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   by api 13y ago

   I've found DDG to be better at finding obscure content, and the Goog to be better at finding what I call "canonical" content. For example, if I search for "binary tree" I probably want Wikipedia followed maybe by St
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   by api 13y ago

   http://www.duckduckgo.com/
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   by api 13y ago

   http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3323549/is-a-statically-t...
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   by api 13y ago

   I'd add: one way of dealing with this is to have lots of loosely coupled small systems. Easier said than done and sometimes not an option, but it's a strategy that can work with web app types stuff. The buzzword here's probab
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   World's most mysterious manuscript has genuine message(nbcnews.com)

   1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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   by api 13y ago

   I didn't mean all businesspeople or all anything. I meant the mediocre MBA types who shuffle around from company to company and try to monetize units of... wait... what is it we sell again?
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   by api 13y ago

   What if this were written in the 1850s? Of course slavery is normal. All cultures have had slavery. So all those loony abolitionists with their progress notions are beating their heads against the fixity of human nature. Take your is-ought
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   by api 13y ago

   There are quite a few similarities. I remember realizing that the typical MBA is essentially indistinguishable from the Soviet "apparatchik." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparatchik "Members of the &quo
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   by api 13y ago

   "It's only government psychopaths who seem to want each country to be its own secretive cult whose members hate other cults." Of course. That's the best rationale for increasing the size of government.
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    by api 13y ago

    We're not borrowing anything objectively real. We are "borrowing" fiat money that we can inflate or simply abandon any time we feel like it. If the US can't service its debt, it will simply devalue it.
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    by api 13y ago

    Improved relative to what, and according to whom?
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    by api 13y ago

    I don't think so. Technically the plan outlined there is feasible, but the problem is getting there. Flying that close to the sun would multiply the radiation problem considerably. Then you'd have to land and drill underground and
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    by api 13y ago

    Anyone signing up for this will understand the risks.
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    by api 13y ago

    I agree, and that's why I don't believe in them. But consider this: The reason I don't think 9/11 was an inside job isn't that I don't think there are people in Washington or in -- say -- the defense industry w
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    by api 13y ago

    Yeah, at least we have IRBs today. The mid-20th century was an ugly time for that kind of thing: MKUltra, syphillis experiments, "here guys, look at the atomic blast, it's pretty!", and so on...
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    by api 13y ago

    When institutions behave like this they're not just tarnishing their own image. They're destroying civilization. Got into a debate around here a while back trying to explain why otherwise-rational people are afraid of GMO foods. T
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    JavaScript Amiga Emulator, with classic games and demos(scriptedamigaemulator.net)

    2 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    What, you mean the web isn't Facebook and Google? We've seriously let the centralization of the net get out of control, and nobody seems to really care.
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    by api 13y ago

    What a ridiculous whiny pointless pile of crap. The author seriously needs to man up and stop feeling threatened by pastels . Edit: oh wait it's full of ads... click bait. :P
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    by api 13y ago

    I've been using it. It's a pretty decent search engine, but doesn't do quite as good a job as Google at prioritizing "canonical" content and finding the right entry points to things. Sometimes it'll land you de
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    by api 13y ago

    JVM's always worked fine for us in Virtuozzo. PHP is what we have issues with, but we've found workarounds.
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    by api 13y ago

    Containers can run any Linux distribution, and any version thereof. The only thing you can't do is customize the kernel, but 99.99% of applications do not need this. Then there's emerging technologies like rump kernels, which migh
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    by api 13y ago

    Among other factors for the South's rise is one that's often overlooked: air conditioning. It's nice to not have to deal with snow, but the South's wet heat can be miserable . Before A/C it was easier to heat than
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    by api 13y ago

    Where I work we use Parallels Virtuozzo for a private cloud. I can see why more companies don't use it for public clouds-- you do run into a few weird edge cases with containers vs. full VMs and these would be a tech support issue for
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    by api 13y ago

    I'd be incredibly surprised if every government on Earth doesn't have something like this. That being said, that doesn't mean it's good. How "dirty" is that data set, for starters?
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    by api 13y ago

    Virtual distributed Ethernet. It's about 95% of the way to being turn-key. I plan to move ahead and release, but recent events in my life have called into question whether I have time to truly take it all the way. So I've decided
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    by api 13y ago

    Flippa looks geared only toward web apps with web traffic, not other kinds of things.
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    by api 13y ago

    I'd thought about that, and wasn't sure if approaching a potential competitor would look like an ultimatum and just piss them off. "Pay for this or I release it and compete with you." Of course (a) I guess that's bu
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    Ask HN: is there a marketplace for code bases, startups, etc.?

    5 points by api 13y ago|9 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    I like the author's argument about insurance, but I hate HSAs. Things like HSAs are a regressive tax on people who don't have accountants and/or disposable income. It's also a regressive tax on small businesses and entre