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by gergles 13y ago
Islam doesn't have interest in the sense of an American-style simple interest loan, but it certainly does have charges for borrowing. There's no real meaningful difference other than when the interest is charged; in a lump sum at
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by gergles 13y ago
CFL/AAFL are definitely farm team systems; despite not being 'formal' farm teams, that is basically what they are.
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by gergles 13y ago
I'd rather have Flash + HTML that I can parse and view on any application rather than JS that works on the list of Approved Browsers that were all released within the past week. Nobody would've made a Flash-only site but for some
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by gergles 13y ago
> Love it or not - it is the rules of the game. Someone came up with the idea before you and they registered that idea before you. Vague or not - they had the foresight - and they are indeed entitled to being proprietary. No, they aren&#
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by gergles 13y ago
They abuse rel=canonical to increase their search engine rank but slam a registration wall in your face when you try to go read the content on their site. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301280
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by gergles 13y ago
> why do you think people write great answers there? Well, I certainly don't think it has anything to do with the fact that they require registration. People write great content on 4chan. > Jesus H. the lengths people go through
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by gergles 13y ago
Is 07:44 clear whether they actually mean 07:44 or 19:44?
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by gergles 13y ago
Since I bought this rock, 0 tigers have attacked me in my apartment!
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by gergles 13y ago
If you sign up through Global Entry and not through the "you've flown enough that the airline likes you" version of the program, you are far more likely to get expedited screening. You can also scan your boarding pass at home
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by gergles 13y ago
The big problem with Global Entry/TSA Precheck is that it requires you fly on a "participating" airline which are all the bumbling legacy behemoths and not any of the airlines (JetBlue, Virgin, Southwest) you might actually w
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by gergles 13y ago
The scanners are already worthless. They can be defeated by being overweight and putting $dangerousitem under a fat fold, or between your butt, or any of a million other places. They are actually less secure than magnetometers, which is m
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by gergles 13y ago
The real reason a VC company isn't going to kill hollywood is because there's not enough money in it. The author throws around $65 billion industry as if that's some sort of impressive number. FB alone is worth $100B. We coul
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by gergles 13y ago
Stupid personal drama about some random person who has the most tenuous connection to this community (as far as I can tell he's never posted nn or engaged with HN at all) isn't interesting or noteworthy. That's probably how i
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by gergles 13y ago
This is just because people have more permissive public profiles than default. I view this as a privacy feature for people who may want to be on LinkedIn but only use the site to communicate with their connections - if they have a limited&#
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by gergles 13y ago
> But the question for everyone else is, why are employers > (who pay to access the database) and job seekers (who > pay for database positioning) playing along while > LinkedIn sells everyone out with this game of
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by gergles 13y ago
Bleh, the /sites/ URL used to be a giveaway that it was UGC. Now I see they're even moving their own content under there, to prevent you from discarding the (worthless) UGC. Sorry for the misinformation.
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by gergles 13y ago
Because these aren't actual Forbes articles. Anything on forbes.com/sites/XYZ is somebody's blog, not content that is actually vetted by Forbes.
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by gergles 13y ago
It's just like Amazon Prime, except all the prices on Amazon aren't inflated by a ludicrous markup when compared to other online stores. (On top of a delivery fee or annual subscription.)
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by gergles 13y ago
You know who owns all the patents related to CDMA devices (and makes literally the only CDMA radio chipsets you can buy)? I'll give you a hint, it starts with Q and rhymes with "Wallcomm".
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by gergles 13y ago
This statement is far from 'elegant', it is tens of thousands of words that ultimately say nothing. The relevant section is 7B, which says that their ultimate success was not keeping a secret!
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by gergles 13y ago
You're probably getting downvotes because you're still required to do that to register copyrights, which any remotely commercially-significant work will do. (You can only sue for damages in copyright infringement cases if the co
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by gergles 13y ago
> The /system partition is now mounted nosuid for zygote-spawned processes, preventing Android applications from executing setuid programs. This reduces root attack surface and likelihood of potential security vulnerabilities. Well,
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by gergles 13y ago
If you want a good trash collection system in NYC, move to Roosevelt Island. http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/trash-sucking-island/...
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by gergles 13y ago
The subway itself is extremely poorly ventilated and all the cars are air-conditioned down to frigid temps (probably to make up for the ridiculously hot subway stations) -- the waste heat sucked out of the cars just gets dumped into the tun
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by gergles 13y ago
It's more invasive than necessary and doesn't work any better than metal detectors. Why should the default position be "they're not that bad"? Any search at all I'm not thrilled with and the metal detector is
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by gergles 13y ago
The certificate is validated before the 301 is sent.
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by gergles 13y ago
When did they ever leak plaintext passwords before? If you're referring to the event a year ago, that was unsalted MD5 hashes (obviously not great, but let's not hyperbolize.)
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by gergles 13y ago
LinkedIn does have overseas offices. http://www.buzzom.com/2011/11/linkedin-opens-a-technology-ce...
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by gergles 13y ago
No, they can't, unless they are willing to pay Apple a $100 a year tax for the privilege.
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by gergles 13y ago
It's not like they've done it before: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080422/234401923.shtml

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