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by aazaa 7y ago
> In 1990, Jean-Louis Gassée, who replaced Jobs in Apple as the head of Macintosh development, was also fired from the company. He then also formed his own computer company with the help of another ex-Apple employee, Steve Sakoman. They
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Some might say this is all simply market Darwinism, just with more cold-pressed beet juice. But it’s interesting that the free market exists only on one side of the equation. Since California passed Proposition 13 in 1978, property tax
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by aazaa 7y ago
This is an intriguing effort. When I was doing iOS development, I used both AutoLayout and the ASCII-art constraints. The whole time I was doing it, I wondered why I couldn't just use CSS. It seems that every UI toolkit has a different
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by aazaa 7y ago
Why is this flagged?
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by aazaa 7y ago
Had a quick look, and can't figure out what this post is about. The cartoon at the beginning makes it appear this is about the decline of the US. Then there's a bunch of meta background I don't care about. Then this: > 1)
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by aazaa 7y ago
Yes, but I think that the attack worked precisely because it was shared with few people (possibly just one).
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Growth in the first three quarters of 6.6% was substantially down on the same period last year, and a lot slower than the first six months of this year. Is it really that hard to include the growth rate for the previous period? Without
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article is behind a paywall, but it's essentially a revisionist account of the block size debate of 2017. This account seems pretty biased to me. For example, it not only gives short shrift to the user activated soft fork (USAF), b
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by aazaa 7y ago
> ... Centrifuges allow scientists to separate the two uranium isotopes because the heavier isotope—uranium-238—is pushed to the outside of the rapidly spinning machine while the uranium-235 clusters in the middle. By repeating this proc
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by aazaa 7y ago
The article is light on technical detail, but I presume this works by generating a hash value from the page of interest. Then a service such as opentimestamps ( https://opentimestamps.org ) gathers a bunch of these hashes together
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by aazaa 7y ago
The indicator is stock market capitalization / GDP. Today's level exceeds the record set in 2000 (~150%). You can get the graph shown in raster form in the article from the Federal Reserve: https://fred.stlouisfed.org&#
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by aazaa 7y ago
Flash player update scam. I'm outta there.
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by aazaa 7y ago
> “what is a heretical view you have?” This is a better question to ask oneself with an open mind that to pose to a job candidate. No heretic is an island. The heretical idea stands in opposition to some convention or norm. Unless the in
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by aazaa 7y ago
Bogus Norton Security nonsense. I'm outta there.
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How Bitcoin Looked 11 Years Ago(old.reddit.com)
3 points by aazaa 7y ago|1 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> In this time, I’ve read various resources on technical writing and documentation. These are my notes, both to help me remember later, but also as a tool to help me think about writing now. and later, in an apparent contradiction ... &g
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Selective Service System Website Crashes(cnn.com)
1 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
The trouble with this article is that the author doesn't seem to know what Bitcoin is for. Notice the vague treatment of actual cryptocurrency applications. There are lots of predictions about startup activity, "flippenings"
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by aazaa 7y ago
It looks that way. Something very strange is happening in retail now. As mega-stores like Fry's, not to mention mom and pop shops, wither up and die, people are left with fewer local store options. So even if you want to continue suppo
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by aazaa 7y ago
The most striking thing about the thread is how little of current importance was even mentioned: - Bitcoin would become the decade's best investment by far - the President of the US would conduct foreign policy through Twitter - electr
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by aazaa 7y ago
1. The election of 2020 will catalyze the creation of a third major political party composed of former Democrats and Republicans. By the end of the decade, this new party, propelled by its charismatic leader, will have relegated the current
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by aazaa 7y ago
> ... Nobody thinks they’re doing evil — maybe because it’s just impossible to be intentionally evil, maybe because it’s easier and more effective to convince yourself you’re good — but every major villain had some justification to expla
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Projections for the next decade abound. In the 2020s, mass adoption is surely to take off, they say. Blockchain technology will revolutionize and solve every problem in the world. On the other hand, regulatory scrutiny is likely to int
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by aazaa 7y ago
Many of these seem like wishful thinking on the part of the author. For example, take the first one: > The looming climate crisis will be to this century what the two world wars were to the previous one. Oddly enough, if you go back to 2
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Conduct an Annual Life Review That Will Catapult You into the New Year (2018)(medium.com)
1 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> In 100 years, this was the shift. Chemistry, as something that one did, was relegated to more advanced courses. You would no longer be able to do chemistry by taking an intro course alone. > The regress, then, would come in disregar
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by aazaa 7y ago
> Those are some of the results of a new study published today in the journal Science Advances that reports the Arctic has warmed by 0.75 degrees Celsius (1.35 degrees Fahrenheit) in the last decade alone. By comparison, Earth as a whole
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Plunge Protection Team About to Strike Again (2018)(seekingalpha.com)
1 points by aazaa 7y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 7y ago
> On September 24th, 1980, a man wearing cowboy boots and carrying two brown suitcases entered Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas. One suitcase held $777,000 in cash; the other was empty. After converting the money into chips, the ma
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by aazaa 7y ago
> As of October, U.S. scrap exports of plastic to mainland China were down 89% since early 2017, when China began to make clear it would ban many categories, while mixed paper exports were down 96%, according to the Institute of Scrap Re

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