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by kweinber 6y ago
Bingo. And they are stored in airport storage facilities to claim international tax-free status... Storing visual art in warehouses never to be seen is a move so brazen that it should have been cracked down on long ago
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by kweinber 6y ago
That’s not fair. Much of what gives art its value is its usefulness in money laundering..... arbitrarily high-priced items with no inherent value are staples for legitimizing cash transfers.
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by kweinber 6y ago
If these are green Tribbles, don’t be fooled by their fuzzy cuteness, they are very dangerous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribble
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by kweinber 6y ago
Salesforce is a visual programming environment that has huge adoption and reach. They are almost universal at large companies and have a large ecosystem of visually programmed/configured partner software companies and components.
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by kweinber 6y ago
It is fair to say that using your cognition to measure your own cognitive decline is unreliable ;-)
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by kweinber 6y ago
Not really. You’d have to replace it with the third, fourth, and fifth COMBINED. Since your point is that Coronavirus concerns are overblown, you might want to reconsider it.
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by kweinber 6y ago
Heart disease is the leading cause of death because heart stoppage is the definition of death and the “default” value when the actual cause of death is unknown. Marking cardiac arrest as cause of death is like filling in the blank with “die
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by kweinber 7y ago
It only feels like the US locked down earlier because we were under the false impression that we got the virus later than Europe. Indeed we probably got the virus at the same time as European countries but had no idea because we didn’t test
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by kweinber 7y ago
I see this logic a lot and I don’t understand it. The current administration dismantled the departments we needed, left whole organizations leaderless, and prompted the brain drain of nearly 1500 scientists from the federal government. ...
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by kweinber 7y ago
They are offering to buy back large blocks of shares at market or at a slight premium over market for long-term loyal investors. It is a great offer to you because you may move the market down just by trying to sell such a large block.
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Ask HN: How do you build a windowing system in the browser?
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by kweinber 7y ago
Elm has been out a long time and that is a really short list. Are there key reasons elm hasn’t seen more adoption? (Please don’t bother with comments about corporate drones etc.... companies are pretty good at taking advantage of a good th
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by kweinber 7y ago
The job market is also depressed in Houston.... companies are moving out as people are tired of getting hit by hurricanes and having the land periodically returned to swampland.
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by kweinber 7y ago
Reliable software used swapping for years. Artificially having a low virtual memory ceiling by disabling swap is just austerity for almost no benefit. Paging into swap often has almost no perceptible effect in regular usage unless you are
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by kweinber 7y ago
EFT is one of the few couples therapies that has any sort of scientific track record. I looked into it a few years ago and it may have saved my marriage. I highly suggest a therapist to guide you. They serve as a referee and coach (an im
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by kweinber 7y ago
Library depth and growth are side-effects of a language ecosystems popularity. It doesn’t mean that all libraries are good ones, but remember the open-source rallying cry “many eyes make all bugs shallow”? Yeah, that tends to be true. Also
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by kweinber 7y ago
Another great example is that huge warehouse where they stored the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Indiana Jones.
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by kweinber 7y ago
I don’t think his neighbor’s family would agree with you: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.itpro.co.uk/security/33284/...
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by kweinber 7y ago
I’ve never heard of anyone who actually uses mnesia for real or would consider it prime-time. I’m no Oracle fanboy but comparing their DB to mnesia is like comparing an oil rig driller to a fisher price screwdriver.
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by kweinber 7y ago
You can’t separate Renaissance from Bob Mercer...the guy who helped fund Brexit, helped create Cambridge Analytica, the major founder of Breitbart news, and who got Trump elected mostly to avoid paying taxes. He and his firm did more than a
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by kweinber 7y ago
Everyone who walked made their own decision. A decision to follow the herd and a decision to take the easiest road are still decisions. You might say that a person made a decision to break down blades of grass to create a path and that othe
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by kweinber 7y ago
Our research has indicated that Elixir has basically stopped growing in the general market.... really only getting any growth from converted erlang devs. Have you seen anything different? Most enthusiastic vendors I’ve talked to have moved
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by kweinber 7y ago
Guided apps don’t do anything for me. They essentially were like taking a break but I often felt bored, or annoyed. I went to training for TM meditation and it was a night-and-day experience. I do 2 20 minute meditations most days and I us
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by kweinber 7y ago
If a person has sex with a minor without knowing they are a minor it is a crime. But should they lose their livelihood and reputation if they didn’t know the parts that make it a crime or didn’t commit the coercion themselves? If I buy a c
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by kweinber 7y ago
Yesterday HN had a front-page article about how making your app do less was the key to making it more useful. This is a meme I’ve never understood.... how is it more “useful” if it is less “full of stuff to use”. When people equate streaml
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by kweinber 7y ago
You can choose to filter explicit songs for your kids in Apple Music.
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by kweinber 7y ago
This is an excellent point. Since 90+% of those startup people will end up with peanuts or debt, nearly any other job would have put them way ahead... not just FAANG jobs. Startups are a rich person’s game....either from the VC perspective
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by kweinber 7y ago
I really dislike the "herds not pets" analogy. It implies lack of attachment due to necessity of slaughter - it also implies lack of attachment to your craftsmanship (as in you care less about each host). I find it jarring every
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by kweinber 7y ago
You might be interested in checking yourself and a bed into a storage facility. It fits your requirements perfectly.
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by kweinber 7y ago
After reading the article, I thought this comment may have been the funniest possible first post.

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