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Comment #21317223
> You'll have to pardon me if I'm reluctant to take my economics lessons from a linguist. Your loss, not mine!
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Comment #21316741
Their security questions are a massive security hole. Credit cards don't require a PIN. I don't see much indication that it is difficult to steal from people.
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Comment #21316690
> I think you would find that their security is better than you think. You can get in to my account by verbally relaying my grandfather's first name over the phone. You can open a …
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Comment #21316668
> Wait until you find out how far the pay of those rich assholes goes when you spread it around! Like by raising wages? How else would you spread it around? > That some people make…
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Comment #21316237
How do you spend that much on software and have such an abysmal usability and security story? I don't think there is anything technically difficult about the consumer software they…
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Comment #21316225
Bank of America should really not brag about the quality of the software it makes based on its consumer website. Maybe they should consider spending more.
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Comment #21307543
Is there any other future?
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Comment #21307508
Fair enough! I think my assessment on the partisanship of infrastructure development stands. My understanding is that the underlying reasons for cost inflation are non-partisan.
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Comment #21305628
> In summary, earlier versions of OSX are perfectly fine (my one remaining mac is on 10.10), but Apple has not been doing itself any favors with the dev community in more recent it…
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Comment #21305551
> We have a political system where one major party (out of two) decries any public spending that might help people who aren't millionaires/billionaires/corporations. Wasn’t it News…
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Comment #21305357
Meanwhile what will demonstrate Yang wrong—conveniently for him—is just waiting a decade.
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Comment #21305327
Right, which is why our tools all suck.
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Comment #21305318
Oh wow, my bad. Still, I’m not a fan—I don’t trust apple to be a good judge of behavior here.
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Comment #21305307
Yup.
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Comment #21305302
Nah it’s just harder to fix wages low when you can job hop so easily.
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Comment #21234921
They won’t ever “budge” all the way up to your actual worth though, you just went from 10% of your worth to 12%.
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Comment #21234905
You do have to leave occasionally to have believable leverage. I’ve found that if you announce you’re leaving and will quit if you have to they’re much more amenable.
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Comment #21234727
Seinfeld also blames his audience when they don’t like his jokes. He’s a really, really bad example of that (common) practice.
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Comment #21234708
Man it’s much easier to code if you don’t do it at work.
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Comment #21234655
This is a critical component of manufacturing consent. It ain’t just the right, the center have their own propaganda-like think tanks that work closely with the DNC. But, we are in…
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Comment #21234463
Safari has only weak protections, basically url-level blocking equivalent to Pihole. Last I checked ublock origin does allow blocking elements by DOM selector. One day ads will sta…
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Comment #21234321
Chromium is not a fork of chrome. AFAIK brave has not forked chromium.
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Comment #21233968
Look at the D5 race. All the candidates are pro development, the discussion is about to what extent this should happen via mixed rate units vs market rate. As for what people want.…