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Comment Re:How do you get good people to step up? (Score 1) 204

Employees having been whining about their boss' incompetence since the beginning of time

This is true. However sometimes a boss really is incompetent.

When you have to find ways to work around your boss to actually get your work done, it's probably a good indicator that your boss doesn't know what he's doing.

Comment Re:naming things (Score 2) 77

"Dark matter" and "dark energy" at least make some intuitive sense - we've postulated they exist, but have been unable to observe them. But, yeah, "dark magma"? We can see the magma just fine, and we know exactly where these hot spots are - we just don't completely understand why.

I guess next time I see a friend somewhere unexpected, I should refer to him as my "dark buddy".

Comment Re:Reminder of who not to credit (Score 1) 151

Curiously no one in germany talks about those people when it comes to the wall falling.

I lived in Germany as a kid (army brat), and frankly I wouldn't expect them to give any credit to any outsiders - deserved or not. Back in the 1970s it seemed pretty obvious many/most Germans highly resented the presence of American and British forces in Berlin as well as all the American bases around the country, back when the wall still stood. I suspect that resentment would overshadow most everything else.

Comment Re:That's fucking stupid (Score 1) 52

That's why .onion addresses look funny: The cost of choosing parts of the name grows exponentially with the number of characters you want to choose. Taking over an .onion domain requires "choosing" the entire name, and that's impossible (infeasible to the point of impossibility).

So how did Facebook manage to get https://facebookcorewwwi.onion... ?

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