Avshalom

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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   You can when the bank was created by the guard in the first place.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   I mean look I'm not trying to say that these aren't staggering amounts of money. I'm just trying to keep these numbers in perspective. 15billion pounds may be an insane amount of money but if we look around we start to find t
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   And yet at the end of the day Facebook is a bloated PHP app that costs more per year to run than UC cost to develop over half a decade.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   ALL of the universal credit's 15 billion funded growth and did so for 5 years.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   According to Wikipedia in 2015 Facebook took in ~18billion and ~3.5 was profit which means it costs 14.5 billion dollars just to maintain Facebook, for a year.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   On the gripping hand: not owning a bunch of physical things is not the same as minimalism.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   >We live in a C world and I don't see that changing any time soon. Of course it won't because every time an out-of-bounds array access gives attackers free reign of a system and some one says "hey guys this whole C thing i
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   When has this free market existed? And how has it not been explicitly provided by the government; what markets we've had at various points in history have always been fought for and defended from others by their parent governments.
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   by Avshalom 11y ago

   It's more accurate to think of corporations as a special case of governments, what with corporations being a recent legal structure created by governments.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Who is this user though? Apple has Finder, Microsoft: Explorer, Android/iOS: nothing, and unless they've installed the CLI/minimal edition of a linux distro it has a file manager and they launch it not by selecting the applic
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    I feel like for the sake of standardization we should start with a more easily constructed shape like an equilateral or reuleaux triangle. Otherwise I like the cut of his jib.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Yes, that why they are recalling it.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    If we're just going to recommend narrators: Simon Vance, who read all the Master and Commander books for Blackstone Audio is fantastic. Every character has their own voice and he can say mizzen-t'gallant-stunsl with out missing a
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    to paraphase myself: I mean sure, yeah, but... https://hn.algolia.com/?query=changes%20brain&sort=byPopular... . so does walking in nature, poverty, cocaine, testosterone, inactivity, porn, drugs, focus, menstruation, Al
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    he's not wishing about "they", he's wishing about "the world"
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    "I wish the world wasn't that way" looks like its being applied to "unprofitable in every city they exist in, but they're buying up market share" not "We have a fierce competitor" as opposed to if he
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    and then what lose more money taking time off work to go to court when the landlord tries to evict you for not paying rent in full?
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    This I think is important because I sure as hell have never rented anywhere where a landlord was some one to call if you needed to fix a problem.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    The hardest part, at least the fiddliest part, is getting all the little plugs right for the front panel: power buttons, usb, audio, etc.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered.
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    wait I wasn't paying much attention because I don't have a thinkpad but how would they have accidentally installed superfish?
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    I don't know, buying a prebuilt desktop is just as bad of an experience. Building one piece meal from Newegg shouldn't be as convenient as buying something from Dell, it's damn close some days though.
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    Vasili Alexeyev: The Best at Everything(si.com)

    2 points by Avshalom 11y ago|0 comments
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Even though those amenities weren't included in the original cost/benefit of the deal because VW sprung them on the City halfway through the process it still might have been covered by increased sales/property tax until it tu
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    When VW moved into Chattanooga they got their own firestation, EMS dispatch and hospital for instance, that's of course in addition to the roads, water etc...
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    If health insurance goes single payer you stop putting money into your (presumably) now non-existent HSA and start paying it in medicare taxes. Depending on how the rates end up you might end up paying more or less. I mean that's the e
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Hyphenated words are a common/familiar feature of English underscores are not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphen#Joining
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    >>Second, it punishes ad networks that don't spend the time to vet what types of adds are allowed. As an end-user, I'm in favor of this. It punishes the sites using those ad networks directly, the networks themselves are ind
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    Hyperloop is an armchair scientist's back of the envelope engineering. Every single one of us is exactly as qualified to shit on the Hyperloop as Musk was to suggest it. There is no long history of detailed engineering and feasibility
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    by Avshalom 11y ago

    The problem is that there is basically no way to know calories in or calories out.