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by anon49124 8y ago
Help, help, I'm being repressed!
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by anon49124 8y ago
Oh, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
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by anon49124 8y ago
Yes, hourly earning in the US is customarily gross earning (before taxes). The median rule of hourly earnings to yearly earnings is 40 hours/week and 50 weeks/year, which results in every $1/hour == $2000/year in earni
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by anon49124 8y ago
Hard-coded business logic: yuck. IIRC there's proprietary software (SDKs / integrations) specifically for specifying, running, testing and enforcing business rules efficiently so that applications just present an API or respond to
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by anon49124 8y ago
Yes, they're definitely from Texas: not the usual "cowboy coders" == "coders whom take too much initiative / don't follow a plan / directions." J2EE usually means GC pauses (hell), XML (hell again) an
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Cellphones in US to Receive 'Presidential Alert' at 2:18 Pm Eastern(tech.slashdot.org)
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by anon49124 8y ago
Silicon Valley Community Fund has an endowment of between Stanford's and Harvard's, around $14 billion USD. The reason is that backers can pledge funds and get tax advantages now, while deferring transfer of funds/assets unti
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by anon49124 8y ago
It might be a dirty truism: utopian promises are for children and the slow, reality requires messy, pragmatic nuances that often break and contradict simplistic, academic "wouldn't it be nice if" or wishes for a perfect, simp
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by anon49124 8y ago
One country, two systems, where two varies in value. The politburo seems to play favorites with capitalism when there is rapid economic and military expansion. It'd be interesting to see how that sentiment changes/changed in a r
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by anon49124 8y ago
Vesting schedule, eg, golden handcuffs, that are part of the terms of the m&a deal. They (usually) don't just hand you only a pile of stock, they want the tech founders to keep working on this thing as long as possible, so that the
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by anon49124 8y ago
Yes, the "free-for-all" sucks. Shkreli-style and worse profiteering on illness, misery and bankrupting people. And this reminds me: there are long off-patent generics costing $10 USD/pill ($300/mo). Isn't this cr
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by anon49124 8y ago
There is this guy I know in Los Altos Hills who does this in his driveway. He always has 2 gas->diesel conversions going at any one time either GMC/Caddy, VW or Merc. I'm sure the guy could convert the used petrol Cayenne my st
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by anon49124 8y ago
Universities and industry groups, esp. security folks, get full source copies of Windows and more... with big bear-trap, PMITAP NDA's. I have/had a NT5/Win2k source CD somewhere in my empire of junk.
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by anon49124 8y ago
Add AI, automation and thought UIs... thoughtcrime is upon us. Moreover, imagine illicit drones that have weapons or explosives that operate with AI and thought-control... you think about killing your boss, but you forgot to think "you
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by anon49124 8y ago
[ ] Yes, I am a psychopathic axe murderer looking for my next victim. [ ] Yes, I am avoiding taxes that would make the Panama Papers blush. [ ] Yes, I am a going to Bermuda to marry my underage girlfriend. [ ] Yes, I a
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by anon49124 8y ago
Yes, yes! @FrenchGuyCooking. Jacques Pépin and him had some back-and-forth YT response videos.
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Ask HN: Are one (or more) warez release groups doing some even shadier $#17?
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by anon49124 8y ago
Most old-school shutdown init scripts called the following at some point before shutting down or rebooting: kill -TERM -1 # sending all processes the TERM signal... # ... sleep $SOME_SECS # ... kill -9 -1 # sending all proc
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by anon49124 8y ago
Yup, basically the movie plot of Awakenings. Also, a family member of mine, whom was not catatonic, tried it for post-stroke fatigue/pain/neuropathy/brain fog to get away from gabapentin&pregabalin.
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by anon49124 8y ago
So carrying crappy weed might be good if you think you're gonna get Maxwell's Silver Hammer. Good to know.
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by anon49124 9y ago
Mozilla would cease to be without a viable revenue stream. Either users need to pay or they're going to have to trade most of their privacy for a tiny bit of money for the same goal. Which is the better deal?
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by anon49124 9y ago
Not going to buy anything from HP until they boycott and divest from Israeli apartheid military and government contracts. PS: I'm half-Jewish, atheist.