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by gcbw2 8y ago
I think it is a tradeoff. If you want more data resilience on disk, SQLite will require all sorts of hacks to (and more difficult, when) to dump to disk. On the other hand, if you need every ounce of performance and do not care so much abou
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by gcbw2 8y ago
(because there is no toplevel comment saying this): it is emacs' org mode on steroids. If you don't like org mode, move along. ...And some of the side effects of the steroids are already showing (e.g. "you can embed html in m
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by gcbw2 8y ago
What advantage latin americans get for this be based on chile? There are other countries with much more population (your main self proclaimed challenge) and/or less tax burdens.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
AH, Europe. In the US you pay around $1.5 to $4 per withdraw, because the ATM network is a private enterprise not owned by the banks. You will get there, unfortunately. And you completely missed the point. Loaning/re-investing with vol
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by gcbw2 8y ago
You do realize all those things COST banks money in the past right? some 30+ years ago, when banks were on COBOL mostly, the system analysts would try to lower costs because you couldn't charge a fee, and if you didn't provide ser
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by gcbw2 8y ago
I think you are replying to an ironic post to begin with. Doubt that quote was to prove a point, but to highlight the problem.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
is that volume or sell volume?
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by gcbw2 8y ago
More interesting is why the purchase orders at usually at >=$1.0, and then there are sale orders at =<$0.999. Why someone would automate something to lose money so consistently? I guess this is what the author was calling out, not the
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by gcbw2 8y ago
The very first paragraph opens comparing this to "defying gravity". Your assumption were true it would make it very easy for others to win at all times. Think about it for a second: there is someone buying and selling, consistentl
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by gcbw2 8y ago
So annoying that the author links send me to twitter instead of a bio.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
Isn't that china... oh. ok.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
aren't arrest quotas for law enforcement illegal in most countries?
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by gcbw2 8y ago
don't put inflation in the same bag as metric system, please. Zimbabwe could have invented the metric system, but they still have billion zimbabuwe dollar notes. One thing has no relation to the other.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
Yes and no. No in the sense that you not the only one to see pennies as an extreme annoyance, they really are. But you are alone thinking the annoyance is easy to get rid of. They are a very good reminder of the currency history/direct
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by gcbw2 8y ago
gentoo is the poster child (real or tongue in cheek, doesn't matter) of the tech forum on 4chan.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
except reliability reduces a total, not sum integers like beer count. if I write a shell script with a scp line right now I can tell you it has 100% reliability. up to X% reliability means that "in the very nice and controlled environm
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by gcbw2 8y ago
wonder if the "...\...\" trick can be used to overflow the counter of files to delete and execute arbitrary data as the system user.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
summary to save everyone the click: Kid in his 20s (intelligent and likely suffering psychological conditions) fools a bunch of rich people and collect money for exotic travel ($20k each, from the article figures, which is peanuts for exot
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by gcbw2 8y ago
What honest purposed TelCos would have to even sell this data? all of them replied saying "we will cut clients not following the program guidelines"... what are those guidelines?! and why is that arbitrary for the companies to dec
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by gcbw2 8y ago
this is paid advertising at most. i can count 100s of companies that hire interns. that is the point of companies offering internships. flag this to oblivion.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
correct. which makes the top comment pointless (or missing the point?) Under-performant computers can and have been silent for a while. A phone falls into that category. The trouble is making a good performance computer silent. And even the
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by gcbw2 8y ago
isn't it capacity as in more devices to the same transmitter. The problem today is already too many devices for the transmitter internet pipe. 5G will make this worse (or better, if you are a Telco overselling data without consequences
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by gcbw2 8y ago
it's working. we just have to wait for the regulation to trickle down to the start ups. :)
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by gcbw2 8y ago
It's an open source alternative to FB, which makes this a more efficient FB. You are very correct on all points. Google and others operating a crawler would have the same data as FB has today.
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by gcbw2 8y ago
reddit cannot be customized. You can subscribe to X subforums. and only ever see those same X subforums. But you can NOT see "All" excluding only things racist subforums for example. So it is either your little bubble, or the full
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Hollywood's Behind-The-Scenes Support for SESTA Is All About Filtering the Net(techdirt.com)
13 points by gcbw2 9y ago|0 comments
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by gcbw2 9y ago
Should have fixed the easier problem first. The 'searchability' of the language name.
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by gcbw2 9y ago
is it a true webextension? i.e. will it work on firefox? ...or was the firefox quantum move a failure?
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by gcbw2 9y ago
taxis do that to passengers for some 15years now. and that is only counting the video ads. If you count print you can go back all you want.
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by gcbw2 9y ago
that's the fallacy of people shipping bogus crap and you thinking you are at fault. Thanks google, i guess. Most new features on chrome are not for your security. They disable all referrer control options. Want to only send referrer to

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