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by navait 11y ago
I purchased a system 76 Gazelle laptop, and it's a pretty reliable . Wifi, audio and dual monitors worked out of the box, but it has trouble with 3 monitors(includes laptop screen) My main complaint is the battery life.(This is probabl
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by navait 11y ago
We could start by not supporting those corrupt governments, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_...
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by navait 11y ago
Being sufficently vague is a common way of hiding the fact that you don't actually have required knowledge.
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by navait 11y ago
You don't influence policy by talking about facts, especially when appealing to the public. You build a good story, and get people to read that story. A key aspect of is using symbols to imply things you can't outright say. (luxu
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by navait 11y ago
> I think this could also explain why managers who worked their way up from the bottom tend to do well, whereas professional executives who are helicoptered in to companies fail. While intuitive, I have doubts about the truth of this sta
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by navait 11y ago
> Sounds like a relatively biased article. It's an op-ed. The entire point is that it's biased.
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Almost all engineering accreditation organizations require an ethics class. However, most students and universities do not treat the class seriously. I took an honors course run by a philosophy professor aimed at general STEM students. We l
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by navait 11y ago
It would be completely foolish to deny that some games have addictive qualities to them - look at how developers such as Blizzard hire psychologists to make their games more appealing. That short work-reward cycle feels fulfilling, and driv
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by navait 11y ago
It's an article about US labor law.
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by navait 11y ago
Were oracle/DB2 systems considered viable options back in the day? Obviously not for a small project, but a company like origin was quite successful then and would have had the capital to buy licenses.
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by navait 11y ago
Literacy and user interfaces are not related. Literacy is a tool people use to record and transmit information, which in turn allows people to learn and improve themselves. Software is meant to accomplish a task, the UI being the way you ex
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by navait 11y ago
The commentators have only interpreted industries in terms of potential for disruption - the point however, is to disrupt it.
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bitcoin is pseudo-anynomous, since the blockchain is a public ledger of all transactions. Mixing services exist to help anonymize transactions, for example. For a technical solution on bitcoin privacy and providing anonymous bitcoin transa
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by navait 11y ago
I'm under the impression that this violates US anti-trust laws - is this not the case?
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by navait 11y ago
When they constantly mix technology and politics, yes it does matter. Open Source is a political movement, and that requires taking ESR's version of it with a grain of salt.
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90% of those are legal issues, whether it be in the US or in the country they are expanding to, especially in the case of copyrighted media.
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by navait 11y ago
They do, planning to spend $91bn over the next 10 years, and the current petrochemical sector is valued at $48.5 bn. (Source: wikipedia)
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You can still search discussion google groups. They removed it because most people didn't want it.
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by navait 11y ago
There's something to be said for starting with a simplified version of a complex problem. Driving on a road vs. a field is apple and oranges, but I'm sure it was a useful starting point for building road vehicles.
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Medicare is one of the largest health schemes in the world in an industry known for massive amounts of paperwork. It's a humongous data set.
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by navait 11y ago
Yeah, somehow I suspect Manning and Snowden didn't have access to the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
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by navait 11y ago
It's referring to the supply chain of illegal drugs. Heroin comes in from SE asia, flown in to the US. Similar to the hair market before, it's a bad system, with no way to do quality control of the product.
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by navait 11y ago
You're cherry picking a few example of tarball only developers and then comparing it to the entirety of github? How is that a fair comparison at all?
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by navait 11y ago
Maybe I just have low standards for success, but $220^H^H^H160/hour sounds pretty good to me. Also if it's sucessful on mac app store, a $2 version on iOS/android might be viable.
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by navait 11y ago
Maybe not rich, but if 5000 people buy a $5 app that you spent 30 hours on, that's a pretty good ROI for your time.
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In this sort of writing, such rhetorical techniques should be used sparingly, especially if you want to be taken seriously. Policy editorials need to stick to evidence, clear writing and solutions, not go off the rails with the polemics.
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> Things can work much quicker and more efficiently when people with a little passion work on difficult problems. Like NIH researchers?
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by navait 11y ago
I have no idea if you are American, but the US government does take it quite seriously. Lyme is a major research project within NIAID. Multiple branches of the federal(Park Service, Army, CDC) have prevention programs, in all adding up to $
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by navait 11y ago
What does tax policy have to do with how the federal government compensates it's employees?
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Fairness is irrelevant - we take what we can as long as we can rationalize it.(surprisingly easy to do). Look at all the comments under you blaming you for not wanting to publish content without compensation. Do what you must to be successf

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