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16y ago
why? both spellings are pretty close to the same pronunciation.
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16y ago
they do suck. you should have left all of that up. you should wipe their server harddrives while you're at it.
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no, the sleazy conniving wheeler dealers who run companies like utilitybidder need to be excruciatingly punished for every transgression.
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16y ago
> the building they paid you to build. so you're not paying attention at all? they did not pay him, that is why he did this.
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16y ago
no, phone companies are large and can pursue legal action. as much as you want to think of corporations as persons, your analogy does not hold up against a single developer located in thailand.
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16y ago
> I also fail to see how this would reduce the load. no one in the protocol polls. the publisher pings the hub, the hub pings the n subscribers, vs n subscribers constantly polling a single publisher.
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and telephone companies can't take credit for providing that value. it's an inevitable and virtually costless feature of the infrastructure. if you monopolized the worlds supply of air, you can't claim to provide value after charging people
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why does so much economic activity depend on fucking people over?
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note that the drake equation gives the number of currently communicating civilizations. if you think there are 10 communicating civilizations now, each communicating for 10000 years, then there should have been quite a few such civilizati
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in that case, value of 1 for "fraction of Earth‐like planets that develop life" is odd since we are far from confident that life ever developed on mars.
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16y ago
a phone can show you a "confirm this payment" prompt though, which i imagine puts it a step above paypass/oyster card type pieces of plastic.
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16y ago
i would have signed up, but then you asked for access to my google contacts. no thanks.
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Memory chip production
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16y ago
what's a dummy account? pseudonym? same name / two accounts?
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Via Ask Reddit: Is it legal to shame employees by publishing bathroom usage?
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i don't care. neither do all the people who voted up the original post. there's a lot of stuff on the front page - funny how you just couldn't avoid spending time in this article.
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16y ago
how does that account for the sudden fall off?
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16y ago
can you recommend an open source app developed using Backbone.js? i was hoping the OP source would be available but it seems to be minified.
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"Second, we identify a variety of nonmerit factors that suppress, neutralize, or even negate the effects of merit and create barriers to individual mobility." so clearly the article is concerned with whether merit implies success.
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16y ago
why doesn't python have anonymous functions (not just lambdas which can only be expressions)?
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barrkel says that himself in his comment, "They are perceived to cause jealousy problems, for one thing."
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16y ago
this would be a great way to spend fu money. pretend to be a small time contractor and then absolutely destroy companies run by sleazy conniving wheeler-dealers who try to short you.
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16y ago
as i responded to dholowiski, this program would not replace other paths to citizenship. Every country should be falling over itself to bring Tesla and Lovelace into their work force and society, regardless of how similar they are to the cu
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16y ago
no. not at all. this would just be one vector for acquiring citizenship, and would not replace other programs.
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Tell HN: Turing test for citizenship.
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> You say "manipulative", I say "persuasive". i say false dichotomy. you may have persuaded your friend to stay at the party. you didn't do her any favors if she has to get up early tomorrow. a user at that final screen has clearly ma
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farmville is basically one long manipulative tug
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when actually it's: evil corporations are creating a class of disenfranchised workers. the essential evil is this notion of nationality. for most of history people had the ability to vote with their feet. nationality is essentially undemocr
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> that only left myself as the scam artist and I knew I wasn’t trying to cheat anyone what about the airlines?
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looks like a girl flashing her tits to me.
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