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cynoclast

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    Comment #29165608

    Wikipedia Founder Larry Sanger: "Wikipedia Is Badly Biased" ( https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/ ) Such a shame.

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    Comment #26417476

    Aren't a lot of them 'waste' products that humans wouldn't? I mean, I know Labradors will eat fucking anything.

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    Comment #26417468

    This really just highlights the difference between the artificial coding interview via some web based half-assed IDE, and being watched coding on the job. The comparison would be m…

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    Comment #26404937

    >If Software Engineers want to get rid of algorithmic interviews, all they have to do is come up with a professional exam and a strict licensing body... just like most professions …

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    Comment #26404844

    Everything that matters to the working class* Our imperialism, weapons tech, and exploitation of the working class are top notch. The amount banks take from people with no money in…

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    Comment #26393865

    Like to this day we have electrons flowing out of the 'negative' terminal because of a mistake.

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    Comment #26362320

    >Ask HN: Do you think Agile/Scrum is beneficial for software delivery? Yes. >Besides being a dream for micromanagers, it seems to be more about signalling progress vs. actually mak…

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    Comment #26350879

    My professor (head of CS dept) referred to these as 'weed out classes'. If that sounds evil, imagine the grief, wasted money, time, frustration, and stress of letting people get 3-…

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    Comment #26350825

    lol, of course none of them have any documentation explaining why. Typical programmers. source: I'm a programmer

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    Comment #26322746

    I just want to point out that there's no way they would be doing this if it weren't profitable for both BM and McDs. Which means they're both charging you way more than what you're…

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    Comment #26231048

    >The people who know the domain should be able to maintain (and really, create) any automation of that domain themselves. This is a recipe for disaster 100% of the time. One needs …

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    Comment #25997908

    why does VLC still fail to support click to play/pause?

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    Comment #25744421

    This is a good point. Literally everything parler is accused of twitter has done, is doing, and is going to continue doing. It's straight up partisan censorship now that the party …

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    Comment #25744372

    Yes, the price is the blood of tyrants.

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    Comment #25608337

    Well said. And why you invest as little emotion as possible into business. You don't want to be wedded to anything but making money.

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    Comment #25469653

    Isn't it illegal to prevent them from voting on it, nationally? >Editor's note: Amazon is among NPR's financial supporters. Interesting.

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    Comment #25469509

    Too bad the legal precedent isn't here to defend itself isn't it?

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    Comment #25381447

    I was interested in VR before FB bought Oculus and was considering it as an option. But the instant FB bought it I wrote it off as an option because I knew there would be fuckery d…

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    Comment #25367914

    And sometimes the media is simply biased against that president: https://www.npr.org/2017/10/02/555092743/study-news-coverage...

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    Comment #25319724

    It's not a "Smart TV" it's a dumb computer that spies on you.

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    Comment #25188867

    It's a deliberately deflationary currency not controllable by a handful of bankers.