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by gbear605 7y ago
That’s only if you need almost no risk. The whole US stock market is definitely risky (it could go down fifty percent or more in a year), but it has averaged significantly over 2%, even after inflation, even in the last few years.
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by gbear605 7y ago
The reader mode that comes in most browsers is essentially that, although it needs the navigation too.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Doesn’t it depend on what you mean by guarantee? The test can’t get 100% certainty, since theoretically you could be flipping a coin each time and miraculously getting it right, for 1000 times in a row. The chance of that is minuscule (1&#x
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by gbear605 7y ago
The original version of the programming language Scratch was written in it.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Taking into account the security checks and transport to and from the airport, the flight might take significantly longer than the the train, especially if you’re flying at a busy time. Plus planes are more likely to have delays.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Try again; Sourcehut just updated their pull/push logic to make it significantly faster.
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by gbear605 7y ago
It’s similar to GitLab. The composable mini-services refers to how the individual parts (git, mercurial, todo tracking, continuous integration, email lists, doc hosting, etc.) are able to be run independently.
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by gbear605 7y ago
What if you have a device that iCloud isn’t available on? What if you want to check passwords on someone else’s computer? Or on a public one?
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by gbear605 7y ago
I’d still also not work for a cigarette company or a soda drink company. Your point?
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by gbear605 7y ago
That’s the only reason not to have a gyroscope on your laptop?
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by gbear605 7y ago
Most corporate jobs don’t involve killing people, while many jobs for physicists at defence contractors do.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Per https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2018/04/02/a-... they make about $7.50 per user per year, so even a dollar a month should be better
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by gbear605 7y ago
Why is the full name guaranteed to go wrong? A better assumption is that there is no reasonable nickname and you have to use their full name.
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by gbear605 7y ago
If you look at the late 1800s, you can see that that was the case
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by gbear605 7y ago
Landing rights aren’t particularly relevant for NK, since it’s not like they can fine or imprison SpaceX. China is more relevant since they could retaliate at other US owned property or at specifically Tesla.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Alternatively, pick the one that seems just a bit too mysterious and scary to be able to do yourself.
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by gbear605 7y ago
For example, say that the Green New Deal is a specific bill in a House committee. For some political reason (maybe the Democrats aren’t ready to vote on it yet), the Republican chair of the committee, Representative X, votes in favor of it.
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by gbear605 7y ago
I’ve seen people get viruses from downloading the “first result” on Google, which winds up being a malicious ad.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Connecting to things on your local network
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by gbear605 7y ago
I trust my compiler more than Facebook
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by gbear605 7y ago
Yeah, the share button really means more like “send to other apps”
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by gbear605 7y ago
As far as I can tell, throwing 500m at either Unity nor the Unreal Engine wouldn’t be a good allocation of money either, although better than staying in Softbank’s hands.
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by gbear605 7y ago
A single startup doing poorly is no sign of a bubble popping, just that this one company isn’t doing well.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Some Media Lab projects are quite real, like Scratch.
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by gbear605 7y ago
There is no consensus since “the most accurate” isn’t a single goal. For instance, you could try to translate word-by-word, but then you’ll lose a lot of idioms. Or one translation might well preserve the poetic nature of a part of Genesis
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by gbear605 7y ago
With frontend code, it’s code running on your machine that you can’t personally audit written by a company you don’t personally trust. For some situations (enterprises) and people (FOSS enthusiasts, paranoiacs), that’s not at all okay.
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by gbear605 7y ago
None of that is frontend though, which is an important distinction.
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by gbear605 7y ago
Part of the issue is that proprietary software would be running from a company that advertises itself as being oriented around free software. In addition, it would apply to the enterprise deployments, which is bad because enterprises can’t
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by gbear605 7y ago
Sourcehut intentionally is not going to accept VC money and they know they won’t get a billion dollar value.
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by gbear605 7y ago
They weren’t, but they also were leaving themselves the ability to without informing their customers.

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