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by WalterGR 4y ago
I believe there's a term for that in the context of very large organizations evaluating competing offerings / bids. Checklist something? I can't remember. The idea is that a huge - say - government organization has a set of
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by WalterGR 4y ago
BRIEF. Brief cross-partisan conversations. Does HN automatically remove "brief" at the beginning of titles?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Because it's profitable. If you don't see how businesses in San Francisco can be profitable, then perhaps this article makes the situation sound worse than it is.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Also see "UIs are streaming DAGs [video]" (hytradboi.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31217448 by simongray | 53 days ago | 235 points | 72 comments
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by WalterGR 4y ago
What was the evidence at that time?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
No progress since the last time you asked? "Ask HN: Where Are the Easy Jobs?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28854348 by giantg2 | 8 months ago | 22 points | 39 comments Also see "Ask HN: What tech job
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Yesterday: FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market(wsj.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31835843 Submitted by kgwgk | 389 points | 662 comments
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Yes and?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
I don't remember any specific predictions. Could you list some?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Above link is to “Open Letter to Hobbyists”. (I just noticed it gets cut off on mobile and it’s too late to edit.)
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Abstract: Non-expert who uses scare quotes liberally ("scientific consensus", "data science") finds that he's the only one who's figured out that the world is, in fact, cooling.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_George
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by WalterGR 4y ago
We are removing the option to create new subscriptions (mullvad.net) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31810104 Submitted by mritzmann | 2 days ago | 1439 points | 434 comments
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by WalterGR 4y ago
See also: FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market (wsj.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31835843 Submitted by kgwgk | 3 hours ago | 141 points | 241 comments
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Developers have held a grudge since 1976 because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
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by WalterGR 4y ago
"President Biden will on Wednesday call on Congress to suspend the federal gas tax for three months, ask states to do the same and demand that oil and gas companies boost production and pass on any savings directly to consumers, accord
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by WalterGR 4y ago
What’s Going on with Sriracha? (grid.news) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31735636 Submitted by marban | 8 days ago | 58 points | 67 comments
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Title: Russian ruble now strongest against the dollar in seven years despite sanctions Body: Russian ruble is not strongest against the dollar in seven years despite sanctions Lots of articles are pulling the same bait-and-switch. Recently
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by WalterGR 4y ago
I think that change clarifies it nicely. :)
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Ha! Messrs. Fadell and Fridman might take issue with how you've phrased the title.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Wait, so... then what happens? The potential that proprietary code 'leaks out' a few lines at a time into FOSS? Or that it turns willful copyright infringement into mere copyright infringement? :)
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by WalterGR 4y ago
The latter. Tetanus shots are recommended every 10 years. The other ones come along for the ride. Just say to a pharmacist: “It’s been 10 years since my last tetanus shot.” Bingo bango. (This is not medical advice.)
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by WalterGR 4y ago
What’s the envisioned scenario? Someone writing proprietary software uses an AI tool and unwittingly inserts a few lines of GPLed code verbatim. The software gets shipped. Somehow the original author of those lines of code finds out about t
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by WalterGR 4y ago
> Based off that, you can probably live off investments starting at around the 90th percentile ($61k annual income with 5% withdraw rate), if you live modestly in a low CoL state. I don't understand how that math works. Could you b
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Above the fold on mobile it looks like every other e-commerce site selling things. I scrolled down _a bit_ and fairly quickly closed the tab. It wasn’t until I came back to HN and read your comment that I realized there was more to the sit
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by WalterGR 4y ago
The article says that the fired employees were otherwise employed at the company, including in software engineering, and did these things on a volunteer basis.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
(2021) One submission at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27676266 - 2,905 points and 1,298 comments.
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A few pages down is the answer to what (hopefully) many are wondering: "Here's how we've designed the pilot study: ... 4. After finishing each document, we asked three multiple choice questions to control for and confirm comp
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Previously: Mammals can breathe through their intestines (2021) (science.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31721077 Submitted by FeaturelessBug | 8 days ago | 208 points | 163 comments
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by WalterGR 4y ago
"libfilezilla is a small and modern C++ library, offering some basic functionality to build high-performing, platform-independent programs."

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