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by faster 7y ago
Is it industry lobbying, or is it a jobs program for unskilled workers? How many people are employed pumping gas? What would it do to statewide employment stats if 80% of those people were no longer needed in those jobs? The argument used t
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by faster 7y ago
From Wikipedia: "The standard size of a subnet in IPv6 is 2^64 addresses, more than 4 billion times the size of the entire IPv4 address space." What he's saying is that one /64 address allocation is as useful to a spamme
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by faster 7y ago
Don't miss his tenure announcement: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/tenure-announcement
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by faster 7y ago
Or OpenConferenceWare: http://openconferenceware.org/
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by faster 7y ago
I use a Chrome extension to show the true cost per night on Airbnb. I find the fees variable enough that I want to see the real price as part of my analysis of listings. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ai
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by faster 7y ago
I suspect that because of the nature of his speech (repetitive, shallow, hyperbolic) he is easier to simulate than someone who communicates in other ways. I would love to see the same system used to simulate some of the people you mentioned
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by faster 7y ago
Calagator is open source. You can run your own if you want. https://github.com/calagator/calagator
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by faster 7y ago
Who should decide?
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Ask HN: Does the contract rate rule of thumb still apply?
18 points by faster 7y ago|9 comments
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by faster 7y ago
Do you know what the rates are, relative to something like bulk mail? I can't think of anything else that has low delivery priority like these packages seem to have. Sometimes even after arriving in the US, the packages take 2-3 more w
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by faster 7y ago
It might be cheaper to ship from China to the US than to ship from Chicago to NY, but it is also far slower. I think it's fair to charge less for "as you have space" shipping. http://track-chinapost.com/?p=774
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by faster 7y ago
I built one of these about a year ago. I spent about 5 hours on it, over a little more than 2 days (some things need to dry or set up before going to the next step). To reflow a small board (or 3) on an extreme budget, use a frying pan and
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by faster 7y ago
Assuming your revenue and your AWS bill are strongly correlated, I agree. However, when a free service or a bug can increase costs by orders of magnitude without a corresponding increase in revenue your choices are to eat it (not sustainab
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by faster 7y ago
There are several metrics for unemployment. One of them is around 4%. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
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by faster 8y ago
It has taken me a few years and I still fail sometimes, but I have learned to let people finish and then ask questions instead of telling them they're wrong, even when it's totally obvious to me. "What if that fails in this w
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by faster 8y ago
One of the most valuable things my dad taught me was that it's hard to break something so badly that it can't be repaired. That's not true of everything any more (I have a decent electronics bench, but I won't even try a
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by faster 8y ago
It would depend on what constitutes a valid caller ID. At least some of the robodialer operators programatically check out a block of numbers from a VoIP vendor, make a bunch of calls, then release the numbers. If all they have to do is cor
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by faster 8y ago
it's also trivial to distinguish news articles from opinions and editorials It turns out that's not true for most people any more. https://www.bu.edu/research/articles/native-advertising-in-f...
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by faster 8y ago
I use Classifier to manage file in my Ubuntu Downloads directory; it moves files into subdirectories by extension. I run it daily from cron, and my backup script runs it before backing up. https://github.com/bhrigu123/c
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by faster 8y ago
Amazon has 'Close Protection' for $1229 and 'Surveillance Tradecraft' for $54. My library has neither book, which is not terribly surprising. Sadly, that means I'm unlikely to get a chance to read either one.
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by faster 8y ago
My late uncle flew airships during WW2, and was always looking for new things to learn (look up elderhostel; he averaged 1 per year for his last 30 years). He remembered peoples' names, spent time getting to know people who he had no r
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by faster 8y ago
I could probably find them, but we used Framemaker and I don't know whether I have anything that can open them now.
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by faster 8y ago
The most successful company I ever worked for (late 90's, the founder was a billionaire for a few months after the IPO, 99.9% of HN readers use an evolution of what we built every day) had a policy of rejecting any proposal for a tech
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by faster 8y ago
Yay for porkbun.com! My office is near theirs; nice people, great price. The admin site is pretty bare-bones, but I've never had a problem with it.
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by faster 8y ago
The idea of employees receiving food stamps seems like a clear case of manipulating the system. But I think there is more nuance than the 20%/$14B numbers describe. Imagine a single mom who wants to be home when her kids get home from
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by faster 8y ago
My sister bought a new car in 2014. She used one of the services that shops your requirements to dealers within your area. The night before her scheduled test drive with the dealer who had the best price and didn't seem sleazy, a frien
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by faster 8y ago
Moved from the west coast of the US to France for a year. I would unreservedly recommend living in another country for an extended period of time, preferably before you're 30 or 35. I was in my 50s when I did it, and it was a little to
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by faster 8y ago
I'm not ignoring your point, but I use a Chrome extension to sort by number of reviews. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sortem-for-amazon/...
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by faster 8y ago
When I started learning French, a native speaker told me to exaggerate the sounds. It turns out that I was softening the sounds that are uniquely French because I lacked confidence in my spoken French. I imagine that the same thing would wo
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by faster 9y ago
I'd love to have some support for a real number. I found a source [1] for the cost to retailers to collect a tax (about 4.23% of tax collected in WA) but while most states make it pretty easy to see how much sales tax was collected the

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