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by macksd 4y ago
Is this... meant to be a commentary on the nature of relationships that start on Tinder?
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by macksd 4y ago
Sitting by a small campfire watching the sunset in the Rocky Mountains while sipping lemonade. And making out.
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by macksd 4y ago
The most generous estimate I can find of monetary usage is 10%. Most estimates are less than half that. I don't remember the last time I saw a legal business that accepted crypto as payment or heard of anyone I know using crypto as a c
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by macksd 4y ago
People are really using consumer printers in counterfeiting?
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by macksd 4y ago
I'm not saying I don't buy crypto because it crashed at this point in time. I'm saying continuously over a very long period of time I haven't bought crypto, and that's based on the information I have had over that c
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by macksd 4y ago
I'm pretty perplexed by what crypto has become in practice. All the big selling points for me are that it's a currency (that almost nobody uses as a currency) with mathematically-ensured security (which goes away if, like many peo
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by macksd 4y ago
This is a very interesting story, but this article is pretty light on a lot of the details of his life. He got into a lot of mischief throughout his life and unfortunately died a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by macksd 4y ago
I've mostly heard it used by farmers. And it makes sense if you're thinking of the equivalent rainfall measured in inches on a property measured in acres.
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by macksd 4y ago
Which is beautiful, but is absolutely not something I would ever choose to pay for.
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by macksd 4y ago
Possibly it's just a matter of astronomers being particularly interested in this topic and pursuing it the way they're best qualified to, because we happen to already have all sorts of equipment for gathering signals. I like the i
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by macksd 4y ago
Which brings us to one of the best XKCD punchlines of all time: https://what-if.xkcd.com/3/
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by macksd 4y ago
The recollection doesn't say anything about who else didn't make it. I don't think they included the information you're trying to infer from the story.
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by macksd 4y ago
Incidentally, an elephant was used in their first big Hadoop book (and I would find it hard to believe that was coincidence): https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hadoop-the-definitive/9... . There's a Ha
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by macksd 4y ago
Last time I encountered this was creating random IDs for things, either as a random string of characters or when selecting from lists of attributes and animals like all the tools that'll name things like "curious possum". It&
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by macksd 4y ago
I used to not drink caffeine at all, and I was always perplexed by this belief coworkers seemed to have that you simply can't work without caffeine. It's only because your body is used to it and your mind thinks you can't wor
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by macksd 4y ago
And funnily enough, you'll often hear this trait as being desirable in a pseudo-random number generator. People often want something that will jump around fairly unpredictably but that will come close to outputting all possible numbers
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by macksd 4y ago
Some organizations use this feature to enforce security policy and ensure regular rotation of credentials. You can't get a static access key ID / secret access key pair, but you can get one with a session token, and so you run eve
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by macksd 4y ago
"on the job"? Most likely. But I spent a lot of time and money getting a degree from an accredited university, where I was bored the whole time and maxing out the number of credit hours they would let me take while also working as
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by macksd 4y ago
This is a good idea. I've had two employers with "unlimited PTO". One of them explicitly set an expectation that I was expected to take at least 4 weeks per year. And it wasn't in writing, but everyone was told this, so
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by macksd 4y ago
Are other cases of online abuse, workplace harassment, discrimination, etc. so rare that people are actually chasing problems like this for a paycheck? It would be wonderful if that was the case, but I doubt that it is.
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by macksd 4y ago
One key thing to know here, in addition to the replies you already received, is that the role of fiduciary duty is dramatically overstated by a lot of other HN comments.
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by macksd 4y ago
As someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about, I'm also wondering how he would be getting around the widely-reported "poison pill", even if he did have $21B more.
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by macksd 4y ago
I've wondered about this, because I hear about bullying a lot on various neighborhood social media groups, etc. When I was in school I felt like I was a victim of bullying. Looking back with my grown-up perspective and having gone to t
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by macksd 4y ago
It would probably be prudent to withdraw your other DMCA notices until you figure this out. You're being given the benefit of the doubt, and the other counternotice on Github doesn't exactly portray you in the best light either.
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by macksd 4y ago
This discount is what got brought up when I complain about this on NextDoor and Facebook. Local business owners who are contributing to the spam, whose circulars are among those I just immediately throw in the trash, don't want to pay
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by macksd 4y ago
What happened with Bernie Sanders in the primaries? I thought he saw it through to the end and just plain lost to Biden. Not that that fact alone didn't concern me. But I think it's a far more damning image to the party that Tulsi
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by macksd 4y ago
I never cease to be amazed how much I pay in taxes and then whenever there is a government service that is necessary or desirable for me, I have to pay to use it or endure shit like this to subsidize it.
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by macksd 4y ago
I don't think the physical mail problem gets talked about enough. Maybe it varies - because I actually don't have much of a problem with spam text messages myself - but one of the bigger chunks of my HOA bill lately is the cost of
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by macksd 4y ago
I think #8 (weekly syncs) illustrates that even the author doesn't believe in a 100% asynchronous world either. I value a good synchronous discussion when its possible. But between time zone differences and being flexible with people&#
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by macksd 4y ago
When it starts being involuntary and harmful, or perhaps in response to emotional trauma?

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