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by likpok 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11743305 These already exist, they're just expensive.
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by likpok 10y ago
Did they ever send you an email or a text? One thing I've had happen is that if the other person uploads their contacts/address book, you start seeing them as suggested friends.
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by likpok 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._White Arguably SCOTUS has ruled that you can't secede, and that the South did not in fact secede.
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by likpok 10y ago
Pure nicotine can be used as an insecticide and generally doesn't have the adverse-to-humans effects of smoking, so that's not really good evidence of tobacco being nasty. There are other things you can mix with water and use an i
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by likpok 10y ago
I recently had a credit card used on the wrong continent. I called up the card issuer (capital one), said "hey I don't recognize this charge". They issued me a new card (via next day air) and refunded the transaction. I dunno
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by likpok 10y ago
> most of the best upper year engineers finish their studies and then abandon Canada for SV. That might have something to do with it. If none of the good people are willing to stay for reasonable rates, companies may have trouble finding
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by likpok 10y ago
You can easily get 300K after a couple of years at a big company (e.g. AmaGoogAppBookSoft as patio11 likes to put it). You do not need to be an especially talented engineer at such places to draw those salaries.
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by likpok 10y ago
> That's why environmentalist organizations like the Sierra Club support infill development Except the Sierra Club in SF, which strongly opposes dense housing.
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by likpok 11y ago
It's not exactly "recent", but http://harvardjol.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/HLL104_crop... is what I presume 'tptacek is talking about (it was discussed on HN before).
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by likpok 13y ago
VMware has a product to do exactly this (Auto Deploy). It PXE boots ESXi and can configure it automatically.
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by likpok 13y ago
Other ads on facebook, presumably.
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by likpok 13y ago
Given the histrionics on HN lately, I'm not sure he's being sarcastic.
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by likpok 14y ago
> If you want to talk about confusing, I watch C-SPAN constantly (it's an illness) and whenever anybody in the legislative or executive branch talks about "cyber security" they always talk about IP protection and "preventing a cyber pea
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by likpok 14y ago
So start soliciting donations and hire your own professional lobbyist. The amount of whining about how the political process is broken because it actually takes work to influence legislation is a little ridiculous.
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by likpok 14y ago
Using words like "misrepresenting" and "disingenuous" and "dishonest" attaches serious implications to the facts of the matter: "dropped out" was not the best phrasing. As Hanlon's Razor puts it, "Never attribute to malice what can be adequ
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by likpok 14y ago
Did she know that? It sounds like Farhad was point on the get-a-guy-from-reddit thing, so she may have not known the details, just that "Alexis was asked, but he isn't coming".
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by likpok 14y ago
SRS started as one guy who would post lists of quotes from Reddit (iirc, upvoted comments in mainstream subs) and Stormfront, with the object being to guess which quote came from which. It was harder than most Redditors would like to admit.
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by likpok 14y ago
I'm not sure how true that is, given that every Apple product is billed as "The best foo yet."
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by likpok 14y ago
Do you think the military would not shoot down a hijacked airliner heading towards New York? With that in mind, how is using a drone any different?
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by likpok 14y ago
There was some discussion a while ago about the tendency of Nobel prizewinners to go off into crazyland (see Linus Pauling, others [1]). I recall hearing some speculation that this was (somewhat) inherent to getting a prize. I think the wil
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by likpok 15y ago
In 2009 the Department of Labor sponsored a study [1] as to the nature of the wage gap. They determined that much of the wage gap can be explained by other factors. There may still be discrimination, of course, but it seems to mostly not be
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by likpok 16y ago
Something like Detexify seems like it would be more useful, as I often know the shape of what I'm looking for, but possibly not the name.
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by likpok 16y ago
Proof by construction is perfectly valid, if usually too difficult to be useful.
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by likpok 16y ago
No other operating system manufacturer (outside of the embedded realm) does anything near what Microsoft does for XP. Suggesting that it is a failing of the IE team to not support XP is a little disingenuous with the rest of what people say
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by likpok 16y ago
You should use rubber. It will do all the nasty stuff for you, and make the errors slightly less dumb. Admittedly somewhat poorly named for searching for help on it, but it works. https://launchpad.net/rubber
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by likpok 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that Pex [1] does the static analysis on these things. It's C#, but should be close enough for you to get the idea. [1]: You can play with it here: http://www.pexforfun.com/
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by likpok 16y ago
The thing about program verification is that everyone knows that of course it is in general impossible. However, I am not writing a simulator. Most of the code I write does not actually take advantage of the power of a Turing machine. The f
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by likpok 16y ago
I recall a story about some programming language which tried hard to correct errors. The programmer wrote 'Hello World' with a minor syntactic error. The program output '7', because it fixed the syntax. If you have ever used Latex, you expe
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by likpok 17y ago
Citation? I've heard lots of people talk of the dangers of HFCS, but I've never even heard of a scientific explanation, let alone seen a study.
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by likpok 17y ago
http://www.coboloncogs.org/INDEX.HTM A solution to all our problems.

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