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And..?

Yeah, bots were my first thought. Run any decent sized fb group and you'll realise just how many there are, then realise you're probably only seeing a small cross section. I would say thousands new every day. I saw a friend having some fun a while back posting public statuses to bait spambots with keywords like "tupac movie" and "watch online" - they get flooded within minutes. Also, I have at least 3-4 accounts and know plenty of people who have as many, too. Can't imagine how they'd differentiate that from say, my housemate or partner logging in from the same IP address.

I know a few people who do this, too. They're almost invariably awful about it and completely convinced they're on the "right track" over people actually writing code, too..

Yeah, like.. scorchingly atypical. How many of these jobs are there that all 100 of your peers had a similar experience?

Yes, I go to a few underground dance parties a year and it would be a lot harder to find those events (let alone discern which ones I'd prefer to attend, who of my friends will be there, etc) without the networks I have on FB.

..which seems altogether too fitting.

Thanks for the heads up on Electron - I was going to look into onboarding this for our team until that. We have more than enough in the way of crufty crapplications already.

Giphy is mostly used to host content to be posted on third party sites. An upload app would be useful but by no means crucial, and nowhere near as trafficked as the content itself.

Very true - but I don't think invasion is the same as peaceful immigration.

Australian here. Can you clarify what is meant by this?

See also: Visual Structure from Motion, which I believe works off static light sources (same stuff you see in 123D Catch and similar software, this one is free though).

http://ccwu.me/vsfm/

For a less detailed/easier to use process, you can also try Regard3D: http://www.regard3d.org/

Do you really mean to say you write songs without using any theory or explicitly sought knowledge whatsoever? Let's hear one.

I feel like you're implying that would be a bad thing when it could actually be preferable. I don't think MS is faultless or anything, but I'd be surprised if they could make themselves as much of a pain as Adobe does (especially given all the OS integration opportunity).

That's addressed several times in the article, and the answer is yes, we're not immune to this. Calling things a fad disorder is a bit dismissive, though. They're consistently at pains to point out that whatever the person is feeling is real, even if their suffering is perhaps built upon further by their beliefs.

Technically such a person should be called a cracker, no? A hacker is just someone who hacks on things. Where is this pop definition from?

They're not very wealthy if they haven't attended the college and earned a lifetime's worth of money yet, though. And if they do go on to do so, they will (or should, rather) pay more tax than the people who subsidised them and thus contribute back. Also not sure how you define the middle class as high school grads.. that sounds more like working class to me.

Weird. What practical purpose does this serve?

Do we know what lead to this policy becoming commonplace?

18 times is.. not that many. But hey, I just upvoted it, here's a comment to prove my authenticity.

fake news, a problem we should all be worried about as we deserve the facts, the truth.

I have concerns with this ("fake news") being presented as a recent issue, as if the media told some pure truth until Trump came along.. really, it's a catchphrase employed to dismiss something out of hand without any real reason for doing so except that it goes against what the person claiming it believes. Goes right along with #5 here.

This may be the case in Melbourne - in Sydney cops aggressively breath test anyone who looks "suspect" (eg. P plates, any visible modifications, male w/ long hair, athletic wear) or who is "the right person at the right time" (say, if you're driving a utility around 4-5pm - many tradeworkers have a beer or two after work before going home).

Haven't caught an Uber in Melbourne, but I've caught both cabs and Ubers in Sydney and aside from a few dollars extra a fare and maybe a more service-y vibe in cabs, I've hardly noticed a difference. My Melbourne cab experiences were more or less the same as what I get in Sydney, but I much preferred taking rental bikes or the tram anyway.

What stands out for you in Ubers? I actually prefer the atmosphere of a cab - I really dislike the whole "let's be friends haha have a mint what music do you like I'm a Cool Guy™" Uber thing, I find it super corny and transparent. You're not my friend if I'm paying you for a service, and I know you're just gaming me to get your stars or a tip.

Well, there's only one way to change that.. I can hardly name one person I know IRL who hasn't copped an Uber rant from me :)

How so? If I book a taxi and then don't show up they can't charge me a thing. Quite the opposite, they send me a text saying "driver couldn't find you, reply YES if you still need a cab".

So everyone should suffer, because you enjoy it?

Kind of a nitpick, but electronic != EDM.

What a weird attitude to take.. how could you be so absolutely certain?

This link leads to an HTML full of garbage data that automatically downloads for me. What am I missing?

Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Much of that money is used for funding..illegal aliens

Er, maybe, but far, far more is used on maintaining massive military superiority[0][1][2][3].. if it's tax dollars you're worried about, you ought to have far bigger concerns than "illegals".

[0] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

[1] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/us-military-spe...

[2] http://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0053_defense-comparison

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_...

Sounds like a loss of essence, IMO.