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by 3pt14159 6y ago
If you want to make promises to a community about what will happen to your company after its acquired, tie them to a contract. "If you make Facebook login required for Oculus within the next 20 years you owe me personally an additional
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
What I want is a tax on wealth gain, even unmaterialized, with a floor based on what you've previously paid. Essentially a capital gains tax as it is implemented in most developed countries but applied to unrealized gains as well. So i
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
In former CIA officer Valery Plame's book Fair Game, she describes how an old hand at CIA told her that the best way to get through the polygraph is to be as detailed and honest as possible. Even on subjects that would be embarrassing,
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
If one bends a piece of paper such that two faces nearly meet then pokes a pin through the page and makes two holes in the page essentially simultaneously from the perspective of the two dimensional beings on the page it appears that the tw
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
If you're charismatic enough you can get away with saying how you really feel and you'll find that you make friends more quickly. I remember there was this time in the midst of a relationship ending and my father dying and after y
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Well I for one am happy that your deep seated curiosity is so aligned with an altruistic cause that despite my typical trait of believing people when they describe their motivations I still have some doubt about your true motivations. I&#x2
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
The only thing here that "doesn't work" is that there aren't enough people like the OP. He's helped dozens of people learn a worthwhile, mind expanding skill that pays well enough to have a family. Let the man help
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I don't think it is retributive. It could merely be that Facebook didn't think the risk was worth it while they were still easily monetizing Apple device users. Now that the main source of revenue is diminishing, Facebook has less
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Eh. Time and place. People need downtime and even though I don't game much these days, I think fondly of all the hours of Starcraft and Starcraft 2 I played. And beating Xan on Godlike in Unreal Tournament 2004 (and totally cleaning up
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
If it makes you feel any better, many types of reactors produce helpful medical isotopes as a side effect of operation. So when looking at lives-per-megajoule nuclear is one of the absolute best, even accounting for some of the accidents.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Try to eat salmon every other day during the winter months. There are other foods, but not that many. Personally, I love salmon, but if you hate fish then milk and eggs is really the only other option unless you want to supplement daily. h
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
The reason this didn't happen is two fold. First, workers gain skill by the hour. It's more efficient to have forty hour work weeks for a workforce of half the size than twenty hour work weeks with the same size. Second, many thin
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Canadian here. Detergent is what you put in an automated dishwashing appliance. Dish soap could be either detergent or dish soap for washing things by hand. Dish pods are pre-bundled detergent with liquid that helps stains from forming.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
There is a semantic difference between the two. The straight quote is a superset of the curly one. So "rock 'n' roll" is correct. And "rock ’n’ roll" is correct. But "rock ‘n’ roll" is not correct, si
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I'm longterm bullish on Tesla, even if I think that in the short run the stock is overvalued. Take a look at the Tesla Semi, for example. This thing is going to change road based logistics big time. More energy efficient. Wired in for
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
No. FTL travel is impossible without breaking causality. While unleashing energy from matter is something we can already (crudely) do. Even at only 1% of the speed of light, we should be able to explore the entire Milky Way in a dozen milli
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It won't be difficult once it has been figured out once. It won't be expensive once we've truly started to unleash energy from matter. On a geological timespan, the milky way is very explorable. I think the most likely reason
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Surely if there are telephone communications then someone can modem out? Or are they scanning for non-human communication over telephony?
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
For monster queries (thousands of lines of SQL) I find that temporary tables are also great. You can index them and, depending on your DB and its settings, they're usually held in RAM so they're super fast.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
The idea is that we trust Apple already by using their computers. If Apple was sending that data back to their servers each time then that would ruin their reputation, but there are no such guarantees for third-party applications. Yes, theo
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
And you have to choose between readability and whitespace. Doesn't matter for most usecases, but you can't blindly write it out. You have to choose ahead of time: 1. Potentially shoot yourself in the foot with tons of extra whites
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I wish everyone would just switch to TOML. It's sane and readable.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
If a company wants to know who you are they can find out. Data brokers are pretty cheap and they share so much data between each other it's bonkers.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yes but it is especially uncool and if it stays uncool it will be a future myspace. Instagram is still ok, but even there. It's sliding. But I think Zuck knows this and buys up enough up and comers to probably stay ahead on enough thin
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
That's what my alma mater, the University of Waterloo, did for some of our labs when I attended. Then at some point something must have happened and they moved all the electronics into the PC case and only the wires of the mouse, key
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
The difference is that it doesn't just work in my browser. I easily pay $20 USD per month to not have to be shown a paywall when I click a link from HN, but that isn't what is being offered. I don't want to have to use their
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I think you're right, but in a different way than I understand that you mean. Whatever project I'm on I try my best to take on the hardest tasks. This allows me to code against things that are actually a challenge. Large refactori
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Even so, Canadians trust Americans far more than the Chinese. If they move everything over then it may stop mass bans across the West.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I like certain aspects of Django, but Rails got models and migrations better. Writing raw SQL for everything gets old, and I'm someone that loves SQL when it's the right call for the job. And I agree with you on inheritance. One
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
There is this parable about building a house upon sand versus building upon rock. When the storm comes the house on the sand gets washed away. Facebook didn't have to turn into a global ad platform that does tricky shit like spy on use

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