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by cubano 11y ago
Well, I must disagree and say it was the "Germans collectively", at least in a large part (37% of them voted for Hitler in his last real election), but in their defense, it was the Treaty of Versailles, imposed upon the nation at
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by cubano 11y ago
If you don't care for how your OJ is processed, you should really dislike that bottle of wine, too. Sulfur Dioxide The most widely used wine additive. It kills microbes and prevents oxidation. Few vintners dare to bottle a wine wit
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by cubano 11y ago
My first foray into "real" PC programming was done in via Kahn/Borland's fairly awesome Turbo Pascal compiler back in the the early 80's for IBM's DOS OS. Pascal introduced me to pointers, free-form editing (I
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by cubano 11y ago
Call me old (yes I am!) fashioned, but would it be too much to ask to see some sort of example app using said widget in the post? This is the second article I've been interested in today here on HN that seems, to me at least, to go on
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by cubano 11y ago
Einstein's big year was 1905, not 1915, and the four (five?) papers he produced during that year (one of which won him a Nobel) could easily be described as the work of a "lone genius." He did most of work of that year while
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by cubano 11y ago
It's not broken at all. It's running exactly the way the entrenched players want it to run, squashing competition with heavy-handed regulators and killing innovation at pretty much every turn.
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by cubano 11y ago
> I don't need 'fancy' food, but a stable home is pretty important to me. Health and dental care probably rank up there too...dentistry can be quite expensive when you finally need it, and is definitely not "fluff&quo
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by cubano 11y ago
Never underestimate the money laundering "bandwidth" of a shipping container full of cash crossing the oceans[1] [1] http://people.exeter.ac.uk/watupman/undergrad/ron/methods%20...
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by cubano 11y ago
Oh this is truly sad news. I first started my online journey with a 300bps Hayes modem and an original 4.77mhz IBM PC, connecting with a service called The Source in 1981. I soon moved on to Compuserve and then, of course, BBSs. The first
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by cubano 11y ago
Killing the open web? Not hardly... > I had a blog once. It wasn’t big, but I loved knowing who I was writing for. I loved knowing that the same couple hundred people would come back again and again... Had a "blog once"? And yo
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by cubano 11y ago
And his amps definitely go to 11... I was a huge Yngwie fan back when I was into guitar music...his "Rising Force" album simply blew me away. "Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4" has to be one of the best guitar songs ever w
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by cubano 11y ago
> Eventually, the publisher won’t need a programmer... Yes, they will need 5 ;)
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by cubano 11y ago
Sure, I can run with that analogy. So a master woodcarver works with chisels, his "tools", for his entire life...30 years, and with them he turns bare wood into incredible works that the world recognizes as valuable art. Someone h
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by cubano 11y ago
I don't mean to be snarky and I'm definitely showing my age here, but isn't that exactly what devs were saying about node.js two years ago?
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by cubano 11y ago
It seems to me the the same effort that was applied to the HealthCare.gov should be applied here.[1] It is beyond...well I don't know...beyond something that our federal government proves itself time and time again so incompetent at
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by cubano 11y ago
I find it somewhat mindbending that he advises working on a MVP for 10 projects simultaneously when it's all I can do to work on 1 plus, you know, my real job that pays the bills. More power to anyone who has that sort of energy!
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by cubano 11y ago
I would have to disagree with that as a blanket statement. Plenty of "successful" businesses use other means besides added value to extract rents from customers. Robert Reich has recently written very eloquently and convincingly a
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by cubano 11y ago
I've always thought the idea of "giving more value than you take" is an ideal worth shooting for.
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by cubano 11y ago
And I agree...I certainly never meant to imply that it is impossible to reform your image, so to speak, and to find some sort of place to "fit in" again. Obviously, AA/NA, volunteering, and perhaps even church groups are all
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by cubano 11y ago
Amen^2
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by cubano 11y ago
> He's a prominent member of a popular foodie Facebook group in his town, to the point where people stop him in the street and take selfies with him. In his community, that's a much bigger deal ... You are kinda making my point
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by cubano 11y ago
I can totally understand why individuals with substance abuse problems give up in their early 50's and commit suicide, as I personally have felt this tug at times. It is very difficult, both emotionally and financially, to look back
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by cubano 11y ago
From experience, not every heroin overdose ends in death, so perhaps that explains it.
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It was awesome he was eventually paid for it on the blockchain. Interesting that traders are using it for personal transactions these days.
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by cubano 11y ago
> As for your own experiences, the key thing to understand here is that our hiring processes are designed to have a high false negative rate and a near-zero false positive rate. So why in the world would you create your Rework site, espo
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by cubano 11y ago
I was, of course, using the "155" number that the OP used in his analysis, so we are both correct.
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by cubano 11y ago
And you are five times more likely to be killed at a railroad crossing then by a police officer.[1] Headlines like these are obviously created for sensationalism , and while you will be hard pressed to find someone with a bigger animus towa
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by cubano 11y ago
> It could indicate that judges are overeager to convict Judges don't convict, juries do. Just thought I'd clear that up.
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by cubano 11y ago
I'm somewhat surprised no one has of yet written an algo that can do this sort of thing on demand. Would it even matter it was automated if it did a good job? Are these artists is Dafen nothing but automatons, waiting to be replaced b
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by cubano 11y ago
Nice work...a little busy for my tastes but that could be a cultural thing :) An excellent showcase of your skills I think.

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