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by lurker14 14y ago
Free movement across borders is fundamentally incompatible with the other civic guarantees like anonymity and social welfare insurance. It's like the CAP theorem for humanity.
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by lurker14 14y ago
If you want to hop in a boat and motor away, no one will stop you. But if you leave this country, you probably want to go into another country (the world is about out of wilderness), and what are you going to do when you get there, without
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by lurker14 14y ago
1. it's an infographic, not intended as meaningful discourse. 2. It talks about tuition, which is a nonsense metric, since private (and to a lesser extent public) colleges offer steep discounts (aid). A meaningful analysis would report on a
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by lurker14 14y ago
If there were ever a thread that was useless without pics, this is it.
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by lurker14 14y ago
I don't get it: http://www.jgraph.com/mxlicense.html is a non-free license, but https://github.com/jgraph/mxgraph/blob/master/license.txt is non-commercial Creative Commons Can I get a perpetual commercial license for mxGraph today? h
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by lurker14 14y ago
Who upgrades a CPU without upgrading their motherboard too? The benefits are neglible, as next-gen RAM, next-gen peripheral bus, etc, all require a next-gen motherboard. More of a concern is custom-built shopping , where it is harder for a
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by lurker14 14y ago
Shifting? Apple has sold appliances for over 28 years.
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by lurker14 14y ago
It's $200 per marginal 8GB, actually. Per 1 GB, that's only a $20 markup over fair market value of the RAM. It's not so much when you say it that way, just like a text message is only 10c each, for each of the thousands Twitter/AIM generate
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by lurker14 14y ago
SMART car is $12-$25K now, so that problem is solved.
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by lurker14 14y ago
I am responding to your post on a 5+ year-old Mac with upgraded RAM and a replaced battery. The upgrade/refreshability is a key factor in this machine being worth the premium price it cost.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Right, and Macs are optimized for performance and physical aesthetics, not practical servicability. Sound familiar?
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by lurker14 14y ago
> So anywho I love getting on my soapbox but it's insane how many huge companies benefit from these scams, and how simple it is for them to have deniability due to the ecosystem of using these small timers on the front end. The same st
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by lurker14 14y ago
That "one application" was software+hardware tasked with managing millions of hand-written paper forms. The electronic version of tax filing was far cheaper, and launched successfully.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Huh? How do any of your analogies work?
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by lurker14 14y ago
Useless? The software running the computer you are typing on is full of void*.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Even if you don't give it a name, you are still doing it.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Ugh, for 111kclub I'd expect a much more specific, exclusive error. I can get a general error anywhere. Maybe members-only get to see the exciting details of the error?
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by lurker14 14y ago
Quality users move on, status chasers move in.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Maintained, not wrote. John Wiegley wrote both. http://www.emacswiki.org/PlannerMode It is cool that Sacha maintained it, volunteering is awesome. I am pointing this correction out because Sacha's primary career is as a self-promotion spe
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by lurker14 14y ago
Wow, she is such an happy-happy-joy-joy blogger^evangelist^blogger that I never though she had time to write any code.
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by lurker14 14y ago
It's the reverse. I can't carry a bottle of chemicals without spilling it on myself, or take apart an machine without dropping a few pieces in the sewer, so I stick to the virtual world where my poor hand-eye coordination won't get me kill
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by lurker14 14y ago
Natural-language likeness, with all its weirdness and power, was an explicit design goal of Larry Wall's perl, a language which was instrumental in creating the WWW as we know it.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Point of information for this thread: Erlang's iolist are similar (in data structure and complexity) to Haskell's bizarrely named Difference List, which is explained a bit more here: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/dlist/0.4.1
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by lurker14 14y ago
Braintree's engineering blog has been featured on HN many times, but no one ever talks about actually using Braintree.
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by lurker14 14y ago
It's a pun. Zappos is a clothing store.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Spacebar works fine for me in G+ Stream page.
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by lurker14 14y ago
You customers will not be mollified if you tell them that the service you sold is down due to a subcontractor failure.
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by lurker14 14y ago
Which is better? Having a day of downtime each year, or not launching at all?
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by lurker14 14y ago
Northwest DC has plenty of the whitest richest Democratic voters you'll find.
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by lurker14 14y ago
I can't imagine wanting to be in the company of someone who who (a) you don't want on your facebook, and (b) would bitch at you for it.

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