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Comment · 6 years ago
It's pretty bad in Canada - you get really convincing scammers pretending to be our taxation agency pushing you to pay back taxes in iTunes Giftcards.

This is an obvious scam, but for people who aren't up on this and fearful of "the man" I expect these kinds of scams work for every 1 in 100k people at best and are still probably lucrative enough for them to keep going.

The answer for the OP problem and the Canadian problem are the same: the government never calls you, Microsoft never calls you, no tech company will ever call you.

Comment · 6 years ago
Yup - I LOVE temporary containers. I feel so cripple when developing outside of Firefox now.
Comment · 6 years ago
But then you're forced to use React...and as soon as you need to do anything outside of what it provides it all falls apart which happens pretty quickly in my experience with it.
Comment · 6 years ago
This is awsome for web development too! You can have two tabs open to test out sending messages to eachother, you can have an admin and regular session open simultaneously. So usefull!

Firefox Dev Edition with Multi-Account containers is my GOTO web frontend dev browser.

Comment · 6 years ago
Just take a look at what is happening in Virginia right now - police and veterans are siding with the militias in opposition to the incoming gun laws. I have a hard time believing that the men and women of the military would side with the government when the orders are to kill your neighbours.

Maybe in a failed state like California or New York, but that's not the entirety of America.

Comment · 6 years ago
The only reason being a refugee works is because places like America exist where everyone wants to go. You know, the place where everyone has guns...
Comment · 6 years ago
Name an actual communist/socialist regime that didn't confiscate weapons first. China, NorKo, Venezuela, Soviet Union - hell, even the Nazi's confiscated weapons from the Jews "legally" before loading them into the trains.

Gun confiscation is the canary in the communist coal mine.

Comment · 6 years ago
How are we going to do that? That same way the rice farmers in Vietnam kicked the ass of the most powerful military in the world.
Comment · 6 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
The lesson I learned from Hong Kong is you will never take the 2nd Amendment from me. Just come and try and take them. Take a cursory glance at what is going on in VA right now to know what is in store for you if you do.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've never heard of the TypeState Pattern, thanks for the link and it even got me interested in getting to know more about Rust. Thanks a bunch!
Comment · 6 years ago
> If a right is something that makes society better if people have it.

That's not what a right is. Saying that access to Wikipedia is a right implies the ability to coerce somebody to give it to you if you lack it. At best it's a privilege.

Comment · 6 years ago
Somebody that knows zilch about Rust with a question: I like to write CLI tools with Go, the built-in libs and the simpleness of the language make it really easy for writing good tools quickly. What advantages does Rust have over Go that one would use it for this purpose?
Comment · 6 years ago
As terrible as this is, access to Wikipedia is hardly a "right".
Comment · 6 years ago
* created to avoid.

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