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by hiram112 6y ago
I've developed Java for a long time. Ant was at least predictable, though left a lot to be desired. Gradle has always been a tangle of DSL that nobody understands, but just gets copied from random examples and Github repos without any
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by hiram112 6y ago
Substack is a Y-Combinator startup, right? I see them hiring here a lot, anyway. I've always wondered what the cutting-edge technology or business model it aspires to provide, such that the idea was worthy of startup funding and so muc
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by hiram112 6y ago
From the article: >> One ex-employee says there is effectively a glass ceiling for European workers. > About 30% of students at my university in Berlin are foreign, coming from mostly Asian, Arabian, and American countries... This
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by hiram112 6y ago
> people have a right to any platform they are able to create. This argument is becoming increasingly disingenuous based on actions of just the last few days. Didn’t Parler go ahead and do exactly what you recommended? * cut off from Goo
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by hiram112 6y ago
See insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now assume half the military itself is sympathetic to the “rebels” and the government would have a difficult time containing any real insurgency. The US government has made a lot of enemies over the d
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by hiram112 6y ago
It's irrelevant, but it's quite apparent that the establishment is using what's relatively a minor event* to put into motion the crack downs they've wanted to do for years. Seeing the Twitter mob, composed not only of th
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by hiram112 6y ago
Just my anecdote - I usually shop at Kroger owned stores (various brand names depending on your region of the US). Their "normal" prices are about the same as any other non-discount grocer like Safeway, but they're very aggre
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by hiram112 6y ago
Interesting. I think a lot Darknet activity goes through Tor. The resulting drug purchases to and within the US will end up going through USPS. If I had Congressional funds to go after illegal drug shipments made through Darknet sites, I&#x
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by hiram112 6y ago
> Unfortunately many of these people vote against their own financial interests... I get so tired of this poorly reasoned idea that continues to be spouted from the left as if it is gospel, and that the "rubes" are just not as
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by hiram112 6y ago
I've had a feeling, at least since the IBM purchase of Redhat, that the days of using Centos as a free replacement of RHEL with all the security updates and patches for absolutely free, are coming to an end. You'll either be force
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by hiram112 6y ago
Isn't this the same? RUN apk update && apk upgrade && apk add foo
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by hiram112 6y ago
> Is there a reason for folks not to migrate to LibreOffice? Yes, because nobody else is using LibreOffice, and so whenever you send documents to someone else, you come off as very unprofessional due to the good chance your document won&
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by hiram112 6y ago
> The only party with anything to gain from suppressing voters are the Republicans. > And just this election, the Republicans put up fraudulent, illegal mail-in ballot drop boxes. So which one is it?
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by hiram112 6y ago
Russia has been meddling in our elections since the Cold War began[1]. China, Israel, and every other power "interferes" in our elections, too, just like we do to them. What was disingenuous of the US media was to make a huge deal
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by hiram112 6y ago
Housing prices are going up regardless of land availability. In a smaller Midwestern city I visited this summer, there is essentially unlimited land in all directions from the city center - it is just farm fields. Regardless, the new constr
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by hiram112 6y ago
Glad they kept the $9 single stream price. If I do go back to streaming service, that's a fair price. As a single person, I've watched as most of these services have increased their prices for single users but made it much more re
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by hiram112 6y ago
> Why can't "we don't want this trash on our site" be the reason? That's a perfectly fine stance, and it has worked well for traditional publishers like the NY Times and Washington Post for decades. They control
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by hiram112 6y ago
It looks like even the expensive commercial databases have docker images that would be okay for development purposes: * Oracle Express: https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/master/OracleDa... * S
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by hiram112 6y ago
I'm a little confused. A 'toy' bank app would have individual accounts with some amount of money in each. The problem arises when you subtract the debit from one account and error out before crediting the amount in other acco
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by hiram112 6y ago
> Some american politician extended copyright protection towards software. The rest of the world eventually did the same. >> Is this desirable? > No. So I'm sure you'd be happy if I just took the software for whatever
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by hiram112 6y ago
I'm an American who worked for a year in India and another few months for a large H1B "WITCH" company in the US. It was an interesting experience, but it took me about 2 weeks to understand how it was not about "best and
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by hiram112 6y ago
H1Bs were never supposed to have been immigration visas. Congress set the law to two 3-year stints - max of 6 years and then you're gone. Somewhere in the last 20 years, they began rubber stamping renewals for anybody who'd paid a
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by hiram112 6y ago
> A rising tide (growing economy) lifts all boats. Funny, most Americans who aren't working for FAANG would absolutely disagree with you here. It's almost as cliche as the "wealth trickles down" or supply side economi
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by hiram112 6y ago
This is the whole premise of FIRE[1]. Invest in a S&P index fund and you should be able to pull out 4% or so without ever running out of money. 1. https://old.reddit.com/r/fire
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by hiram112 6y ago
All his properties are in corporations or limited liabilities, like almost every other business in the country. Those corporations do pay taxes. His securities, investments, etc. are in a trust, required by law, I believe, which would also
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by hiram112 6y ago
Most localities sell bonds, backed up by promise of future tax revenue. Eventually their bonds are downgraded and they have to pay higher and higher interest rates. Finally, the math comes crashing down and the game is over when the market
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by hiram112 6y ago
He never used the word 'bleach'. Ironically, he used the word... 'disinfectant', as did you. The media started off the rumor of bleach, and before you know it, his accurate statement was twisted into him telling people t
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by hiram112 6y ago
You can read his exact quote here: https://www.statesman.com/news/20200713/fact-check-did-trump... Never once does he mention the word 'bleach'. He uses the terms UV light and disinfectant. But I guess u
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by hiram112 6y ago
I don't know for sure how much the US government / DOD spends on RHEL licenses, but I've worked at plenty of contractors who were using it (and CentOS). I would be surprised if a significant amount of RHEL's revenues wer
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by hiram112 6y ago
You won't be able to prove your assertion until there is a known vaccination that helps elderly people avoid Covid. At that point, if these deaths occured in elderly who were probably within a year of dying even without covid, we'

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