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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> What this shows me is how inefficient and corrupt a private company is People tend to forget: private companies are only efficient at keeping the stock price up. If it's not going to have an impact on the bottom line the waste ca
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. Parent is right, most folks don't get it, even technical ones. Most people aren't in STEM, aren't making north of six-figures doing tech, and aren't super literate when it comes t
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Was that them being terrible at math, or them knowing that they were selling overpriced goods (00's houses, 90's tech stocks, probably college degrees) to folks who didn't know the math? Big Finance knew it was hustling rubes
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Can't sell a Sumerian a new model iPhone. And to play devil's advocate here, what does this old data potentially get us? Like OP said, it may just be some dude's tax info. Nice to have, and maybe useful for painting a pictu
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Senator McConnell is not known for his support of anything that doesn't benefit him, his donors, or his party. If he's swinging this way it's because he's got an agenda and he's horse-trading, in the same way that
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
+1 for this. Edibles are great, and the 10mg cookies I used to get in WA were large, which made it easy to split them in half or quarters. 10mg would kick my ass as a casual user but 5mg was in the zone. Takes an hour to hit you but that&
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I'm from the US but live in Canada and the price of everything is higher, to include network and, especially, cell phone costs. Doesn't mean that Comcast isn't crap though. https://nationalpost.com/news/c
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
"John C. Doe III, according to hair and skin cell analysis on flakes left in the AUTO-CAR V9 you were transported in on 2027 SEPT 19th, you are being fined $300 DOLLARS for improper behavior. Said behavior was DIGITAL PENETRATION, NAS
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Gonna guess a bias to entrepreneurs who are actively trying to cash in on externalities and opportunities for arbitrage, etc.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> This whole article is incredibly self serving. Mmmmhmmmm. It's executive CYA, and a public article for a public clusterfuck. 5 years ago is when this stuff probably started going sideways and those failures manifest later as mass
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
I rarely use the term "ducking" in conversation, though auto-correct thinks otherwise. Maybe now I will. "I was ducking around and found a few good resources for fixing the OSPF problem."
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Amen, and worth reiterating. From what I've heard from amigos working for big ISPs, you can often get 3-6 months of salary, and if you have decent skills (i.e. you've got job options) then it's often a paid vacation while you
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Basic google search will show lots. Short version is they've been hacked notably at least once. https://www.google.com/search?q=linnode+hacke&ie=utf-8&oe=ut...
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> is possible to turn things around if voters are motivated enough, but for the most part they aren't, and party machine politicians on both sides would like to keep it that way. Reminds me of David Foster Wallace... > “If you ar
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Doesn't even have to be something destructive like Iraq or Puerto Rico, Argentina comes to mind: serious economic collapse, maybe not Venezula-style, but enough that it disrupted things heavily. I agree with the parent -- it's jus
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
You have to pay 10 quid a year to put a boolean (presumably 1 if high risk/freeze, 0 if not) on your account? That seems... exploitative.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> "systemd" is always spelled lowercase. The 'd' doesn't stand for something and is never capitalized. I thought the 'd' was a holdover from "daemon", as in initd or setsid, as a general name
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Everyone notices the pay parking in the US because everyone drives.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
The only person who benefits if you save is you. Companies benefit when you spend. So start consuming!
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
There is more to Nashville than Broadway mon ami.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> Showing all books (319) Is there like a top 50?
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Those people are out there, just not posting on HN at 2pm EST cuz they're not at a desk, they're working 10 hours on a site job. One of my buddies was a linux admin, but now he blows glass and does custom stained-glass windows. S
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Misleading headline. It should read: Manspreading, Renaissance-Style: 2 Experts Weigh In on Etiquette of Centuries Past NYT clickbate
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Opportunity Cost. Anytime there is a purchase, use of time, etc. I try to imagine what else I could do with that resource. Usually this is measured in cheeseburgers or beer or months of server colo costs, time spent on Skyrim quests, etc
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
An awful lot of BC is the middle of nowhere. Hell, once you get 100km past the US border things thin out pretty quickly.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
They get big and go public. Only a matter of time before the bad behavior starts to happen. Gotta keep that stock price up. Not saying private companies can't engage in heinous shenanigans either, they sure can.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Yeah brown rice is fairly popular. Chicken breast + broc + brown rice... for every meal. Oh and oatmeal.
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
> when the whole point of the democratic state is to create a monopoly on violence. The definition of a state, democratic or otherwise, is the monopoly of violence. Doesn't matter if it's absolutist monarchy, Scandinavian-st
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Strip joints with dogs?
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by barrow-rider 8y ago
Vanguard is doing "Auto" Admiral too -- if you meet the 3k minimums for Admiral funds they're auto converting you anyway. Race to the bottom or not, competition works.

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