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by bskap 10y ago
If you had $18000 dollars and had the option of investing it all and paying tax later or paying tax now and investing the rest, you'll end up with the same amount. If you have $24000 to invest, your two options are: 1. Invest $18000 in
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by bskap 10y ago
The most common annoyance is along these lines: interface List<T> { T[] toArray(T[] item); } You need to pass in a T[] because arrays keep their types at runtime but the generics don't.
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by bskap 10y ago
That's the minimum wage where your employer doesn't have to pay overtime if you work more than 40 hours a week, not the minimum wage an employer is allowed to pay you. It seems kind of silly to say "sure, you can afford a dec
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by bskap 10y ago
> similarly why shouldn't everyone learn basic science, economics, or civics We already teach those things to every child in the US. Whether or not they pay attention is something we have less control over. The vast majority of stud
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by bskap 10y ago
In the US, almost all employment is at-will. There's no probationary period and any one can be let go at any time without notice for any reason (or no reason) except for a certain list of protected things (gender, race, marital status,
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by bskap 10y ago
In Tesla's case, the laws were created specifically to block them. They didn't exist when Tesla started. The previous laws on the books were more along the lines of "if you have dealers, you can't sell direct" rathe
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by bskap 10y ago
"sharing economy" usually refers to services that don't directly sell things, but instead get users who want things in contact with other users who have things- Uber getting people who want to use a car in contact with people
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by bskap 10y ago
But they're not a "sharing economy" company. They show up on the normal Who Has Your Back list.
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by bskap 11y ago
So a single IP address can DDoS each page of a website for a little while before CloudFlare blocks them? That makes the whole protection pretty useless. I guess it would stop someone from brute-forcing password attempts, but that's n
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by bskap 11y ago
> Going with the mask analogy, they should instead check if a person is brute forcing lock combinations. Maybe even condition on the fact that they're wearing a mask. That's what they're doing. They are seeing brute forcin
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by bskap 11y ago
The definitions for "unemployed" are very well defined. This is the standard "U3" unemployment number. You count as unemployed if you do not have a job and have looked for work within the last 4 weeks. There are other un
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by bskap 11y ago
Fixed as of a month ago. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0461/
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by bskap 11y ago
From the article: > Royalties on the song bring in about $2 million a year for Warner, according to some estimates. If they're getting $2 million a year for it, I wouldn't call it de facto invalid.
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by bskap 11y ago
The new switchable pass they're making for the 405 HOT lanes is bigger and thicker. Still smaller than the one in that article, but no longer just a sticker. http://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2015/04/everything-yo
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by bskap 11y ago
By using the "XP Mode" VM.
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by bskap 11y ago
I think it only impacted people who were using Compute Engine and storing data on a hard drive instead of using Cloud Storage. I suspect that Drive data has redundant copies stored in multiple data centers in addition to frequent backups.
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by bskap 11y ago
BitBucket is free for private repos with less than five people. Doesn't work for a lot of businesses, which is where most of the money is.
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by bskap 11y ago
I'm not sure Microsoft wants to gamble $1 billion that "You have to use Microsoft's updater" is different than "you have to include Windows Media Player".
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by bskap 11y ago
Because the US and EU have repeatedly told Microsoft that they're not allowed to force OEMs to use their software.
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by bskap 11y ago
You mean like the University of Washington? (tied for #6 for CS in the latest US News rankings)
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by bskap 11y ago
"Pro" is for people that don't have volume licenses but want the business-specific features like domain joining. Remember, Windows 10 may be a free upgrade, but it's not free and I imagine they still make quite a bit of
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by bskap 11y ago
In a lot of states (not sure about Michigan specifically), the law was "if you have any dealers in the state, you can't sell direct". The dealers are trying to change that to "you can't sell direct" to block Te
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by bskap 12y ago
It never shows more than the snippet. The Spanish government is arguing that people read the snippet and then never go see the article, so Google should pay for posting the snippet.
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by bskap 12y ago
Based on the dollar value of an individual share or their market capitalization? Their current market capitalization (after the crash) is about $20 billion, which is less than $400 for each monthly subscriber they currently have. That'
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by bskap 12y ago
1. That's high school. The article is talking about college. 2. I don't see that chart distinguishing anything by income level.
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by bskap 12y ago
From the video, it seems like a lot of it is going into paying licensing costs so they can give it to schools for free.
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by bskap 13y ago
NGEN caches native code on the machine. You're still running from the CIL executable and you still need to have the framework installed, it just loads the machine code from the cache instead of JITing it. This appears to generate a nat
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by bskap 13y ago
All of the phones are getting updated. The issue is that Microsoft/Nokia/whoever else is involved doesn't have the clout that Apple does with the carriers, so even though the update has already been finished and tested thorou
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by bskap 13y ago
I would imagine that most US employers are more familiar with them than most non-Americans because we're more likely to come across the less-well known schools when we were applying for college. Edsger Djikstra was a professor at UT Au
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by bskap 13y ago
Yes, it's just a percent off the on-demand pricing instead of being priced separately. Details at http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/offers/commitment-plans/

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