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by beeboop 11y ago
60% of federal budget is social security, unemployment, medicare, and health spending. 16% is military. I think the bigger problem is that money spent in healthcare doesn't go nearly as far as it does elsewhere due to bloated healthcar
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by beeboop 11y ago
OP is probably referring to US, where doctors are paid a lot more than most places and "laywers" in this context has the connotation of a partner at a law firm, not just some random person working in the law field who passed the b
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by beeboop 11y ago
I think the issue people have isn't that 90,000 people have 90% of the wealth, it's the implications behind that figure. It's the imbalance between 6.6 million people who die every year from poor diet or malnutrition, somethi
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by beeboop 11y ago
They're designed to not look scary or confusing when the prospective buyer looks at the engine bay and knows nothing about cars. Extreme example: https://iedei.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/2010-lexus-ls460-s...
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by beeboop 11y ago
Depends on the factory. Here's a picture from Boeing's: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Boeing_F... Especially relevant due to "No FOD" sign (meaning there's
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by beeboop 11y ago
I look forward to the day when media outlets start dying due to lack of ad revenue. 99% of news content is rehashing of existing content done by someone else. Remove the noise and the few real contributors will be easily recognized and supp
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by beeboop 11y ago
If you have an anti-side-development employer I am not sure your loophole will help. I would suggest to OP simply not having any public product at all until after you leave your employer, and even then waiting a couple weeks to make it less
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Ask HN: Developers who transitioned to project/product managers, are you happy?
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by beeboop 11y ago
You pay reddit per impression, not per click. Getting an ad that works out to $0.02 per click is not as easy as it sounds, especially if you're just trying to make them buy something on Amazon. Clickbait doesn't lead to sales very
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by beeboop 11y ago
I'm surprised you kept "engineers" as part of the title. Is a guy writing only CSS an engineer?
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by beeboop 11y ago
I think it depends on the context, and that context has shifted a lot over the past ten years. I can deploy an app to Heroku that scales tremendously well (if expensively) and have almost zero knowledge of configuring a web server or the to
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by beeboop 11y ago
Desirable areas of housing in Houston are only cheap relative to SF area, downtown Portland, and downtown Seattle. Plenty of million dollar condos in Houston, and a nice but small one bedroom/studio in a good part of Houston start at a
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by beeboop 11y ago
Universities are not what they used to be. They are not bastions of free speech and thought. They are not a place to challenge ideas. They're an extension of high school. Their environment is an extension of the environment of corporat
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by beeboop 11y ago
It would seem to me that the biggest missing piece for most startups is making something people want. I guess you could say dedication is what's missing if that's what you need to go from something people don't want to someth
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by beeboop 11y ago
The only perspective that really matters is the average American voter. The average American voter, in some parts of the country, would possibly disagree with Hillary's gun control stance, but she's not really vocal about that and
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by beeboop 11y ago
Taking extreme positions doesn't win elections unfortunately. Trump has a few of his own extreme opinions and I feel relatively confident he's going to lose pretty bad to Hillary because of it. Hillary is the master of no extremes
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by beeboop 11y ago
The difference is that this uses pressing to get the juice instead of cutting/blending. There is a lot of information out there about how pressing is better, but I am unsure how much of it is bullshit. Getting a good pressing machine t
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by beeboop 11y ago
I assume you're describing some variation of anxiety. Social anxiety is helped tremendously by exposure. Go do stuff in social settings you're uncomfortable with (not anything dangerous or against your morals obviously). It will g
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by beeboop 11y ago
NSL only makes it so Apple can't talk about it. It doesn't make it so they have to make a new operating system just because the FBI told them to. There wasn't an easy way to create the precedent of forcing Apple to do what th
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by beeboop 11y ago
Maybe Cloudflare could have a browser plugin that preemptively creates "tokens", or essentially just mines Cloudcoins that you then spend to bypass CAPTCHAs. That way you could make it much more expensive than 5 seconds of CPU and
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by beeboop 11y ago
Asana blog makes it clearer: >Today Asana closed a Series C financing round, raising $50M in new capital. The round was led by Y Combinator president Sam Altman. Sam participated alongside a number of other customers, investors, and lead
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by beeboop 11y ago
Complaining about ripoffs in a marketplace is pretty much complaining about competition. How annoying.
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by beeboop 11y ago
But it isn't cheaper than just mining bitcoins with that same CPU load. This wouldn't prevent spamming, it would just make it unprofitable compared to the alternatives (mining bitcoins). The JavaScript issue can be gotten around
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by beeboop 11y ago
It doesn't stop them, but it raises the costs of it significantly. Instead of hundreds of requests a second, they're down to one request every 5 seconds, and they're having to run the computer at a full CPU load 100% of the t
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by beeboop 11y ago
In addition to CAPTCHAs, why not just have a button that runs some JavaScript that completes a proof-of-work similar to what mining bitcoins does? You could make it only take 5 seconds on a modern laptop CPU, about as long as it'd take
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by beeboop 11y ago
Also considering he's probably in jail, I doubt he has internet access.
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by beeboop 11y ago
If I had to guess, the types of conditions that collect and preserve fossils well enough for us to discover them are transient in nature (as in, it became suddenly covered by something like a landslide/water) or very geographically spe
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by beeboop 11y ago
Thank you
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The article is overwhelmingly about the life and background of Paul. That's really the scoop here from the author's perspective, the fact that he happened to be the TrueCrypt founder is sort of an interesting aside (though also th
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by beeboop 11y ago
Really the only "big" information presented is that Paul Le Roux, a man arrested recently by the DEA, is very very likely the same person who was the early leader of TrueCrypt. It discuses his background a lot - he was an extremel

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