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by gknoy 11y ago
I think it's clever (and, in this case, appropriate) that you linked to the anchor for upvoting. :) I didn't know that was possible.
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by gknoy 11y ago
The GP is talking about the percentage of their income being spent on taxes. If you make 1 million dollars per year, and I make 100k, and my taxes are 30k per year while yours are 100k/year (numbers made up), you'd be paying more
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by gknoy 11y ago
Couldn't one collect logs of all things, under the auspices of collecting logs that (may) contain "recon activity" and "exploits"? It seems on a surface reading that one could collect all those under the umbrella o
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by gknoy 11y ago
If they can't afford to buy expensive water (which we need for sewers, showers, washing dishes, etc -- not merely drinking), chances are that they'd have a hard time finding the money to move elsewhere, even if it would be cheaper
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by gknoy 11y ago
How does a lawn cool my house?
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by gknoy 11y ago
This reply, and your perspectives on sharp tools, really make me smile. I'm definitely going to go use your tool, now. :)
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http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html ;)
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Very nice! I looked at them from several perspectives, and saw some neat things. I like that you have curated commentary on each item, and included (I think) referrer links to Amazon. I was pleasantly surprised to be asked if I wanted to
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by gknoy 11y ago
The incentive is the net present value of having sex Right Now, versus the cost of money, being unable to sleep for the next 18 years, and financial obligations. Given how often people (in general) don't use a condom, even when they&#
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by gknoy 11y ago
That may be true, but it doesn't help. Impersonating another person could plausibly be construed as accessing a system without permission -- a federal offense, I believe. Couple that with things that likely include classified informat
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by gknoy 11y ago
It's good to know that I've been doing the right thing, then. I have a hard time being confident though, and pitching the value of that breadth. Most sites like Hired or whatnot ask things like, "how much experience do you ha
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by gknoy 11y ago
I interpreted "shaking the tree" to refer to how sometimes, when shaking a small tree, you end up with more things falling out than you expected. I suspect they mean that changes which one might expect to be small and well-contain
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by gknoy 11y ago
Easy solution: go back and buy another piece of junk for $25k. ;)
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I hope I'm not the only one with the vague hope that somewhere there is a Monty Python sketch of this.
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They might perhaps feel that their role is more like a combination of the Ministries of Love and Peace, and thus loyal to what they see as the government. In fact, one might even say that they are loyal to their government, rather than to
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by gknoy 11y ago
You seem to have pretty clear ideas about how users with slow connections might want to experience this. Would you consider making a pull request with an alternate theme (there are two already included)? You could adjust the styling as you
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by gknoy 11y ago
You didn't address the question. Of course it's illegal -- how would you stop them from __getting__ them, though? We've seen that making it illegal won't be enough, as drugs and prohibition have shown: there would be a
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by gknoy 11y ago
While I first heard "fuck the police" in the context of rap, it certainly doesn't seem to be a non-mainstream concept anymore. All of the people I know that feel that way are, as far as I know, law-abiding citizens. They&#x
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by gknoy 11y ago
I like to make a repo, and then have subfolders for each thing -- emacs configs, bash configs, etc -- and then symlink them in. Bonus would be to write a script that automated doing the symlinks (e.g. ~/.bashrc -> dev/gk-config
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by gknoy 11y ago
I expect it's based on the /slap emote in IRC. Wikipedia [0] has a page on it, from which I swipe the follwing: `When someone does something inadvisable that they had the experience and intelligence to avoid, you may likely see th
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Because they enjoy it, and it helps develop hand-eye coordination and small hand muscles. :) edit: Also, I thought I'd read that coloring things as an adult helped release stress.
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I think it's unwise to underestimate your fellow humans' propensity to "be a dick", as you put it, even if they don't gain anything more than the satisfaction of treating others poorly. Facial recognition + a databa
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by gknoy 11y ago
> This kind of policy goes a long way towards the perception of professionalism at any web site. Does it, though? Looking at HN usernames, some are clearly names (mine, yours), and many are probably not (patio11, JupeterMoon, hackuser, o
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by gknoy 11y ago
I would prefer to be able to explicitly set a pseudoynmous profile (name, profile picture, etc) in groups that we join (e.g., gaming groups, where FB is Super Awesome for out-of-game collaboration, but where not everyone needs to be able to
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You jest, but when I moved three years ago, I watched about three seasons of Burn Notice lying in bed, holding my phone in an awkward position overhead about 8 inches from my face. It was less bad than it sounds, but this product would bas
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by gknoy 11y ago
Or, even better, gave a proportional amount based on the amount you've visited. Better yet, give a Humble-Bundle-like distribution slider to allow you to alter it by preferences ("HN already has funding, give all of my BTC to ind
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by gknoy 11y ago
Thank you for suggesting the image search -- I had been imagining a castle-like wall, and seeing the stacked tetrapods [0] was really eye-opening. (Apparently it helps dissipate the wave energy.) 0: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Judging from most of my Facebook feed, it feels like a lot of people in this country do not value that more highly than miniscule taxes.
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As @deng mentioned above, the Amazon tablets have historically had locked bootloaders -- they won't load custom ROMs. The XDA guys seem to believe it's unlikely you'll ever be able to load Cyanogen on one of them.
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by gknoy 11y ago
Many companies are founded as Delaware at least partly because of the legal framework and case law precedence that that state has for governing corporate bodies. Or, that's what I gleaned from an article a while back about how stock a

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