal decision of yours. Other people make other decisions. > When taxes build schools and infrastructure and provide policing and social
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by gizi 10y ago
Imagine person A invoices person B for services delivered. In such case, it is always possible to get A invoice C and then C invoice B . C would just be a middleman. There is nothing wrong with that. Then, you could easily &quo
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by gizi 10y ago
In technology, programming work is about looking up, composing, and debugging code. I yet have to meet one person who learned it at school. In the school environment, the emphasis is, has always been, and will always be, to repeat things fr
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by gizi 10y ago
I am non-American mixed-race. I personally consider racism to be -- in and of itself -- a non-issue. It does not kill you, and everything that does not kill you, ultimately makes you stronger. I consider racism to be irrelevant because it m
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Facebook moderation further exacerbates an already intractable problem(anonyme.com)
1 points by gizi 10y ago|0 comments
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by gizi 10y ago
Well, since software engineering is a field where the government is not able to settle the matter just by slapping the obligation to have a particular degree or certification just to be admitted to the job, employers are allowed to choose.
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by gizi 10y ago
bcwallet is a cli with an interactive user interface. I never use a cli program that possibly could start waiting for user input. It could cause a "halting problem" in the script that incorporates it. That is literally a show stop
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by gizi 10y ago
> Tax rates on the top 1% or 0.5% of earners could double over-night ... They are not after the 1%, never have, and never will. They are after you and me, my friend. So, gear up for a good fight, because I am giving them zilch. I'd
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by gizi 10y ago
> and lessen nation states' ability to combat inequality with policy Ok, one person is a great programmer making good money and another person is not interested in any of that and makes less money. I do not see any inequality here t
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Programmer and mathematician talking with each other
1 points by gizi 11y ago|1 comments
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by gizi 11y ago
If American technology is generally back-doored for access by US government agencies, nobody elsewhere on the planet will want to touch it. Heck, the contract cancellation-zilla that already started with the Snowden affair will just start s
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Obama Break encryption to check on the Swiss bank account in their pockets(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by gizi 11y ago|0 comments
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by gizi 11y ago
Uber and airbnb are doing absolutely fine in my impression! ;-)
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by gizi 11y ago
It really depends on what you believe about the legitimacy of man-made law. Large segments in the world population do not consider it be legitimate. Even the papacy openly questioned its legitimacy in 1937, quite before Hitler became truly
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by gizi 11y ago
> Don’t store data in containers You could manage your own data volumes or else let docker do it for you. I don't see the difference. In the end, you will still need a backup policy. I snapshot all data every 30 minutes for storage
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by gizi 11y ago
> That’s partly because restrictive zoning and overzealous building codes drive up the price. The problem is self-inflicted. As ever, it is the government that causes this problem. They do not want third-world shanty towns popping up, bu
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by gizi 11y ago
> Formal mathematics has no concept of absolute truth ... Well, it does. If you drag the propositional calculus into the fray, "true" is arbitrarily but probably most elegantly defined as following: true(x) = x or not x False i
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by gizi 11y ago
> many founders of high-technology startups believe they stand a much greater chance of becoming wealthy by launching a startup than by ordinary employment. If many founders really do believe this, it appears they are largely wrong. Not
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by gizi 11y ago
Virtual teams do not need to deal with immigration. So, what's next? Immigration offices on the backbones of the internet?
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by gizi 11y ago
> Back in the olden days, marriage was a rational business ... It still is for 80% of the world population. > We are still traumatised by this. I don't think that 80% of the world population would be traumatized. Arranged marriag
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by gizi 11y ago
"The sky is falling ..." No, it isn't. All there is, is that there seems to be less appetite for endlessly unprofitable ventures that get away with dismissing the idea that they should be bringing in more cash than they spend
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by gizi 11y ago
Japanese and especially European car manufacturers are good examples of the problem. They load so much restrictive software onto their cars, that these cars are now deemed unusable by at least half the global population. This leaves a fanta

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