KoftaBob

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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> I think it's fair to say that at this stage I've lost faith in the nonprofit business model working in a way that allows Exercism to reach any of its potential. Keeping something free for everyone relies on either the user be
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> We're staying at a German friend's flat in Berlin and he brings out the photo album, as people do when conversational desperation has set in. It's largely pictures of a holiday he went on with Margret and a few friends s
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Unbundle Disney(unbundledisney.com)
2 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
This logic only works in a world where all employees have the same leverage as employers, such as with a labor union. In reality, in the vast majority of cases, the employers have much more leverage, and therefore non-competes aren't u
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
I just can't understand how anyone can, with a straight face, argue that non-compete clauses should be allowed in a free market. The free market works best when competition isn't stifled, and the name of the clause is literally a
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
The proportion of their revenue that comes from segments other than advertising is growing. I would imagine like most companies, Google/Alphabet wants to diversify their source of revenue/profit over time. https://www.s
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Fun fact: > Wiz was founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak, all of whom previously founded Adallom > Adallom was founded in 2012 by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak and Roy Reznik, who are f
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Google in talks to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23B(theverge.com)
1 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|0 comments
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First Official NYC Trash Bins(bins.nyc)
4 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|4 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> Seems like sociopathic behavior to me, which these professions tend to attract Yeah professions like finance both attract and reward sociopathic behavior.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
"Jewish speakers of Old French or Old Italian who were literate in either liturgical Hebrew or Aramaic, or both, migrated through Southern Europe to settle in the Rhine Valley in an area known as Lotharingia (later known in Yiddish as
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
What are these monied interests, and what incentive do they have to prevent a "tight American ID system"?
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Mass. statewide 911 outage caused by firewall false positive blocking 911 calls(mass.gov)
1 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|1 comments
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Kscien List of Predatory Academic Publishers(kscien.org)
2 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I'll work on adding the date to articles! You can turn disable marking entries as read on scroll in the settings.
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Show HN: Velox – PWA RSS Reader with no accounts, feeds saved locally(veloxreader.app)
10 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|2 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> they're relatively simple to deflect given even with current technology, and a long enough lead time. and what is this simple method to deflect a large asteroid headed for Earth?
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Just a heads up, jobs based in NY are legally required to have a salary range in their job listing.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Just a heads up, jobs based in NY are legally required to have a salary range in their job listing.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
In my experience, the best kind of assessment for Software jobs is a reasonable take-home project that involves a private repo that you fork, work on adding a feature or fixing a bug, and then send a PR. It's much closer to day to day
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Here's a list of their customers that they provide: https://www.snowflake.com/en/customers/all-customers/
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Your daily evidence that modern Russia is essentially just an organized crime ring with oil reserves and nukes.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
What about releasing new features as in-app purchases? This way you can make money from existing users too.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
As a Copt, thank you for eloquently saying what I was about to say. Genetic tests explicitly show that Egyptians as a whole are still very closely related to Ancient Egyptians based on mummy DNA samples. I don't understand how people c
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> came there much later. Came there from where? Genetic tests show that modern day Egyptians (both Christians and Muslims) are still largely related to ancient Egyptians.
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Microwaves Not Made in China(aintfromchina.com)
49 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|100 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
They're also owned by Amazon, which means they have unlimited resources to be litigious too.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
I'm not the original commenter that made the claim, I'm just saying that anyone who wants to check for themselves can use the Arabic Al Jazeera and translate it into English.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
If you want to research yourself, here's the Arabic version of Al Jazeera's Israel-Palestine coverage translated to English: https://www-aljazeera-net.translate.goog/where/arab/palestin...
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
That's just my personal preference, but this whole setup can be done with Usenet too.

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