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by derekp7 6y ago
The one thing that is hard to control for in the studies is if people who crave eggs (and therefore consume more of them) also crave other things that are bad for them. Or if the genetic makeup can cause an increased craving for specific f
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by derekp7 6y ago
So if I understand this correctly, then killing off 3rd party cookies is anti-competitive, leaving them in is anti-privacy, and putting out a privacy-enhancing alternative is also anti-competitive. Is there anything that can be done that w
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by derekp7 6y ago
I agree with you on this, hence phrasing my comment as a reverse "what-aboutism". Handling of liquid fuels has improved quite a bit to where it typically isn't a problem. Whereas at one time you had cars (I'm thinking
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by derekp7 6y ago
Thanks, it is weird how the brain works where you could swear you are clicking on one spot, but end up clicking somewhere else. Just like when I come home from the grocery store with diet soda instead of regular -- I'd be looking at o
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by derekp7 6y ago
I've always wondered the same about a vehicle carrying around 15 - 20 gallons of highly flammable and explosive liquid fuel. What happens in an accident, where a spark in the wrong place with the correct mixture of fuel and oxygen can
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by derekp7 6y ago
edit -- somehow clicked on wrong comment
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by derekp7 6y ago
"If A, then B" does not necessarily mean "If Not A, then Not B". Now if the first logical statement was "If, and only if A, then B", then the second logical statement would follow.
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by derekp7 6y ago
The projects that have a critical need probably aren't having developers banging on their door -- that is why they have the critical need. And as someone who can contribute, yes I can pick something I use and see what they need, but i
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Ask HN: Can we get a Who is Hiring but for open source projects?
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by derekp7 6y ago
That is something I just really don't get. It is like being against the Polio vaccine simply because "I had gotten polio just before the vaccine came out, so if I had to suffer everyone else should too". I've never hea
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by derekp7 6y ago
Their paywall is broken -- it should show you a flash of content, then ask you for money. You'll have to use something like archive.is.
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by derekp7 6y ago
The only reason I withhold the name is it may have not been endorsed by the consultant company itself. But here is the verbiage if anyone is interested. So, did I misread this, or is it as bad as I thought? It did list a rate of $60 per
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by derekp7 6y ago
Typically it is legal for a company you work for to send you to training, but then bill you (typically prorated) for the training cost if you leave the company within a specified time after. And that seems somewhat reasonable in many cases
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by derekp7 6y ago
Back in 2009, I was laid off work for several months. One of the headhunters that contacted me sent me a contract to sign, that basically said that I agree to unconditionally accept whichever client they decide to place me with if extended
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by derekp7 6y ago
I would imagine previous generation tape drives (used) can be economical. Just need to find a reliable place that handles testing / refurbishing (cleaning, alignment, belts, etc) used drives. Also the other bit item is needing the ap
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by derekp7 6y ago
I have a Gemini also, and have backed the Astro Slide. However, I think the Gemini fits in that very awkward space where the keyboard is too small to touch type on, yet too big to use in handheld mode. I much prefer the slide out keyboard
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by derekp7 6y ago
Hopefully the decisions will be data driven like they are now. When the number of new cases, positivity rates, and deaths in a given region fall below specific thresholds, the next phase of opening up happens in that region. Then those nu
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by derekp7 6y ago
I bought my house about 4 years ago for 162K, and am about 45 minutes from a major Midwestern city (Chicago). Plenty of shopping and entertainment, high speed internet, recreation all within reach. Tech salaries are around 6-figure for ma
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by derekp7 6y ago
How do people with gas cars handle living in apartments without gasoline lines? They go to a gas station. So the tipping point is when you can take a 300-mile range car and quick-charge it in 5 - 10 minutes. Or when it is profitable enou
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by derekp7 6y ago
For future spacecraft, would it be possible to have a double hull with a self-healing jell in the middle? (In concept, I'm thinking similar to tire sealer, something with clotting agents in it).
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by derekp7 6y ago
I think the best of both worlds would be an sqlite DB (which is extremely reliable) along with a rotated export to a flat file whenever there are modifications.
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by derekp7 6y ago
Two things that I would like to see in Debian. First, something more similar to Red Hat Kickstart. The Debian equivalent (Preseed) doesn't quite cut it (effectively it is an "answer" file for the Debian installation, so whe
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by derekp7 6y ago
Is that still the case with cloud-first, software-defined infrastructure, and IAAS? Even in non-cloud environments you have pets vs. cattle, with the cattle hopefully out-numbering pets. So your data sits off in a storage device, and gets
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by derekp7 6y ago
To add to the recollections, this was also the time that "look and feel" lawsuits were going around -- Lotus suing Paperback Software, Apple suing Microsoft, etc. Most of the BBS community was against look-and-feel and patent law
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by derekp7 6y ago
Weren't player pianos (and nickelodeons) a thing back then? Plus, if you've ever visited "House on the Rock" in Wisconsin the mechanical orchestras are pretty neat to watch.
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by derekp7 6y ago
A mouse trap also responds to tactile stimuli.
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by derekp7 6y ago
Believe it or not, the "boring titles" often times get better attention. I found that out a couple weeks ago, when I posted my open source project using just the title of the website and it not only made it to the front page, but
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by derekp7 6y ago
In the one case I'm backing up about 60 development / testing VMs (they are based on a handful of RHEL / CentOS versions). The backup speed runs at the speed of my network connection (or the disk that I'm pulling from).
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by derekp7 6y ago
I have an open source snapshot backup system ( https://www.snebu.com ) that I've been improving over the years, and after adding public key encryption support I posted to HN and I actually made the front page for once (this w
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by derekp7 6y ago
One thing about woodworking is that parts of it are easier for someone who has had a career in thinking logically and several steps ahead. If you also have had experience laying out user interfaces, that can help too. However there is the

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