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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> But I have changed my passwords quick enough that I am sure my email was not used to spam in this instance Why do you think that would matter? You don't need to give the FCC your email password to post a comment to these proceedin
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> That's why cable internet is so popular in America compared to the rest of the world. I'm not so sure about that. The coax used for cable is a higher-bandwidth cabling than the POTS twisted-pair lines used for telephone serv
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> It's on HN. Most relevant people will know about IPFS soon :) I think that's overstating the importance and prominence of HN on a whole bunch of different axes.
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Government handed comcast monopoly over the wire to your door. Now we're sweeping the problem under the rug by policing what goes down the wire. > The way to get more choices is to let anyone compete to be your ISP, by liberati
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
Is it because the public is denied access or just capacity problems? Where can I find this proceeding to lodge a comment?
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> Plus, established universities don't teach the trade, they teach you how to think about learning the trade. A university wouldn't run a program like a code school. They're a better fit for a tech school or community col
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Stop the Daily Standup Meeting Please yes! Especially the more dogmatic ones (e.g. only stating what you did yesterday, what you're going to do today, what's blocking you). It's just an empty status reporting ritual
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> Moreover, trade is always equal[7]. If the US sends China $100 of corn and China sends back $100 of plane, who cares? That's just narrow-minded economic dogma, and economics is very far from a complete theory of humanity. For a il
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> In that interview [Cook] also said that the jobs weren't coming back. Wasn't "the jobs aren't coming back" a Steve Jobs quote, not a Cook quote? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/
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> American labor was fucked anyways, Globalism only accelerated trends that would have happened anyhow. Globalism didn't "accelerate" trends that would have happened anyhow, it created those trends. American labor is fu
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> Any chances we could read more about this somewhere? Sounds very interesting. Very, very unlikely. The company doesn't even have technical writers anymore for internal projects, let alone technical historians. And with the time
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> To restate that: what precise type of disaster would destroy "technological civilization"—presumably, all traces of it, because it's pretty easy to bootstrap back up†—but not the human species itself? Because that's
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> The business owners have to make concerted, multi year effort to document their process as implemented, define the replacement, and manage it's (re)implementation. This never happens. I wouldn't say it never happens , but it
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Because, over the long term, it would reduce the selective pressure on the ability to gestate embryos in vivo, unnecessarily increasing dependence on technology. We should try to avoid adding extinction to the list of consequences of the co
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
That's true. However, in all the university classes with graded homework that I took, the homework only counted for a small fraction of the final grade (usually <=10%). I think it was only "graded" to give the less-motiva
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> While this might be good PR the real driver of college costs is the ever increasing number of administrators: Exploitative textbook pricing is also a problem that needs to be solved, and its unproductive to pass up lower-hanging frui
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
> One problem is that some students cheat. They develop and pass around open-source sets of answers. If the problems don't change, then students don't learn as well. The solution to that is to not revise the textbook, it's
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by Chaebixi 9y ago
I would prefer businesses compete on the services they provide to their customers, not on how effectively they can sneakily torpedo their competitors (by, in this case, trying to deny them their suppliers).
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
It's 2017, and I still have online financial accounts that are "secured" by short numeric PIN, so count yourself lucky that you can at least use some letters in your password. C-mp-t-rsh-r-: your website's trash and you
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> That differs greatly in my experience -- in the time I've been using ubuntu I've lost gnome 2 and been forced onto Unity, and had to learn systemd. That's only true if you're wedded to a distribution, though. There
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> It may be possible technically. I doubt it's possible in reality: they've probably made promises to a bunch of people over the years that this is how it works. People furious that Their Content is appearing somewhere else and
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
Too bad for him the future is in Dogecoin.
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
The thing with Linux is that you can set up a new installation with a new release that works more-or-less like an arbitrary older release. You can't really do that with Windows, so the situation isn't very comparable. I wouldn&#x
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> The main difference is that here Microsoft arbitrarily put a check for the cpuid in while Kaby Lake is probably as compatible with Windows 7 as any previous 64bit Intel CPU. Windows 3.11 doesn't have this, if you have any i386 com
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
Copystands don't look cheap: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Copystands/ci/711/N/37151...
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
I just noticed they shutdown the coin servers at the end of February, and the app is useless without them. Now I can't add anymore loyalty cards to my Coin. Damn internet of shit.
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Wasn't that exactly what Coin was? http://blog.onlycoin.com/
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> Geographically, like a phone network. I don't think that makes much sense for breaking up something like Facebook. Unlike a phone network, Facebook's service is not rooted in geography. Yes, it's users have homes and ge
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FYI, HN seems to be mangling the link by excluding the final period from the link href. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook,_Inc._v._Power_Ventures,_Inc.
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by Chaebixi 10y ago
> In this case, it's hard to see the problem with facebook being broken up. Who, exactly, loses? No one except Zuckerberg, I'd think. However, it raises an interesting question: how exactly would you break up an entity like fac

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