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by mdekkers 9y ago
Are the books much better than the show? Significantly. I have read the trilogy several times, and the Netflix series, whilst cool, doesn't come close to the depth and pacing of the books.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I am so fucking done with Windows. Windows 10 has a lot of cool things I like and that are useful to me, but the only other time I felt such a complete lack of control over my systems was during a 3 month Apple Mac experiment (ended with an
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Salary range; Remote Ok, and from where; Stack used;
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Not really sure why downvotes Perhaps because your post comes across as mostly subjective value judgements, with a sprinkling of holier-then-thou between the lines?
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Hacker News is a fucked up place. Used to be nice around these parts. Unfortunately, it is rapidly going the way of Reddit. I have yet to find a community that allows downvoting to remain a nice place. Sooner or later, the quality of conv
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Alteryx looks cool. Except for the pricing, which is mind-blowingly ridiculous.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Where would one look if one wanted to learn COBOL though? One would look at google. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol/index.htm
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Sending invoices, getting paid.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
our ability to cripple Russia economically What would be the point of that? And, come to think of it, what do you think the likely outcome of such a situation would be? Good for you, you laid evil Putin low. And what about all the actual
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by mdekkers 9y ago
But Russia is the number two arms exporter, and it spends a higher percentage of its gdp on defense. Factually, that may be correct, but in context the numbers spell out a different picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Thank you for the quote, but unfortunately I am too slow-witted to see the relevance.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Agreed. OP is probably talking about the Chinese model
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Yes, democracy is dying, assuming it was ever "alive" - barring small, token movements, the rich ruling classes have always been that. We, the people, are often presented with unpalatable choices and little hope of changing the ac
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by mdekkers 9y ago
People who don't own significant amount of property (say, sufficient to provide rent above poverty threshold), shouldn't vote, because their votes are irresponsible by definition, and they are too easy to manipulate Can you back
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Instead of senseless downvotes, how about some comments instead? Dragonfly isn't Linux, it is a BSD, therefore the OP is comparing apples to oranges. If you disagree, say why, don't just hit the downvotes. HN is rapidly becoming t
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I'd look at Dragonfly's stack first, as that's outperforming Linux at the moment. Apples, Oranges, etc.
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Salon magazine mines crypto-cash with readers' PCs(bbc.com)
102 points by mdekkers 9y ago|106 comments
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Disease spread is such a drop-in-the-bucket among the (moral, ethical, personal, societal) issues surrounding prostitution That is simply a matter of perspective and implementation. There are many countries and areas where prostitution is
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Except for the fact that Facebook keeps changing that back
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Google to remove “View Image” button from search results(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by mdekkers 9y ago|0 comments
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by mdekkers 9y ago
I rarely stop reading books once I started, but halfway through The Three Body Problem I gave up. I realised that although all the word were in English, the order in which they were arranged on page was not making any sense to me.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
If you are looking for donations, make something worth paying for. Personally, I spent 15 seconds on your site, and couldn't find anything of value to me. The act of making it doesn't entitle you to turnover....
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Keep reading. They hammer hardcoded NTP servers constantly, as opposed to abiding by the pool guidelines
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Technically, we are in a position of resource abundance, and ready for a PS economy. Unfortunately, greed is keeping us down.
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Most of the value that you're creating is captured by someone else. So why should you be expected to spend all your life to benefit someone else's interests? Exactly. And they push you hard to squeeze just a little bit more out
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Thanks for helping me start my monday spilling coffee all over my keyboard!!
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Wow, you're not snarky at all, are ya bud? And? How does your comment contribute to the discussion? Your position that billionaires are all criminals because you personally cannot conceive of anybody making that kind of money the leg
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Facebook's "X years ago today, you posted this ..." has been amazing I can see your point but it isn't relevant to the article, and also, it is a matter of perspective. I managed to permanently disable it, after it kep
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by mdekkers 9y ago
That’s why Germany is strong in manufacturing AND has superb working conditions... and the UK has a service economy and zero-hours contracts Bravo, well said. Solid working conditions, meaningful employee input to company decision making
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by mdekkers 9y ago
Rancher is awesome. As was CoreOS, and I am really pissed RH bought them out. RH manage to break everything they touch.

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