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by ProAm 6y ago
> This is especially unfortunate as Daniel has been such a genuinely positive and helpful face to a popular open source project. I can't agree more, Daniel is one of the friendliest approachable maintainers out there. Several times
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by ProAm 6y ago
> It's all made up. I think its the opposite, I think its an unqualified contractor writing code he doesn't understand for complex systems and was subsequently hacked. I see this a lot with people bidding on contracts then hi
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Reply All Is Having Its Own Reckoning Now(vulture.com)
44 points by ProAm 6y ago|48 comments
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by ProAm 6y ago
This is the 'not on prem' tax that will be the norm going forward.
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by ProAm 6y ago
Lobbyists and Political Party refers to the essentially same thing.
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by ProAm 6y ago
> you just have to chalk it up to a learning experience Everyone knew from the start this was a BS deal and never going to happen or make ANY sense. This was pure incompetence at a political level that was paid for by tax payers.
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by ProAm 6y ago
> I can't think of a major, user-driven[1] site that's more actively hostile to being used than Reddit. Don't visit Stack Overflow
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by ProAm 6y ago
> cost-plus is necessary I wish cost plus worked but its just as easily gamed. Ive seen many industries that contracted cost-plus and the costs magically went up a lot. If there is money to be made the system can always be gamed/c
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by ProAm 6y ago
It was always surreal to see these flying/floating over my city. Couldn't help but feel like you were being further surveilled by Google's all seeing eye.
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What Is a White Hole?(sciencefocus.com)
2 points by ProAm 6y ago|0 comments
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by ProAm 6y ago
Apple cares first about cash in the bank and shareholder value. Everything else is second. Everything.
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by ProAm 6y ago
If you know how let me know. There used to be an addon that mimic'd a header it was looking for but I think netflix fixed that loophole. Im not sure if there is a way to verify the info during playback anymore? EDIT - From their w
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by ProAm 6y ago
The Fermi Paradox and the Drake equation are so fun to think about in terms of this kind of stuff. Ants trying to comprehend the possibility of aircrafts.
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by ProAm 6y ago
I used to think that too but when watching GoPro footage over the years there is always a visible difference between 720p and 1080p. And I think 4k is also noticeable.
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by ProAm 6y ago
Netflix only streams 720p unless you use Edge on some edition of Win10
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by ProAm 6y ago
I thought Signal came out with their own keyboard and I was excited.
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by ProAm 6y ago
100% completely. This is disgraceful.
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The universe is 13.8B years old–here’s how we know(popsci.com)
2 points by ProAm 6y ago|0 comments
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by ProAm 6y ago
Was the COO a bad fit? She was only in the role for ~1 year.
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by ProAm 6y ago
Ha! These people are in their 70's and 80's, getting any legitimate security is near impossible. Try telling your grandparents not to play flash games on their computer. The best security should have been by the entrances of t
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by ProAm 6y ago
A negative leap-second will be crazy interesting given how the first few leap seconds in computing caused a little havoc.
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by ProAm 6y ago
I can't wait to see what the cost of the charging cable will be for that one.
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by ProAm 6y ago
Now that Trump doesn't serve any value to Twitter or Facebook the bans come. Before they justified his behavior because he brought them viewers. It may be cynical but too convenient to play the morality card now.
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by ProAm 6y ago
> Never before in human history have we had privately operated for-profit organisations with so much power and influence over the running of countries. Newspapers have always had this power, the difference now is it's on the interne
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A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 fifty years ago. This explorer found it(popsci.com)
5 points by ProAm 6y ago|0 comments
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by ProAm 6y ago
Of course it's horrendous and completely disheartening but it does not make it not true, and I think it's important to inform that the answer is not 'voting'. Voting does nothing with a non-functioning government.
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by ProAm 6y ago
> Please, as a U.S. voter, I urge you to consider your support for stopping the sanctions. The US currently has a largely non-functioning government. Voting enacts little, if any, change. The two-party system currently in place has suc
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by ProAm 6y ago
I dont think they are throwing in the towel, I think they are all going about it on their own to capture more of the low hanging profit? > One key issue facing Haven was that while the firm came up with ideas, each of the three founding
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by ProAm 6y ago
> And if you're saying that according to the legal blah blah blah of the SLA that this isn't technically "down", then there might as well not be an SLA. I am because Ive had these exact conversations with cloud hosted
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by ProAm 6y ago
One of those affects money via SLA's. Slack is still up, just not usable.

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