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811.
by ddalex 7y ago
You might come off as a major ass hat even if you're Linus, but who cares in that case?
812.
by ddalex 7y ago
Thank you! I was wondering how these work around the poles!
813.
by ddalex 7y ago
Care to share the bootstrap makefile?
814.
by ddalex 7y ago
My point was actually that you can do an Uber for X without necessarily breaking the laws, the fact that Uber breaks the laws isn't invalidating the business model.
815.
by ddalex 7y ago
how about not kicking them in the knee ?
816.
by ddalex 7y ago
Sounds like she went through standard procedure to add code, but the feature was not sanctioned by management.... i.e. if you work on a payment system, add you add code to siphon sub-cent rounding "errors" to a "settlement&qu
817.
by ddalex 7y ago
production isn't just the plant itself - its not as simple as to send people home production is a huge machine of suppliers delivering parts on demand - e.g. the chairs arrive exactly on the day that the chairs need to be mounted insid
818.
by ddalex 7y ago
China has 90% of their funds in US bonds by now (called dollars), and what good does that do them ?
819.
by ddalex 7y ago
> decide it should have been grounded It should haven't been flown in the first place, as it breaks the rule of having a full-authority control system dependent on a single non-redundant sensor. Boeing got approval for a limited-aut
820.
by ddalex 7y ago
People running Uber did. Uber is a magical entity that lives in the minds of people, it has no will on its own.
821.
by ddalex 7y ago
You keep pushing the blame on the government shutdown. Boeing could itself grounded the airplanes without government intervention but corporate greed won. Other governments are to blame ibdeed for relying on FAA certification instead of doi
822.
by ddalex 7y ago
Even their name is ripped-off "Let's Encrypt", that's why it sounds familiar. Horrible little site.
823.
by ddalex 7y ago
Drink a verification can to continue.
824.
by ddalex 7y ago
In the beginning, yes. But after a short while the AI would carefully watch you while playing non-skippable ads to gauge how to maximize revenue per customer.
825.
by ddalex 7y ago
How else do you keep track of who slept and how much as to bill for the enhanced usage of your seat? /s
826.
by ddalex 7y ago
I got my computer glasses prescription in "Digital enhanced" format, for which I payed an extra steep price, and I felt that I've been oversold. What that does is actually adding a subtle yellow tint to the glass and anti-ref
827.
by ddalex 7y ago
Agreed with the need to have a uniform corporate tax, but not 0 - it must be higher than personal tax, otherwise you just create a new loophole. I'd say either 20% or profit or 2% of turnover, whichever is higher. Before dividends and
828.
by ddalex 7y ago
Arguably, if he would've bought Google, we wouldn't have the internet as we have it today: people would've payed for search, as for the OS and Office suite: $10 per 1000 queries per month. Hmmm, maybe that've been for th
829.
by ddalex 7y ago
Certainly it feels like that :D
830.
by ddalex 7y ago
> Which is hinting that global scale is counter productive to innovation I'd say not Global Scale per se, but achieving own goals without further goals to work towards. I.E you've achieved everything there is to achieve, what c
831.
by ddalex 7y ago
Or non delete right.
832.
by ddalex 7y ago
They imply it. Perhaps they can show that the crawled data matches exactly the leak, but they can't find the smoking gun among these 4 - the twin robbers paradox.
833.
by ddalex 7y ago
Or perhaps to help build vaccines, should one be opposed on personal preferences to vaccinations. See the slippery slope there?
834.
by ddalex 7y ago
In case you haven't noticed, there is a trade war going on, and this is the propaganda front.
835.
by ddalex 7y ago
I've seen postit notes in London advertising (illegal) weed sale by chatting on encrypted messenger and paying with crypto coin. Both attempts to keep the authorities in shadow. Add this to the black markets for exploits, data dump lea
836.
by ddalex 7y ago
Thanks for the math! I did several estimations of How-Many-of-Us-are-Here and I got ~1M users by various methods (eg number of upvotes using Reddit engagement numbers), so I'll take your number with a happy confirmation bias.
837.
by ddalex 7y ago
Were they wrong if this truck hits the streets next year? I'd say they were right on the money.
838.
by ddalex 7y ago
The answer to the question How can I most easily break mission-critical systems using half-baked software? ReactOS is for hobbists that don't mind if their toy OS crashes every 3 minutes or so.
839.
by ddalex 7y ago
Write a tool that replaces the least significant bit of each pixel with a random value. Compress the result with 80% quality. Compress the result with 79% quality. Make sure to strip exif info, and all other metadata. Enjoy the result.
840.
by ddalex 7y ago
We need centralized access for discovery, but distributed access for storage and accessing, as to spread the costs. And then we need countless people on the internet to buy, install, maintain and replace the hardware that powers all of this

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