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BenjaminBlair
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About BenjaminBlair
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Comment #19328471
When you have the chance to fulfill your childhood wet dreams fantasy you go for it. Those fake claps, the huge bouquet, beautiful ladies...
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Comment #18932733
The problem extends outside IT field, as you mentioned factory workers. I think the main problem is that there's no coordinated effort to control inevitable shifts. Workers unions …
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Comment #18732625
Seriously? With all the security breaches they had this year, Instagram too, do they really expect people to trust them with cryptocurrency? I have no idea how they thought this is…
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Comment #18664110
It's sad to read how the workers respond "they are talking to us like we are robots". Commodified labor is what they are, ever since the Fordist model of capitalism people have bee…
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Comment #18559828
There's a good, though not well-known author Espen J. Aarseth. he analyses non-ergodic literature within the scope of computer technology, and how the latter enables the creation o…
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Comment #18559796
If it was in the Pacific I'd say it's Cthulhu rising.
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Comment #18554158
Sorry if that sounded promotional, but VPNs do in fact protect against MITM attacks. And the service I mentioned I found reliable so I felt like the information was relevant, but p…
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Comment #18551923
I find that very frustrating. When a person is looking for a job he or she is stressed out already, and when reading all those huge qualification criteria you sometimes really feel…
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Comment #18551805
Lots of security flaws in code recently. FB and Google+ both leaked, Instagram had a minor leak a week or so ago. It's hard to put blame, I've coded just a bit in my life but I get…
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Comment #18307783
I've been reading more and more about business data protection, it looks like the VPN market might expand from B2C to B2B too. Hope some of you might find this helpful.
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Comment #18228887
Nice, I always admired Ursula for being strict on political views yet very sensible in her writings.
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Comment #18168017
I wouldn't take it even for free after their last data leak scandal.
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Comment #18057131
Definitely, there are problems with online data gathering, security, and exploitation. Cambridge Analytica is just the tip of an iceberg, but a major example nevertheless. It revea…
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Comment #18055722
I heard Python is very on the rise right now. Thank you for sharing, looks interesting if it won't be too hard for me. JavaScript person here.
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Comment #18024454
At some point, the purchasing power of consumers was important in order to produce more surplus value for the capitalists, but it looks like the tendency is not that strong these d…
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Comment #18022848
I have watched Zuckerberg's testimony on the Capitol Hill and the distance between him and the senators was significant. He looked kind of calm, but I think I sensed some intrinsic…
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Comment #18014216
Is there any information what have they been contaminated with? I remember last year some green-anarchists in Greece threatened to contaminate coca-cola 1l bottles, they have been …
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Comment #18006411
The demographic crisis has a lot to do with economics, Europeans choosing to have (if have at all) children later in life. And we need to acknowledge the fact that Merkel did accep…