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by hiram112 9y ago
Wow - been a Fastmail user for about a decade and have always used aliases (though I'm limited to just 10, I believe, based on my account type). But this will come in handy!
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by hiram112 9y ago
I doubt this had little to do with any relationship between linux users and their likelihood of overpaying on a hotel room or rental car. The price paid by Linux users was almost certainly bumped up by Linux gamers explicitly trying to supp
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by hiram112 9y ago
Morally it seems fair. But like most things in our system, I'm sure it will end up being rigged legally in the big guy's favor. Look at our system now. Big capital can move their tax headquarters to Ireland, its service center to
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by hiram112 9y ago
>China has a high savings rate and runs a trade surplus and by necessity it will export capital. There is no other way around it. The Chinese government right now finds it more attractive investing in overseas infrastructures than buying
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by hiram112 9y ago
China has never been able to interfere in 'distant' nations. The Europeans were the first to truly develop navies capable of projecting force at such great distances, beginning in the Renaissance period, and everyone else has been
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by hiram112 9y ago
Are you referring to 'sugar' or carbs?
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by hiram112 9y ago
I don't disagree with you for teams who know which technology is right and which isn't, for their specific use cases. But more common than not, inexperienced devs are using Mongo and similar to store relational data, simply becaus
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by hiram112 9y ago
Don't forget travel and trying new restaurants!
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by hiram112 9y ago
Agreed - recently quit a job at a SV type company where the average age was late 20's, single with no kids, in an open office. In my 30's and also child-free and unmarried, I wasn't unnecessarily out of place, but the fact th
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by hiram112 9y ago
Could you name one actual policy or law that has been passed which has made a significant difference, so far, in any of the issues you claim Trump has 'fucked up'. The only thing I can think of that might actually have caused some
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by hiram112 9y ago
I don't doubt you get a lot awful messages from men. Dates have showed me their Tinder / OKCupid apps, and not only was I surprised to see just how many messages women actually do receive, but also how bad they were - generic or r
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by hiram112 9y ago
Good writeup on the reverse engineering. I'm still a little confused as to what the code was doing, though. It gathers statistics about your user machine (none of which seemed too personal - basically IP, OS, country, etc). But then wh
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by hiram112 9y ago
Mid 30's guy - make over six figures, no wife, kids, or other expenses. I could easily buy my own modest home with cash, but instead I pay about $2K for a tiny studio in the middle of an expensive city. I actually have been looking to
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by hiram112 9y ago
Wow - just when it looked like Mozilla might be on the right path again, after years of incredibly bad ideas, they remind us all why we moved to Chrome.
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by hiram112 9y ago
With the ACA, you will qualify for full insurance due to grants. But if these people have already qualified for federal / state disability payments, they will almost certainly be entitled to some combination of SSDI / Medicare &#x
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by hiram112 9y ago
Maybe because American have been told this 'rising tides lift all boats', immigrants create more jobs, wealth, etc. bullshit for 30 years now, and we're' actually no longer willing to buy it since it apparently hasn&#x27
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by hiram112 9y ago
US companies used to always train their employees. It was the cost of doing business. The reason they do not do so now is because employees, for obvious reasons, have no loyalty to companies, and tend to jump ship after being trained. But a
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by hiram112 9y ago
> ...in my experience it takes years and years and years for Java based infrastructure to become relatively stable & reliable (see ElasticSearch 5.0, or ask anyone who has been oncall for a Tomcat based application). This is almost t
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by hiram112 9y ago
I'm always 'that guy' who will eventually run 'sudo yum install emacs-nox' on any of our dozens of EC2 instances I'm shelled into if I'm working with it for more than a few minutes. The problem is that som
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by hiram112 9y ago
I don't think you realize how hard it is to get benefits in the US if you're not already in the system, and especially if you are an able-bodied male. Were I to quit my job tomorrow, I would not receive unemployment as this goes t
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by hiram112 9y ago
It appears that Germany, at least, does have laws against hate speech: https://govtrequests.facebook.com/country/Germany/2015-H1/ . Same with the most parts of the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by hiram112 9y ago
Did you not miss the part where I referred to my 'localized' version of Firefox or Chrome (i.e. US English)? For example: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/ Again, I canno
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by hiram112 9y ago
I've heard it mentioned various times that a fiat currency's value in any organized society comes from its ability to pay off the controlling state (i.e. taxes). Whether it is dollars to the IRS, colored beads to the local chiefta
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by hiram112 9y ago
I'm wondering the same. >If you use our service in a way that affects anyones health or safety, we reserve the right to suspend your service. The only possible reason I'd be interested in hearing about a service that has dozens
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by hiram112 9y ago
Never underestimate the power of the placebo. That being said, there are many ailments that aren't adequately treated by Western Medicine - either because we don't know enough yet or are still constrained by the profit motive to f
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by hiram112 9y ago
I've been a Java dev for a decade, and I never once used anything but Sun / Oracle's version (now OpenJDK, which is almost the same thing). I really have no idea who ever used these other JVM implementations. I'm guessin
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by hiram112 9y ago
> And you're totally right that homemaker/stay-at-home-parent should be represented in the workforce... developing software is cake compared to that workload. I don't have kids, so I don't know just how tough the job
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by hiram112 9y ago
Exactly. I've never understood why all the US / EU language versions of Chrome, Firefox, etc. include all the root certs for CAs from China, Turkey, Russia, etc. I cannot read Mandarin or Turkish, and in the unlikely event I get f
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by hiram112 9y ago
I think the area around Reston / Dulles would make a great pick. The Silver Line will be finished soon, and there is plenty of room to build it up in the style of Arlington's Orange Line or Old Town's Blue. Dulles being 10 mi
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by hiram112 9y ago
An actual TV itself, or do you mean the Android box connected via HDMI?

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