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by regis 13y ago
Silicon Valley is basically just Wall Street wearing a clown suit...
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by regis 13y ago
Many people here work for (or even own) companies that are enabling this sort of data collection to happen whether or not they take responsibility for it. We as a community are burdened with this issue and it is our responsibility to be kno
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by regis 13y ago
Rust looks really great and I would love to switch all of my C development over to Rust but last time I tried to compile it, it took a good hour or two. Has this changed at all?
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by regis 13y ago
Exactly, this is the weirdest part to me. The US government feels alright with the fact that they have publicly declared anyone living outside the US a possible enemy. That is definitely not how I feel at all as a citizen and that viewpoin
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by regis 13y ago
Hm, every new bit of news relating to the US government and the Internet makes me question what exactly the Internet is doing for me and if I could live without it. Lately I've began to realize that within the next 5 years my Internet
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by regis 13y ago
I totally agree, this isn't necessarily about the projects listed in the article. It is more of a reaction against the over abundance of announcements like "it's like X but open!" without really providing any significan
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by regis 13y ago
I feel like most people don't consider that the content people post on Facebook is posted because the person wants everyone to see it... They wouldn't post about the absolutely mundane stuff that we all go though every day unless
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by regis 13y ago
Why are people so interested in recreating a 'more open X' (where X is something like dropbox, skype etc...)? When these people could actually be iterating on these ideas and creating something different. Is it because there is l
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by regis 13y ago
That may be true, however, we may understand that google has been doing this since day one but many people have no idea about this kind of stuff. Not everyone understands the Internet and how everything works... to some people I'd ima
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by regis 13y ago
I personally found that some packages wouldn't install because they had dependencies that were broken in some way. This was about a year ago though, so I don't know how things have changed since then. Also, node packages seems t
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by regis 13y ago
I don't know the details of what they do with it. But for instance, someone can purchase ads targeting a specific type of user and google probably uses this browsing data to decide if the user should be targeted for a specific kind of
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by regis 13y ago
Your analogy would only work if the website was actually hosting their own analytics. Using google analytics is quite literally participating in a larger tracking program. It is not the same as individual shops collecting data on customers
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by regis 13y ago
I believe that tracking users in this way is wrong no matter what the reason is. About 2 or 3 years ago I removed all analytics and other forms of tracking from my personal website and all other projects. At first it felt weird, now it ju
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by regis 13y ago
I would tell myself to not be afraid of publicly failing. I had, and sometimes still do have, a really hard time putting myself out there. So, do not be afraid of the judgment of others; if you are proud of what you're doing then that&
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by regis 13y ago
Definitely.... However, I have been working to keeping this subject alive but at a certain point people don't want to hear it and even more disturbingly I've found that many people don't think that our government would reall
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by regis 13y ago
Whenever I fly I request a hand screening and it seems that more often than not the person screening me is more uncomfortable than I am. In the past I have literally walked a TSA employee through the procedure because he was to shy to touc
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by regis 13y ago
I am still outraged but I don't know what to do about it. I don't think the restore the 4th/1984 day stuff is the right way to go about it. That is a great way to spread a message but has about a 0% chance of shutting down
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by regis 13y ago
Yeah, that's sort of true... but I think people do see these snacks as real food. Pop-tarts are marketed as a breakfast food - this makes it seem as though you could eat pop-tarts in the morning before you start your day instead of a
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by regis 13y ago
People eat things like Pop-Tarts, Skittles, Grape Soda and other "food products" like that without researching the team behind them. Does it really matter what the team members' positions are? I would trust a company like So
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by regis 13y ago
I completely agree with you. I went to art school and studied programming in my own time and have found it to be the best way to establish a well-rounded interest set. Art school helped me develop critical thinking skills that could apply
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by regis 13y ago
"You don't need to go to a library to do your research. You don't need to go to the opera to listen to your favorite arias." This is true, but it doesn't mean that i won't go to the opera/library anymore b
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by regis 13y ago
Perhaps a bit, but these comments are also based on real conversations with homeless people in SF.
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by regis 13y ago
Yeah I am aware of that, but that doesn't mean that there aren't also people who don't want to work. I would love to not work and just enjoy life while I can, but I can't because I have bought into this idea that having extra money for she
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by regis 13y ago
I think many people choose being homeless over giving into the pressures of our society like having to sustain a job in order to pay rent and go out for dinner etc... and all that stuff that 'normal' people desire. I've met homeless people
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by regis 13y ago
One thing that I think is missing from these discussions about the homeless in SF is: many of these people do not want to be rent-paying members of society and even if there was housing for them, some might still prefer their current lifest
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by regis 13y ago
Wow, I think this is much more offensive than someone saying 'fuck' Just because you choose not to do something does not mean that people who do that thing are lower than you.
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by regis 13y ago
"We used to value hard work. It was the cornerstone of our society..." And I welcome this change with open arms. Hard work in itself is not a goal and shouldn't be treated as such.
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by regis 13y ago
I am not actually saying that the author is pushing forward this sort of thinking, but I do think that the author is wrong in saying that this is "the going idea" as I have never heard that comparison before. My objection is to this common
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by regis 13y ago
"The going idea is that texting has, in essence, made graffiti a universal pastime: Barely punctuated, sparsely capitalized and with decidedly creative spellings throughout, texting means that today's America is reveling in writing badly."

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