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by hnmullany 5y ago
Another data point - user traffic to graphql.org has been flat since mid-2020 - at least according to Semrush - at about 250k visits per month. So it's a tech that people are using, but it seems to have saturated its use case.
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by hnmullany 5y ago
If you have an electronic piano that requires a complex series of button pushes to produce copyrighted music - that's still a copyright violation. Copyright law has no notion that the difficulty of reproducing copyrighted content effec
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It doesn't apply to housing. (And there is no capital gains on sale of your primary residence anyway).
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Other countries have a time limit for how long you're allowed to sit on unrealized gains. In Ireland, for example, you have to pay capital gains on unrealized gains at the 7 year mark.
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To be honest, Sun's whole culture treated software as an afterthought - which is part of the reason they ended up where they did
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Now ask how many unique x86 instructions do standard compilers emit...
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by hnmullany 6y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7034876/ Be conservative with dosage, don't do multiple doses in the same session & don't use with other drugs
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by hnmullany 6y ago
The reason why the Economist articles all read the same is that they go through a process called "subbing" or sub-editing by the same small group of editors who own the Economist's "voice". I interned at the Economi
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by hnmullany 6y ago
Netflix recorded a worldwide income tax accounting expense of about 13.7% last year ($438M on $3.2B of Net Income). It also paid cash taxes of $292M (cash taxes differ from accounting taxes because of timing issues - just like revenue is no
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by hnmullany 6y ago
Yes the point of using "Dark Ages" was to point out the dissonance between the detailed instructions on how to manage an estate and the idea that this was a period of total chaos & disorder
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How to Manage a Dark Ages Estate(le.ac.uk)
107 points by hnmullany 6y ago|50 comments
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This is a translation of the Capitulare de Villis - rules for managing Charlemagne's estates - written at the end of the 8th century.
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And most of Nymphomaniac is very very boring
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African agricultural productivity is at about 1/10 US rates. So lots of headroom for improvement there.
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by hnmullany 6y ago
One person's bloat is another person's feature. Most of the "bloat" and inconsistent support issues in SVG are in SVG text, filters, animation and DOM interfaces. You don't run into those if you're doing the ba
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by hnmullany 6y ago
There are only so many "A" teams in a big company.
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Materialize is the real deal - completely different architecture under the hood. Origin project is Timely Dataflow & Naiad. https://docs.rs/timely/0.11.1/timely/
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by hnmullany 6y ago
From Angels In America “Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change? Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice. God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then
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by hnmullany 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579905
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by hnmullany 6y ago
He definitely needs a copy editor. Some of those sentences are clumsy af.
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https://www.timescale.com/cloud-pricing
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Promscale – Analytical platform & long term store for Prometheus(blog.timescale.com)
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I would encourage you to read the history of the NLRB under Reagan. They absolutely gutted the thing. https://ucommblog.com/section/national-politics/ronald-reaga... (And Zerohedge is a trashbag of libertarian fan
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You know ... there's a reason that US Unions are partisan, which is that the Republican party has been on a mission to destroy them since Reagan and has largely succeeded.
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by hnmullany 6y ago
Palintir's weren't evil spying tech. They were originally Zoom for coordinating the far flung domains of the Numenoreans. Only when the Minas Morgul palintir fell into the hands of Sauron did they become instruments of his corrupt
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Neo.mjs: multi-threaded framework for front end(expressflow.com)
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This is going to get even worse under the new District Attorney.
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The Bay Area has the highest concentration of Michelin stars in the country. The bars have great cocktails, decor and vibe. The SFMoma & DeYoung are first class museums as good as any city outside New York in the US.
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by hnmullany 6y ago
I went to Harvard in the early 90's. The difference between the diverse interests and ambitions of entering freshmen and what 90% of my classmates ended up doing with their careers (law, medicine, some kind of asset mgt, academia) is p
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by hnmullany 6y ago
Marginal tax rates in California for top earners (including the medicare surcharge) are already about equivalent to France. 37% fed + 13.3% CA + 1.45% Medicare = 52%. Compared to France's 45% income + 7.5% social security taxes.

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