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by bmelton 7y ago
Just seconding this by proxy. Thanks to some early steps, I'm about as unaffected by COVID-19 as a person can be. I live in a neighborhood with acres between houses, telework to an office across the country, and am not at all unused to
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by bmelton 7y ago
I've tried a variety of things. The first big step once I realized that I was sloughing off the boring bits was to try tackling the boring bits first. Start with a basic app that included user registration, an empty FAQ page, etc., but
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by bmelton 7y ago
> If you are no longer interested in a project you started, maybe you already got what you came for This line alone got me to go buy the book. As someone who's constantly churning through ideas, and who feels afflicted by ADHD jus
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by bmelton 7y ago
I'm sort of down for it. "I don't like cats" is a fairly apolitical statement, that is until such point as political parties start taking stances on cats and arguing in favor of who subsidizes what kinds of feline activi
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by bmelton 7y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head, to be perfectly honest. Beyond that, the fight is a moving target. A union that forms for this issue would not be the same union as for the next issue, nor would its members uniformly be for or
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by bmelton 7y ago
I've had a lot of dogs, and dog ownership isn't a new thing to me. That said, the last dog I got was during a break between jobs that I ended up extending. I watched videos on Youtube to train her with (Thanks, Zak George) and wor
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by bmelton 7y ago
`git revert 3f858d836a1d07c5ba682ba327df0711e7ada8fd` ought to do it, no?
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by bmelton 7y ago
> They’re often cheaper because the store increases the price of the competitors’ wares to make their own store-product more appealing Maybe irrelevant to the point, but in my experience that is very wrong. They're cheaper because:
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by bmelton 7y ago
This isn't meant to diminish the plight of those suffering in America, but it takes approximately $32,000 to be in the top 1% for worldwide incomes. Much of America's poor are relatively wealthy when you consider the global scale.
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> I’m disappointed at the hostility for pointing out fanboyism on HN Because it very much comes across as though you've got an axe to grind. OP was "maybe sort of" going to build an AMD box, for which there are a lot of go
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by bmelton 7y ago
I mean, TFA is about an exploit exclusive to Intel SGX processors, which of course includes E3 Xeons.
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by bmelton 7y ago
Not sure if edited, but your quote is slightly off. Should be > They have shown not themselves to be a reliable partner The "not" there feels like it's in an ambiguous spot, but at least gives a faint connotation of the au
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by bmelton 7y ago
Hydro may require drowning valleys, but micro-hydro with a weir utilizes existing waterways with minimal impact. As to energy density, there's no fixing that, but for most people, density is far less a concern than 'enough' -
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by bmelton 7y ago
I've recently become enamored with micro-hydro generation, having seen ways in which it can be totally non-destructive to local wildlife and/or fish going through the generator, and while I completely agree with everything you&#x2
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by bmelton 7y ago
Acknowledging that there are thresholds for productivity, it also dramatically depends on the type of work and the objectives. Diminishing returns are bad for some tasks, acceptable for others, but both are subject to the types of deadlines
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by bmelton 7y ago
Perhaps I'm just playing devil's advocate here, but is it possible that your phone number was just autofilled by your browser?
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by bmelton 7y ago
Just responding to the "Why shouldn't governments" argument, but the obvious counter-response to that is that (at least in its current iteration) the government is pretty bad on slapping its own hand. We see this at the heart
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by bmelton 7y ago
The obvious counter to that and (feel free to interject if I'm wrong) is that it's because other countries have instituted price controls on pharmaceuticals that companies have to make up their profits on the US market. My worry h
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Nor even charged
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by bmelton 7y ago
I didn't mean to trivialize the effort, or diminish the amount of work. I just mean that most of the hard work has been done by being thought of already. Leveraging spam detection algorithms across all accounts is a brilliant idea, and
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by bmelton 7y ago
I think it's fair to say that any of Google's individual technologies can be replicated in fairly short order, but the problem is that the combined effect of Google's collective suite of tools is powerful. Yes, I can build a
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by bmelton 7y ago
By no means am I a wine connoisseur, but having just returned from France with a bevy of wine snobs who enjoy French wine (and were hoping for their success) -- this theory, as tested, did not hold true. I purchased a handful of cheapo bott
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by bmelton 7y ago
IIRC, this blatant miscategorization of vehicles is what ultimately killed the Mini Clubman Panel van from being a possible thing in the United States (in addition to it being a supremely weird vehicle.)
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by bmelton 7y ago
To this extent, countries compete on taxation and value-add for services. Perhaps country A charges more in taxes, but offers more education to its people, and a more educated workforce to hire from, while country B offers fewer of those am
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by bmelton 7y ago
Thanks a million. Those prices look similar to what I've used in the past, it's just been a long time since I've gone shopping for small scale dedicated hosting.
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by bmelton 7y ago
Care to name names? I've been looking for a small, cheap failover for a moderately low traffic app.
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by bmelton 7y ago
"If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem."
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by bmelton 7y ago
> With Firebase, when doing complex calculations, not only does the data have to leave the database, it often reaches end users Any time sensitive data reaches untrusted users it is a bad practice, but this needn't be the case on Fi
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by bmelton 8y ago
I agree that racism exists. I agree that unconscious bias exists. I agree that work needs to be done to smooth race relations and unconscious bias. That said, I think it's worth considering whether constantly talking about race is doin
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by bmelton 8y ago
Worth noting that Ashton Kutcher is one of Thorn's co-founders, provided some initial funding, and is likely in a great position to fund-raise for it outside (and within) the usual channels.

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