Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 11y ago
So, either a vote passes unanimously or it doesn't pass at all? In all cases (of the scenarios you're describing). That doesn't make a lot of sense to me, even as terminology specific to corporate governance. The word 'u
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I'm not an expert on this, but my understanding is that concerns in this area often center around donations to political action committees, rather than to campaigns directly, although both are matters of concern. A "SuperPAC"
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Spending money is necessary in order to speak to a large audience. You need money to rent space to use as meeting halls, or to buy advertising space like billboards or newspaper space, or even simply run a website. The more traffic, the mor
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It's an interesting point. How does one determine when one is past the point of being a spoiler and into being a serious candidate? It seems that there is a self-fulfilling prophesy here, wherein if one is concerned about being a spoil
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> Western Europe or Japan: two very different cultures, both higher-density than the US, both tend to have higher social cohesion than in America, not lower. It's a lot easier to have "high social cohesion" when you have a
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
If availability and scale are not important, and you can tolerate having to engage a human in the event of a hardware failure, then sure a $20 VPS might suffice. You could also run a single virtual machine in one zone in the cloud. But I th
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I didn't see anything in the docs that touches on those subjects in detail (I did skim the docs looking for sections and pages that might contain answers to my questions before I posted), but please point me to the page that does if yo
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> After figured out that intelligence barely means anything I think that's probably an exaggeration. A better way to say it might be: intelligence only takes you so far, and true achievement requires something more.
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> PubSub is also a GLOBAL service. Not only are you protected from zone downtime, you are protected from regional downtime. Is there an equivalent to this level of service anywhere in the world? Could you point to some of the documentati
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It sounds like you're saying that the party might owe legal expenses. That's a different issue than the market value of the property. Edit: I agree it's somewhat ethically murky if the real estate developer, who also wants to
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> the other guy is forced to sell (to the property developer obviously) at below market value. Why is he forced to sell at below market value? I'm not experienced at joint ownership of real estate, but I would assume that if you own
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Not only did she have a perfect score, but she "adamantly" corrected a mistake in the control group. That must have some impact on the Bayesian estimate too. Her correction is worth something, and her confidence in providing that
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Please avoid gratuitous negativity on Hacker News. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
WSJ posted a statement in response to Holmes' interview. http://www.dowjones.com/press-room/wall-street-journal-state... > Nothing said at the conference by Ms. Holmes refutes the accuracy of the reporting done
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
It sounds like she has a fantastic PR team and has been coached very well. But, and perhaps this is unfair, it's starting to feel like there are too many denials here for all of the accusations to be wrong. > Theranos has reportedly
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> The Conundrum of Iran. > Iran will be a major player on the world stage in the decades ahead, and its actions and behavior will have a major and enduring impact on near- and long-term US interests on a variety of regional and global
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The sensible thing to do is to leave his work email in his work account. That guidance should be email training 101 as well as common sense. You're not supposed to take classified government documents home with you, and you don't
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Take note of what website you're visiting :-) news.ycombinator.com. Is it really fair to call content on their own website marketing? I suppose there is a sense of the term in which that's true, but given the context I'm not
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Indeed. The title should be "US Agent gets six years" if he was a US Agent up until he was tried and convicted for the crime we're discussing. A description like "ex US Agent" should be applied only to a person whos
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
The level of corruption is indeed staggering: > According to a government document, Force, operating as "Nob," in August 2013 convinced Ulbricht to pay him $50,000 in bitcoins by pretending he had information on the investigati
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
What is the rationale for treating wildcard certificates differently? That is, why can't Let's Encrypt issue them?
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
Why state-sponsored hacking specifically, as opposed to any (likely) unauthorized access?
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Ask HN: System visualization tools?
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
See my other comment in this thread for details about how these audits are usually done.
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What you say might be going on, but I would not expect this source code sharing to constitute IP transfer. It's an audit or inspection. The government isn't allowed to use the code, and I doubt they intend to or have the ability t
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
This is why senior leaders have executive assistants. C-level execs of large companies get a lot of email and don't read all of it themselves, at least not initially, especially if the email is from someone they don't know. Emaili
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
> 6 months after we went to auctions, we had to merge three different databases. I asked if I should be in the datacenter, and the engineers said, what are you talking about, we never go to the datacenter. Hah! Good one. The best datacen
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by Pyxl101 11y ago
How can we attempt to pull patterns out of the song? What if the songs actually contain the whale equivalent of GPS coordinates? How would we detect it? I'm sure a few people have spent many hours trying to do so, but I wonder if machi
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What would be the downside of allowing anyone to immigrate to a country as long as they have qualified employment with compensation greater than a certain amount per year? (Let's say $75k or $100k or whatever makes a person an obvious
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> 1. Will there ever be a zero-knowledge option at Dropbox? JungleDisk provides this. It offers a Dropbox-like native interface powered directly by S3 with support for client-side encryption. That is, your computer encrypts the data loca

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