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by gcb0 8y ago
or having the means to spend time with the kids, or enabling sports or a club, etc. only the poor is raised by adictive video games. It's is the new generation version of a poor woman pushing a stroller with an 6+yr old kid in just bec
602.
by gcb0 8y ago
heh. easier to cause random outrage "think of the children" to escalate State influence than to address the problem that parents have no time or means to properly raise their kids. bonus points for the children eyesight falacy, as
603.
by gcb0 8y ago
now imagine the floor, which you walk barefoot. Before putting back your shoes, which will stay on for 4~18h.
604.
by gcb0 8y ago
where do you find php contracting for that which lasts long enough to make 350 a year?
605.
by gcb0 8y ago
we are way overdue for a source code and architecture evolution history here. the way this started as a toy and exploded without any noticeable performance problems shpuld be a good case study.
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by gcb0 8y ago
guess how many days of employment a server will have after the restaurant have to fill in because he could not make the cut on tips. it will be one or two days before they are sacked, either because the place have more servers than it need
607.
by gcb0 8y ago
playing devil's advocate: if the author's manager had communicated the tech improvements correctcly ("we can now support any hardware"), maybe others teams knowing about that would have moved the company in a different d
608.
by gcb0 8y ago
sgi was the preferred way for departments to blow their year/quarter budget so it wouldn't be cut off next year.
609.
by gcb0 8y ago
question is more about personal media collection. but title and most answers (so far) are about actual personal knowledge
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by gcb0 8y ago
https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/cost-...
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by gcb0 8y ago
fake internet points
612.
by gcb0 8y ago
let's not start stretching things too much now.
613.
by gcb0 8y ago
only the usa compares freedom with firearms ownership. this is slightly offtopic here.
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by gcb0 8y ago
I love how everyone spends years drawing diagrams with mouse torture in visio, OmniGraffle, licid, etc. eventually everyone will find out about plantuml (puml) which generates diagrams of all kinds via a simple source file and wonder how th
615.
by gcb0 8y ago
it says two things: - using their own APIs is so painful that any internal client has a high cost - they are betting more on walled garden platforms, which means they will pivot to ad-based soon.
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by gcb0 8y ago
I can't believe. They now have a GUI to create "chrome.exe $url" on your desktop?! why?
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by gcb0 8y ago
you are assuming every music out of a DAW is good.
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by gcb0 8y ago
fun fact: you can do the same thing again, but use the AMP version and call yourself an amp-provider, just like google does. technically they wont be able to complain because you can say providing amp content assumes they want to be served
619.
by gcb0 8y ago
these threads really make me miss the friend/foe system on slashdot. This thread highlights very well all the bigots, rigth wing political shills, that I would love to mark as foe and never have to read again when they are back to mask
620.
by gcb0 8y ago
if you have a market where I can make tons of money of it, at which point do you expect me to start contributing to PACs just to win the bet? see the problem?
621.
by gcb0 8y ago
you are probably reading crystal ball economists. do they also write about other means to pick stock besides analyzing the company?
622.
by gcb0 8y ago
nobody said it's totally innefective (or random), just that it is vastly less effective (and you're exposed to terminal risk more often) than throwing lots of money on an index.
623.
by gcb0 8y ago
prediction markets are not well regarded academically , outside of the cristall ball economics. the academic consensus is that as soon as you create a second incentive (the prediction market itself) you lose all the insight you could gain f
624.
by gcb0 8y ago
the founder of greenpeace (the one that left when it become a money printing machine) advise that we use more wood. even trees growing for paper. the only down side of tree farming, acording to his manifesto, is the disturbance of original
625.
by gcb0 8y ago
that is the accepted definition of State. a State can arm a faction (police, army, etc), and have the freedom to decide how to use it (removing you from some place, keeping you at another place, invading another State, etc). a corporation a
626.
by gcb0 8y ago
if not a joke, I know a retired cobol expert (not sure about ibm asm) that would be interested. reply here with some means of contact and I will connect you.
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by gcb0 8y ago
today new devs, picking up a 10-30yr old system: this is garbage, we have to recompile under the new 4.0 kernel just to be able to run it on new servers and nobody know how to read a makefile! lets rebuild with containers! tomorrow new devs
628.
by gcb0 8y ago
thanks. now I will never be able to unsee that.
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by gcb0 8y ago
for me elixir does to erlang what php did to C. it dumbs it down extremely. which is not a bad thing. one doesn't have to grok erlang processes and message queue for most elixir real applications. just like nobody have to care about po
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by gcb0 8y ago
Money. And people are loving it. I doubt anybody will ask who designed this immoral plan on the next investor meeting. If they ask, it will be for praises.

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