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by mapgrep 5y ago
They’re both tradeoffs. In my FDIC checking account, I know for certain I will lose the rate of inflation every year on my carried balance (~4 percent historically) but I won’t lose due to the bank’s investment (if I’m under the FDIC balanc
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by mapgrep 5y ago
I actually think this is a really intriguing idea once you push yourself past the knee jerk reaction of "wait you want me to put my whole checking balance in mutual funds?!" As you know if you read enough about banking, and as the
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Qubes is wonderful. I read HN and surf the web/social in a dvm - disposable vm, so if you are exploited, not only is it contained to the vm, it’s contained to the vm until you close it, at which point all changes are discarded. (Modulo
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by mapgrep 5y ago
You are right, and there are also design speeds routinely imposed on new/“improved” U.S. roads that enable or even require (under govt safety standards) wide roads, which just encourage faster driving and worsen the problem. Even here
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by mapgrep 5y ago
> It's run _before upload to iCloud Photos_ - where it would've already been scanned anyway Right, so ask yourself, why is it on the device? Why not just scan on the server? To me (agreeing with much of the commentary I’ve seen
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Google cache link http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Ya, this accords with my thoughts when I first saw this bubble up, I don't understand the benefit over just using lein, which is very easy and straightforward (for my use case). I thought maybe this new approach is needed by people wit
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by mapgrep 5y ago
At least then there would be a consistent narrative, but if you look under the article you can see that in January they had a headline about how everyone was leaving.
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by mapgrep 5y ago
> People forget that pre-internet, USA Today was basically a news aggregator that just happened to print other people's stories on newspaper form. This part you’re wrong about, USA Today has always had its own reporters, a fair numb
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by mapgrep 5y ago
In the q&a with Guy Steele at the end he says one thing he would do differently is integrate transducers more deeply into the language from the beginning, but the concept emerged around the time of core async when they were wary of rewr
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Promptly censored here on HN.
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by mapgrep 5y ago
[programmers, for years and years] Hi we built a huge industry around pointing AIs at normies’ comms and renting it out to advertisers etc. This is very legal and you are Bad if you try to fight it copyright grounds. Indexing and downloadin
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by mapgrep 5y ago
This sounds something like transducers in Clojure, I’d be curious to see how they compare! Fascinating to see similar ideas emerging in various places. (It’s possible Clojure borrowed some concepts here as I know Rich Hickey often discusses
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Former Prisoner of War Saved NCR from Obsolescence(wsj.com)
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Funnily similar wording to an old slashdot troll message about rewriting the Linux kernel in Visual Basic: “I hope to see a switch from C to VB very soon. I've already spoken with various luminaries in the C coding world and most are e
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by mapgrep 5y ago
The person you are responding to is correct. I’m a current LibreWriter user and have lost a fair amount of data to it as have people on Word who were unfortunate enough to have collaborated with me. I’m done drinking the kool aid and in the
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by mapgrep 5y ago
No, docx et al are open - not only are they xml, they are standardized by ECMA and ISO. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML
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by mapgrep 5y ago
LibreOffice is fairly unstable in my experience. I was an enthusiastic user full time for three years and am in the process of setting up a VM for MS Office (so I can run it on Linux) because collaborating with track changes on Word docs ev
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Great minds think alike? Heh
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by mapgrep 5y ago
You seem to be assuming “a lot of fake user signups” == “few real user signups.” OP only said the first. For all we know they also get plenty of real ones.
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by mapgrep 5y ago
>No, "the work you want me to do is trivial and pointless". And the context is college, and even more so high school. You choose your college and you choose your major, and you choose to go to college in the first place, so I
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by mapgrep 5y ago
> I had to learn what real work was before I could wholeheartedly desire to do it. That took a while, because even in college a lot of the work is pointless; there are entire departments that are pointless. In other words, "the work
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by mapgrep 5y ago
I’ve been very happy using Helm home email server and it’s made me a bit of a snob about hosted Gmail alternatives - these companies still have access to all your email and while I am not a big fan of Google’s business model I’m personally
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Person 1: Brave replaces existing ads, that’s bad Someone from Brave: actually we don’t replace existing ads at all, here’s why Person 2: no one cares what you do or don’t do with existing ads! I don’t have any connection to Brave but I fin
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by mapgrep 5y ago
I’m sure Apple has/will do similar. Isn’t the point of the cert not so much to vet the recipient but to create cost (including nonmonetary) to attain the cert and then have the ability to rapidly revoke the cert and nullify the malware
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Macports is great and better than homebrew. But it’s an add on, with no (official) support from Apple. Apt is first party, WSL is first party. Debian and Microsoft won’t make breaking changes intentionally that impact those systems. This ha
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by mapgrep 5y ago
> But property taxes aren't a tax on capital gains This is getting tautological though. The point of the ProPublica piece (generously read) is that there’s no reason we have to tax capital gains — or more to the point, wealth broadl
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by mapgrep 5y ago
This is itself misleading. There are many examples of government in the U.S. taxing unrealized gains. Prime one is property tax. The author claims: > most countries use the very sane solution of staggering sales by only imposing a tax wh
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by mapgrep 5y ago
Thank you!!
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by mapgrep 5y ago
> until the death of Stalin, black and red caviar was very inexpensive and accessible. Actively farmed in the Caspian Sea, it was one of the country’s top exports. What? Why would the death of Stalin impact the price and availability of

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