necessity

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by necessity 9y ago
A very good idea.
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by necessity 9y ago
BBC.com as of late has been turning into Clickbait.com
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by necessity 9y ago
It's not the English Wikipedia.
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by necessity 9y ago
it was just a prank bro!
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by necessity 9y ago
Except Uber didn't do anything deserving of a boycott.
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by necessity 9y ago
>This makes zero sense. It's on par with saying "dude just turn off javascript". That's what you actually should do, I use NoScript and it's perfectly fine. Stop bitching and demanding people force others into th
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by necessity 9y ago
Are you comparing child label to a a shitty corporate environment? And where did you get "hotbed for discrimination" from?
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by necessity 9y ago
Don't do business with companies that have such contracts? If there is no choice in a given sector then the issue is a monopoly not the contracts.
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My Favorite Wikipedia Vandalism: A Tale of Nine Cheese Curds(vc.gg)
1 points by necessity 9y ago|0 comments
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by necessity 9y ago
The risk of a centralized web is censorship by government. It's that simple. Other things may be a risk also, but not because of a centralized web.
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Why Some U.S. Ex-Spies Don't Buy the Russia Story(bloomberg.com)
157 points by necessity 9y ago|147 comments
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by necessity 9y ago
That's fair, I will be more civil. But I don't think I am able to edit my comments.
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by necessity 9y ago
IIRC Delphi compilers are usually single pass and thus really fast
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by necessity 9y ago
I don't want to post about politics either, but people post ideological stuff, ideological replies should be expected, no? When I started using the website it was more focused on what it was meant to be, and I don't think I ever d
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by necessity 9y ago
>anti-communist red scare McCarthism was as much anti-fascist as it was anti-communist, but of course commies would rewrite history to play the victims. Read the actual laws, it never mentions communism without mentioning fascism in the
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by necessity 9y ago
Given no context I would have guessed that this comment was made on a Star Trek fan forum.
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by necessity 9y ago
Don't download them? Out of those apps the only one you actually need is Uber, everything else can be replaced with a web browser. I don't download anything larger than 5MB unless I absolutely need it.
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by necessity 9y ago
Aside from theft - of which the only evidence is money passing through the wallet of people associated with him - it seems that no crime was committed. Another attack on Bitcoin, and the war on drugs continues to kill more than the drugs th
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by necessity 9y ago
Still lame, just cropping and increasing saturation/contrast. Some of the pictures in the blog post look worse than the originals, they are artificial.
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by necessity 9y ago
Facebook is a company, a superfluous one even, no need is forcing you to use it and there is no need for it. Don't like the don't use it. Don't like tracking configure your browser accordingly and get a blocker. It's eas
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by necessity 9y ago
What are better alternatives in terms of call quality? Hangouts is pretty bad and WhatsApp is awful in my experience. Despite the bloat and the UI Skype is still the only good experience I had.
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Killing car privacy by federal mandate(freedom-to-tinker.com)
91 points by necessity 9y ago|66 comments
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by necessity 9y ago
I'd say the media, who was already after Uber.
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by necessity 9y ago
That's only if you confuse the business model/company with the image of its CEO.
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by necessity 9y ago
I believe that (much) more relevant than that is what regulators do with these services around the world. For the people it doesn't really matter if it's Uber or Lyft. We are already seeing a protectionist wave of regulations gett
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by necessity 9y ago
Not in Brazil no you can't. http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploretopics/starting-a-b...
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by necessity 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if some traffic-related agency was using Windows98, I've seen everything from supermarkets and grocery stores to banks and post offices using Windows98 here (Brazil).
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The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia(blog.torproject.org)
2 points by necessity 9y ago|0 comments
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The Real Reason Zuckerberg Supports a Universal Basic Income(thedailybell.com)
2 points by necessity 9y ago|1 comments
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by necessity 9y ago
Don't like it don't use it.

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