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by PakG1 8y ago
FWIW, Fastmail filters spam very well for me.
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I had thought it was a North American thing, if not a worldwide thing. Canadian speaking. Goes to show that it's easy to assume the world is the same everywhere.
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by PakG1 8y ago
Please allow this article to help you appreciate bridges. :) http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-makers-of-things/
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by PakG1 8y ago
Did not know that. Googling it, it doesn't look small. Makes me realize that I miss the days when I could slap together a PC myself with parts I bought myself. Really too bad we can't do that with laptops.
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It is interesting to see that as technology advances, predictions of the past become more and more true, though they may not necessarily look like what the predictors originally thought. In this case, I think of the network is the computer.
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by PakG1 8y ago
Well, I don't think they consider Google one of their best friends and most reliable partners. In fact, the relationship sometimes seems unfriendly. https://plus.google.com/+BrandonDowney/posts/SfYy8xbDWGG
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Why do you think I end up spending so much time on HN?
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I imagine it would be difficult to get such members of a group to agree on the value they bring to the table. NYT probably thinks they'd deserve more than the LAT, and certainly way more than USA Today. Can't imagine these groups
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by PakG1 8y ago
That's unfortunately not how being the top leader works. Although I suppose you could say recent events in the world say otherwise.
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by PakG1 8y ago
How do YouTube, Facebook, and others ban illegal, unsavory content? Teams of moderators with good tools. Unfortunately, also a thankless job with the potential to give PTSD.
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by PakG1 8y ago
Wall Street Journal was the same when I wanted to cancel my trial online subscription. I imagine that a lot of newspapers are similar now.
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by PakG1 8y ago
That extrapolates to $84,000,000 profit per year. As a comparison, NYT made $397,536,000 in net income in 2000. https://s1.q4cdn.com/156149269/files/doc_financials/annual/2... $259,753,000 per year net
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by PakG1 8y ago
Why doesn't he get automatically signed up for Medicare and Medigap at 65? It's a simple matter of the IRS notifying the people who administrate Medicare and Medigap as soon as they process his tax return and see that he turned 6
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by PakG1 8y ago
And won't detractors say that this is how the mainstream media got the 2016 US presidential election predictions so wrong? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/10/what-...
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That's interesting. I tested on the autistic side with this question, which I'm inclined to agree with. Again only one anecdote though. I wonder how accurate this question actually is. I'd love to test it against my wife,
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I'm not quite sure about that. The point is that because she rejects one food in favour of another shows a preference, but it does not necessarily show an understanding of exchangeable value. To say it shows she understands how to at
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by PakG1 8y ago
That's a much better example, gotta agree with that. Counterexample accepted.
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by PakG1 8y ago
These are good links, but please see my reply to beambot for what I'd consider a proper response.
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I believe that doesn't satisfy the definitions of the word value. Per https://www.dictionary.com/browse/value?s=t 1. relative worth, merit, or importance: the value of a college education; the value of a queen i
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by PakG1 8y ago
I believe so. Other organisms don't really seem to have a concept of value, which would imply they're willing to make trades. Any organism that gathers things seems to hoard at best without any idea what it would trade for what it
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Clade X Simulation Livestream(centerforhealthsecurity.org)
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I thought that was the normal way of life for anyone who buys books. It is for me....
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I now really want to try this but I'm scared of causing a fire. :D
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Still happening today if you saw the news this year.
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Well, you just made my day.... :) Thanks so much. Had to do more than upvote this one.
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Wow, super nice feature: https://blog.mailfence.com/plus-addressing-to-track-spammers... I'd be really tempted to switch once my Fastmail contract runs out. Except I'm experiencing so little spam, so I'm so
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by PakG1 8y ago
This really hit me when I watched The Force Awakens. I was so weirded out when I realized I was expecting Han and Leia to sound the exact same as they did in Return of the Jedi. The difference in their voices is really stark. I was much
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by PakG1 8y ago
I quit my job to try my hand at startups in 2007 and of course failed miserably. When 2008 hit, I didn't have a lot of money. I watched with a lot of surprise as stocks hit huge returns out of the ballpark since then. Nowadays, I do
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That's really interesting to me. I have an account with Bank of China, China Merchants Bank, and used to have one with Agricultural Bank of China (needed it temporarily to receive some money once). My passport full name has 26 charac
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by PakG1 8y ago
They talk about threads and asynchronous flow as being key attributes that make email better than Slack. I'm sorry, but those are both possible with Slack. I've replied to old messages long after they were sent and they're of

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