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by narcissus 13y ago
Admittedly I'm sure there is some expense to running these lawsuits, but Boise Schiller (?) took on the suit with a cap on the cost to SCO: that is to say, right now, they're required to do all of this on their own dime.
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by narcissus 13y ago
He's talking about the time and date over the picture.
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by narcissus 13y ago
Speaking to that, there is a tool called Penango at https://www.penango.com that is a browser plugin that supports GMail at least. I haven't tried it but if anyone here has, now would be an awesome time to tell us how it we
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by narcissus 13y ago
As far as I know, that's pretty much how it used to happen. I do believe there even used to be things called 'key signing parties' which was just a way to get a heap of people to do it en masse. Not to be confused with simply
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by narcissus 13y ago
I presume the idea is that with music engaging that portion of the brain, it's not able to work on other things that require creativity. It's essentially burning cycles that could be used for something else (and I know that's
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by narcissus 13y ago
I think you're talking about Ron White and I think the quote is "it's not that the wind blows, it's what the wind blows". The context of the joke was about some old guy who was tying himself to a tree during a h
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Ask HN: Is the Appleseed project dead?
2 points by narcissus 13y ago|0 comments
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by narcissus 13y ago
That's a good point. Having said that, I guess it just comes back to the fact that the intermediary is the real target then. So we hope the NSA has had it's crack team in there. Which means that we hope that it's disconnected
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by narcissus 13y ago
If it's disconnected from the internet, how is it going to get any new data? If there's a way for it to get new data, then, well... isn't that exactly how Stuxnet happened?
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by narcissus 13y ago
A few years ago I read that censorship around Tiananmen was becoming harder in places such as newspaper classifieds (not sure if this is the term used in North America, at least?) because the staff taking the calls for these ads were less l
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by narcissus 13y ago
Thanks for that link... it seems as though there were a lot of people that were thankful and a lot that were against it. Assuming the "guess" of the change address getting 200BTC, that was 800BTC that they paid out. Not knowing enough about
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by narcissus 13y ago
I hadn't heard that before. Is there a link or something that we can read about this?
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by narcissus 13y ago
It doesn't really stand for anything. From Wikipedia: 'In 1995, to compete better in the Western market, the Lucky-Goldstar Corporation was renamed "LG"'. So while it was named LG because of the initials of Lucky Goldstar, its name is still
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by narcissus 13y ago
I know eh? God forbid they pivot into a Bitcoin trading site and we let them live it down. I mean, if you can't be forgiven for pivoting on HN then where can you be? I wonder if dylz still refers to LG as 'Lucky Goldstar'?
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by narcissus 13y ago
I don't think the water is used to make the driver think he's about to drive into a wall of water: I figured the water is used as a medium for projecting the huge stop sign in front of them?
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by narcissus 13y ago
I don't know much about Priceline: it definitely doesn't seem to do much for Canada at least. But I just wanted to "+1" this. Living where we live, the Hotwire prices really aren't 'secrets' as we pretty much know exactly which hotels are w
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by narcissus 13y ago
I have actually heard of this process before. In fact, it was this 'problem' that originally made me think of the site, but then I realised that if I'm doing in online, I may as well automate it a bit and came to this 'solution'. That is to
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by narcissus 13y ago
Thanks. I can feel my English teacher's stares from here. It'll be fixed in the next push :) Now I just have to wait to see what the grammatical error in this post is...
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by narcissus 13y ago
Yeah, so I guess the site doesn't make its "raison d'etre" very clear. If I'm at lunch with my mates, and we are discussing salaries, and there's a way for us to anonymously give each other an idea of how much we're all making, well, I trus
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by narcissus 13y ago
That's cool. I can definitely do that and then maybe put a message about options for if you don't completely trust the person that sent you the link... Thanks!
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by narcissus 13y ago
That sucks that your publicity was co-opted. On the other hand, you got publicity I guess :) Reading more of that thread I definitely think you had a deeper drive (if that's even a good phrase to use) for salaryshare.me. I definitely have n
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by narcissus 13y ago
That's a good point and not something I had thought about to be honest. I guess the whole "bad actor" thing didn't play into how I expected the site to be used. Which is a terrible response, I know! Out of curiosity, are there ways I wonder
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by narcissus 13y ago
Definitely the same concept. I had no doubt that this idea wasn't already done, but it was just one of those random itches I wanted to scratch :)
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by narcissus 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that the wording of that middle part is a bit dodgy... I think it's time I pulled out me thesaurus :) Thanks for the reminder about the popup. I did that part right at the start and kept telling myself I nee
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by narcissus 13y ago
Thanks artax77. At the moment it does require at least 3 people to participate and/or to reveal the end values. I think mathematically that's the minimum, though it probably should be pushed up to 4 or 5, you're right. I agree that the UI c
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by narcissus 13y ago
Hi all, I made this site for the situation where you and your colleagues are all at lunch and the discussion of salary comes up. While a lot of people don't feel comfortable discussing specific numbers, they're all still curious :) So this
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Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch(salarysecret.com)
36 points by narcissus 13y ago|44 comments
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by narcissus 13y ago
Is is not all relative? It's not like countries with "small populations to take care of" have massive populations to pay for that welfare. I don't know the answer, but maybe you do: what percentage of the population is considered "on welfar
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by narcissus 13y ago
Off topic, but thanks for that link: while I'm not going to go into the politics, those clips make me want to go back home now, just because of those scenes from Australia...
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by narcissus 13y ago
I know that for Australia and Canada, at least, marriage really means nothing as far as permanent residency (and from that, citizenship) is concerned. It's all about the relationship itself. That is to say, you need to prove that the relati

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