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by bdhess 5y ago
+1. I'd also guess that these companies getting together to start a joint venture is not really feasible, due to anti-monopoly laws.
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by bdhess 5y ago
Go's flag parser treats two leading minus signs the same as one. https://golang.org/pkg/flag/#hdr-Command_line_flag_syntax
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by bdhess 6y ago
I don’t know why the protagonist being Indian is something that would be strongly remembered. I’d guess anyone whose audience has more time than money could’ve hatched a scheme like this, regardless of nationality.
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by bdhess 6y ago
Even if you're not immobile it would be great to have a cleaning robot. Hiring housekeepers is a thing. Do you actually enjoy cleaning?
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by bdhess 6y ago
Defining where things belong is a thing I want control over, so that when I go to find something, it's right where I want it. Actually putting things in their proper place is a chore, no matter how old you are.
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by bdhess 6y ago
> while never forcing a populace to do something against its interests or will Except for the westerners who disagree with this. They can be subjugated.
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by bdhess 6y ago
> The vast majority of student loans are guaranteed by the federal government. The banks take zero risk on these loans Do you have a source for this? I can't confirm it. As an example, this description implies that the guarantee is
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by bdhess 7y ago
> Next have someone qualified on every single board of directors and have each board create an appropriate sub committee. The same way you have a qualified accountant and audit sub-comittee. I think it makes sense to note that corporatio
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by bdhess 7y ago
“Sorry I’m not answering any (more) questions.”
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by bdhess 7y ago
As the United States is the country of origin, an airworthiness directive issued by the FAA is valid in all ICAO member states.
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by bdhess 7y ago
> He was aware of the field of economics and didn't think it was worthy of a prize. I doubt you have evidence of this, beyond the simple fact that he didn't personally establish a sixth prize. If such evidence existed, I think
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by bdhess 7y ago
I think you mean all intensive purposes </s>
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by bdhess 7y ago
The argument is that ICE doesn’t treat its detainees humanely, because the institutional culture within ICE is pervasively rotten beyond repair. The hope is that by disbanding ICE and handing its responsibilities over to new management with
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by bdhess 7y ago
I think calling Assange a journalist is very debatable. He certainly doesn’t comply with the ethical norms of the profession.
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by bdhess 7y ago
It’s not implying that many or most people are idiots or untrustworthy. But that there are extreme outliers at the fringes. Before the internet, they’d mostly be unable to find each other. With the internet, they can build self-reinforcing
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by bdhess 7y ago
FTA, it sounds like the firmware’s original behavior was to save the three most recent configurations as backups, so it seems straightforward that four resets would have the effect of actually wiping a current config.
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by bdhess 7y ago
He’s not a whistleblower, and didn’t short circuit his management chain. FTA he was an engineering student at WVU the time, not employed by VW.
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by bdhess 7y ago
I don't know where you're getting your numbers for the Swedish budget, but the OECD [1] says that their spending is $23,780 per capita, which would make for a $247+ bn budget for a country of 10.4 mn people. So more than double N
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by bdhess 7y ago
I don’t understand the comparison you’re trying to make. Like, not per capita and/or without purchasing power adjusted, sure. What does that prove?
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by bdhess 7y ago
Huh? If it's in the Spam folder, they do accept it.
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by bdhess 7y ago
The iPhone 4S has not received a security update in >2 years, and has >700 known security vulnerabilities, so it is not a "perfectly working device," it's a "probably compromised device." https://nv
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by bdhess 7y ago
The S9 is literally on the same platform as every other S-Bahn train that goes from Hbf to Alexanderplatz, so you'd also have to willfully ignore the ample station signage for all the trains that pass you by.
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by bdhess 8y ago
In an X.509 certificate, the serial number is encoded as the ASN.1 integer type, which is arbitrary length. So that can't map to a native integer type on any platform. I'd chalk this up to the author of the relevant module not re
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by bdhess 8y ago
Because in context, “We [legislators] have to pass the bill so that you [citizens] can find out what is in it” does not at all imply that congressmen don’t need to read the bill.
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by bdhess 8y ago
She was talking to citizens, not to congressmen.
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by bdhess 8y ago
The author probably only finds confinement-as-punishment morally unacceptable because he believes that just punishment will be meted out in the afterlife anyway. If you take away the assumption of religion, there's really no argument l
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by bdhess 8y ago
The first amendment has nothing to say about private discrimination on the basis of religion.
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by bdhess 8y ago
I’ve had multiple broadband choices in every metro area I’ve lived in, too (now on my fourth in the US). Of course, I’ve lived in parts of those metro areas that were densely populated. I.e., where a competitor could reasonably expect to re
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by bdhess 8y ago
> The article/directive specifically called out DNS account passwords on DNS hosting providers. If they were using support tickets and manually implemented changes by hand then there would not be an account. I don't think it&#x
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by bdhess 8y ago
I would guess the failures were errors on rebuild. This article summarizes this kind of scenario fairly well: https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-raid-6-stops-working-in-20...

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