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by hurin 11y ago
How does this compare to feature-wise to jupyter (other than being a native app)?
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by hurin 11y ago
> Theoretically, it can guide operators to course-correct during a call to win over an angry customer It's more like I feel like I have to get heated during every customer service call I might make now-a-days (at least when it comes
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by hurin 11y ago
This, the lauding of the engineering and business efforts involved mentioned in other comments on this article pales in comparison to the continued oppression of human rights in China and government censored access to information. Let'
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by hurin 11y ago
> The need for a deep sense of caution when working on a new frontier struck me as more rational than a stance that basically boiled down to "let's assume we haven't overlooked any potential risks". It's an econo
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by hurin 11y ago
Why not just wrap all your SSH packets as HTTPS?
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by hurin 11y ago
> Esser has his reasons - "Short reminder: Europeans are not allowed to disclose vulns privately to a foreign company like Apple without registering dual-use export" I don't think of this as strictly career advancement. I
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by hurin 11y ago
There is a small number of VPS providers that accept Bitcoin (and require no identifying information) - probably this is your best bet.
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by hurin 11y ago
> The citizens here are to blame. The police are just giving the public what it wants. It's a county full of McMansions and extreme paranoia Your comment makes it sound like the fear and paranoia are a natural consequence of the env
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by hurin 11y ago
Yes, but the last 25 years, for what? Unlike North Korea or China (our major economic partner) Cuba has neither a greater record of human rights abuses nor Nuclear weapons. Edit: I'm not arguing Castro is not bad, but as far as dictato
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by hurin 11y ago
> Suppressing the middle class, This is the modern narrative for revolutions in Latin/South America? "Middle Class", really? Because well fed people providing for their families decided to take up arms? Or because the well
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by hurin 11y ago
> The US didn't ruin Cuba's economy. Cuba did it to itself This is almost entirely fiction, although I'm sure this is the common political narrative. Cuba is a small island in the middle of the Caribbean cut-off from it&#x
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by hurin 11y ago
Yeah except the US basically ruined Cuba's economy with sanctions for what 50+ years? And another ~25 after there was no more soviet threat - just to stick it to the damn unrepentant commies. Because forcing the rest (majority) of the
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by hurin 11y ago
> but I hope none of pythonistas will use it and one day it will be removed from the language. This behaviour for map with None is no longer present in python3 and raises a TypeError.
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by hurin 11y ago
Why did this get knocked of the main-page? Is stackoverflow a penalized url now ?
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by hurin 11y ago
> PowerShell returns objects, not strings. Which means they can have as much information as you like without being overly verbose :-) How does the user know exactly which output he is going to get? The formatting program cannot know anyt
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by hurin 11y ago
I'm not familiar with PowerShell, but wouldn't following through with this principle mean that the default program has to give maximally verbose output to the piped formatter, since the formatter can only filter rather than ext
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by hurin 11y ago
That's a narrow way of looking at it. More likely rule by government will simply be replaced with rule by cooperations (e.g. Gibson's trilogy) - it's not an unexpected movement since the role of governments has weakened signi
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by hurin 11y ago
I second the Thinkpad. I've been using a X1 Carbon w/ Archlinux and it's great, almost everything works straight out of the box - and the archwiki for Lenovo products is quite comprehensive ( https://wiki.archlinux.
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by hurin 11y ago
So logically, being one of the few places which allow transfer of gift card balances One of their first concerns should be is any facet of this affected by race conditions? It's not that complicated of a problem really..
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by hurin 11y ago
> Either way enough relatives of deceased drug abusers testified at sentencing, and enough heartless chat logs of DPR's were introduced as evidence, to rather eviscerate the idea that Silk Road was completely "victimless".
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by hurin 11y ago
> I have a mild bias against altcoins, and have heard bad things about Namecoin in particular: that the anti-spam incentives aren't good, leading to illegal files stored in the blockchain itself, and that there's no compact rep
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by hurin 11y ago
Yes, it appears I was wrong lumping Norway into there, http://stats.oecd.org/index.aspx?queryid=36499 .
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by hurin 11y ago
You couldn't actually not work in former socialist countries though. At least in the Soviet Union this was actively persecuted. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism_%28social_offense%2... ) But I do think thin
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by hurin 11y ago
If you'd actually bothered to read the article you'd see that in the pilot project productivity went up. Unemployment dropped as well, from 60% to 45%, and there was a 29% increase in average earned income, excluding the basic in
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by hurin 11y ago
> Walking is a method of operation. That's not the way most people are using the term, if you are going to use it differently from everyone else, you should clarify the meaning of your usage of the term. > The concept of a functi
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by hurin 11y ago
> There is nothing contradictory about it: as you say, the API is not the method of operation, it's one of many possible descriptions of the method of operation. I don't think anyone is confused by what an API is--its a simple
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by hurin 11y ago
No, I only got to this part: Privacy Badger was born out of our desire to be able to recommend a single extension that would automatically analyze and block any tracker or ad that violated the principle of user consent; which could functi
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by hurin 11y ago
I tried Privacybadger for about 5 minutes: it was awful (significantly worse than ABP), - it's shameful that the EFF wasted donation money to finance a crap project like that, rather than support e.g. https://github.com&#x2F
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by hurin 11y ago
Can't we just get Namecoin or another blockchain based service supported in major browsers, so ICANN is no longer a sole monopolist?
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by hurin 11y ago
It would be nice if flagging had a generic selection as in stackexchange reasons for flagging, and users could vote to remove flags. While there are certainly highly up-voted topics that deserve to go to the bottom for other reasons - I don

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