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by nabdab 7y ago
What is the conflicting messages? I’ve never heard feminists or advocates for woman’s social change talk about woman having to cover up on pictures or avoid social media and instagram. That sounds more like fundamentalist Christian or Islam
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by nabdab 7y ago
No one is compelled or obligated to release their software under a free license. If you do chose to do so, then you are compelled to support indirectly whoever chooses to use the freedoms provided to them by that license. It’s not about mor
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by nabdab 7y ago
Still good advice. Generate a keypair on each new machine and only ever move around public keys. If you are copying over private keys to connect, or reusing private keys, you are doing something wrong.
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by nabdab 7y ago
The fact that triple A games have similar prices today on steam to the times when they also had both disk printing, physical distribution to stores and resale figured in seems to contradict that assertion. The main thing that’s keeping pric
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by nabdab 7y ago
Seems like an extremely specific minutia to build an entirely new distribution for. Also if less is more, how do you call less? I always preferred it because it is faster. /jk
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by nabdab 7y ago
“As low as” Isn’t it still tons higher than a fair market evaluation compared to other rental companies? I mean I get that they “own the word We” and branded themselves a tech company. But when you strip away those jokes, they are just a b2
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by nabdab 7y ago
People can’t agree what devops is, sure. But I feel like it’s extremely easy to tell what devops isn’t. If you don’t have any confidence in your releases before you’ve done extensive ad-hoc manual probing you aren’t doing devops. If your us
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by nabdab 7y ago
The article seems really thin on the actual details of the suit. He’s being sued for defamation not critiques. It’s entirely possible that he has been making outrageous defamatory attacks during his campaign. Parents should be allowed to be
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by nabdab 7y ago
Framing the entire market as “either you buy into this single obvious scam or everything falls apart” is extreme. WeWork has been a gamble throughout, and the latest antics just pushed investors from “yes its a bad investment long term but
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by nabdab 7y ago
The argument that Tesla is not fully to blame because people also fails seems fundamentally flawed. A human driver at fault cannot avoid blame by simple asserting that other human drivers also make similar mistakes.
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by nabdab 7y ago
The quality of LEGO products has been constant across the period when they almost went bankrupt to the point where they are now. It’s not the quality that explains their ups and downs. A huge factors is their branding strategy. When they al
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by nabdab 7y ago
It’s all fine to say that active funds can’t outperform index funds... but if it’s a bubble and it crashes, then people in active funds will be having a field day while the people who bet it all on index funds will be left behind like the p
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by nabdab 7y ago
He’s disclaiming that he’s a costumer, and noting that he’s not an investor.
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by nabdab 7y ago
Wework is not a tech company... Stop buying into the narrative. Wework is a landlord nothing more nothing less.
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by nabdab 7y ago
> lambasted when they try to prevent a competitor from copying it wholesale? I feel like if just cannot be repeated enough: You control which license your software is supplied under! If you want to create open source software, you have t
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by nabdab 7y ago
With all the focus on broken hirering, I never quite head the employing side being like: “we thought this person was the perfect candidate but (s)he turned out to be rubbish.” So on that side of things it seems ok. Mostly the people who see
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by nabdab 7y ago
The “kids” are typically devops engineers with 5-7 years of experience. They get called kids by sys-admins because they prefer postgre to oracle, and Linux to windows. Because they don’t have the same 30 years of experience doing roughly th
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by nabdab 7y ago
> Who do you think is writing the playbooks for ansible? How do you think you can even write those things without first having a deep understanding of how the system works The sys-admins don’t even know what ansible is. The devs are writ
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by nabdab 7y ago
So it’s a google branded yaml? Let’s raise a glass to our blue eyed comrades who’ll adopt this fully, only for google to decide in 2-3 years to completely and aggressively kill it again for no apparent reason.
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by nabdab 7y ago
The only country which for some reason got classified in two belts also happens to be one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark.
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by nabdab 7y ago
> companies that profit off of open source code without providing any reciprocal value to the open source projects in return You mean follow the terms of the open source license? If the creator wants money all (s)he has to do is put it u
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by nabdab 7y ago
It was already banned, this is just doubling down. The terms explicitly prohibited adware.
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by nabdab 7y ago
“What do you suppose I do?”, the drug dealer asks, “Stop selling heroin just because a couple of my costumers ruined their lives or ended up OD’ing? They’d just buy it somewhere else anyway.” The moral thing to do is not to sell the thing y
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by nabdab 7y ago
Perl6 is not “a single version update” of perl5. It’s an entirely new language.
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by nabdab 7y ago
I still struggle to see the point with every project that starts out using pipenv. Python -m venv & activate & pip install -r requirements.txt works more often(every time for me) and is faster. I have literally not once seen a proje
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by nabdab 7y ago
But surely this software must be considered adware? And the language specifically notes that they consider adware malicious not that adware is only bad if also containing rookeries or spyware.
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by nabdab 7y ago
This looks like a dead project that just bundles together the built-in sqlite3 And another wrapper library APSW which itself is more active than this project. Why is this on hn?
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by nabdab 7y ago
Don’t study success. The people who double their money by betting it all on black didn’t have some divine insight that you can copy, they just got lucky. But do study failure. The people who lose everything by betting it all on red did have
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by nabdab 7y ago
They are buying at a conversion rate. So they buy for instance a 100k bond for 95k, since the the time is fixed and payments are forced, you end up guaranteed a 2.1% net interest even though the running interest on the principle from month
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by nabdab 7y ago
This loans effective cost is above inflation. Inflation is in the 1-2% range and this is net at 2.1% There’s no free money just flashy marketing.

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