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by lsiebert 9y ago
There is one thing people definitely aren't liberal about... sexual harassment, especially by people in power. Let's assume that you aren't that person, and perhaps even took a training seminar to make sure you are thinking a
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by lsiebert 9y ago
He says that an industry representative came in after months of work and was allowed to rewrite stuff to benefit the telecom industry. The model state rules let ISPs sue cities that set up their own broadband network. Staying could be const
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Is it really the result of globalization, or could it be the capture of gdp growth by the wealthy? Thinking about it we tax productive work more then capital investment, and I'm not sure if that isn't ass backwards. http:/&#
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by lsiebert 9y ago
it's only about 12 dollars on aliexpress to the US, with most of that being shipping.
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Here's HN discussion of a 5 month old map of sonic fiber in SF. https://thatdan.github.io/sonic_fiber/
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by lsiebert 9y ago
I recommend dual booting for safer firmware security updates, but it totally works.
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by lsiebert 9y ago
I mean I use (and post from) a macbook pro myself, so I'm hardly trying to flamebait anyone.
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by lsiebert 9y ago
New chips without these bugs aren't going to be ready for at least 2 years if not longer. While one bug affects intel, the other bug affects intel amd and arm chips. So it's not like you can get a better computer. I suppose you mi
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by lsiebert 9y ago
One of the great joys of my bachelor's degree in psychology was being invited to take a graduate level course on Item Response Theory (with Professor Jack Vevea, now at UC Merced). I wouldn't have fallen in love with programming a
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by lsiebert 9y ago
I really wish Rails came with an easy out of the box to run as a REST api mode that let you load your initial front end from a single endpoint, or for server rendered react/vue/angular that can then hit the REST api, in a way that
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Now I'm picturing an onion article about axing employees with actual axes.
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by lsiebert 9y ago
constant time comparison in crypto is potentially important because of timing attacks to gain information. Haven't looked at the code here to see if that's the case, nor am I a crypto expert, but see https://en.wikipedi
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Actually, you can't by gender, under obamacare. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/obamacare-women_n_...
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Ask HN: Is your startup/tech company having a black friday / cyber monday deal?
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Barrier for entry is lower, but it's also harder to get paid for local news. Local coverage of political activities pretty much sucks except in major cities.
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by lsiebert 9y ago
two plugins failed until I installed https://github.com/neovim/python-client Which seems to have fixed things.
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by lsiebert 9y ago
It's not a terminal though, so you can get GUI features that terminal nvim can't do. Personally I use terminal vim not any sort of nvim (maybe I should change over but then I potentially have to maintain two sets of plugins, one f
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Given inflation, it seems like payroll taxes have fallen. 30k is (per https://www.dollartimes.com/inflation/inflation.php?amount=3... ) $397,964.84 dollars. I'd suggest looking at the following for a reasonably goo
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Well we did pretty well after world war 2 with really high taxes on income. I don't know how we'd get back to that, but there are huge pay offs in investing in things like child nutrition and headstart programs, these have been sh
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by lsiebert 9y ago
5 dollars or whatever you give doesn't really buy much in terms of drugs, I suspect.
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by lsiebert 9y ago
We pay a great deal of money for the military, and healthcare. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud... We also overpay significantly for the healthcare we get compared to similar developed count
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by lsiebert 9y ago
There are a lot of ways to make a startup. If you are cynical, you can undermine an existing occupation or skilled trade, either by replacing it with contractors who lack the same job skills but who aren't employees and can't uni
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by lsiebert 9y ago
That makes a number of assumptions. 1. That wealthy people's money can dry up. 2. That wealthy people know this and it provides an impetus to spend. 3. that that impetus to spend is constructive. 4. That poor people, promised basic inc
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Well personally, I'd like to incentivize those who put work and value into the system over those whose individual contribution is negligible. As well the marginal utility of another dollar to someone who is already wealthy is low and t
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by lsiebert 9y ago
I think you are assuming equal opportunity for the children of the wealthy vs the children of the poor. It doesn't take any particular smarts to live off of family money though. Investment income doesn't require work to support on
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by lsiebert 9y ago
Communities today where a large percentage of people live on government aid are not the equivalent to the country as a whole on basic income, and government aid now imposes multiple work and reporting requirements that help prevent people o
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by lsiebert 9y ago
IANAL but I believe the EFF has argued about whether contempt is appropriate on several different grounds, notably the right against self incrimination in the case of a first party demand to produce a password and the protection against unr
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by lsiebert 9y ago
He did attend a law school and graduate, and was admitted to the bar afterwards. "He spent three years with the Cockles in Omaha, completing the undergraduate degree he'd begun in prison, and continuing to impress the lawyers he w
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by lsiebert 9y ago
The purpose of language is to communicate. If they use the wrong terms and communicate, it's not an issue. If they use the wrong terms and miscommunicate, that is an issue. If they are miscommunicating, you can always ask them what t
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by lsiebert 9y ago
"Do you have an open office?" comes to mind. http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170105-open-offices-are-d...

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