chocolatebunny

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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
I'm curious as to what a realistic climate policy would be, if such a policy exists. We're generally acting too slowly reduce climate change but if we act too quickly there'll be a lot of social and political backlash. But
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
How do you do industrial heating without natural gas? Last I heard heating with electricity was ridiculously expensive.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
The factor they kind of glossed over is the bumpy stock market last year. People who are looking to buy something in the bay area are going to sell all that company stock they've gained over the years to buy a place. So if the tech s
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
An individual may not be that well informed when voting but the collective of all votes is supposed to average out to something more reasonable. There was a story about a bunch of people who were guessing the weight of an ox in a state fai
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
What exactly are the barriers to programming for women?
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
At this point it might actually make sense for Google to create a separate European entity so they won't get fined so heavily all the time in the EU. I guess they'd have to see how much of a benefit that would be relative to the
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
I can't really see anything in your graph that could relate to the 2008 economic crash. I mean, I guess there might be a tiny divot, but it looks pretty small.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
I would have thought Sunnyvale would be pretty pricey too. It's like right between Google and Apple.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
69 isn't prime. it's 23x3. I think this is why I'm alone.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
Cisco? I don't think the NSA has any issues with Nokia, Ericsson or Samsung. It's just the ones based in China that seem suspicious.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
Apple and a lot of other major tech companies will pay for security exploits. This seams like a reasonable exchange. The kid gave Apple information about an exploit and Apple payed him for it.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
I'd rather boycott the leafs because I'm tired of losing.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
A lot of times you need to take a step back to see what you're doing. It's not always easy to do in a work environment.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
Some middle managers will overestimate how much time and people they need for a project just so they can be on time and under budget. And once you hire someone it's really hard to get rid of them until there is a layoff cycle. And us
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
I've heard hardware guys complain about saving pennies. When you're manufacturing millions of units then saving 20 cents on each of them absolutely does matter. Obviously saving 20 cents now doesn't offset all the other iss
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
You can say the same about driving a car to work. Or anything we do in our daily lives. As long as I can comment on hacker news, what's a little ecological damage (from wasting electricity supplied from some unknown source in an offi
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
I think there needs to be a way to have personal filters on P2P systems. I don't want censorship but I don't want to support the distribution of child pornography, not because it's illegal but because it doesn't align t
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
Putting a note on the inside of the bench with the bench lid already open seems like a pretty good idea. having a bench with a liftable top is also pretty good since having a bench outdoors is pretty nice too.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
It's weird that it kind of makes it a small town vs big city discussion. I think most of the big tech sectors seem to spawn near good universities. The universities supply the highly educated workforce for the businesses and the size
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
Anyone know of a good alternative for group chat that doesn't tie your account to your phone#? My friends and I were joking about going back to icq since web.icq.com still works.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
Is there a reason why you did that that way other than to avoid writeable function pointers? Also, that just sounds like how switch/case is sometimes implemented. Have you considered just using a switch/case statement instead of
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
You can't compare a corporation's suicide rate to a nation's because corporations filter out people through their hiring process. You have to compare foxconn's suicide rate to other corporations.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
At my previous job the management not liking you layoff was because "you're not being a team player/difficult to work with". They were never firings because the the company just did massive layoffs every year so you just
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
In Canada, Nissan sells a car called the Micra. The 2018 base model comes with manual transmission, rollup windows and no AC. But next year they have to add a backup camera. To me this car seems like the last vestige of a bygone era in N
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
I think that's what Steve Ballmer is trying to push with usafacts.com. Get people to be more aware of where their money goes. Or something like that, I've never actually checked it out, just heard him in an interview.
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
Do you go to the gym at night before bed, or in the morning?
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
I don't think a lot of people will see this the same way you do. I think a lot of people will care about even a 1% degradation in performance. And people will prefer a tried and true operating system for security over something that
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
For what it's worth, I know many skilled folks (myself included) who moved from Canada to the US because there are more job prospects with significantly higher pay. I hope all these people make Canada more competitive since I'd l
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
What do you think Google or any other company should do when it is handed national security letters in the USA?
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by chocolatebunny 8y ago
Just go North of the border and pick up a Nissan Micra. A manual with no ac and windup windows goes for under $10k Canadian. Here's some Ontarians test driving it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1EIrJOXMo

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