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by gred 8y ago
To be fair, it probably doesn't affect a lot of individuals in the US, since our de minimis is $800 [1]. Compare to e.g. Canada ($20 CAD). [1] https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/de-minim...
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by gred 8y ago
DHL tried something like this with allyouneed.com... it came to my attention recently when they announced they were shuttering the site: https://ecommercenews.eu/dhl-ends-online-marketplace-allyoun...
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by gred 8y ago
> My first employer, the online dating site OkCupid, didn’t harp on testing either. In part, this was because our company was so small. Only seven fellow engineers and I maintained all the code running on our servers—and making tests wo
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by gred 8y ago
> UGA, one of the top two colleges in our home state Hello, fellow Georgian! Having attended the other of these two colleges, I will avoid mentioning which one belongs in the #1 spot and which belongs in the #2 spot, and will instead jus
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by gred 8y ago
Just read the article (and the Fortune article which it links to). It will save all of us a lot of time.
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by gred 8y ago
> Corporations have largely shunted the responsibility for retirement savings onto individual workers. Now said workers have no pensions and have uncertain retirements. Instead of asking why they have no pensions they seek to equalize st
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by gred 8y ago
> The powerful and government institutions should be transparent, and citizens should have their privacy. Hear, hear! The most frustrating part of the Clinton email fiasco to me was the contrast between the rule bending going on at the h
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by gred 8y ago
> I’m thinking the discoveries should be made public goods through rewarding breakthroughs somehow. Maybe the people who create new medicines could be given a temporary monopoly to recoup costs and make some money, and in exchange their
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by gred 8y ago
> Why Everest? > Unlike other REST clients like Postman and Insomnia, Everest is written in Java. Thus, it is significantly lighter on resources and more responsive than the Electron-based options. I love Java, but I had to laugh a li
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by gred 8y ago
Interesting insight -- thanks! I agree with others here on the security vs. performance and security vs. binary size trade-offs. As a thought experiment I wondered at what point it would become a hard decision if I were in his shoes. I thin
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by gred 9y ago
> I am genuinely interested in using CockroachDB as a primary datastore but feel like I have been burned too many times by hopping on board with a young database. > According to crunchbase, Cockroach Labs has raised $53.5m (RethinkDB
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by gred 9y ago
Yeah, I was confused for the same reason.
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by gred 9y ago
This is marked as a dupe, but I can't find any other stories on this topic that are more active / higher-voted. Can someone provide a link if they have it?
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by gred 9y ago
I'm aware; it was probably the most dangerous decision I've made thus far in my life.
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by gred 9y ago
> I feel like virtually any long term relationship I'm in will mean significantly subsidizing someone. I'm not divorced, but I had similar questions before my own marriage. In the end we moved forward on a more traditional basi
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by gred 9y ago
I think referring to the FBI as "the KGB" or "the Gestapo" would be counterproductive, making it harder for open-minded friends and family to hear valid concerns, and more likely that they just roll their eyes and tune u
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by gred 9y ago
Even if they removed it, it would still be there... in Spanish ;-) ("EL" = "THE")
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by gred 9y ago
We need an updated Waldorf Statement [1]. "Members of the Node.js community deplore the action of the CTC men who have been cited for contempt by the Foundation board. We do not desire to prejudge their legal rights, but their actions
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by gred 9y ago
Probably rhetorical, but I can take a stab at an answer! This story is interesting to me, personally, because I'm now just a little bit less naive about how things work around here. The Brendan Eich fiasco startled me a bit, but didn&#
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by gred 9y ago
Very interesting. I have to admit I've seen the product name a few times, but never took the time to have a look. I do have a few questions, though, if any of the engineering team are still around watching the discussion :-) From the h
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by gred 9y ago
Tone it down. I suspect karianna has done more for the Java community than you or I ever will.
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by gred 10y ago
> It's strange to see everyone hold up this movie as an argument against this sort of testing. Interesting viewpoint! It seems to me that the genetic testing was nothing more than a convenient proxy for measuring actual performance.
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by gred 10y ago
There's probably no downside... until there are twenty sacred cows, the aggregate heuristics are filtering out half of the country, and Trump is commander-in-chief...
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by gred 10y ago
"I'm willing to listen ${them}, as long as they don't question ${sacred_cow}" is a key aspect of the unwelcoming behavior described by the interviewee. To use your example, I'd wager that most global warming skeptic
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by gred 10y ago
Don't leave us hanging! What's the other?
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by gred 10y ago
Maybe under a Trump administration Silicon Valley will also object more strongly to the NSL regime, now that it's "someone I dislike doing something I dislike", rather than "someone I like doing something I dislike.&quot
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by gred 10y ago
> I am left with a feeling of awe at China's development, and frustration at the UK's stagnancy. To be fair, the UK was overspending on railway long before it was cool :-) From Edward Chancellor's "Devil Take the Hind
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by gred 10y ago
I see where you're coming from, but a few observations: - The judicial branch is wading through this question now (sometimes allowing compulsion, often not); it's not a question for Congress to answer, as appealing as it might be
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by gred 10y ago
The good: > Congress should not weaken this vital technology [encryption] because doing so works against the national interest. The bad: > Metadata may not completely replace the loss of encrypted content, but metadata analysis could
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by gred 11y ago
The author gave users two weeks of advance notice. Some are (rightly) pointing out that this doesn't give the users much time to react, but would a three-month or six-month notice really have been that much better? How likely is it tha

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