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1981.
by mseebach 13y ago
> "That didn’t happen, but I had to make some kind of comparison." ?
1982.
by mseebach 13y ago
There's a difference in severity between "will get hacked" and "has this risk". The popular web apps are targeted, and very shortly after any exploits are found, automated drive-by attacks are live across the web. T
1983.
by mseebach 13y ago
A verse from a danish satirical poem referring to the 17th and 18th century that has since become a sort of proverb: Every learned man Only latin wrote To the ladies French, German to his dog and Danish to his servant he s
1984.
by mseebach 13y ago
But much harder to store (hide), transport and spend in significant quantity.
1985.
by mseebach 13y ago
I would expect 1 and 2 to be driven by 3 to a large extend.
1986.
by mseebach 13y ago
Isn't that in reference to a command literally named "login", presumably due to the lack of a good convention for separating words without the space character? Like "useradd" on contemporary Linux.
1987.
by mseebach 13y ago
> if person A owes $10 to person B and person B owes $10 to person C then Splitwise will report that person A owes person C $10. What happens if I'm person C, B is a decent guy but A is a deadbeat? I lent money to B, not A, and can&
1988.
by mseebach 13y ago
I'm not an outsider, and no, "we" don't understand that. The average citizen is only close to breaking even financially in the public budgets, and that is "what's wrong" as the GP asked.
1989.
by mseebach 13y ago
It's hard to put this very politely, but you're making a fool out of yourself now. Lump of Labour fallacy isn't crazy voodoo economics, it's incredibly well established. Read the Wikipedia article, then look through some
1990.
by mseebach 13y ago
So these 3 million unemployed people can be evenly spread out over the economy, sharing in 3/40ths of the jobs of doctors, nurses, machinists, programmers, cleaners, gardeners, engineers, chefs, management consultants, inbiss cook and
1991.
by mseebach 13y ago
There's nothing wrong with it, but all the parties involved just need to be conscious of the tradeoff involved: shifting focus from the production of wealth to the consumption of it. As long as the production is higher than the consu
1992.
by mseebach 13y ago
> It's not even specifically talking about the competition you're talking about - the danger is unlicensed cabs and drivers who are not certified. The headline on the article says "minicabs" which is specifically the
1993.
by mseebach 13y ago
So: - Nicer cars (I don't how that's an afterthought to be brushed away) - Cheaper (by a good margin) - There are more than twice as many private hire cars than taxis in London - although, they're not all on Uber, by a huge m
1994.
by mseebach 13y ago
> struck my as the establishment trying to downplay the importance of this book > the elites are freaking out It's a good thing we have things like science and open discourse then. Then we can stop "freaking out" over p
1995.
by mseebach 13y ago
I love Linux and is in the same dilemma re MBPs - but this just makes my blood boil. How can this work well in Windows and OSX but require Linux users to hunt down magical incantations and fiddle hundreds of settings? Isn't it possible
1996.
by mseebach 13y ago
I'm curious - what exactly are you trying to prove by systematically foregoing capitalising your sentences? It makes your post incredibly difficult to read (grammar and typographical rules weren't invented to annoy people, they mo
1997.
by mseebach 13y ago
Occam's razor answer: Because the vast majority of Silicon Valley engineers are happy enough with their working conditions, with their ability to find new work if their current gig goes belly up and confident that if a major conflict o
1998.
by mseebach 13y ago
> "No well-actuallys. "Well, actually, you can do that without a regular expression."" I don't think that's quite what is meant by "well-actually". In Miguel's blog, he gives the example of so
1999.
by mseebach 13y ago
The risk of getting caught isn't constant, it's highly dependant on the circumstances and the perpetrator. Also, besides the crime itself, spending a large sum of ill gotten money without getting caught is a lot easier if you alre
2000.
by mseebach 13y ago
At least a single data point: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/11/uk-britain-co-opera...
2001.
by mseebach 13y ago
People at work aren't necessarily your friends, and it makes sense to be friendly, even if you're not friends. But it doesn't follow at all that you can't make friends at work, even that it can't be a good environ
2002.
by mseebach 13y ago
As I understand it, America = USA is not a US thing, it's an anglophone thing. For most of the history of the continent, if you were an english speaker, you were simply most likely to speak about the bit that's the USA, thus it go
2003.
by mseebach 13y ago
Freedom used to have a perfectly good definition: the absence of coercion. During the 20th century the word was co-opted by people, such as yourself, arguing that freedom should mean something else, such as "access to medical care, edu
2004.
by mseebach 13y ago
Scandinavia is three countries and the Balkans is eight.
2005.
by mseebach 13y ago
It makes me happy that exactly not a word of this article is about panicking over the fact that he could have been carrying a bomb. Are we (the population at large) finally calming down enough about flight security that we can have a ration
2006.
by mseebach 13y ago
> This is one of those distinctions that are likely to be lost on a lot of people. Not least, the press.
2007.
by mseebach 13y ago
Your nation is literally built on contempt of sea levels. Using only renaissance technology. Even if the rest of the world is submerged, I imagine a single Netherlands-shaped island in the vast sea, populated by unmoved people not sure exac
2008.
Tidal Wave: Depression in the West – Calling for a new way of thinking(economist.com)
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2009.
by mseebach 13y ago
> The average 2013 annual water rates bill in England is £390, or $650. Most of which is non-drinking uses of water, such as bathing, washing, dishwashing, cleaning, flushing, garden irrigation, filling the pool etc. I just paid £170 (II
2010.
by mseebach 13y ago
2: I mean "strength" in a broader sense than caffeine content. I get more jittery from drip coffee (or french press, my personal poison of choice) than I do from espresso - I seem to recall having read that a shot of espresso cont

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