mentat

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451.
by mentat 11y ago
Usually people use their full name in signatures. Still don't see what the issue is.
452.
by mentat 11y ago
So, there are an infinite number of things that are just series of mathematical operations. It's the ones that are useful that matter. Why would we not compensate people for discovering them?
453.
by mentat 11y ago
This is not some random guy but another CEO.
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by mentat 11y ago
I think it's actual costs.
455.
by mentat 11y ago
I think you have to be purposefully not paying attention to not see the variation in bathroom ritual across cultures for it surely exists and in significant ways.
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by mentat 11y ago
rpm and fast don't really go together. dpkg is much better. dnf will be interesting.
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by mentat 11y ago
Thanks
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by mentat 11y ago
Slavery doesn't involve kidnapping if there is a legal framework for selling people (which by definition isn't kidnapping).
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by mentat 11y ago
Having studied some meteorology in college I haven't heard a coherent example of what changes people believe have happened to the weather patterns or why. If you want to reply here, I'll check back from time to time.
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by mentat 11y ago
How exactly does one draw the connection between the drought and global warming? Both are warm?
461.
by mentat 11y ago
There are these things called winds generated by pressure systems that tend to move evaporated water around, so yes, you are right.
462.
by mentat 11y ago
Citation? I find that an incredible figure.
463.
by mentat 11y ago
Can you post some citations for your "new normal" assertion?
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by mentat 11y ago
California is the 3rd largest state by area, not sure how that's "small".
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by mentat 11y ago
Google is one of the few companies that can legitimately show active work in most every technical field. I think it would be a pretty serious issue but IANAL either.
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by mentat 11y ago
And we would be just as critical of that investor.
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by mentat 11y ago
Open ftp uploads all over again...
468.
by mentat 11y ago
An ignorance is an excuse for compromising your company or customer's data in exactly what situations? Let's just all cover our eyes and not look, then the data will be safe I'm sure.
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by mentat 11y ago
Was the exact same person asking the exact same question.
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by mentat 11y ago
People write about Google interviews but my Amazon interview was significantly worse than my Google one. Totally disorganized, confused start times, reinterviewed by people I'd already been phone screened by to that asked me the same q
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by mentat 11y ago
I think it's hard to underestimate the degree to which our knowledge of biology has changed in the last 60 years. I'm sure there was the thought that something could go wrong, as almost always that's the case. That it would k
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by mentat 11y ago
If he's working in a number of industries represented on HN, then that is in fact quite possible.
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by mentat 11y ago
"perpetrator of a planned crime"
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by mentat 11y ago
Was that understood to be the scope in 1950 though?
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by mentat 11y ago
I'm not clear on how this is a productive comment. We have 60 years more science on how bacterial infections work. It was only 10 years ago that it was found to be dangerous. How many things are you doing today that will be found appal
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by mentat 11y ago
They did not believe it would have any effect and believed that in good faith. It's easy 60 years later with dramatically advanced science to say "well of course it would and should" but that misses the point.
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by mentat 11y ago
We don't have time to wait for widespread TCB, even if we could when the NSA is actively trying to undermine all methods for it.
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by mentat 11y ago
I believe s/he would prefer an accurate depiction of the incident.
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by mentat 11y ago
If you're using IMS then it's all data.
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by mentat 11y ago
If you explicitly configure them, it doesn't appear to for "LTE data". It has an autodiscover mode that will open a VPN before using wifi for LTE data.

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