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931.
by gbear605 8y ago
And how do we acquire that?
932.
by gbear605 8y ago
Schools are mostly funded by the town, not the state
933.
by gbear605 8y ago
Some of my passwords I have memorized only as muscle memory. Without going into too much detail, if I didn’t have a qwerty keyboard, I wouldn’t be able to enter it without a couple minutes of thinking “okay, this key is there on a qwerty
934.
by gbear605 8y ago
I don’t spell passwords in my mind; I have muscle memory for the password.
935.
by gbear605 8y ago
The issue for Netflix with not having net neutrality is that some of Netflix’s competitors are run by some of the ISPs. If those ISPs were to decide that they wanted their customers to be forced to go with their service, and net neutrality
936.
by gbear605 8y ago
That’s just false, since a lot of times political will involves killing civilians. For example: Stalin, Mao, Andrew Jackson
937.
by gbear605 8y ago
Where do you think I found it? ;)
938.
by gbear605 8y ago
This only works if the developer will be donating to open source already and not caring about deducting it on taxes, but they could say “donate to charity in my name and let me know how much” and then they donate that much less.
939.
Portmanteau Generator(punchlinedesign.net)
220 points by gbear605 8y ago|63 comments
940.
by gbear605 8y ago
Russia and China don’t care about US military spending when they’re considering genocide. For example, see the Uyghur muslim population in China, which is being genocided right now.
941.
by gbear605 8y ago
And if anyone launches a direct attack on the US, they’ll be attacked with nuclear weapons in return. Hololens wouldn’t help the US at all for self defense, only for action involving deploying troops.
942.
by gbear605 8y ago
The neat thing about nuclear weapons is that if you only care about self defense, you don’t need anything else.
943.
by gbear605 8y ago
This is also true in Java now
944.
by gbear605 8y ago
I’m on iOS 12.2, which that site says supports Strict Transport Security.
945.
by gbear605 8y ago
Unfortunately I’m not in a situation where I can test that. It’s very possible that that’s the case, but it then leaves the question of why the non-https ycombinator.dev is what we eventually end up on.
946.
by gbear605 8y ago
iOS Safari (and other iOS browsers) auto redirects to http://ycombinator.dev/
947.
by gbear605 8y ago
Note that it wasn’t him criticizing her - it was her boss, at least assuming PI means principal investigator.
948.
by gbear605 8y ago
If a tool is 90% good and 10% bad, it still makes my work better despite the presence of the bad
949.
by gbear605 8y ago
At least your money is often going to a local business rather than a big credit card company
950.
by gbear605 8y ago
It’s not that they don’t feel they can do any better, it’s that they actually cannot get any better paying job.
951.
by gbear605 8y ago
China and the USA should not be friends. China is committing mass genocide and is overall a horrible country. The USA definitely has some problems, but nowhere near the same level. Americans should encourage the USA to not be friendly towar
952.
by gbear605 8y ago
It’s culture transfer when a company makes something and then another company makes a poor copy that sells for cheap? The only reason it’s cross-cultural in our modern world is that Chinese firms tend to not follow American IP law.
953.
Mr. Jaynes’ Wild Ride (2013)(meltingasphalt.com)
30 points by gbear605 8y ago|9 comments
954.
by gbear605 8y ago
The “fappening” was done by phishing, not a direct hack on iCloud servers.
955.
by gbear605 8y ago
Renewable energy is making that less the case
956.
by gbear605 8y ago
What “markets are efficient” means is really that you can’t make more money on the stock market than average unless you put the same time and brain power to it that hedge fund people do, and even then you can only make about as much money a
957.
by gbear605 8y ago
I think the point was more that it shouldn’t be that easy to break a desktop.
958.
by gbear605 8y ago
Stagnant wages mean that the wages have been keeping pace with inflation, just like this iPhone price comparison.
959.
by gbear605 8y ago
Not according to Apple. They say it is “1334-by-750-pixel resolution at 326 ppi“[0] https://www.apple.com/iphone-8/specs/
960.
by gbear605 8y ago
Or the 1% was unknown

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