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by beeboop 11y ago
>He was, in other words, a troll: the kind of person you might find on Reddit I think it's funny that reddit is the go-to example of an internet shithole, instead of something like 4chan.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Main stream media seemingly prints anything said by any government official as fact, even when it is dubious at best.
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by beeboop 11y ago
People are going to be breaking into your car to steal stuff 99% of the time, not trying to steal the car itself. They are often homeless, or have some sort of chemical dependency, or are mentally ill. They are not going to have the foresig
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by beeboop 11y ago
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/novena as close as we have, at least in terms of verifiabily uncompromised.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Why is this a deal breaker for you, but windows aren't? Someone can break into any car through a window using a rock.
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by beeboop 11y ago
The days of universities being bastions of free speech and a place to challenge ideas is over. Universities are now first and foremost a businesses, and students attend almost entirely within the context of a business transaction. Money and
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by beeboop 11y ago
Tomorrow: left-pad.io announces $120 million investment at $1.2 billion valuation Month from now: left-pad announces purchase of $170 million office building in SV to house their 1200 employees
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by beeboop 11y ago
I think it's possible for you both to be correct. The definition of "neutralized" could be taught to officers as "you are 10000% sure he is dead", which is only done by firing your entire magazine into them. So whil
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by beeboop 11y ago
Patrick struggles with money? What's your source for that? Last I recall he was writing about how he did consulting gigs making tens of thousands of dollars a week.
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by beeboop 11y ago
I am actually part of that camp. I have a i3570k and recently did an entire system upgrade including changing from full tower to mini ITX. The only real problem was the selection of mini ITX motherboards for my older socket type is pretty p
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by beeboop 11y ago
I found this hard to believe but from a quick Google search it appears you're right - Intel desktop CPU sales have been on a downward trend since 2011.
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by beeboop 11y ago
At some point the length was arbitrary. As precedence is created, it becomes more deterministic but only somewhat more so. Often times there are minimum sentencing laws, the length of which is mostly arbitrary.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Death threats are already illegal, so that's beside the point. The line between "voicing an opinion someone disagrees with" and "harassment" is pretty vague, especially when from one person's perspective, thous
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by beeboop 11y ago
If you remove the risk of prison for nonviolent offenders, you're creating a world where large businesses and their owners will no longer care whether they do something illegal, they will only care about the risks of getting caught ver
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by beeboop 11y ago
I am a web developer, my entire livelihood would not exist if not for the internet, and it would be effortless for me to avoid anything online that is offensive to me, even if the entire country knew my name and wanted me dead. I am not sur
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by beeboop 11y ago
I think you leave out some extremely relevant points in your comment and have mischaracterized the situation. Lindy West is one of the poster children for the "fat acceptance movement", a self described activist, cofounded a socia
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by beeboop 11y ago
Thanks, been a long time since accounting classes.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Generally there is a small annual fee in addition to a cut of the profits. Profits on huge gaining years seem really high, but you're forgetting the essentially zero profit (or losses) on years with negative or no returns. Those years
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by beeboop 11y ago
I would assume you make that much because you bring that much value to the company. I doubt anyone who's a supervisor of yours would see it, care if the saw it, would be willing to fire you if they cared, and would be willing the risk
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by beeboop 11y ago
Pornhub one was funny
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by beeboop 11y ago
>I'm pretty positive I'm in full control of this company That you don't know pretty much guarantees you have zero legal control. I assume the corporate entity is not in your name. Domains, hosting, etc are all very easily
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by beeboop 11y ago
Why not just change it by 50-75k? You're a pretty big outlier anyway, not like it matters in terms of median.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Hedge funds as a group are only risky and volatile compared to mutual funds. Their degree of riskiness varies tremendously, and there are a great number of them that would offering investment management that is tremendously less risky than
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by beeboop 11y ago
This is ignoring a lot that goes into investment management. It's easy to say S&P would have done just as well on that particular year, but what about every other year? What about years with big losses? Additionally, investment man
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by beeboop 11y ago
Just tell them you're moving out of the country. Zero attempts to upsell or retain. Worked 5/5 times for me.
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by beeboop 11y ago
I am not sure the fuel injection analogy will hold up here. There's nothing in a fuel injected car that will kill you unless you shove your arm into an exposed engine and try to run the starter or something, in which case you'd pr
567.
by beeboop 11y ago
Almost assuredly it's a liability on their books, meaning they haven't recognized it as an income or asset.
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by beeboop 11y ago
I would guess this mostly designed for ocean crossing flights. Their example is NYC to London, as soon as you take off from NYC you're over the ocean. By the time you accelerate to mach 1.12 and are at the appropriate altitude, you&#x2
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by beeboop 11y ago
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318461
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by beeboop 11y ago
KnowYourMeme [1] is surpisingly high quality and informative sometimes. "pwn" apparently has origins going as far back as the 60s, but I had to guess it's mostly popular these days due to the brief leetspeak phase of the earl

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