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sweep4ron Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

Wow, the CEO is the son of George Soros. This think tank is like the reincarnation of the devil.

sweep4ron Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

I personally switched to ProtonMail, but I lament there's no IMAP access.

If you don't mind paying you can use FastMail

sweep4ron The Great “We Support Female Founders” Lie Continues…

>At the Y-Combinator Female Founders Conference this year, every single company that presented on stage had a male co-founder. Every. Single. One.

So what do you want, forced quotas?

sweep4ron I’ll write you a Slack bot in return for a $5K donation to ScriptEd

So I donate $5000 and in return you push more HTML/JS developers to the market, making me getting paid less?

Well, what a deal!

sweep4ron AMD Threadripper 1950X Linux Benchmarks

Nobody cares about ME/PSP/etc. You might, but nobody will stop buying these chips just because of that.

sweep4ron Pale Moon blocks AdNauseam extension

>Yup. you can all calm down and take some time to educate yourself about the damage this can and will cause to small-website owners

You can all calm down and take some time to hear me tell you you have to believe in what I believe.

sweep4ron Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy

Their parents, and their school during class hours.

sweep4ron Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy

Kids should have absolutely no expectation of privacy.

sweep4ron Writing a formally-verified image browser in Coq and Haskell

Writing a porn browser in Coq seems appropriate.

sweep4ron Chrome will soon let you permanently mute websites

I'm so happy since I learnt to master uMatrix...

I recommend it to everybody, especially those who are HTML developers and already know what those checkboxes are about. Change the defaults to something else and only unblock stuff you really trust.

sweep4ron How does FreedomPop make money?

https://bandaancha.eu/foros/freedompop-dejara-sin-servicio-c...

I received an email regarding this this morning.

sweep4ron Whatruns: Identify technologies used on any website

No need to install anything, just follow this url:

https://www.whatruns.com/website/reddit.com

sweep4ron How does FreedomPop make money?

FreedomPop in Spain was a free service until recently. It was completely unusable. They were selling Three (UK) cards that worked here in roaming. The internet service simply didn't work. They were assigning telephone numbers they borrowed from another company. That company didn't have a licence to lend their assigned numbers, that was illegal, so they had to stop providing their services and I suppose they'll get fined, big time.

Now they stopped giving that free service, and you have to pay. I don't think many people will pay anything. It's a scam.

sweep4ron Suing California for Throwing Out 45k Ballots Over Handwriting 'Mismatches'

I am sure illegals do dozens of things every day that could get them deported.

I also come from a place where voter fraud is real and significant. Underground organisations that bring old/disabled people to the urns to make them vote whatever they want do exist. We know about that. So whatever is happening in the US won't really surprise me. (Not to say something like this happens in the US, but it's perfectly possible, and it is foolish to simply outright deny that possibility)

sweep4ron Suing California for Throwing Out 45k Ballots Over Handwriting 'Mismatches'

2. doesn't really convince me--they are illegals, who are staying in a country with no regard for the law. "Harsh punishment" doesn't sound like something that would deter them from doing something like voting, as that could improve their lives greatly.

Anyway I want to know, aren't you identified in any way at all when you vote? Don't you have to pretend you're someone who's on a list, at least?

sweep4ron 'Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm

> * Monetary incentives to have less children.

Is this some kind of a joke? How will society support itself with fewer kids?

sweep4ron Suing California for Throwing Out 45k Ballots Over Handwriting 'Mismatches'

There are two things I don't understand.

1) How come there isn't a standard, mandatory, country-wide ID card system in place?

2) If you can vote without an ID card, what prevents illegals from voting as somebody else?

sweep4ron Suing California for Throwing Out 45k Ballots Over Handwriting 'Mismatches'

How do voter ID laws prevent democrats from voting? We have to be fully identified in Europe to vote and parties from the left win elections just fine.

sweep4ron Suing California for Throwing Out 45k Ballots Over Handwriting 'Mismatches'

I am not American so I don't understand this so please somebody explain. Is this guy being downvoted because it's thought to be racist to complain about illegals voting without them being citizens, or is this guy being downvoted because this fraud is thought to not happen?

sweep4ron JavaScript is Eating the World

How is CPython not a part of Python? After all all Python implementations are always, always compared to CPython

sweep4ron Billionaires and big ag are joining venture investors to fund lab-grown meat

Organic food? As opposed to what? Aluminium food?

sweep4ron Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching

Spaniard here. I pay around 750€ a year. If I can prove I don't make much money, not only I don't have to pay, they'll also pay part of (or the entirety of) my rent, food, etc.

100k a year is just, wow.