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by Thrymr 7y ago
That's really a question for lawyers to answer with regards to the specific contract.
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Apparently "miscellaneous" is only $10k/year, "other expenses" is separate from that. The single biggest line item outside of taxes! There is a further breakdown in the linked article: https://www.financi
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Funny how those "small businesses" never seem to use their real contact number and business name on their caller ID. If an actual person from a local business wants to cold call me with their actual name & number displayed up
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Security. Linux and Android will still be sandboxed.
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> It probably takes only a weekend for me to do this and I'll be happy to do it if there is significant interest from my fellow HNers. Yes, please do this. I look forward to your Show HN post on Monday! (I can't even get my tax
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by Thrymr 8y ago
"junk stock"
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by Thrymr 8y ago
Jeffrey Skilling in fact served 12 years in federal prison. The wheels did grind eventually.
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Japan apparently celebrates Christmas with KFC [0]. [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/how-kfc-became-a-christmas-t...
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by Thrymr 8y ago
This is likely one reason that the French have been put in charge of part of the investigation of the Ethiopian crash. https://www.seattletimes.com/business/why-france-is-analyzin...
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New White House Budget Spells Trouble for Nasa’s SLS Rocket(arstechnica.com)
2 points by Thrymr 8y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 8y ago
Few CEOs would be willing to get sloshed on camera for a podcast, I suspect.
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Investor Steve Jurvetson talks about the allegations that derailed his career(wsj.com)
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by Thrymr 8y ago
The logistics can be challenging, though, especially in an urban area. You need a place to keep and lock up your bike everywhere you go, and [for many people] a way to transport your bike on public transit.
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> The only evidence for this is Nobel Prizes won, split up by decade, and polled!? Biology, arguably one of the most exciting fields right now, doesn't even get considered in the Nobel Prizes! You can get a Nobel Prize in medicine&
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by Thrymr 8y ago
There is a huge amount of this information maintained by land management agencies (see e.g. [0]). Presumably it is even licensed (in the US at least) in a way that commercial companies could use. But Google Maps coverage of trails and even
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by Thrymr 8y ago
> I'm not saying build entirely stone structures; no one has done this for centuries. Well, almost no one: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/19/world/europe/barcelona-sa...
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> The two most famous Socialists in the US right now are probably Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez. Both are very aggressively anti guns. That is not true of Bernie Sanders [0]. He has moved to some degree towards favoring more gun contr
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by Thrymr 8y ago
> That doesn't mean that everything has already been "invented" at the root. Exactly. The "classical" view of evolutionary genetics is that new genes develop by mutation, are favored (or eliminated) by natural se
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If you had picked another example of pre-made food, I might agree, but cookies are really easy. Just follow the recipe on the back of the chocolate chip bag, you'll get something that is far better than anything out of a bag that'
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> Why do I need satellite radio when I can just listen to a podcast, or preload a bunch of music on my phone? Anyone who is away from a good data connection for a significant amount of time. E.g. long haul truckers, rural areas (especial
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by Thrymr 8y ago
Jason Fried says [0] that Facebook has "tens of thousands" of python entry points in its codebase (55% and growing are Python 3). [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4SS9yVWJYA
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by Thrymr 8y ago
> This assumes that the only place a remote worker can work from is their home. There is nothing more detrimental to a person's psyche. That is rather hyperbolic. Many remote workers do fine working from home. Others do not. Not all
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by Thrymr 8y ago
> Ok, so the AI is too panicky and will brake for no apparent reason so they have to disable that bit while they work on it. Fine. Not fine on a public road with real people on it.
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> I'm so longing for a Python(like) compiler. There is Cython, of course, which is a great python (+) compiler. I assume you mean a just-in-time compiler as opposed to a static compiler.
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by Thrymr 9y ago
To be clear, the "NAS" (nas.org) that published this study is the National Association of Scholars [0], a political group, not the National Academy of Sciences (nasonline.org) [1], a nongovernmental organization that consists of
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by Thrymr 9y ago
"In the northern plains, rainfall has not changed much, but temperatures are going up, increasing evaporation from the soil. Further south, concurrent shifts in wind patterns are in fact causing less rain to fall. Either way, this tend
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by Thrymr 9y ago
> To become music's Netflix they would have to produce their own music which people want to listen to Which would make them (like Netflix) one exclusive content provider (potentially among many) which is fine for them if they can ge
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Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records(krebsonsecurity.com)
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The computer science sense of "trivial" comes from the mathematical sense, "Related to or being the mathematically most simple case. More generally, the word "trivial" is used to describe any result which requires l
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> But Google+ was a side-game for Google.. That's not what Google said when it launched. They were restructuring all of their products around social networks...

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