kchoudhu

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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Posted on Substack. Perfect.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
How does Windows 10 licensing work for this number of cores?
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Super pumped to see the fate of modern computing decided by a bunch octogenarians who think "the blue E" is the internet.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
What I don't see anywhere in that thread is how much his wife put in as her income when applying.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Printer companies belong together.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Not surprising. I took a couple of years out to raise my kids, and I am having a hard time feeling as intelligent and proactive as I did before the break.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Absolutely. You're paying a tax to pay your taxes. That's fucked, and doubly so because you're paying the toll to a parasitic company that only exists because of the government's inability to provide basic services.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
You must be great at parties.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Stripe is cool -- I use it every day -- but is it really worth, oh, half a Goldman Sachs? I dunno man.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Most Americans have forgotten that the first rule of international travel is not to overtly fuck with totalitarian regimes. With the unipolar world of the last thirty years coming to a messy end, that's a lesson we're going to hav
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Of course, this symbol of egalitarianism provides the ideal concept for companies to exploit for financial gain: https://www.finnishbabybox.com/en/
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
The XKCD forum is surprisingly well trafficked, and there's a pretty large crossover between their forums and Hackernews. I used to like it back in the day; I even met my roommate (when I had one) there.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
I see Mr. Desiato is back from his year dead for tax reasons.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
See: entire financial industry during and after the 2008 crisis.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
For me, it was The Secret Pilgrim . It catches Le Carre at the precise moment when the final scales fell away from his eyes, and he found himself unable to defend even partially the corporatist state that his characters had inhabited and d
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Thank fuck, and I hope the rest of the automotive industry follows suit: I have never felt less safe operating a vehicle than when I have had to adjust some car setting fifteen nested menu items deep while rolling down the highway in an unf
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Yes, but it was ultimately turned back in Australia.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Australia is usually a canary in the coal mine for the effectiveness of resistance to repressive speech laws in the Five-Eyes countries. The Spycatcher affair in the late 80s is the first one I can remember, although I am sure there are oth
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
> It also loads in under 30 seconds Jesus Christ what is going on with the web.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Thank you for your useless driveby code review for a student project on a third party site that could have been an educational pull request to the author.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
It's Youtube, not high frequency trading.
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Asset backed securities aren't really new: funnily enough, the same models that are used to price and work with mortgage backed securities can be rapidly hacked to work for credit card debt, mobile homes and well, pretty much anything
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by kchoudhu 7y ago
Educated people with prospects by and large don't want to live in places where they aren't respected or valued, news at 10.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Does this mean they are going to try to syndicate IPOs as well? Get your portfolio companies coming and going.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
This doesn't sound right: aren't unstable airframes controlled by computers the norm now? If that is the case, a software fix is the answer. If unstable airframes are not the norm, then the question we need to be asking is how
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
CSS is a language, but somehow SQL doesn't make the cut.
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
We were boarding a Qatar Airways flight when the pilot literally came out of nowhere and took my three year old to see the cockpit. I was like, could I have my child back please? While she enjoyed herself, I'm not sure she understood w
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
Can you feel the thoughtleadership?
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
I just asked! The head nurse on the floor knew that unless there was an emergency, we would like to rest between 9PM and 7AM. We would have preferred 8AM, but it was a teaching hospital and they needed to get rounds underway early in the mo
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by kchoudhu 8y ago
For the birth of my second child, I learned to manage hospital staff so that they would leave my wife and newborn alone unless there was an emergency. I proactively scheduled scans, vital checks for the next morning so that the patients cou

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