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by g8oz 12y ago
Real estate costs have risen - thats a huge undercounted cost. I remember reading that at one point the avg house price was 3-4 times annual household income. In many economic hotspots around the West today that seems like a fable from a my
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by g8oz 12y ago
If these people ever learned the meaning of "double blind" would their heads explode?
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by g8oz 12y ago
If only there were a way to run performant Postgres on Windows. Maybe it's time learn Hyper-V so I can run it in a Linux VM.
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by g8oz 12y ago
Vaccination increases lifespan which leads to increased resource consumption, and the planet just can not afford it. So until we figure out how to transcend into beams of light I'm against it.
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by g8oz 12y ago
How much was it?
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by g8oz 12y ago
So much promise but a clunky abomination imo. I personally wasted a lot of time with it about 10 years ago. I've noticed that technologies that are easier to work with in a text editor eventually win out.
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by g8oz 12y ago
Wholesale panels are $500 a kW. That's a lot of markup you had to pay. Definitely much room for improvement on margins.
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by g8oz 12y ago
Great news, WhatsApp needs all the help it can get on security matters. https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
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by g8oz 12y ago
The vagaries of the market are not a substitute for morals and policy.
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by g8oz 12y ago
>> They used to ask your phone number and address for any purchase, any at all When stores ask for this, do not feel awkward about saying "Can we skip that part?"
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by g8oz 12y ago
taking exception maybe more proportionate to the claim rather than taking offense
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by g8oz 12y ago
In her classic book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" Jane Jacobs made a powerful argument against both alienating high rise buildings and suburban sprawl. Instead she advocated for an approach that emphasized mid-rise
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by g8oz 12y ago
In my experience thermal underwear (long johns) should be considered a must during winter. You don't have to live in a place like Canada or Minnesota to make them a standard part of your wardrobe.
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by g8oz 12y ago
But lets not over estimate the probability of the worst scenario. And lets not take action based on that overweighted probability.
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by g8oz 12y ago
>>if you ever want to work in Canada knowing French would help you a lot more than knowing Spanish. Only if you want to work for the federal government or in the decidedly non dynamic province of Quebec.
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by g8oz 12y ago
>>Who's winning? If you're angry about being on the losing side, whining about ugly fonts is misplaced. Whine about the thing you're actually upset about. Now you're just being mean. He's advocating (not whini
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by g8oz 12y ago
It seems to me that Mozilla has over expanded and is in search of a mission. A useable browser not beholden to the latest UX fads would be a start.
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by g8oz 12y ago
and the video links are unencrypted. I guess that was what was behind the story of insurgents grabbing drone video feeds. Insurgents Hack U.S. Drones http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB126102247889095011
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by g8oz 12y ago
>>Hacker News isn't the place where religion should be discussed. I see, you wanted to do some drive by propaganda without being called out on it. Sorry. Muhammad was a political and military leader of his faith community as well
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by g8oz 12y ago
You really want to play the selective Quranic quote game? Fine I'll indulge you with one example: "Permission to spread the religion by war" - here you've already discredited yourself by sourcing the hate mongering reli
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by g8oz 12y ago
Standard islamaphobic narrative - i.e support extremists in their claim to own the religion. Ignore other Muslims as fakers.
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by g8oz 12y ago
Canada Geese: They make urban green spaces unusable. Kill them all and let God sort it out.
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by g8oz 12y ago
Glad I'm not the only one suffering. I've got 2 problems with this new fullscreen Google Maps - 1) Noticeably slower 2) Drilling down to each step in public transit directions is now very awkward - it used to be very elegant. At t
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by g8oz 13y ago
A very biased article - the only facts emphasized are the ones that support the Samsung is an IP thief narrative.
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by g8oz 13y ago
Wow! Is this only on a community level or do you have household units as well?
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by g8oz 13y ago
Pay as you go solar. Payment done through mobile SMS banking networks like mPesa. Each unit has a SIM card to receive commands. Considering solar panel costs are < $500 kW and Chinese lithium iron phosphate batteries are < $400/k
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by g8oz 13y ago
It's only a problem if your app needs cross-shard reporting. And things like Gearman can help you out with the application layer complexity of horizontal scaling.
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by g8oz 13y ago
I used to buy that argument till I read that they typically spend far more on marketing and sales than R&D.
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by g8oz 13y ago
How do you kick out underperformers in a co-op?
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by g8oz 13y ago
I think his point is that such patterns in JS are unnecessary and bureaucratic.

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