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by redthrowaway 3y ago
Crime stats, average IQ across groups, stereotype accuracy, etc. What's interesting to me is not the above, which is naughty in the anglosphere, but the question of the unknown unknowns that could be as bad or worse in other cultural c
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by redthrowaway 5y ago
Brave supports bittorrent natively and is basically a reskinned Chrome without the spyware.
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by redthrowaway 5y ago
Europe has long demonstrated that it's uninterested in competing in the economy of the 21st century. This is exactly in keeping with everything else they've done.
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by redthrowaway 6y ago
>ps. amazon employee #2 Please tell me you held onto your stock
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by redthrowaway 6y ago
So why wasn't the NYT punished for publishing info from Trump's tax returns? The laptop story could at least be true. There is no way for the NYT to receive Trump's tax returns without someone committing a crime.
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by redthrowaway 6y ago
You called it. I didn't know OSX was bad for that though
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by redthrowaway 6y ago
Nothing dockerized locally. This is a bare bones NextJS front end. $ npm list --depth=0 <removed for opsec> ├── @babel/plugin-proposal-class-properties@7.8.3 ├── @babel/plugin-proposal-decorators@7.8.3
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by redthrowaway 6y ago
SSD on a 2018 MBP with an i7
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by redthrowaway 6y ago
npm is still a disaster, but for other reasons: $ time rm -rf node_modules/ real 1m2.969s user 0m0.409s sys 0m15.853s
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The Trillion Dollar Lawsuit, Part One(danco.substack.com)
1 points by redthrowaway 7y ago|0 comments
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by redthrowaway 7y ago
Unconfirmed, but there's a suggestion the "hack" was an SMS spoof on Cloudhopper, an SMS-to-Tweet platform Twitter acquired 10 years ago: https://twitter.com/GossiTheDog/status/1167533000592109568
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by redthrowaway 7y ago
So no sponsored content from the BBC or NPR then?
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by redthrowaway 7y ago
And they called it Sistine, which flabbergastingly shows that coming up with a good name for something is indeed possible.
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by redthrowaway 7y ago
Chris Hughes sure has turned being randomly assigned as Zuck's room mate into a lucrative career.
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Attacking SSL VPN: PreAuth RCE on Palo Alto GlobalProtect, with Uber as PoC(blog.orange.tw)
4 points by redthrowaway 7y ago|0 comments
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by redthrowaway 7y ago
I was struck, reading this, of the analogous situation at Boeing: a company founded on engineering talent and propelled to stardom by a string of successful moonshots, merges with McDonnell Douglas, a government contractor par excellence. A
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by redthrowaway 7y ago
Europe sure managed to slay the dragon of those evil cookies what with the banners plastered all over every site forcing you to click a button to close them. Cookies have been around for 25 years and are dead simple, and Brussels failed spe
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
Now this is Fuck You Money.
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
In all honesty, it's more like, "my people skills need work, so I got a CS degree"
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
Thank you for this reply. You got what I was getting at but didn't articulate. I appreciate it.
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Ask HN: How do I become a better team lead for a small, junior dev team?
60 points by redthrowaway 8y ago|17 comments
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
The fact that California is nearly ungovernable due to it?
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
Part of it is almost certainly due to fear of reprisal, but consider also that many people of Chinese descent simply may not agree with the letter. I grew up in a majority-Chinese neighbourhood, and one thing you come to realize is that whi
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
If you're big enough, Google provides excellent support. I was once responsible for a product that generated $30k/month in adsense revenue. It got banned due to adult content and my attempts to clean everything up weren't ent
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
Not appropriate.
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
I don't remember Steve Jobs calling random people pedophiles or committing a little light securities fraud while high. Elon brings incredible value to his companies. He also brings incredible risk. The error his fans make is in assumin
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Giving Mars a Magnetosphere(medium.com)
12 points by redthrowaway 8y ago|1 comments
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
Unfortunately, the extent to which these sorts of guidelines will ever be followed is at most the extent to which programmers feel like putting in extra effort over and above that required to meet business requirements, and will usually req
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
He didn't give any indication of being a danger to others. He was obviously someone who was dealing with a mental health crisis, while still being present and coherent. The ATCs were trying to talk him down and get him to land; shootin
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by redthrowaway 8y ago
I'm curious about their decision to push original content as hard as they have. In some cases, like comedy specials, it's a clear win. But their original dramas are really hit or miss, and for every Altered Carbon you have a half

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