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by awalton 8y ago
It tells me that I really shouldn't buy a Ford car, since apparently billing for repair parts is more important to them than building a robust and repairable car. Adding a tamper resistant circuit to random bits of your car's elec
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by awalton 8y ago
If you're getting audited when you're working at or near the poverty line, the world's fucking broken. There are billionaires out there running around paying next to no taxes because they just don't feel like it and the
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by awalton 8y ago
> Employers have to make up the difference if tipped employees don't make enough tips to meet the minimum wage This is not true in all states. Kentucky has no provision for this, e.g. (I worked in restaurants through college, so I h
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by awalton 8y ago
Yes. Any front-of-house restaurant staff that gets a share of tips are subject to those laws, and it's ridiculous. Worse, some restaurants even force the tips to be split between dishwashers, who actually are making minimum wage in m
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by awalton 8y ago
...tips are taxable income: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/are-tips-taxable-irs-offers-tip... . They're just hugely underreported because the kinds of people that work off tips are people making $2.15/hr inst
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by awalton 8y ago
No we don't. Because it is hard , thankless work, and the people doing this work are often harassed endlessly online to the point where nobody actually wants to do the work anymore. And yet, some people are still amazed by how bad t
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by awalton 8y ago
> How can cloud storage be "unsecure" if the data is encrypted? Because security is more than just encryption. If someone puts my data on a simple HTTP web server but the file's encrypted, the only defensive layer betwee
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by awalton 8y ago
The Quarks (rip) had a reduced and improved x86-compatible instruction set and they were quite low powered... they really failed to catch on because Intel didn't think to put them in a friendly package to be integrated into anything -
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by awalton 8y ago
It'd cost more than you'd likely recover. Even a video with a lot (1M+) of hits only generates a few hundred to a few thousand dollars of revenue (depends on how many of those users skip the ads basically). Might be worth trying t
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by awalton 8y ago
Guess they don't want usable features preventing adoption of Pocket :/ Sad times for web browsers on all fronts.
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by awalton 8y ago
Maybe, but "Words with Friends" doesn't need to be written in Ada with a team of 50 engineers blowing through $20M working on proof systems for verifying the behavior of placing a tile on a board. There's maybe a tiny di
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by awalton 8y ago
> I'd bet 99.9% of people buying PC Laptops never upgrade a single chip... Some huge percentage of that is because many if not most laptops shipping today have wired everything down. You can't even update the Wifi chip in most
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by awalton 8y ago
Meanwhile every time Elon Musk posts on Twitter there are a half dozen new fake accounts trying to "give away Ethereum and Bitcoin!" I guess I'll believe this when I actually see the volume of fake accounts decrease.
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by awalton 8y ago
Yeah it's nice Dell is building Linux machines, but they're not equally nice by my measure. Dell's machines are usually made of lots of various bits of squeaky, often ill-fitting plastic, they usually still require barrel pow
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by awalton 8y ago
While you are still able to purchase them, it's not exactly on the market as a new machine... It's not wrong that this was probably one of the best hardware designs and Apple was wrong not to just keep upgrading the processors a
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by awalton 8y ago
It doesn't necessarily mean they're wrong though. I have personally lamented that Dell or HP don't build a very similar machine, as I'd buy that in a microsecond. It really and truly looks to be the best hardware on the
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by awalton 8y ago
Must be nice being in an industry where you can basically print money by levying completely arbitrary fees and nobody is willing to stop you (i.e. because you've already used those fees to pay off politicians in both political parties
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by awalton 8y ago
Well, it's good to know Russian robots have made it to Hacker News.
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by awalton 8y ago
Whistleblowers leak evidence of wrongdoing not rumors. If this guy believes himself to be a whistleblower, all he has to do is provide the evidence of the wrongdoing, period. I'm willing to listen, but he's got miles to go befor
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by awalton 8y ago
Can't test for everything , but seeing this is the most significant outage in ages, I'd say they're doing a damned good job. I mean, after all, the internet's true natural predator still lurks, its yellow CAT steel pres
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by awalton 8y ago
Houses aren't even that "bespoke" - most homes come from a stock set of designs that builders bought 20-30 years ago and have simply been churning out the same house... There are so many places in America that claim to have d
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by awalton 8y ago
Whataboutmeism in Open Source is just as toxic as Whataboutism is to Politics.
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by awalton 8y ago
While it's a welcome step forward, if they didn't fix the keyboard it really is moot. It is worth noting that the Coffee Lake i7-8750H reported here can support up to 64GB of RAM, so Apple is still shorting customers the limits of
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by awalton 8y ago
Both.
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by awalton 8y ago
Because, of course, your experiences are universal to all of humanity. My own personal anecdotal evidence is contrary; I had to get a college degree before anyone would give me so much as a callback (and the one time I got more than that, i
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by awalton 8y ago
Which is probably a good thing, since it will slowly beat into the minds of upper-levels at corps and recruiters that a College Degree shouldn't be the minimum bar applicants need to reach, and maybe some of these companies will start
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by awalton 8y ago
> Who wants less energy for more money? There are a lot of nutjobs running around saying they want Coal back, the President of the United States, for example, despite Coal being more expensive than Solar now. So, to answer your questi
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by awalton 8y ago
Employers might care about the fact it's taking longer and longer to get employees to work, which is directly cutting into productive time and adding costs to their employee commute programs (extra shuttle miles, extra trips, etc). You
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by awalton 8y ago
You know, until someone opportunistically sues you using a legal firm that costs the plaintiff nothing, and then you're out the cost of getting a lawyer and trying to defend that all of your actions and interpretations of the GDPR are
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by awalton 9y ago
It used to be a specific feature size: the length of the gate. But, even as the wheels came off of that pretty quickly, the convention stayed pretty simple and familiar: each process node halves the size of the one before it - you can print

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