InspiredIdiot

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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
I'm no Atlassian fanboy but Asana is only a replacement for Jira in specific use cases. I've used Jira Server successfully on large software projects. Not amazing but I've now used enough other products to say "pretty go
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
Escalating fees still seems like a great way to limit the damage to small investors while turning the screws on NPEs, though. If the owners of capital can form this monopsony hurting small investors in the escalating fees case wouldn't
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
That is a big problem but kindof a separate issue. He may have been targeted because he was critical of the government but it's really hard to argue that he didn't do anything against the law. Maybe he should have whistleblower pr
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
Yes, and also contrary to Wikipedia it provides a solid use case for private blockchain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain#Disadvantages_of_pr... I think it is instructive to ask "why doesn't this menti
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
The whole point of that case begins with the admission "yes of course Google copied." They copied the API. The argument was that copying an API to enable interoperability was fair use. It went to the Supreme Court because no law e
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
This is the third posting on McAfee's death. They are different articles, but do we need three postings on the same topic? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27608838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
Yeah. It almost seems unfair but I'll just use both and be glad they are available.
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
Would you consider updating the site guidelines to explain this "just the diff" principle? It sounds like an important enough concept to be captured there. And it seems in some cases to supersede the "please use the original
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
I expect it is bad form to reply to yourself but I've changed my opinion and no longer object to the post title. I think this reply better reflects that than a mere edit... Not to put words into anyone's mouth but if I imagine wha
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by InspiredIdiot 5y ago
All the content in the article is about how it this northern place is changing. If the contention is that the title is cliché for noting that things are changing, then the article is cliché for all the same reasons. So wouldn't we want
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by InspiredIdiot 6y ago
If I got to name that, I would call it a "time valley".
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by InspiredIdiot 6y ago
I've never heard of thorium being used in smoke detectors. As far as I know it is always Americium, including in David Hahn's case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americium-241
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by InspiredIdiot 6y ago
To clarify, this is in response to "Wild horses couldn't get me to do that job." It is no mystery. Joining a police force is a powerful tool of upward mobility in a country (ours) where pretty much all the others have been lo
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by InspiredIdiot 6y ago
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/careers/police-officers/po-be... https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/careers/police-officers/po-hi...
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by InspiredIdiot 8y ago
Also the aggregation pipeline is seriously hobbled with way more No-s than Yes-es over here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide...
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by InspiredIdiot 9y ago
Energy consumption of data centers as of 2016 shows they are a major component of total energy consumption and therefore worth watching. It doesn't imply how that will affect _growth_ in energy usage over time. You have to look at chan
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by InspiredIdiot 9y ago
It doesn't appear that Antoni Gaudí had anything to do with the etymology of the term "gaudy" as it was in use hundreds of years before he was born. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gaudy https:/&#x2