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by dxhdr 9y ago
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?" you can say, "Sorry, got these sacks."
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by dxhdr 9y ago
You have to do the same thing to get a Fictitious Business Name in California: "Within 30 days of filing the Fictitious Business Statement, you are required to have the DBA statement published once a week for four (4) successive weeks
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by dxhdr 9y ago
The $15,000 Dell being discussed is equivalent to a m4.16xlarge with 64 threads and 256 gigs of RAM. The m4.large you're referencing at $45/mo only has 2 CPUs and 8 gigs of RAM.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
I'd like to commend Microsoft for issuing the fix months ago. There was some interesting discussion recently about Microsoft's potential role in creating an environment where users feel the need to disable automatic update. Disabl
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> On average and adjusting for inflation, retirees are entering their 80s richer than they were in their 60s and 70s. This is a misleading interpretation of data. On average, yes, but at the median, no. The median retiree's net wort
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by dxhdr 9y ago
I can't tell what I'm looking at with all the mirrored surfaces. Looks like the inside of a vegas hotel room.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> Why should the company spend millions a year on a perk you can take advantage of that I can't? You can absolutely take advantage of it, by raising a child.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> Intermittent Downtime for a period of less than five minutes will not be counted towards any Downtime Periods. That's unfortunate. The most frustrating part about cloud services are exactly these kinds intermittent performance and
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by dxhdr 9y ago
You should try out a Thinkpad x100e for your normal laptop, the keyboard is miles ahead of the Asus. Looks like there are some for around $40 on ebay as well.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
They have a ways to go before they catch up to 4.5B behemoth Magic Leap!
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> Clearly given the number of smart people and amount of money being thrown at the problem (without being able to produce a real seamless massive persistent on-line world without compromises) this is very hard. It's just not worth i
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> Why stability is better than volatility? It's self-evident that a stable currency is preferable to volatile, though I'm interested in reading an argument to the contrary. volatile: liability to change rapidly and unpredictabl
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by dxhdr 9y ago
https://github.com/mobxjs/mobx/blob/gh-pages/docs/best/react... "MobX usually reacts to exactly the things you expect it to. Which means that in 90% of your use cases mobx "just works
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by dxhdr 9y ago
Soy protein, maltodextrin, and canola oil blended with a multi-vitamin doesn't sound healthy. I suppose it can't be worse than the occasional discount 10-pack of Celese frozen pizza. Paired with a vitamin, of course.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
> Considering how far removed from its "natural" source much of our food is, I don't think Soylent should be looked at with much skepticism. 1 in 3 Americans are obese and the next 1 in 3 are overweight. We have no idea ho
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by dxhdr 9y ago
"The nature of any potential federal criminal violation, and the likelihood of anyone being charged, is unclear. The investigation is still in its early stages, the sources said." Sounds like they don't know yet.
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by dxhdr 9y ago
A structure allocated in one chunk has cache locality and will be significantly faster to access than dereferencing multiple pointers. The allocation itself is not the bottleneck, it's the poor choice of data structure.
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Upstart is gone and systemd is here instead. It's a huge change.
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Someone should figure out the mean length of time between article repeats on HN. And then find some correlation with university degrees and job tenure.
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by dxhdr 10y ago
What's the consistent interface of bots? You need to know their supported commands to get anything done. Until we have actual AI it will remain an obfuscated command line. Interfaces like Siri are convenient because they actually use
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by dxhdr 10y ago
http://paulgraham.com/founders.html "What We Look for in Founders 4. Naughtiness Though the most successful founders are usually good people, they tend to have a piratical gleam in their eye. They're not Goody Two
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by dxhdr 10y ago
Would you also describe depression as a lack of mental willpower? Why not? Normal bodies don't require calorie tracking, the brain automatically signals the body to stop eating; no effort required. This system is broken in some people,
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by dxhdr 10y ago
> accept that obesity is due to overeating? That's a tautology, the question is why. What causes overeating and why do some people have great difficulty with it? It's clearly not as simple as thinking to yourself, "I&#x2
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by dxhdr 10y ago
I think this could actually work in a few years. Developers will have long forgotten about the last time Twitter crushed everyone relying on their API. Then, once their revenue is up the power will go to their heads and they can repeat the
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by dxhdr 10y ago
> People deny anthropogenic global warming because they don't want to look at the details There's a reasonable argument that we're fairly clueless about how most natural systems actually work. I heard recently that plate
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by dxhdr 10y ago
We don't recycle microplastics for a variety of reasons, that's the reason I bring the issue up. Current theory is microplastics end up in our food.
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by dxhdr 10y ago
"50 micron thick polymethylpentene mixed with tiny glass beads" As an achievement in science this is cool, but... we should be reducing energy consumption while also not polluting the surface of the planet. Where's this stuff
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by dxhdr 10y ago
> $60,000 in 1998 would be about $89,000 today, after adjusting for inflation. I have a hard time believing $89k is the equivalent of $60k in 1998. Gas was $1 a gallon, average rent in LA was $900, health insurance was $35 a month, DOW
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by dxhdr 10y ago
> But it doesn't I'm following your use of SV as a pejorative for the tech industry. The tech industry accounts for most H1Bs. > Why does everyone else have to suffer because of them? Perhaps there are alternate solution
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by dxhdr 10y ago
> The discussion about H1Bs is getting dominated by SV SV dominates the H1Bs: http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2017-H1B-Visa-Category.asp...

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