hpkuarg

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by hpkuarg 7y ago
What did you switch to, IB?
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
Are you Swedish, or something?
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
Add in the consideration that air and water don't respect state boundaries, it would be an even bigger mess. To be fair, the federal government has a history of abusing the interstate commerce clause -- it's not clear that just be
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
Converting that R&D into actual products and services, I'd wager, is quite difficult without a profit incentive. It's like the difference between having a great idea for a startup and actually turning it into a functioning com
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
> If everybody else is buying, sell. If everybody else is selling, buy. As always, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
> imagine what the Valley could do with $1.5 trillion They could finally build some high-density apartment buildings ;-)
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
To be fair, country living also subsidizes the population centers, in that New York and San Francisco are not self-sustaining in terms of food production, not to mention the strategic value (to both the coastal cities involved and the count
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
Ah, yes, the ultimate "fuck you, got mine" sentiment in action: benefiting from the level of unprecedented wealth and prosperity we live in, which came from humanity spreading around the globe and ingeniously utilizing its resourc
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
Where is this sentiment coming from? Let the driver (who is legally, ethically, and morally responsible for the operation of the vehicle they are controlling) judge the appropriate safety boundaries of the environment they're currently
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
I'm curious as well -- did you end up moving out of the area?
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
The only difference between hell and heaven is that in one, you end up understanding what you read. ;-)
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by hpkuarg 7y ago
Also known as reading Arthur Whitney's code.[0] [0] http://kparc.com/b/
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by hpkuarg 8y ago
Considering China to be a homogeneous entity in any dimension is borne of ignorance. Linguistically, the four largest cities in China (Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chongqing, Beijing) speak "dialects" that range from barely mutually intel
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by hpkuarg 8y ago
It's an (admittedly somewhat low-value) homage to the classic Onion article.[0] [0] https://www.theonion.com/133-dead-as-delta-cancels-flight-in...
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by hpkuarg 8y ago
133,000 Packages Lost as Google Cancels Wing Service in Midair
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by hpkuarg 8y ago
Agreed. It's disingenuous of the article OP to: - only parenthetically mention colocation, as if it isn't absolutely normal to rent a rack/cage/suite as needed from an existing DC operator (which in addition would make d
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by hpkuarg 8y ago
Is the Swedish case the same even for non-high demand fields? I suppose by definition every job (irrespective of compensation or skill needed) would be a high demand field if it takes 12 months to fill; at which point I suggest that what Sw
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by hpkuarg 8y ago
Some people seem to think that the only acceptable reason to own a pickup truck is if you're plowing fields with it on a regular basis.
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by hpkuarg 8y ago
I can't remember where I read it first, but: "Startups are an inefficiency imposed on the transfer of wealth from VCs to landlords."
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by hpkuarg 9y ago
How does go.rice compare with go-bindata[0]? I only have experience with the latter. [0] https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata
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by hpkuarg 11y ago
Oh, and off-by-one errors.
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by hpkuarg 13y ago
That's funny, since in Commonwealth-speak managing director means CEO.
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by hpkuarg 13y ago
I've always been curious about these "less reputable" dedicated/colo providers. SoftLayer seems to have a great reputation, but it's also twice as expensive as, say, Incero or SecuredServers that you just mentioned.