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by bambataa 8y ago
How embarrassing for the LA Times that they couldn’t get basic compliance in place in time to even let unregistered users read an article.
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by bambataa 8y ago
I'm not sure I could do something like that without telling my wife. Surely they could have given her some warning and kept her out of the public eye until the person ordering the assassin had been caught in the sting.
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by bambataa 8y ago
The difficulty is that your language ability needs to be at such a high level that you'd lose more nuance from a translation than you would from lack of vocabulary etc when reading the original. In my opinion it's worth it for poe
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by bambataa 8y ago
Wow, maybe not that different then when you account for inflation (though I might be way off). Who were these kids then who had rolls of quarters to throw into machines?
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by bambataa 8y ago
This is slightly off topic, but are modern arcade games more extortionate than they used to be? If you play e.g. Mario Kart you have to keep putting in coins after each race. Maybe if you come first it lets you continue but it seems a total
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by bambataa 8y ago
If you offer a set of checkboxes like that won't most people just check all of them? While considering your inner motivation is great in general, it seems pointless in a job application where you can't just say that you're ho
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by bambataa 8y ago
Do the people you know actually engage with Facebook a lot, though? I'm still on it and log in a few times a week but I engage far less. I recently used a Chrome extension to delete my old comments and I'm surprised at how much mo
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Silicon Valley pastor decries hypocrisy of area's rich liberals(theguardian.com)
124 points by bambataa 8y ago|90 comments
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Ask HN: Computers and counterculture
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by bambataa 8y ago
Should there be some catastrophic collapse in society, I would far prefer that the government requisitioned food and rationed it out. While it’s definitely open to abuse, I think it would do a better job in the short term of keeping people
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by bambataa 8y ago
I agree, a little of editing would have helped the (very interesting) narrative.
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by bambataa 8y ago
Laissez-faire in practice doesn’t seem so desirable
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by bambataa 8y ago
I’m intrigued - how does that play out in your head? There’s a disaster causing social collapse but a free market for food remains. Demand outstrips supply so it becomes too expensive for many to buy. What do people do before they can go ba
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by bambataa 8y ago
I partly agree with you but a less charitable interpretation is that we had a bipolar hegemony that prevented full-scale wars. Many regions experienced significant violence, often caused or abetted by Western powers that turned out to be le
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by bambataa 8y ago
While I can see that that's comforting, perhpas in the same way as believing that all your deceased loved ones are in heaven, does it really make a difference if we can't perceive those other 'there's?
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by bambataa 8y ago
Why so? It appears to be in vogue at the moment but it doesn’t seem to be saying anything novel.
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by bambataa 8y ago
It’s the kind of book you need to sit down and deliberately read for a while, rather than snatched moments here and there or while waiting for something else. Personally I found it very informative and interesting - though not ‘enlightening
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by bambataa 8y ago
How much does a house-sized one like that cost?
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by bambataa 8y ago
I use beorg to get my org-mode lists on my phone. It works with WebDAV and Dropbox. The developer has also recently added the ability to edit documents on your phone (previously it was pretty much read-only). To be honest I only really use
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by bambataa 8y ago
How do the working hours / culture compare?
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by bambataa 9y ago
Isn’t choice also a fundamental part of a free market? I can choose to buy a certain product and decide not to buy if the market prices are above what I’m willing to spend. How does that apply to medical procedures?
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by bambataa 9y ago
The other thing that I find really odd about American working conditions is that it seems quite routine for leave requests to be cancelled. What if you've already booked a holiday, or promised family you'll go somewhere? Apple rum
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by bambataa 9y ago
Projects I’ve worked on have always had the DB in a separate container.
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by bambataa 9y ago
So let’s say your application is running In Docker. How do you make sure that all the containers that should be running are running and how do you make sure they can talk to each other and the outside world as necessary? Kubernetes is one s
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by bambataa 9y ago
But their current arrangements are partly a result of political lobbying. So if they’re politically engaged enough to lower their taxes why aren’t they politically engaged enough to answer to this?
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by bambataa 9y ago
Did you read the linked article? Facebook deliberately structure their operations to try and avoid paying UK tax. So it seems odd to then cite that as a reason for him not attending.
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by bambataa 9y ago
That VP’s logic seems sort of circular to me. Young grads take the sign on bonus because that’s what the companies are offering. It would be interesting to see what would happen if a major tech firm (for example) started making offers with
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by bambataa 9y ago
A less automated process. Maybe YouTube’s algorithm flags your video but instead of taking it down automatically it gets reviewed by a person who maybe even contacts you. That way you get a chance to justify yourself. Sure, it’s more work f
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by bambataa 9y ago
Of course it’s not set up to handle this kind of thing, which is exactly why they do it. You may be legally in the right but have no real recourse.
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by bambataa 9y ago
Perhaps if it's a project that only you and maybe a few other people will work on. But I think there's value in using tooling that other contributors from that ecosystem will be comfortable using. I say this as someone who doesn&#

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