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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Although to be fair, that job 20 does offer equity in the company in lieu of monetary compensation. Maybe not what you're looking for, but still a different beast than working for free.
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That's true, of course. But while I'm no history buff the main examples I can think of regarding monopolies of these commodities have always been government-induced (war-time rations, communist food lines, etc.). Am I missing ex
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Consider the fact that if you refuse to do business with a private-sector monopoly the worst that'll happen is that you'll get a slightly less-effective alternative or in the worst case go without the good. If you refuse to parti
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
In the short term you're right. But if the cuts were done responsibly over time the economy would adapt and the capital we currently spend on the military would be reallocated to more productive areas. Claiming that we can never cut
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
The same thing helped out post-war America as well. Was isn't good for the economy on average, but when all of your industrialized competitors get bombs dropped all over them and/or occupied your relative advantage in manufacture
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I think Seafile checks all your boxes. I run it on a VPS and use the Windows, Linux and Android clients daily without any issues. I haven't tried the encryption but it allows you to password-protect folders. http://seafile
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I'm not sure that everything you said is correct, but the beauty of at-will employment is that it allows most of these problems to be solved by people looking to their own best interests. I don't know many companies that would tr
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Some background on how this fits into a wider trend: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-... And the discussion, much of which involves explaining why this tendency is maybe not as sin
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I'm using Seafile with a VPS. I had the VPS anyway for other projects and it's great to be able to access my files from anywhere. I'm really impressed with Seafile's polish, too. The only feature I miss is not being ab
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xps 13 hasn't been discontinued; it was refreshed last month at the same time as the XPS 15 shown here. Barton George, the project lead, has confirmed that there will be a follow-on Sputnik coming out sometime in the next month. This
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Reflections on Trusting Trust(cm.bell-labs.com)
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Then you would have to type in the password each time you wanted to use it anyway. Not much sense in storing anything in that case. :)
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I wonder how this compares in total efficiency to traditional truck-based delivery. I could see it going either way -- trucks can presumably move more goods further per unit energy, but you can't take full advantage of that unless you
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I don't think this technology will be very useful for illicit purposes until there are enough drones in the sky to get lost in the crowd. They're not particularily inconspicuous when they're buzzing around.
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Keeping people from getting the whole experience on something like Pocket or Flipboard. Not that I blame them; it's a good idea.
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This is really exciting technology, but as far as I can tell not even SpaceX is sure that it will be practical to include it in a production rocket ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIVCCaYWGpk ). That's not meant as a c
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In his defense, it isn't the judge's primary responsibility to change law, it's the legislature's.
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If someone has penetrated your security enough to get the list of hashed user passwords it's assumed that they've got the salt as well. Salts aren't really considered "secret" and they don't make it harder for
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Maybe bitcoins could be moved around in an onion-routing scheme similar to Tor. You might be able to see that a particular wallet ended up with the money but it wouldn't necessarily be possible to see where they came from originally.
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This hasn't worked for me. My linkedin and Facebook accounts showed up above the mugshot but everything else was below it. My fairly active github profile, personal site, and twitter profile for example were all lower ranked than the
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I found out about a month ago that one of these sites had an arrest record for someone with my same first and last name. As luck would have it he also is the same race and approximate age as I am. We don't really look alike but there
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
I think the OP was referring to "shutting down" in the sense of stopping development on their consumer-facing app. The article likely meant that they weren't "shutting down" in the sense that the employees will sti
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
Awesome decision. It's easy to say it was the right call from the sidelines but it's also easy to underestimate the personal cost that must have been involved with walking away from his company, especially with the gag orders mak
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I think he's just trying to make the Java->Oracle->MySQL connection. I don't see how using Java is in any way a vote of confidence for MySQL though, so the point seems moot.
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I've always tried to smooth the wave on the fuel efficiency argument. I figure that maintaining a constant low speed has got to use less gas and be easier on my car than all the stopping and starting.
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From what I remember of my rusty high school chemistry magnetism requires a certain relatively stable configuration of the valence electrons. I'm guessing that as temperature increases it's impossible for the atoms (or even just
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
The scientist who put this together probably only tested it on large monitors. I had the same experience on my laptop's main display but on my (larger) external monitor the video floats below the table. Setting the browser zoom level
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
And almost everybody will be pulling jQuery from a cached version of the one on Google's CDN.
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The density number will almost certainly increase. Both of the major US political parties are very pragmatic -- they're willing to shift their platforms as much as necessary to capture a bare majority (if they weren't, they would
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by kcorbitt 13y ago
This is handy and extends S3's use case by making two-way sync straightforward. My long-term storage is in Amazon Glacier; I wonder how much effort it would take to extend this and make a straightforward process to pull the data from

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