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by a-priori 9y ago
If it were recursive -- if User B then referred User C, and User A got a cut of the revenue -- then I'd say that's a pyramid scheme.
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(Disclaimer: I work for Amazon but this is my opinion.) While it's true that Amazon collects about as much data as it is able to, there's a big difference in their intentions when compared to someone like Google or Facebook. In th
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by a-priori 9y ago
Ottawa checking in. I think it's cute you think you have harsh winters. ;)
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In some jurisdictions. I live in Ontario, Canada, where last year we ran on: 61% nuclear, 24% hydroelectric, 9% oil / gas, 6% wind, <1% biofuel, <1% solar. That is, about 90% of our electricity was carbon-neutral. (Source: http:
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by a-priori 9y ago
Only the consumer line that ended at Windows ME. The Windows NT line, which subsumed the consumer line starting at Windows 2000, always used its own bootloader. So has Windows CE.
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Running on the treadmill(michaelmelanson.net)
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The amount of money spent on American elections is incredible. In the 2012 US Presidential election (seems the data is not yet available for 2016), an estimated $7B was spent in total by all candidates and private groups. This is about $21.
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by a-priori 9y ago
Are you sure about this? In Canada we've had chip-and-PIN for almost a decade now (2009 I believe?), and almost all merchants have chip-capable POS terminals. (Yes, really! I don't know what the delay is in the US.) These terminal
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by a-priori 9y ago
This is a sign that you're working too far down the hierarchy. Problems like this can always be solved, if indeed it's a problem, if you go high enough up in the org chart.
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Canada has never had a united identity. It has always been fractured between English Canada and French Canada. That's an unstable arrangement, with two opposing poles of cultural power, and it's actually remarkable we have never g
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by a-priori 9y ago
I've been using a standing desk for about three years. At first I used two anti-fatigue mats, doubled-up. I found one mat wasn't enough, and three felt like I was floating (hard on the ankles, like walking on sand). Then about a y
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by a-priori 9y ago
I've been using this setup for the last three-ish years, and it works great. http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dolla...
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That's more attributable to the sanctions placed on Iran in 2010, in response to their nuclear program, which led to shortages and price surges. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci... htt
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by a-priori 9y ago
People would have said the same thing about universal health care before it was done. Providing health care to everyone has a massive price tag, especially by the standards of the day when it was introduced (mid 20th century -- NHS was foun
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by a-priori 9y ago
If there's one thing large organizations are good at, it's managing risk. And if you read their post, they've done this. They're running both source control systems in parallel, switching developers in blocks, and monito
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by a-priori 9y ago
Microsoft has about 50k developers. When you're dealing with an engineering organization of this size, you're looking at a run rate of $5B a year, or about $20M a day. It's a no-brainer to spend tens or even hundreds of milli
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by a-priori 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipath_TCP
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Some people focus their curiosity on more important things than arguments for a command line utility.
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by a-priori 10y ago
Maybe you should read about it a bit before you dismiss it with useless snark. This is not a new JS framework. This is the view layer extracted from Ember as a standalone library.
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by a-priori 10y ago
Really, there isn't much of a difference. The term premier is merely an abbreviation of the French premier ministre ('first minister'), and in French they don't distinguish between the roles -- the Premier of Ontario
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by a-priori 10y ago
There's a line to tread here: solving future problems isn't a good idea, as you say, but neither is closing off future options by being too specific about your current needs. You don't want to create extra problems for future
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by a-priori 10y ago
The main trap I'm aware of is that exercising a stock option is considered employment income of the difference between strike and exercise price, but selling shares is considered capital gains/losses on the change in value. So, if
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by a-priori 10y ago
A few years ago I read a post by Bob Martin about how you can solve code kata problems by applying a sequence of 'transformations' to pass one test at a time. His method is very mechanical... so mechanical, in fact, that I think i
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by a-priori 10y ago
The way this works is that the nation state installs a proxy that does a man-in-the-middle attack on the HTTPS traffic. It receives the incoming TLS handshake from the endpoint, and completes it with a certificate rooted in a 'compromi
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by a-priori 10y ago
I ran into this once. I decided that I knew well enough what I was worth so when they asked what salary I was looking for, I gave a number. They said, "oh that's outside the band for this position" so I replied, "that&#x
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by a-priori 10y ago
You can't. Most data transmitted between cities in Canada goes through the US. The only mitigation is to make sure you encrypt everything in transit and ensure that the private keys never leave Canada.
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I actually had this happen once. The conversation went something like this: Them: "I need to ask you a few security questions. What's your mother's, uh... mother's maiden name?" Me: "Oh yes, I put a bunch of ra
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by a-priori 10y ago
People have examined the issue. They concluded that carbon emissions are causing increased global temperatures, and that the solution is to reduce carbon emissions. The best way we know of to do so on a national scale is by adding a cost on
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by a-priori 10y ago
It's a parable, not a claim. Since it's unknown whether he was married, just suppose he does. Then you can tell a story where the moral depends on him being married.
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by a-priori 10y ago
The root cause of a lot of this is how complex ballots are in American elections. For comparison, this is what a ballot looks like in a Canadian federal election: http://www.capyouthvote.org/wp-content/uploads/2015

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