kamyarg

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by kamyarg 7y ago
Thanks for sharing it, this is a very interesting approach.
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Cheney the one that basically pushed the war? When is this quote from? From the Wikipedia article: > Following the US invasion of Iraq, Cheney remained steadfast in his support of the war, stating
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Ironically whole thing started with CIA staged double coup(first one did not work apparently) in Iran during 1953(declassified recently). It was so successful that they copy-pasted it to LATAM and elsewhere. [1] Interesting fact: Kermit Roo
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by kamyarg 7y ago
TIL Masayoshi Son has the distinction of losing the most money in history (approximately $70bn during the dot com crash of 2000). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi_Son
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Ah, thanks for the clarification. Did not know it is supported in some languages.
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Do you mean true ? console.log("foo") : console.log("bar") ? This is already there: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Yes, exactly. This is also a double-edged sword, if the experience is horrible, you can be sure none of their classmates will apply to you or even their school if you blew it exceptionally. There is an article by Joel Spolsky about Hiring g
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by kamyarg 7y ago
> The strongest candidates take their job search seriously and are willing to devote a fair amount of time to landing the right job. ... only for the 1-2 top companies they are interviewing for. I have discontinued multiple interviews be
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by kamyarg 7y ago
I am also having issues with commenting on PR.
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Non-Mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_United_States_...
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by kamyarg 7y ago
second this, can not remember reading an article that did not give me a new perspective on the topic. Also Jeff Atwood, the other cofounder of SO has a blog that is very informative called Coding Horror.
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by kamyarg 7y ago
> Basecamp is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who > have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1. Just wow, this is gold.
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by kamyarg 7y ago
In various points in the documentary he points out how lucky he was for: - having a good family - having good environment that mostly ignored his stubbornness and let him grow - how lucky he was to be good in math and engineering - coming f
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by kamyarg 7y ago
> how much they’re pissing everyone I am afraid that it is not even a significant portion of the population that is pissed. If it was, then Snowden leaks wouldn't have been almost forgotten in 5-6 years. People seem to have accepted
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by kamyarg 7y ago
A fee does government collects is tax, if it just mandates to be collected by a non-governmental org is not tax. Government does not get involved in collecting this fee except for having a law that an organization(ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio B
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Thanks a lot for correcting me, for some reason I had misremembered that they are also funded by broadcasting fees, but you are right, they are not; they are funded by tax money[1]. [1] https://www.dw.com/en/who-finance
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by kamyarg 7y ago
> if I had wanted to live a safe life, I would still be sitting in Hawaii in paradise with the woman I love collecting a huge paycheck to do almost no work. Regardless of if he is a hero or villain, he does have integrity. People that sa
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by kamyarg 7y ago
IMHO no newspaper is independent. Each has an owner that most of the times has a political agenda they try to push. So the best strategy is to read most prominent ones from different countries and create your own conclusion. But if I had to
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by kamyarg 7y ago
App is able to access the sim unique identifier. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_card#ICCID - https://stackoverflow.com/a/38032034/1329429 But I am not sure about website, maybe they have
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by kamyarg 7y ago
I moved away from home to study, then even farther for work. I usually see my family once every one or two years since I left during our summer gatherings. Couple of years ago I realised I will see them maybe 20 maybe 30 times if I am lucky
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by kamyarg 7y ago
There is Uber Eats, Freight, and JUMP bikes in addition to their ride-hailing product. I believe they share some technical similarities but still each of the four(I know of) are startups ideas imho.(See Lime, Lyft, Sennder, Delivery Hero, T
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Seems it vests over 4 years with 5%, 15%, 40% and 40%
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by kamyarg 7y ago
I am also very happy with namecheap. Also https://www.gandi.net/en is nice for some tlds that does not exist on namecheap.
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by kamyarg 7y ago
I believe it is Visa to use them when transaction can not be "short-cut". I think If the merchant already is related to stripe(uses Stripe for its' payments on the website) and customer uses stripe card, stripe can bypass vis
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by kamyarg 7y ago
> I speculate that in the future, Bitcoin might become valued so highly, that people don't even bother using it in favor of other coins, and as people don't use it, no one then accepts it, then it loses value This is similar to
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Is it this one: > Die erste Generation schafft Vermögen, die zweite verwaltet Vermögen, die dritte studiert Kunstgeschichte, und die vierte verkommt. > Bismarck (1815–1898) EN: > The first generation creates wealth, the second mana
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by kamyarg 7y ago
clear cookies whenever you see the paywall. works for most news websites in my experience
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by kamyarg 7y ago
> more than a third of our infra costs are just windows licenses Wow, that is brutal.
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by kamyarg 7y ago
Not surprised to see Sparkasse (German Bank) here, their password rules are horrible, they cap it with 5 chars which is insane. I hope if someone gets hacked they will be able to sue the them because of their archaic security practices. p.s
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by kamyarg 7y ago
I guess it is related to greek mastic gum? Really interesting to learn.

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