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by __jal 10y ago
Ditto. Some people simply don't understand that other people hate exercise. It is extremely unpleasant for me. I get that other people enjoy it. Wish I did, but I hate it. The only choice of activity that makes physical work bearable f
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. San Francisco has been utterly inundated. The last estimate I saw was ~48,000 more vehicles from the app services. Most of those are additional, because they are coming in to the city to drive (e.g., the drivers don't live here).
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by __jal 10y ago
Whether or not humbling themselves into a mere taxi firm with unsubsidized rates would be competitive, I doubt the investors would allow that. There's an awful lot of other people's money in Uber. There's an Ayn Rand joke her
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by __jal 10y ago
If it weren't for the human suffering involved in all this, I'd be laughing at the farmers, who are simply getting what they asked for[1]. Well, do I still find it funny, but in a much darker way. I still think the answer to all o
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by __jal 10y ago
I had a laptop vanish at LGA a few years ago. Mostly the same story, down to the "sue us if you don't like it". And it was LGA, so the TSA "agents" were also assholes. I generally don't fly with a laptop anymor
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by __jal 10y ago
1995 called, it wants its bad arguments back. The honest answer is that people releasing software under the GPL don't want you using their code in your proprietary whatever. They explicitly said they don't want you to do that. How
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by __jal 10y ago
This is close to the platonic ideal-article for HN. Big, grand, non-falsifiable argument about current tech darling/source of controversy; endless opportunities to parse phrasing and argue edge cases.
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by __jal 10y ago
If it is like other edition changes, you can expect about four typo-fixes, a new sticker on the shrink wrap, a 7-10% price increase, and a single-use code for online tools that make the professor's life easier. Every third edition, a &
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by __jal 10y ago
Market opportunity: private-label cloud document sharing with attorneys to get the presumption of privilege.
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by __jal 10y ago
I love reading about these advances. Not my field, so it is all new to me in a pop-science way. And it reaffirms my belief that humans (and all the other species, but I'm biased) are vastly weirder assemblages than it seems.
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by __jal 10y ago
Sigh. If I need to spell this out: Why is the ME watchdog mandatory? What innocent explanation details why Intel has chosen to deny me the option to consider the ME a security risk in my environment and disable it?
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by __jal 10y ago
Demonstrating once again that 99% of software development is reimplementation with another layer of indirection. (Not that I'm complaining; this is a needed tool.)
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by __jal 10y ago
Can't speak for the poster, but I live in the Bay Area, and also would happily pay more in taxes for this to happen. That's because I think long-term, single-payer is the only sensible way to handle health care. We have (the US ha
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by __jal 10y ago
As I understand it, a big part of Vermont's problem was due to numbers. They had too small of a population. California does not have that problem.
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by __jal 10y ago
Pretty sure that if I found the CIA subverting my work, I'd be just as pissed off and quite a bit saltier in my release notes.
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by __jal 10y ago
So, "ideally", we'd 1) ban cash, so that humans need permission to interact when an exchange of value is involved; 2) improve the oversight of the permission-givers, so that the permission-giver-watchers are less arbitrary an
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by __jal 10y ago
I get all that - I've worked in enterprise IT my entire career. It does not explain the 30 minute timer.
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by __jal 10y ago
Would love to see and ARM or MIPS setup get within shouting range of Intel. I have yet to hear any explanation of the IME that makes sense without the presence user-hostile intent.
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by __jal 10y ago
So how do you know what type of search you're doing? There were existing text matching algorithms at the time. "No, I mean the kind of car that is really big, that you drive on ice rinks to smooth out the ice."
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by __jal 10y ago
> What would you name 'grep' instead? Yeah, I found that one an especially weird gripe. Grepping was a new thing, so we needed a word for it. 'Grep' is short, easy to say and type, and relatively hard to confuse with
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by __jal 10y ago
More a reprise of the _Unix Hater's Handbook_ with a slightly different gloss, for those who remember that.
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by __jal 10y ago
Or people could accept that 'politically correct' language is not the province of one side of these battles.
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by __jal 10y ago
This is why I've started using the phrase "intelligence-entertainment complex".
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by __jal 10y ago
Maybe you don't. I do. I know other people who do. Orgs are made of people. I prefer to interact with ethical people over unethical people. Don't see what's difficult about that. Running with a pack may embolden people to act
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by __jal 10y ago
Search for 'mobile app revenue by category'. I'll wait.
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by __jal 10y ago
1. Rebuild Twitter as an open, federated, decentralize service. 2. Write RFCs. 3. Shut down the massively dysfunctional company that should have been a protocol from the beginning so everyone involved can go get jobs doing something useful
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by __jal 10y ago
Paypal does naive keyword matching. I know this, because I used the word 'aleph' in the comments field when sending someone money, because that word was in the name of the thing I was buying. Turns out, there is some terror group
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by __jal 10y ago
Not every successful company has the constant stream of horrible behavior emanating from it over the course of years. Trying to normalize this as growing pains or bored ambitious people(?!?) or whatever is simply false. I don't work th
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by __jal 10y ago
Seconded! Mutt is the only way I can keep up with my mail volume. The only time the UI doesn't react instantly is when it loads huge mailboxes. And it still does that faster than I've seen graphical clients load the same mailbox.
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by __jal 10y ago
Have you worked at more than one company in the valley? There are vast differences in general happiness in different places. Churn rate has a ton of other reasons, unless you want to pack so many different variables under 'happiness&#x

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