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by billme 6y ago
>> “ Also, converting between hourly and salaried, you can roughly use 40 hrs/week * 50 weeks/year = 2,000 hours/year.” Even better, take just take an hourly rate, 2x it, add three zeros = annual salary; literally takes
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by billme 6y ago
Cost of swapping the amplifiers, not just the end-points, makes sense as an issue. Thanks! As for it being “only more compact” not a capacity increase, for a comparable single coherent optical fiber line, are existing fibers filled to capac
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by billme 6y ago
Given the cost of laying fiber lines across the ocean and this tech (appears) to double the capacity of an existing line, why would there not be a push to get this into use, what am I missing?
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by billme 6y ago
Generally speaking, books as a format make no sense. I have seen the financial records for number of popular tech book authors — and numbers related to them having published, for example: products, services, consulting & speaker fees, e
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by billme 6y ago
>> “ We are going to end up with some really weird law if we leave all of this up to the supreme court.“ That’s a pretty bold claim, one which I am not aware of any examples of. High courts of any meaningful definition of such, regar
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by billme 6y ago
This ruling has no impact on the laws related to border searches.
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by billme 6y ago
Correct, unless you give your phone to a third-party - for example, to get repaired: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/geek-squads-relationsh...
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by billme 6y ago
Previous answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23270816
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by billme 6y ago
(Duplicate) - prior comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269835
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by billme 6y ago
Prior recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259455
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by billme 6y ago
Does Hasura have any stack recommendations? For example, here’s one user’s stack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22787313
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by billme 6y ago
This has nothing to do with age, being an adult, being in US, etc.; sure, you have a set of assumptions, but they apply at best to you, not the world.
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by billme 6y ago
What exactly are you suggesting? The woman that’s photograph appears in the article, “Lyndsay Tucker, a 25-year-old skin care consultant, who works at a Sephora beauty store in San Jose, Calif.” — is obviously a real person.
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by billme 6y ago
Weird that Elon did not just pay to keep the number and blackhole it.
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by billme 6y ago
In the US, as long as data is gained from third-parties, your “browsing history” falls under the “third-party doctrine”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
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by billme 6y ago
Related legal basis for ruling: (Plain View Doctrine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_view_doctrine (Fruit of the Poisonous Tree) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisonous_tree
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by billme 6y ago
Here’s small scale examples of $100k making a massive difference: https://www.businessinsider.com/where-are-they-now-peter-thi... That said, $100k is not a salary and if someone needs $100k+ salary to do a startup for a yea
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by billme 6y ago
what exactly is a startup to you? (Assure you a $100k to a startup is not the same as $100k to Google.)
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by billme 6y ago
For starters, believe there is a option to identify a video when uploading it to YouTube as being for kids. There also settings to identify channel as being made for kids.
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by billme 6y ago
$3 billion total... That’s enough money to give $100,000 to 30,000 startups.
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by billme 6y ago
Your friend should check with the state to see if they are eligible for unemployment, food, or any other benefits as soon as possible; regardless of what their employers says. For more information, Google: [corona laid off benefits]
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by billme 6y ago
Experienced same problems with aggressive individuals or groups trying to engineer or buy there way into digital properties. Found the whole experience very odd, since while I had no interest in making a deal, the amount of effort they were
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by billme 6y ago
I would argue mainstream media is literally propaganda, or at least the US government is legally allowed to broadcast propaganda [1] — either directly via direct government intervention— or like what is now known to be the case in Turkey, f
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by billme 6y ago
>> “ Fox and MSNBC is they are entertainment programs” No, maybe to you, but to vast amounts of people, millions of people, they watch a singular source for news and to them, that is the news. In the US, since you’re referring to them
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by billme 6y ago
This is literally what news is supposed to do — that is enable multiple & unbiased perspectives on a topic, and if necessary, give equal time to bias opposing views. Otherwise you end up with the “ministry of truth” — and we all know ho
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by billme 6y ago
People tend to believe that they have no responsibility to not bait criminals, acknowledge fault if their actions enabled crimes, etc. Reason? Doing so would reduce their rights, increase their responsibilities, etc.
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by billme 6y ago
To be direct: you literally failed to acknowledge my core point in response to your prior comment, that is what you’re describing is “survivor bias” — then went on in the comment I am currently responding to say a recipe is to fund, hire, c
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by billme 6y ago
What is the recipe? — (You have written a lot of words, no recipe.) Honestly, love research, would be happy to be wrong, but all I hear you saying is someone did it so it must be possible— that’s called survivor bias, it’s not a recipe and
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by billme 6y ago
R&D is not dead. R&D has been rising globally for over 70 years with no major declines. Globally, $1.7 trillion USD a year is currently spent on RD; roughly 2% of the global GDP. There is more research going on right now than at an
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by billme 6y ago
Fun fact: In the some countries (for example the US) you can fly solo passenger ultralight helicopters & airplanes with no training or legal requirements as long as it’s in unregulated airspace. Warning: Doing so likely end up resulting

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