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by admissionsguy 6y ago
People nowadays put so much funny crap into their infrastructure, no wonder it's brittle. The service suddenly going down shouldn't be a serious risk for a vast majority of online businesses (unless you are doing something excepti
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
Exclude first-generation millionaires and we have a deal.
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
Living - literally - forever would render life meaningless. Every choice would become inconsequential since every possible outcome and situation would be relived an infinite number of times. Curing biological aging that this article is abou
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - I think I was finally ready to read it, and what a delight it was! I only wish I didn't have to rely on the translation. Looks like I will finally be able to delve into all the works I futilely attempted in my
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
AirBNB (and I give them so much money) - just awful web/mobile experience, unreliable review system, poor support, but in many places it's the only option for medium-term (2-4 months) accommodation browsing and booking online. I a
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
I am trying to avoid discussing a particular political position, but rather going by the dictionary definition of totalitarianism as a system where "the state strives to control every aspect of life and civil society" through the
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
> Historians will look back on this I think they will be more interested in the enthusiastic adoption of totalitarian measures by hitherto democratic societies.
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
I'm surprised to discover that except consumables and books, the only non-digital item I have bought this year has been the XP-Pen Artist Pro drawing tablet I will give my girlfriend this Christmas Eve.
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
There cannot be "convincing evidence for mask wearing" for most thresholds of "convincing", can there? Since no clear difference in infections or mortality has been observed between places with different mask rules (and
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
If it was likely to remain stable indefinitely - 400 USD a month. Even though I currently make over $10k. Working for a living is very close to not living at all.
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
> nearly every webhoster out there Why do people bring this up so often in 2020? When you can have a $5/month Linode and install anything you need. I like PHP a lot, but wouldn't want to use / learn it in a constrained env
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
I just joined Toptal, in a month it gave me so many very interesting work opportunities, client contacts and confidence in my market value. It doesn't seem difficult to stand out among the other devs there (or maybe all the good ones a
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
I dislike the patronising tone of your comment. If your first assumption is that the interlocutor is monolingual, that makes me think you are used to a quite unsophisticated company. > I can start pointing out flaws in PHP, and you can c
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
To be fair, a good PHP programmer should earn more than one dollar per each dollar sign typed.
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
> list of problems with PHP (Here we go again.) Such us?
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
Poland, too.
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
> are an important part of keeping the virus in check Is there any evidence whatsoever that masks play an important role in limiting the spread of infection in countries with widespread community transmission?
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
A few years ago I was able to: 1) submit an online application for a bank account, 2) receive, to the address put in the online form, a rejection letter (due to, I think, lack of proof of address and/or credit history), 3) use that let
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
You could extend the argument to intra-national competition. What if instead of competing with each other, we were all aligned towards common goals. Unfortunately and sadly, such is human nature that we are hardly motivated by much else tha
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A Note to Potential Investors(toptal.com)
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
The match expression is so elegant. For the past 10 years I've been puzzled by how verbose switch is.
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by admissionsguy 6y ago
Sadly, this doesn't look promising. At all. > In the exclusive report, The New York Times detailed how the mysterious government program began in 2007 with support from then-Nevada Senator Harry Reid. The allotted budget reportedly