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811.
by dandare 10y ago
Dear competitor, we welcome you! :) Our startup is trying open the information on government spending to the masses: https://us.wikibudgets.org/w/united-states-budget-2016 .
812.
by dandare 10y ago
In my childhood I always imagined the word to active these devices will be simply "Home".
813.
by dandare 10y ago
I don't live in the US and I never saw an ad for Alexa or G Home - and I have a problem understanding how can they be useful beyond a fancy gimmick. Can you seriously trust it with your pizza order even if you don't know what the
814.
by dandare 10y ago
Dear employees, please do not be loyal to your employers. You can be loyal to your boss if he deserves it but your employer is not a natural person, it is a legal person and as such it can not be loyal back to you. If the situation requires
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by dandare 10y ago
Sidenote: the https://en.bem.info/ website (mentioned in the first paragraph of text about Semantic UI) totally irritates me. Would you be so kind and explain with a single sentence what is the purpose of your website/
816.
by dandare 10y ago
The only problem I see here is the criminalization of prostitution.
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by dandare 10y ago
> Hypothesis #3: Trucking companies offer competitive pricing for such last minute offers since available space in a moving truck is a perishable good — if you don’t sell it out the opportunity is forever gone. Is there a parallel with f
818.
by dandare 10y ago
I always wondered what is the business model of a library like this. Is just someone spending hundreds of hours of his free time to create this for the community? Or is there a business model I don't see?
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by dandare 10y ago
In my book this is a post-truth for the left. All my hip friends shared this on FB months ago. Hypnotizing voice, amazing imagery, cool music, selective facts, far fetched conclusions, simplifications dressed as induction. Thanks but no tha
820.
Ask HN: What is the story behind Amazon starting AWS?
8 points by dandare 10y ago|1 comments
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by dandare 10y ago
Could this be just a decoy strategy from Apple while they work on something more tangible? AR is not a smaller disc or faster processor, AR does not exist - yet - and may very well never exist due to physical constraints (you can not paint
822.
by dandare 10y ago
>DO NOT use US-centric timestamp formats such as MM-DD-YYYY. YYYYMMDD is generally preferred. It will be funny to use this argument next time I see a discussion on Imperial vs SI units and formats :)
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by dandare 10y ago
I used to be skeptical about organisations like Greenpeace that were strictly against nuclear power, questioning the logic of a priori refusing any major energy sources: coal, dams and atom. Because hippies don't wear t-shirts from Chi
824.
by dandare 10y ago
This reminds me of the old saying that my knowledge is not equal to your ignorance. Diversity does not equal lying as a work method, narcism and psychopathy.
825.
by dandare 10y ago
Disclaimer: I am the inventor's son. Sure, Kaplan turbine is way more efficient but it is difficult and expensive to use it on such low water head. This bladeless ball is so dumb it can be manufactured in sweatshops and run in dirty ir
826.
by dandare 10y ago
And here is the UK budget: https://uk.wikibudgets.org/w/united-kingdom-budget-2015
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Show HN: Interactive visualisation of US budget (and UK)(us.wikibudgets.org)
1 points by dandare 10y ago|1 comments
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by dandare 10y ago
I would love to have more information about why are the robots unsuccessful. Is it such a challenge to send a cable connected robot into a damaged building?
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Fukushima clean-up falters six years after tsunami(theguardian.com)
4 points by dandare 10y ago|2 comments
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by dandare 10y ago
> “To be perfectly honest, I don’t want to work with someone who did well in that environment,” he said. “If you did well in that environment upholding those values, I probably don’t want to work with you.” My faith in humanity has been
831.
by dandare 10y ago
Maybe it is just my lack of knowledge but why were all the recently leaked hacking tools made by US and none by Russia or China?
832.
by dandare 10y ago
Am I the only one who cringes when entrepreneur uses the amount of raised money to introduce/describe himself? "...during my career I have raised $100 million..." Yeah? And how much value did you create?
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Ask HN: Alternative to Dropbox's Public folder?
1 points by dandare 10y ago|1 comments
834.
by dandare 10y ago
Maybe those hashtags are cutting deeper than I expected? :D
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by dandare 10y ago
The very first Twitter clone I remember came up with the killer feature - infinitely long Tweets. How many times did I hear this dumb idea? It is not a sandwich, longer does not mean better! The scarce resource is not the number of electron
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Ask HN: Have you recently declined to travel to US because CBP privacy invasion?
2 points by dandare 10y ago|0 comments
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Honduran activist’s killing links to US-trained elite troops(theguardian.com)
1 points by dandare 10y ago|0 comments
838.
by dandare 10y ago
I am curios if they can make you log in (thus reveal all your secrets) to THEIR generic Android or iOS phone if you don't carry your phone on purpose.
839.
by dandare 10y ago
Is Condoleezza Rice still working for Dropbox?
840.
by dandare 10y ago
It feels like the age of the US is nearing to an end. I am not looking forward (on behalf of my children) for the transitional period that will follow.

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