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by fortythirteen 9y ago
Right below the fold of the Talk site [0] > We’ve created a streamlined system that can improve how people behave and interact in the comments space, and allow moderators to more easily identify and remove disruptive comments. Seems like
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The ever persistent question I have about bitcoin is simple: Who's actually buying it with cash at a $4k+ valuation? Is anybody in their right mind doing that or is it a completely theoretical number? The thing about Bitcoin is that it
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by fortythirteen 9y ago
The ever persistent question I have about bitcoin is simple: Who's actually buying it with cash at a $4k+ valuation? Is anybody in their right mind doing that or is it a completely theoretical number? The thing about Bitcoin is that it
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I wish they'd put this sort of manpower towards fixing Electron.
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Our government is more funded than any other government on the face of the planet. It's that they're unbelievably terrible at prioritizing and budgeting.
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If you make capital gains tax the same as income tax, then you're making the situation worse for people who invest their actual income over trust fund babies, not better. It places another barrier on hard working people trying to move
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If capital gains taxes are raised, then someone who invests outside of a 401k or IRA gets double screwed.
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That's not true. Actual poor people pay very little, if any, income tax. As the article pointed out, this is most damaging to the upper-middle class.
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The only rival for business reviews, which is almost exclusively a sub-domain of map apps now. Yelp has the reviews in Apple maps.
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Wikileaks showed CIA interference in the 2012 French elections[0] [0] - https://wikileaks.org/cia-france-elections-2012/
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> $100k of pro-Trump facebook ads No details as to the content of the ads have been revealed. One would think that if they were pro-Trump they would have mentioned that in the release.
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Any corporation large enough to have its own PR department is in the business of making fake news.
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It's not that one sided, and I think you're missing a key component here. 50k decent paying jobs means more money in the local economy to be returned through sales and property taxes. Plus, having Amazon put a headquarters in your
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HIPAA isn't only about personal health information. Your application can never run on shared servers at any time.
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> This made clear that offering the tool as a cloud service is an issue in corporate environments. To mitigate this, the CLI now encrypts all source code on your machine, the service decrypts it only in memory to run the analyzer and the
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To be fair, I think SV has been far too politicized and that's why you see it here.
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In my experience, any whiteboard test of generic algorithms is more of a window into how the lead developer thinks about the people he manages, than an actual test of programming ability. It almost always denotes a fixed, "I know best&
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With only a very small portion of the population able to both understand the implications of this type of tracking and how to circumnavigate it, I often wonder if there will eventually be a negative consequence akin to not establishing cred
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Agree or disagree with his reasoning, but this is the crux: > This is the kind of stuff Microsoft did in the 90s that made everyone hate it so much they still have to fight against the repercussions of decisions made two decades ago... T