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by fludlight 7y ago
> Because most work in the world is done despite the management, not because of it. FTFY
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by fludlight 7y ago
"Cleaning up" is a phrase reserved for exits. Thoma Bravo is merely "acquisitive". They just raised a big new fund; it is common to have a couple of transactions lined up when raising a new fund so you can begin with a
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by fludlight 7y ago
Reasons why school was canceled in places I have lived: snow, hurricanes, floods, wildfire (smoke and danger of burning down), and weather related power outages.
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by fludlight 7y ago
Why didn't UC Davis test the patient themselves? Why did they need the CDC's permission?
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by fludlight 7y ago
Last few projects of mine: - Prototyping: no graphics (text only); drew myself (so bad that I reverted to text only); free libraries - Publicly available: paid a friend of a friend; hired someone on a popular outsourcing site (after I paid
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by fludlight 7y ago
Why the tarp and duct tape?
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What Is a Pandemic?(jamanetwork.com)
2 points by fludlight 7y ago|0 comments
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Covid-19: Summary of a Report of 72k Cases from the Chinese CDC(jamanetwork.com)
14 points by fludlight 7y ago|0 comments
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by fludlight 7y ago
I know Brave is supposed to be a privacy-centric browser, but their plan for advertising seems at odds with that. Advertising is a slippery slope and I wonder how long before these promises are eroded or outright reversed. > 100% of you
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by fludlight 7y ago
Most programmers want to build new things, not work on maintenance projects, regardless of tech stack. That said, many people do enjoy that sort of work and finding them is not unusually difficult unless the project is so big that you need
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by fludlight 7y ago
Thanks, I updated the title.
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Ask HN: What domain registrar and DNS provider do you use? (February 2020)
24 points by fludlight 7y ago|29 comments
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by fludlight 7y ago
Retraining isn’t as effective as one might hope. For one, it is cheaper to retrain large number of people in a handful of fields than a handful of people in a large number of fields. So you get an oversupply of, say, HVAC installers. Secon
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by fludlight 7y ago
Maybe she was avoiding having all of her eggs in one basket. If your employer fails you lose your income. If your employer holds your life savings you might lose that, too. These days we have reliable, trusted deposit insurance, but that
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by fludlight 7y ago
Check out the rest of this artist’s portfolio, some of them are quite good. http://www.simonweckert.com/work.html
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Raytheon engineer arrested for taking US missile defense secrets to China(qz.com)
8 points by fludlight 7y ago|0 comments
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by fludlight 7y ago
Some people are jerks. Discussions about them always begin or end by stating that. It's a cost of being a jerk. Why should companies be treated differently?
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by fludlight 7y ago
Circuits can and do disagree.
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by fludlight 7y ago
This only affects the ninth circuit—which includes the tech hubs San Francisco, Seattle, LA, and Portland. It would only apply to the rest of the country if the Supreme Court affirmed it. Even then, a well-funded company or zealous prosecu
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by fludlight 7y ago
How often do these things get beyond the first step? Large companies can make unsubstantiated claims with relative impunity. Remember when Cheerios got away with claiming they lower cholesterol? They changed the wording slightly. > Our
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Harvard University Prof and 2 Chinese Nationals Charged in China Related Cases(justice.gov)
1 points by fludlight 7y ago|0 comments
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by fludlight 7y ago
What a colossal failure of regulation. A strongly worded letter, ha! Outright lies in medical advertising ought to cause the parent company's entire product line to be pulled from shelves for 6 months.
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by fludlight 7y ago
This is fraud. If I order food from one restaurant you can't substitute that with food from somewhere else. This is doubly true for food from a fancy place. These delivery companies are flaunting the law as a matter of policy. Every
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Flight Shaming Isn't Just a Problem for Airlines(bloomberg.com)
2 points by fludlight 7y ago|1 comments
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by fludlight 7y ago
This is an honest, detailed answer from an end user. Basically, he values simple demographic information about his visitors and doesn’t care about privacy. This is what countless other GA users have said here on HN and elsewhere. If you wa
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by fludlight 7y ago
Most languages, distros, large applications, etc have their own packaging system. Some are more laissez-faire than others. Does someone know a good article from the POV of the maintainer of a packaging system ecosystem that describes the t
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by fludlight 7y ago
A trip to the east bay also yields all of those things, but traffic is brutal so VCs stay in SF & the peninsula.
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by fludlight 7y ago
Everyone is tired because they are overworked: engineers, doctors, lawyers, accountants, bankers, police, cooks, janitors. Long shifts, split shifts, long commutes, homework, constant interruptions, questionable management practices, weak
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by fludlight 7y ago
A contract is only worth as much as you are willing to pay to enforce it. It makes sense to pay an army of lawyers for years to pursue a $100m breakup fee. For $100k, not so much. Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi
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by fludlight 7y ago
What software/service do you use for your data room?

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