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Twitter gives neo-Nazis, racists Dec. 18 deadline to leave(mashable.com)
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Can you share some links please? I'm morbidly curious.
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
In America, justice is only available to those who can afford it. If you can't afford months or years of lawyer's fees and don't have the ability to take time away from your job, family and other daily obligations, you'r
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
It does! It's called "rubber ducking" when applied to software engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
"Representatives" in the U.S. government no longer represent the citizens at all — they represent the lobbyists that pay for their votes. Logically, this behavior should result in the representatives being voted out of office. How
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Even if manufacturers behave nicely, there is still the possibility that the devices are eventually somehow compromised by bad actors and used nefariously. For example, the CIA developed and deployed a program to use the built-in microphone
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
The Lightning Network is meant to address this: https://lightning.network/
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Spoken like someone who truly knows nothing about scaling.
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Corporations are enjoying record profits for years but wages have been stagnant since the 90s. The idea that when corporations receive more money they pass on a proportional value of benefits to their employees or customers is a laughable f
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
An uneducated society is easy to manipulate — easy to convince that climate change isn't real, that evolution is a conspiracy against religion, that creating a social safety net and investing in public education, health care and modern
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Are there any examples of class-action lawsuits or legal consequences against companies that expose sensitive data like this in the U.S.?
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Perhaps it's not the biggest factor, but it is likely to reduce employee benefits like education stipends, relocation stipends and dependent care FSAs. Previously, employers were able to deduct the costs of these benefits from their ta
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
My firm has been grappling with outsourcing the transcription of sensitive internal communications for years. Our weekly sales calls are done over teleconference, but not everyone can attend. Obviously, a lot of information that we don&#x27
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Oatmeal is a savior. I can’t think of a breakfast food that is more satisfying and filling. 1/3 cup of instant oats, 2/3 cup water. Microwave for three minutes on half power. Add cinnamon, a dash of salt and berries. Tasty and ful
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
It’s obviously a mixed bag (and sometimes dreadful), but IMO it’s a lot more fulfilling to live and travel in the real world among real people than some aseptic Uber-only lifestyle (which many of my friends unfortunately prefer).
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
I am confident we are in the very nascent stages of cryptocurrency, and that it will be huge within ten years. I am not so confident that Bitcoin will be the predominant currency, but it's my best option right now. I invested an amount
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
By that logic, gold would have crashed long ago and been replaced by all the other alt-rare-metals out there. It has not. The network effect should not be underestimated. The world is filled with examples of inferior systems that exist simp
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
This might be a good companion for elderly people.
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
> Fuck off with your tone policing [0] of the downtrodden. Oppression makes people angry, if you don't want people to be angry like that then stop oppressing them. Take a breath and relax. No one is oppressing you. I simply ask that
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
That's a pretty rude comment. I'm sure cpncrunch understands that, literally, not everyone on the planet can afford to pay a dollar. Please adjust your tone. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > B
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
How widely is WordPress being used at NYT today? Seems like it was used a lot about five years ago but don’t see it much anymore.
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
> There is also a long "tradition" in Germany to detach Germans from what they did in past. For example, average Dutch will not tell you "Germans start World War 2", he/she will tell you "Nazis Started World
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
I don't think they're saying we should stop eating all meat — just that it should be significantly reduced. That's pretty much a no-brainer for our health, for the environment and to reduce the suffering of millions of animal
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Writing this as my wife and I are on the way to Ikea for the second time this week to choose a couch ... You really need to see the couch in person before buying it. It’s really hard to judge quality otherwise. You need to feel the fabric o
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
This is a very reasonable comment. The primary difference between being socially liberal and socially conservative is the idea of the government’s role in our lives (and more generally, collectivism vs. individualism). The socially liberal
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
That’s a great way to kill your page rank.
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
It's purposefully alarmist. "[Equifax] casually misplace[d] 2.5 million lives" sounds much more dramatic than "Equifax revised their estimate of the number of affected customers by +1.7%."
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Early iTunes was pretty nice — a lightweight, focused music player and not much else. Over time it became slow, unusable bloatware — an iPhone/iPad backup / sync manager, an e-commerce / ad platform (iTunes store), a social m
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
Thank you. VLC is a near-perfect product. I love the focus on utility, speed, and simplicity and nothing else . It is the WinAmp of video. It seems like you know what you're doing, but please resist pressure to iTunes-ify what you&#x2
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by vintageseltzer 9y ago
It's really not that simple. That's akin to saying the people of Russia and North Korea voted time and time again for Putin and KJU. When 90% of media is either in prison or controlled by the state, when judges are appointed and d

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