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by dba7dba 10y ago
North Koreans can't really simply Walk to South Korea because of DMZ. It would be easier for them to walk to China. And S Korea and others are planning for possibility of NK collapsing. But I honestly believe no planning would be enoug
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by dba7dba 10y ago
I would use cooking analogy. Once you start cooking a dish (well, most of the dishes), you can't stop the involved steps until the intended food is ready. If you interrupt the cook cooking the food often and/or long enough, the fo
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Here's the article about higher percentage of NHL players having earlier birthdays. https://www.nhl.com/news/study-suggests-nhl-has-bias-in-favo...
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by dba7dba 10y ago
First, did others see this HN post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13956807 RJ Reynolds recruiting guideline SPECIFICALLY wanted sales (or marketing) people with 2.8-3.1 GPA. NO wonder so many ad server tags by the sa
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by dba7dba 10y ago
"the FBI will raid their warehouse and hold all the inventory as evidence until they complete their investigation" Considering the strained relationship between Bezos and Trump, I can actually see that happening.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Read an article about NHL players with late birthdays few years ago. Majority of NHL players have late birthdays. It means kids that are just slightly older than teammates by just a few months have advantage over early birthday team mates.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
And people with such ideas are opinion makers. Now THAT is chilling.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
The way I see it, to renters rent will forever seem to be going up forever. Because when general pay level goes up, rent goes up to match it.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
I would NEVER EVER approach HR department of corporate America for anything except for maybe asking for a tissue box at my desk. For those young enough to be thinking about approaching HR for issues as nefarious as this, well, now you know.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Happened to all my email accounts I have on my Android phone. I thought this was a planned, intentional change by Google and so I logged in with 2FA...
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by dba7dba 10y ago
I believe you are talking about a distant relative or nephew of the North Korea's Kim family. I believe the victim was actually shot to death in front of his home by someone with a pistol, which was a big news... Touch choice. Stay in
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Yes, yes. One must not comment on HN while coding (simple stuff) and eating snack, and telling kids to do their homework. I work from home today. My apologies...
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by dba7dba 10y ago
A supplier of Google received the file from Uber and that supplier forwarded it to Google. This means the file was sent out by Uber to a supplier to try to get parts made. I think that's proof enough. Btw that's 1 very sharp eyed
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by dba7dba 10y ago
And not to mention other Samsung subsidiaries (that make display, RAM, CPU) were probably crying bloody murder to Samsung Handphone division...
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Lol, yeah my bad. My God. What a waste of talent of him, and waste of time/energy for everyone involved. I wonder if Uber accepted the stolen files from Google knowing they were stolen.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
So a junior engineer took the files, left Waymo to join Uber and tried to pass off the files? Correction. So he's not really a junior engineer. But how can he not think that everything he access on the Google's network is monitore
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Many years I had sent out resumes looking for work as a MCSE. Never mentioned novell. Guess what? Recruiter emailed me looking for novell engineer... Hw fell out of my funnel real quick.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Thing is when you are dealing with so many uncertainties, you can't speak with certainty. Dumber people can't grasp all the variables involved in the decision making, so things look more black and white to them. But smart people d
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by dba7dba 10y ago
I'm a parent who never got to take piano lessons. And I didn't particularly enjoy things that I was made to do when young. And now as a parent with kids, I wish I got a chance to take piano lesson (or any musical instrument) when
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Are you kidding me?? :) Please share it. Would be much appreciated.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
They didn't really NEED cars to move people around because Los Angeles area already had a GREAT light rail system called the Red Line. The current walkway on Venice Beach was what's left of that line. Can you imagine? An above gro
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by dba7dba 10y ago
The unintended consequence I'm talking about is they expected it will take 100 years for the system to be utilized at full capacity but in reality it took just 20-30 years...
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by dba7dba 10y ago
Funny anecdote about the freeway system of southern California. When they were initially planning the system in 1930s, 40s, they were planning to have the system in use for next 100 years. So they built over sized roads (like 10 lane freewa
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by dba7dba 10y ago
So if I wrote a novel using Microsoft Word, Microsoft has the copyright to the novel?
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by dba7dba 10y ago
I think this phenomenon depends on the nation/neighborhood. For example, I was watching videos of Seoul subways systems and the expat was commenting how young kids were going about on their own to school and such, without adult supervi
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by dba7dba 10y ago
One of my ex-coworker took his Toyota sedan to dealership for every single service need, like engine oil changes. And you know they advertise people should bring in cars to dealership despite the higher price because they do complete inspec
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by dba7dba 10y ago
It's the management, not the product managers, designers or engineers. With the management led by a logistics/operations man, you end up with products that are UNinspired. It's a pity Mr. Jobs picked Mr. Cooks to be the succe
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by dba7dba 10y ago
I'm not sure if you are joking or not. But if it's true, that was a nice revenge (with tools that self destruct) by Apple against Samsung. Intentional or not... Lol.
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by dba7dba 10y ago
No one can detect a joke when it involves Trump...
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by dba7dba 10y ago
EFF and Trump admin on same page on something? What is going on?

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