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by hjk05 7y ago
> Visa and Mastercard are taking a 3-4% cut of every single consumer payment made in much of the world. That ends up being a very, very big number. In Denmark we solved this the lowtech way. Visa cards have to be Dual visa/dancard,
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by hjk05 7y ago
I tried to buy a cup of coffee recently at a bitcoin only cafe. Though I didn’t end up paying with bitcoin because it took a day for the bitcoin atm deposit to clear. So I asked a friend who worked in the building to spot me a cup of coffee
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by hjk05 7y ago
As first reading the title I thought: “Really, that’s very interesting” Then I realized that almost everything about dogs have changed since humans befriended them. They literally went from wolves to pugs. Taking that into consideration it’
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by hjk05 7y ago
You simply cannot be arguing that companies who need a developer to maintain a java code base should take special care to not consider candidates ability in java just in case they don’t know the language at all. Yes learning a new programmi
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by hjk05 7y ago
> but it is a sad broken system for a lot of qualified people. The positions get filled. The candidate who gets the job is also qualified. There is way to much bias from people who go through these interviews and don’t get hired not beca
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by hjk05 7y ago
If you are filling one position, it doesn’t matter if 20 people technically qualify, you hire one. Imagine a single resturant forced to hire 200 chefs because each of them managed to live up to the minimum qualifying criteria for the positi
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by hjk05 7y ago
I’m in Denmark. Whenever I buy something using my contactless credit card, the app I have for mobile payments receives a digital receipt. Quite practical.
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by hjk05 7y ago
> It's utterly insane the expectations that interviewers have. Not really though. They always manage to fill the position. Interview’s see the system as unfair because they think their interview happens in a vacuum. You get x quest
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by hjk05 7y ago
I have a rock that keeps tigers away, does it work? Well I’ve never had a tiger in my apartment so it must work right? Correlation is not causation. You left your phone in rice, but it didn’t work. It didn’t do anything. The water dried ju
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by hjk05 7y ago
> One woman in Los Angeles, for example, spent $20,000 on a wacky cosmetic procedure that took stem cells from her belly and injected them into her face. She later grew an extra bone that prevented her from opening her eye and scratched
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by hjk05 7y ago
It sounds like you don’t actually know R. Deployment in R is a one-click thing. In python it’s a complex path through virtual environments multiple incompatible packaging tools and dependency managers, at times compiling some c dependencies
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by hjk05 7y ago
Pretty simple is relative. I deploy python applications to cloud instances using docker through a git push based ci/cd setup. It works great, and I think it’s simple. But if I have to explain to an analyst how to use 3 different platfo
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by hjk05 7y ago
Trying to solve a problem that isn’t actually a problem. Tabs work fine. “But your using the tabs sort of like bookmarks” is like complaining someone is using a fork/knife combo to eat pasta and wanting to therefore redesign a knife th
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by hjk05 7y ago
So someone ser up scripts to post CV sounding tidbits completely random wiki pages in an effort to do some jobhunting SEO? That’s hilarious! Also Rok Aljan Was involved as prime lead.
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by hjk05 7y ago
True, or you might end up working on some major popular project written in C, like python.
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by hjk05 7y ago
They left the car unlocked in the same sense that your home is unlocked. With the right tools, it’ll take me 5 minutes to gain entry. I could then claim that it’s your own fault I gained entry because you don’t have a metal enforced door, s
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by hjk05 7y ago
> he didn't do anything special to hack... Someone who snatched a purse out the hand of someone else isn’t “doing anything special” either. The illegality doesn’t hinge on the difficulty of the action. Why is that so hard to grasp f
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by hjk05 7y ago
Likely the add agency hired by IKEA to put attention on this got the link wrong but the likes they’ve arranged rolled in just the same.
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by hjk05 7y ago
This is true of literally every single airport i’ve ever traveled through. I guess experiences vary greatly.
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by hjk05 7y ago
Most the time the fact that you are stranding there right next to the belt waiting. It’s a extreme high risk crime with little reward and no way for the criminal to make sure what they’ll get. They’d have a more profitable time trying to pi
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by hjk05 7y ago
You can also follow the link, go to Dropbox web and select direct download from the top right dots menu. That gives you a version that is fully zoomable.
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by hjk05 7y ago
No it doesn’t there are rules and requirements beyond those of a privately owned company, which is for instance why he can’t just call a vote tomorrow nullifying every share except for his own without seeing it blow up in his face. It’s not
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by hjk05 7y ago
What does that even mean? Apple is monopolizing their product. Yes, all companies monopolize their own products. That’s the basics of product protection. McDonalds monopolizes their BigMacs and they are miss using that monopoly because you
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by hjk05 7y ago
Yes, but by that definition every group of bits on a computer is a database. The word sort of loses any value. I mean a HN comment is also a database, a text is a database, a picture of rocks arranger i the shape of names is a database. In
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by hjk05 7y ago
The structure in a spreadsheet is “all the stuff is in cells” and in a raw binary file it’s “ all the stuff is in a binary blob” in a txt file it’s “all the stuff is in lines in a file”. As I wrote initially, if you losen the definition tha
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by hjk05 7y ago
Spreadsheets aren’t without code, the code is just in cells. Spreadsheets are not functional. Spreadsheets are not a database for any sensible definition of database. If you losen the definition enough to include spreadsheets, then random s
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by hjk05 7y ago
A great example of how important gracefully failing is. Broken escalators are just stairs, and broken smart-locks should just be locks. If that isn’t the case, then they aren’t actually smart.
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by hjk05 7y ago
Not necessarily. You could provide people with a 4 digit code they can use alongside their id to verify that their vote was counted as they intended, but also give them access to a tool that allows them to receive a code that “proves” their
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by hjk05 7y ago
Obviously because you can make more money selling it then keeping it to yourself. If the purpose of the machine is to make money why chose the least effective way of making that money just to prevent others from making money as well? Incide
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by hjk05 7y ago
On a previous post people were complaining that math wasn’t as clear as code. I’d argue that this this is exactly the kind of code-like clarity math notation provides you. I makes perfect sense, but only after 2 full pages describing what’s

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