Phlarp

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by Phlarp 11y ago
>Like specific query results where everything above the fold on desktop is an ad. Do you have an non-anecdotal evidence to present? A few advertisement laden queries and a "funny feeling" is rarely a sound investment strategy.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Here in states 23 year old fresh graduates list themselves as "software engineers" on linkedin so they can demand 'senior' level salaries. We do it because it works...
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, this is all very pertinent information to be looking for in collective bargaining agreements, even if they are a few years old.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Do you have any proof that the person releasing this is seeking extortion money? Cthulusec hasn't previously made a habit of selling wolf tickets. Is this just baseless speculation on your part? Extraordinary claims require extraordin
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by Phlarp 11y ago
There are so many dead simple technical solutions to this I can't fathom someone on HN not being able to find any of them. 1. QOS on the router, set a lower priority for the ports torrents use 2. Set a bandwidth limit in your torrent c
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Very similar trajectory; I attended a very middle of the road business school and had a vaguely IT related student job for three years. The classes and degree were largely worthless, outside of being able to tick the box on applications. Th
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by Phlarp 11y ago
If we had the political environment (and labor laws!) of the time when those things were laid down, sure.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Yea, if you want to treat all the major metro areas as islands this is a comfy little world view to hold against the evil cable corps, however, American cities are still generally less dense than their Europe or Asian counterparts. Problem
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by Phlarp 11y ago
When the original Google fiber city selection was going on I was attending school in one of the smaller sized competitor cities. It doesn't even take back room shady deals for this to be a thing; the administrators of all sorts of loca
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by Phlarp 11y ago
This entirely ignores the part where we have 1000x the landmass. Providing internet in Moldova or Estonia is an entirely different physical prospect than providing it to Alaska or Montana.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Many states have pretty broad laws in this regard. For example in Minnesota the relevant law reads: "The person driving the motor vehicle shall keep the plate legible and unobstructed and free from grease, dust, or other blurring mater
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by Phlarp 11y ago
>Makes you wonder who actually values and protects Instagram's user privacy more - the researcher or the Facebook CSO... No, I don't wonder about this at all.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Yes, what if, of the thousands of people that will die today [1](and tomorrow and the next day and the next...) in traffic accidents, one single sprained ankle or whiplashed neck was caused by, gasp , a computer. Your faux ethical hacking
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by Phlarp 11y ago
>I think there's quite a bit of inflation in startup job offers. I think you're living in a willfully ignorant echo chamber
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Academic indentured servants that absolutely knew this would be the case but were no doubt tripping over each other to get a spot on the project.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Just the act of thinking won't consume more oxygen, but thoughts can lead to physiological changes, like panic, that do consume more oxygen.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
I would agree with you, except that it's based on work by Gwern, who is not a guy to sell wolf tickets.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
They already do this within the warehouses, with robot-pallets re-arranging themselves based on a slew of "big data" metrics, the same techniques can be applied forward to determine what to load on the trucks and how to deploy the
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by Phlarp 11y ago
I feel like there is a lot of context lost in this quote without pointing out that it's being said by a union dock worker to a lobbyist he has been paying to bribe politicians with money earned from smuggling prostitutes and heroin int
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Are there any "somethings" that are more privacy oriented and can be flashed onto existing android hardware without destroying all functionality due to missing / poor drivers?
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by Phlarp 11y ago
This is quite true, but if the goal is to develop skills more than it is to develop IP, this shouldn't really matter. I suspect very very few individuals have hit a grand slam startup idea out of the park while simultaneously learning
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by Phlarp 11y ago
As an owner of the Philips-- It's really a top notch panel. I do lots web development and plenty of gaming, the extra pixels and size really are a joy to work with. Highly recommend.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
As a consumer that often buys many small low value items (electronics, often from china) I find their level of service and rates to be phenomenal as well. I don't understand why the TSA can be an open and shameless jobs program but the
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by Phlarp 11y ago
I think part of the point of this plotline was to display how common/routine it is as a method of travel. They focus the whole season on the one instance it went poorly-- There are multiple scenes that make it clear they were bringing
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by Phlarp 11y ago
You think middle eastern politics are the driving factors for unrest in the Philippines? Maybe we should start with remedial geography.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Still have to trust the lottery operator not to exit scam when the pot gets big enough.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
The argument wasn't that we should be doing things better in order to make these systems "valuable". The argument was that these types of things simply cannot be done with the current state of tech, and any attempts by govern
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by Phlarp 11y ago
With escrow you accept counterparty risk in the form of the agent holding the escrow, with a scheme that destroys coins there is at least some incentive for everyone to play nice.
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Yes-- My feelings have become even more negative as this is yet another instance where there was undoubtedly plenty of evidence within existing surveillance programs to have prevented this. As usual nobody could stop playing bureaucrat long
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by Phlarp 11y ago
Have you ever actually tried doing this? Drivers, drivers, drivers. Even with a Nexus device this is far from straightforward. With a $10 walmart phone I doubt even Wifi would work properly-- let alone GPS, bluetooth or cellular data servic

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