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by athms 6y ago
No different than the fast food places in certain neighborhoods of Los Angeles. I entered a KFC that had plexiglass partitions on the inside, from the counter to the ceiling, with a slide out tray were you put the money and the cashier puts
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by athms 6y ago
And here I thought it was knowledge and historical perspective.
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by athms 6y ago
The same reason there are so many databases. Developers end up using something and it does about 90% of the job. They say to themselves, "I will write my own software that does 100% and offer it to the world when I am done." And n
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by athms 6y ago
Harlan Ellison has a good take on it from a writer's perspective. The creative business is always trying to get something for nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
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by athms 6y ago
Such as? As far as I can tell they have all been technology acquisitions. Sure, Apple uses the technology for its own products, but that should be expected since they are not in the components or IP licensing business.
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by athms 6y ago
I am sure Nevada's lack of income tax and the tax breaks the state gives, plus Reno's proximity to California is the reason logistics is centered there. Reno sells itself as the West Coast shipping hub. Pretty much everything I or
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by athms 6y ago
>if Apple was not in the middle, the developer would have received $100. You are never going to get 100% because of payment processing, license management, and content hosting costs. If not Apple, then somebody else. You can have a payme
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by athms 6y ago
>Cut >50% and it's now a extortion Extortion (or blackmail) has a legal definition and this isn't it. In California (where Apple is incorporated and headquartered), the statute states: Extortion is the obtaining of property
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by athms 6y ago
This is not an opinion, it is a fact. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association lists pedophilia as both a sexual orientation and disorder. "The essential feature of this disorder is recurrent, inten
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by athms 6y ago
Pre-1976, authors had to explicitly add a copyright notice. The Copyright Act of 1976 changed all that. Creative works automatically gained copyright the moment it was created.
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by athms 6y ago
This was discussed last week. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24636166
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by athms 6y ago
>He [Trump] is democratically elected... False. The election of the President and Vice President is fundamentally undemocratic (by design). Only Congress is democratically elected.
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by athms 6y ago
>There are much better platforms out there... Your argument is stop liking what I don't like. >how do you find Google's competitors? Google search provides pages and pages of alternatives to Google services.
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by athms 6y ago
>you may be unaware of better alternatives Better is in the eye of the beholder.
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by athms 6y ago
I am not sure why you are lumping pedophiles with murders and rapists. Pedophilia is the attraction to prepubescent children. It is nothing more than that. Most people with this disorder don't sexually molest prepubescent children. Ab
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by athms 6y ago
True. However, most Sonic Fusion accounts are resold AT&T circuits, including FTTN. As long as Sonic is at the mercy of AT&T, infrastructure issues can crop up. In the late 1990s, which was pre-Fusion, my Sonic DSL service stopped w
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by athms 6y ago
Tesla is selling new cars with holes in the body panels, scuffed body panels, misaligned body panels, different shades of paint on body panels, dirty interiors, materials in the drive train that corrode within months, etc... These problems
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by athms 6y ago
I spent several years at a large multinational cloud provider that gave developers and QA access to production systems and customer PII. That all changed after the company was bought by SAP and operations were integrated. I am amazed that e
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by athms 6y ago
> Comcast...unreliable It really depends. I have Comcast Business and it has been great. I used to have Fusion from Sonic in an apartment in Santa Clara, CA at 9Mb/s. This was acceptable and the service never felt constrained. Unfor
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by athms 6y ago
>the Supreme Court denied certiorari They denied the original appeal over copyrightable APIs. There was a second trial over Google's fair use argument and the jury ruled for Google. Oracle appealed and the Federal Circuit ruled agai
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by athms 6y ago
>you know what's pretty ridiculous Attacking the messenger because you have no rebuttal. Also, it is ridiculous reading comments that have the sentence structure of a person still in primary school.
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by athms 6y ago
>What if you encounter an nginx bug, or a kernel bug? That is the responsibility of system administrators. Application developers have no business on a production machine. If your sysadmins don't have the technical skills to diagnos
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by athms 6y ago
You need to scroll using the scrollbar because scrolling with the TouchPad doesn't work. Well, it kind of works, but it takes about 20 seconds to register a scroll and ends up scrolling a few pages. Convert the PDF of "Dive Into P
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by athms 6y ago
>One of the reasons Calibre has become the de-facto gold standard for ebook managers Gold standard? What the hell are you smoking? The software is absolute garbage. The reader is slow and conversion is broken. I have tried every version
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by athms 6y ago
Sure, kiddo. Does your mommy and daddy know you're using the computer?
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by athms 6y ago
There is only one nuclear plant operating in California, the twin reactor Diablo Canyon, owned by PG&E. They stated in 2016 it will close the first reactor in 2024 and the second in 2025. PG&E estimates the decommission will take tw
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by athms 6y ago
Can we also get a guide on how to drive on a bike trail on a steep mountain without getting stuck? https://www.thedrive.com/news/36651/theres-a-jeep-wrangler-d...
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by athms 6y ago
You concede you know nothing about California geography, climate, or politics. Perhaps you should look at a fault map of California. Diablo, the only nuclear plant still operating, sits on an active fault that wasn't discovered until 2
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by athms 6y ago
>The fuel could go to Yucca, or it could to go to Finland, which regularly takes nuclear waste. Did you just wake up from a coma? Nothing will go to Yucca Mountain because it isn't operational. Obama terminated funding in 2011. Trum
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by athms 6y ago
There isn't a fair use defense to playing cover songs. Moving to an alternative site isn't going to help. This person still needs licenses to distribute even if he is doing covers for free.

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