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by cubano 5y ago
> But the article isn’t about re-litigation of that election, or the next one. It starts from the premise that the result of the election was unprecedented, and that someone like Trump would not have had a chance in earlier times. I&#x27
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by cubano 5y ago
So let me get this straight... Facebook is the reason that Trump got elected?? This is possibly the most asinine thing I've heard in a very long time. Trump got elected for several reasons, and Facebook had nothing to do with it. 1. H
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by cubano 5y ago
browser validation keeps honest people out.
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by cubano 5y ago
I am completely baffled by the imposter syndrome talk. Guess what? We are all imposters, all of the time! Our whole lives are filled with times we are thrown into situations that we have no idea how to handle, and the act of just living
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by cubano 5y ago
How amazing...great job sir the site/app looks very promising! Being a mid-50s dev with 35 years of programming experience, I'm finding ageism (or something) blocking my ability to get hired these days, so teaching is something I&
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by cubano 5y ago
Sounds like your the type of person who most definitely shouldn't be renting any property to people. The simple fact is...when you start accepting money to allow others to use your stuff, things out of your control are going to happen.
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by cubano 5y ago
Am I a total idiot as I am completely unable to get any output from this? I mean, I spent about 5 minutes reading the various inputs and trying to modify them, yet I am baffled as what to do to actually see, or even know what's going o
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by cubano 5y ago
I believe that scenario totally depends upon OPEC's ability to keep prices artificially high by limiting production of its vast supplies of oil. I remember a few short years ago when fracking was dominating the news about oil supply al
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by cubano 5y ago
I am almost positive this depends upon how socially active and adept the individual is, and if they specifically seek and join internal societies that work at promoting this sort of post-grad networking. I graduated from the Florida Institu
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by cubano 5y ago
Are you saying that a luxury watch costs the same as a luxury car? If that is true (which I find incredibly hard to believe) it literally makes no sense. The utility and the ability of a car to give you a ROI compared to a watch is almost
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by cubano 5y ago
Well the obvious issue here is...how do they truly know you wrote the code? Its pretty much impossible to source where OS code comes from, and it sure wouldn't be hard to find an obscure OS project and pass off the code as yours, if
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Is General AI Closer Then We Think?(deepmind.com)
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by cubano 5y ago
Sounds pretty close to RSS to me...what do you see as the difference between what you envision and existing RSS?
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by cubano 5y ago
I believe you are talking about the Microsoft ODBC API which was language and platform agnostic data acquisition layer. Early versions of it had pretty bad performance issues if I remember correctly, but eventually it became somewhat useful
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by cubano 5y ago
ahhh yes...you were working with an infamous "idea guy" where you were expected to do all the work while he sits back and just thinks of new ways to crack the whip with you. that sort of thing is very rarely a good way to struct
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by cubano 5y ago
so in this view I'll ask (with a nod towards Fermi of course)... just where are all these AIs you speak of? wouldn't these AIs begin to contact and perhaps battle with each other? certainly it seems to me, there would be some tel
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by cubano 5y ago
really? i thought it's purpose was to take us back to the good old days of sellable proprietary binary blobs instead of the more open HTML/JS/CSS stack.
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by cubano 5y ago
HTTrack is a powerful package, but unless it can now handle JS-embedded links properly, it still can't take you all the way to. perfect local site mirroring.
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by cubano 5y ago
Isn't ALL written history somewhat revisionist? Well it sure is hard to tell because, of course, I wasn't there of course, but isn't that exactly the problem here? For my entire life I've heard the bot mot that "H
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by cubano 5y ago
Bingo...we have a winner. This issue reeks with the rank smell of base politics and in/out group dynamics, and humans have been fighting, in the abstract, these issues since the time Egyptians were building the pyramids. How can there
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by cubano 5y ago
Why would you believe that both the individual voters and their delegates wouldn't be susceptible to almost all the same corrupting and manipulative factors that plague voting systems today? The OP is correct...spending in mass media o
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by cubano 6y ago
> You can quite literally save millions for retirement as an individual, and have coverage for drugs and treatment under Medicare, and still run out of money due to having to pay extortionate prices for covered drugs. This is a totally
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by cubano 6y ago
you cannot possibly be postulating that profitable activities can never be considered useful, are you?
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by cubano 6y ago
Great job guys and love hearing stories about brothers working together. So like the main problem with this is like the long standing one of time...while I would actually love to work with a better way to build webapps with modern stack ele
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by cubano 6y ago
My last contract job was to build a 100% perfect website mirroring program for a group of lawyers who were interested in building class action lawsuits against some of the more henious scammers out there. I ended up building like 8 versions
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by cubano 6y ago
> The problem after that is the stigma that follows you around forever. Tell me about it. Between my prison "stigma" and the discriminatory ageism that is very prevalent in the industry, and even though I have 30 years professi
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by cubano 6y ago
I have 0.75BTC locked away in an encrypted distributed Android wallet that I am unable to remember the password for. I received this BTC from an amazing soul here on HN (again, THANK YOU so much for that blessing if you are reading this!) w
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by cubano 6y ago
I think a much better, much older, and much more philosophical argument is... "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And actually, the more I think about it, this is a more apt analogue to
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by cubano 6y ago
I understand that the way my experiences has shaped my opinions and views is vastly different than yours, but since its 100% impossible to discern peoples motives on why they make certain decisions, how you be at all certain what's rea
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by cubano 6y ago
Hiring, by definition, is mostly discrimination. Otherwise, people would just hire the first person you received a resume from who had the solid qualifications and experience you needed. But no...of course that's not what happens. Man

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