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by gergles 12y ago
But you would never pay less. Have you ever seen ISP pricing? The onerous (5GB cap) TWC "Broadband Essentials" service gives you a $5 saving. $5 out of a $60 bill for going from 250 allowed GB to 5. The providers are never going
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by gergles 12y ago
It suddenly changed to needing $1170. I did notice the page showing $410 when you first submitted this. I assume this is because also between refreshes, the support page shows almost $300 came in.
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by gergles 12y ago
"An historical" actually is 'wrong' (for as wrong as anything can be in English, which generally isn't very). "Historical" doesn't make a vowel sound when read (which is the rule).
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by gergles 12y ago
Arbitration is private court where the judge is paid by your opponent. If you legitimately think this is awesome enough that we should all be gung-ho about it just because the companies who benefit choose to pay the fees, I don't think
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by gergles 12y ago
This may be the most astute analogy about this I've ever seen. I'm going to steal it to explain this to people. Thank you for posting it.
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by gergles 12y ago
It's not a law. It's an "administrative regulation" and there's nothing anybody other than the FCC commissioners can do to stop it.
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by gergles 13y ago
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o... The Gervais Principle is a fascinating series of articles that explain why this is the case and also give a lot of insight into corporate Americ
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by gergles 13y ago
Perhaps this goes without saying, but most HN readers are adults and are astronomically unlikely to get Reye's Syndrome. (In fact, Reye's syndrome was used as an example of something with a "vanishing" baseline risk in a
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by gergles 13y ago
He's also caused significant downtime by doing this, so this may not be a good lesson to take for your own sites.
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by gergles 13y ago
7 GBP != 1.99 EUR
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by gergles 13y ago
Really, textbooks aren't that big of a deal. There's other sources to get textbooks. The bigger problems, IMO, are "homework systems" or "virtual labs" where you are required to pay a superfluous charge to a te
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by gergles 13y ago
Magnusson-Moss already prevents manufacturers from denying your warranty based on who does the service. We don't need protectionism for the dealerships.
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by gergles 13y ago
Yes it does: http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/7/4/7/23... Look at the top center, at the "Fuel Jettison" switches. (This is a 777-200 non ER, but I doubt the ER model wo
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by gergles 13y ago
You should probably rename Google Auth to "TOTP" since that's what is actually supported. Neat idea for a site.
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by gergles 13y ago
To save anyone from coming here to complain: yes, the title makes literally zero sense. Apparently this is a new trend with Marco. The article is about what proportion of visitors to Marco's site have HiDPI displays.
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by gergles 13y ago
> It's also very tiresome to have Percy Schmeiser trotted out over and over again. What's not mentioned here is that it came out in the trial that Schmeiser had very deliberately infringed the patent by using Roundup to select
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by gergles 13y ago
Multi-stage interview processes like this are calibrated that you simply must pass every step of them to do the job. There's no fluff, there's no duplication; each module tests a specific component that the company feels is necess
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by gergles 13y ago
The amount of time you spend writing code on a whiteboard outweighs 'coding time'? Really? Let's be clear: whiteboards are a fine tool for design, problem analysis, architecture, etc. etc. People take issue with "wri
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by gergles 13y ago
This is not true - there definitely are 2 SRE tracks[1] and one is more code focused and one is more operational focused. They do not tell you this while you are being screened but it is absolutely the case. 1: http://rachelbythe
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by gergles 13y ago
Here, I found one for you with about 45 seconds of effort: http://snappy-app.com/s/show.php?pass=a550109d1fb9b47c65d29a... In my experience, many items are well over $3.99. "Local express delivery" and/o
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by gergles 13y ago
> One-off laws for specific legal entities (individuals or corporations) are unconstitutional, so no one is asking for a law that exempts Tesla and Tesla only. As an aside, that's actually not true - laws that are intended to benefi
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by gergles 13y ago
Oh sweet, prior restraint.
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by gergles 13y ago
If it was actually about helping the user, there wouldn't be an opt-out link, because the first instruction in the new "self-XSS" instructions is going to be "go to this page and opt-out - yeah, it says a bunch of scary
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by gergles 13y ago
"self-XSS" (the thing this malfeature is purportedly protecting people from) is a made-up concept. It's basically "don't run your own scripts to interfere with our site, and we'll use scary-sounding security wo
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by gergles 13y ago
Truth hurts, Mr. Cohen.
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by gergles 13y ago
The CIPD is in the UK. The closest thing in the US is SHRM, which has the PHR/SPHR designations -- which are indeed often a requirement for senior HR positions (though I don't know that those designations have ever actually been r
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by gergles 13y ago
The problem is that "acceptable" in this context means "paid protection money to the ABP dev". (see https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements )
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by gergles 13y ago
Little bit from my sibling response and a little bit more from the fact that they drained the ratepayers, government (through tax credits and accelerated depreciation), and the USF to the tune of $200 billion to provide universal broadband
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by gergles 13y ago
Comcast is a residential ISP. What possible traffic could there be to flow out of their network, other than requests for other data? By that logic, everyone has to pay to peer with Comcast because "Ha ha, we have all the customers. Dar
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by gergles 13y ago
http://www.google.com/baraza/en What a weird little product. It's like Yahoo Answers, but somehow with even less sorting or categorization.

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