gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: The Silicon Valley paradox: one in four people are at risk of hunger
the jobs that lead to potential upward mobility aren't in Lincoln. Plus, this kind of forward-thinking (incur $15k worth of debt now, pay it off with money saved on rent later) is really difficult for someone like myself who already has a lot of debt.
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties
Don't employees usually bring a +1 to these events anyway?
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Cloudflare has a plan to never censor again
> The problem was that other Cloudflare customers started calling and threatening to cancel their service if Cloudflare didn't cut the Daily Stormer off.
This is not the excuse they used back in August. Back then, the CEO said "The Daily Stormer site was bragging on their bulletin boards about how Cloudflare was one of them and that is the opposite of everything we believe. That was the tipping point for me.”
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: In two-thirds of heterosexual couples, the man is at least a year older
What a quote! "women are like cheese, they get blue veins and start to stink."
Older women (even ones with children) can be just as beautiful as younger ones. Not with an attitude like that, though.
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: How do I get my son or daughter interested in computer programming?
Curious what your answer would have been, though. Most of the answers seem to be "find a toy version of it".
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: How do I get my son or daughter interested in computer programming?
that's pretty much the best way to get kids to do anything.
"Whatever you do, son, don't read this Calculus textbook. And you are not allowed to eat these vegetables."
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
I agree with you. The third group is also the first people to get laid off and thrown away when there is an economic downturn.
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
This is one thing I can't stand about the Bay Area. Roommates are for college kids. It is not normal to be 30 years old, making over 100k, and living with roommates. But everyone I know lives like this, including myself.
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Three Paths in the Tech Industry: Founder, Executive, or Employee
Same background here. China, not Moscow or Crimea
I worry about the next generation. They say that wealth skips every other generation, because if a child grows up in a well-to-do family, they will not value hard work as much.
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad
Well that sounds just as bad...
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad
The article only says they found a "security risk". I wonder what that is, and how it would allow identity theft if they are actually using public/private keys. Did Estonia secretly backdoor their encryption?
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad
Which countries do you mean? How do they manage their credit scores?
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
Undoubtedly Equifax will claim that the hackers were agents of a sovereign power, to escape liability. Regardless, they admitted on their own web page that there was a flaw in their web application.
Biometrics would be a terrible idea. Mass surveillance, anyone?
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
The whole Civil Rights Movement came about as a result of a faction of armed rebellion against the US in the 1960s! I suppose you think it was a mistake to let them have the right to be heard back then?
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
link?
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
Political affiliation is a protected class. I don't really know what the word "Nazi" means these days because people have used it to label everyone from far-right conservatives to Trump voters to people who self-identify as neo-Nazis. Unless a person registered with the NSDAP prior to 1945, technically they are not a Nazi.
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
I'm talking about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. You can discriminate against red-haired people but not black people.
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
What about the question of, WHY is Cloudflare responsible for 10% of internet requests? Who are there competitors, and at what point should these service providers be subjected to antitrust laws?
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
> Also the cake incident also involved the owners posting the names and phone numbers of the gay couple on facebook and asked people to harass them.
Wait a minute... where did you see that? This is the first time I have heard this part of the story. I thought the owners simply said "no", and then got sued for several hundred thousand dollars.
gbarc888
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8 years ago
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on: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer
The Christian bakers were sued and then forced to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple because sexual orientation is a protected class. "Alt-right" or whatever Daily Stormer is, is not a protected class. "Political party" is a protected class, which puts Daily Stormer in a possibly fuzzy territory (I have never read Daily Stormer so I don't know if they count as a political publication).
