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by maratd 13y ago
> explain why this justifies throwing the baby (legitimate beneficiaries) out with the bathwater (fraudsters). Perhaps there is a better way? We won't know unless we explore the matter. If you reduce government spending by the amoun
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by maratd 13y ago
> I hear that visiting Israel with an Arabic last name, or, god forbid, trying to go visit Palestine from an Israeli airport will land you in all sorts of trouble. I hear that visiting Arab countries with a Jewish last name, or, god forb
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by maratd 13y ago
> Really? Fucking hell.. With every month that goes by, I am less and less inclined to travel to, or do business in, the US.. The insinuation being that the US is the only country doing this? I hate this sort of thing as much as the next
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by maratd 13y ago
Really? Not a single comment supporting this? Talk about a mono-culture. Reasons this is a good idea: 1. Dispensing charity on the local level, rather than the federal, reduces fraud and gets the funds directly in the hands that need it mos
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by maratd 13y ago
> This isn't true for AirBnbs, where if something screws up you're literally out on the street. This is nonsense. If, for whatever reason, the apartment that I'm renting out on airbnb is not available, I would not put a pe
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by maratd 13y ago
I've been to hotels that screwed up my reservation as well. Is that indicative of all hotels? No. Why judge all of airbnb from just one experience?
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NSA built replica of USS Enterprise bridge to sell Congress on spying(io9.com)
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by maratd 13y ago
It's not a right, but a desire and a desire that can be realized with simple planning. Is there some reason a person shouldn't implement methods that limit exposure?
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by maratd 13y ago
> and no-one cares that it doesn't have embedded videos of antelopes bounding or the galaxy turning. I care. I think Wikipedia would be greatly improved with relevant embedded video content. Unfortunately, getting high quality relev
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by maratd 13y ago
You can find discussion greatly facilitated when everyone has the power to silence the imbeciles by down-voting them into oblivion.
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by maratd 13y ago
Screenshot all QR codes and store them in Dropbox, which also has 2-factor authentication. Store recovery code for Dropbox in Google Docs, which also has 2-factor authentication. So for me to be totally screwed, I would have to lose my phon
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by maratd 13y ago
> if you come in on Sunday to chill with a colleague If you're chilling, you're not working, are you? It's one or the other. Highly technical work requires concentration, not banter. > Work is life, and your relationshi
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by maratd 13y ago
To be fair, nobody is placing Muslims in internment camps nor are they being forced to ride in the back of the bus. If anything, we are learning that we are all under constant surveillance.
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by maratd 13y ago
> Can you be happy, healthy, and work 60 hour weeks while still loving your job? Yes. No. I haven't met a single person who works 60 hours a week and is thrilled about it, outside of those who work for themselves. When you work for
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by maratd 13y ago
Don't know about the parent, but I'm definitely not kidding. If they weren't going to purchase the product anyway, how is it a loss? If anything, it's additional word-of-mouth advertising at no cost.
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by maratd 13y ago
> Yes, I really do want to fill my company with people who want to be there 24x7 No, you don't. This is naive. Human beings aren't computers. There is no constant output per hour of work. It's nonsense. The output per hour
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by maratd 13y ago
> The sales and marketing economy is zero sum. This is false. I'll let those more gifted than myself to make the argument: http://www.ted.com/talks/rory_sutherland_life_lessons_from_a...
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by maratd 13y ago
> 3. I have no option but to work in NYC and live in NJ. It seems that this is the sanest thing to do. Hey now, there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, it's preferable. If you live in Jersey City, Hoboken, etc. you're on
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by maratd 13y ago
Same here. I can't imagine Getty Images releasing anything other than a cease and desist letter.
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by maratd 13y ago
> I have no way of distinguishing a genuinely talented developer from a bullshitter. Nonsense. Put him in front of a computer and ask him to write something. Then evaluate him based on that. I have written hundreds of thousands of lines
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by maratd 13y ago
> I do all my dev work in the VM, and everything else in Windows. You must be my twin. I use Windows for Photoshop and everything else is in my Ubuntu VM.
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by maratd 13y ago
> And if they have nothing to hide and their accounting is honest, then an audit shouldn't be a problem. Are you one of those people who support the NSA? I really didn't think I'd meet one on HN.
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by maratd 13y ago
> At least when the Tea Party criticizes the government, the government doesn't pull the welfare checks of its members. Nope, they just nail them with a tax audit. Power corrupts regardless of who wields it. Also, I wasn't prop
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by maratd 13y ago
> Or you can push to eliminate all these programs because you think they turn everyone into lazy welfare AIDS-seeking moochers So let me get this straight ... for thousands of years, support for the needy was provided by local religious
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by maratd 13y ago
> The Hyperloop would be infinitely more useful (and might actually get done) if it were from Boston to DC (with NYC and Philly stops in between). There's already a "high speed" rail system between those points. Of course,
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by maratd 13y ago
> a theoretical maximum output of SLoC. If that's you're metric, I don't think it's a good one. That's certainly not my metric and I definitely don't believe it's a good one. My metric is readability. T
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by maratd 13y ago
> Can you show us any concrete examples of high quality, comment-less codebases? No. Quite simply, there is a collective perception that if a codebase lacks inline comments, it's of poor quality. Very few would dare to publish such
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by maratd 13y ago
> "My code is so good it doesn't need comments" is usually untrue. I still don't see this as a convincing argument. Our greatest constraint is time. So the question becomes do I spend my time writing comments or do I
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by maratd 13y ago
> cooperating in their work may indeed be in your interest It may or it may not. You have no idea. They can lie to you with impunity. You're the one barred from lying. They are not. If you can't trust them to tell the truth, yo
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by maratd 13y ago
> anything you say to an officer of the law might be misremembered later and there is nothing you can do against that. No. Anything you say can and will be used against you in court. If you lie about anything, even something trivial, tha

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