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letslightafire
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Comment #16954350
twitch.tv/devwars is a great competition. 3 vs 3 and you have an hour to make a better website than your competitor.
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Comment #16850435
Yeah, I thought he mistyped something and was trying to put 1776. Sidenote: This website design is pretty good at conveying uneasiness. Edit: Alright, this is a great story.
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Comment #16801873
I don't know much about the job market, I was talking about the internet in general. Too many applications are locked black boxes and reverse engineering them basically keeps them …
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Comment #16801404
I think it was a reference to Interstellar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E792RxIpnU
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Comment #16798218
That must've taken forever. Do you have any plans to reverse engineer other apps? I know people like you are in short supply and high demand.
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Comment #16795692
I'm wondering how they actually reverse engineered WhatsApp in the first place. Is there a specific type of software that does this or was it just built from scratch using already …
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Comment #16784494
I can only think of China as an example of purposely limiting reproduction, what others are there?
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Comment #16782067
Most people who are that poor are not educated enough about reproduction to prevent childbirth due to lack of sexual contraceptives or information about safe-sex. They are born to …
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Comment #16765975
Most of the times when I watch the "news" it isn't to get more informed, it's more as something to watch, get entertained, and have open in the background. For this reason I like w…
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Comment #16754583
Spotify has Jay-Z as well.[0] I would say it's hard to really quantify which library has the larger selection as most of the differences would be completely obscure music that no o…
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Comment #16747670
GPM has a lack of some international artists. This Taiwanese artist is on Spotify but not Google Play Music. https://open.spotify.com/artist/2JBUyLiFvpFPWdZGqIGYLD?si=uq... https:/…
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Comment #16747603
Yep, playlists are one of the reasons I use Spotify. The fact that you can search other playlists that other users made on Spotify and easily get curated lists relating to every ge…
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Comment #16694511
Compare these two different aspects of journalism https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/world/asia/china-africa-b... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN9wFtiJtBM China Uncensored's vid…
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Comment #16685654
You're right, I probably don't know what their only goal is. However, you can easily extrapolate from their parent company's goals and backgrounds and take your answer from there. …
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Comment #16674532
Saying that China Uncensored is "journalism" or a news site is terribly misleading. They're a propaganda channel first and foremost and their only goal is to further the Falun Gong…
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Comment #16664276
China Uncensored is a horribly biased news site which is funded by the Falun Gong. Not saying that China's treatment of Falun Gong isn't terrible but China Uncensored is a pretty b…
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Comment #16662850
Also, you mentioned paying a opt-out payment. Spotify does have premium which removes the ads, is there any reason you don't like that?
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Comment #16662076
Would you be open to a background coin miner? I think many companies were spitballing ideas and a bitcoin miner running in the background of the website would be not too bothersome…
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Comment #16624838
My guess: Selling psychological data to advertisers is boring but if you get Bannon involved and rope it into the Trump news cycle, it suddenly gets a lot of people talking. https:…