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by hrunt 4y ago
No, the US has no official language, but English is the de facto national language. Some laws require official documents (election forms, immigration forms, etc.) in multiple languages. You often see signs including other languages in speci
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by hrunt 4y ago
Moving away from on-prem data centers does not reduce security costs. At best, it's a lateral move, and depending on the cloud setup, may actually be more expensive. Ultimately, this is an opex vs. capex decision. Data centers are expe
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by hrunt 4y ago
I think the presentation covers this fairly well. Give devs interesting work by having them solve interesting problems. If the technology stack is the "interesting problem" then you are wasting this developer excitement on somethi
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by hrunt 4y ago
> 1. The technological ease of which it is to cheat: it's easier to cheat on an asynchronous online exam than when you're taking it synchronously in a large classroom. I went to school pre-2000, so the Internet existed, but was
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by hrunt 4y ago
Well, the S&P (assuming the S&P 500) doesn't represent the entire US economy, but 500 companies that represent, arguably, the "winners" of the US economy, so expecting them to grow 7% while the entire economy as a who
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by hrunt 4y ago
The love angle can be satisfied by the radio man and his wife, similar to how Ron Howard handled Jim Lovell and his family in Apollo 13.
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by hrunt 4y ago
Robert E. Lee was indicted for treason, but the nation favored reconciliation over retribution, and the treason of the South was ignored by the country as a whole. Lee's prosecution was later dropped. If Johnson had gotten his way and
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by hrunt 5y ago
Ad revenue
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by hrunt 5y ago
You are assuming a rational actor. Putin may not be a rational actor.
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by hrunt 5y ago
My Algebra II teacher used Row, Row, Row Your Boat. She also wore a t-shirt with the quadratic equation on it, under her sweater. As she finished the song, she pulled off the sweater, much to the surprise of the students (the shirt stayed o
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by hrunt 5y ago
How does one prove that they did not receive the violation notifications? Regardless, is it that hard for Google to actually list out the specific violations in the termination notice and provide a direct, responsive way to address them?
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by hrunt 5y ago
One problem I have found with this is that the iOS mail app does not have a provision for sending email through a different SMTP server. Has anyone seen a workaround for that? If you send a reply from iOS, even if you have configured the cu
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by hrunt 5y ago
> Newsgroups got pretty crazy with some of the uuencoded files people would post. That’s definitely an improvement. For a while there were warez groups with massive files split across a lot of posts. I worked for a major Usenet provider
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by hrunt 5y ago
> Parents wanted accountability--so we have standardization of outcomes. Parents say they want autonomy and discipline--until you apply it to their child and then they sue you. Parents complain about taxes going to education--while teach
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by hrunt 5y ago
"You make an ass out of you and umption." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS3i-irQ0L0
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by hrunt 5y ago
Those big Sun servers that are about the size of a small refrigerator and styled like a 90's Star Trek prop are probably Sun e450s. Fun fact: I am in the process of decommissioning a bunch of them from production use right now.
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by hrunt 6y ago
The weirdest part about the translation is that elsewhere, the translation has no problem with "Macs" or "endian".
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by hrunt 6y ago
The Texas Legislature is in session right now, and a major topic of discussion is about who is going to end up with the short end of the high utility bill stick. While the media has played up bills of thousands or tens of thousands of dolla
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by hrunt 6y ago
IANAL, but ... Section 230 says that ISPs are not treated as the publisher or speaker of what their users publish or say. That does not mean that prosecutors cannot try to find companies criminally responsible for allowing users to post ill
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by hrunt 6y ago
Even in the military, "I was just following orders," is not a defense for crimes committed. In the US military, you _must_ disobey orders if those orders are unlawful or a person of ordinary sense and understanding would know them
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by hrunt 7y ago
Zion Williamson was already regarded as the consensus #1 pick prior to the NCAA tournament. Yes, I think Zion Williamson would still be as legendary as he is now without last year's tournament. If the extra rest would have led to him n
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by hrunt 7y ago
On the Make Me Smart podcast, Kai Ryssdahl has a saying for this: the solution for Facebook's problems is always more Facebook.
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by hrunt 7y ago
Except that obsessing over aesthetics is a key part of the iPhone's history (and Apple's history overall). The iPhone's history is one filled with "function follows form" (or, sometimes, does not follow at all), so
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by hrunt 7y ago
Citation needed. In all seriousness, I think the performance issue of ad-blocking is much more beneficial to me than the cross-site tracking. While cross-site tracking may end up being more nefarious or theoretically worse, the slowdown in
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by hrunt 7y ago
The article states that Safari does have a limit of 50,000 rules, and that this is less than Google's updated proposed limit of 120,000 rules that ad blockers have stated is too low. I believe ad blockers like uBlock Origin also do som
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by hrunt 7y ago
This is the first HN comment I have seen that actually describes what about the new design makes it unusable. Most that I have seen are "The new design is unusable! Everyone agrees with me! I use old.reddit.com and do not use the new d
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by hrunt 7y ago
Boxcryptor[1] started out as an EncFS[2] implementation. At the time, EncFS was the only real good solution for file-based encryption. Solutions like TrueCrypt are disk-based, which means for cloud syncing solutions like Dropbox, one file -
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by hrunt 8y ago
It specifically was NOT a cable-stayed bridge. It was a non-redundant truss bridge with a tower and faux stays that contributed nothing to the structural capabilities of the bridge. The arrangement of the truss structure mimiced the stay an
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by hrunt 9y ago
They want fast resolution of names that point to websites hosted by Cloudflare. Cloudflare makes their money selling their network to businesses that use it, and anything that makes that service better for the end-user increases customer st
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by hrunt 10y ago
I'm a home owner in the Western world and I don't consider myself a real estate speculator. I "bought" my house because I really, really liked it and wanted it to be my home for a very, very long time. Buying the house g

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