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by nekopa 13y ago
The total program cost of the F22 is $66 billion. On a Pentagon spending request site they put the per unit cost as $354 million if you include R&D and procurement costs. So maybe it's more likely than you might think.
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by nekopa 13y ago
I don't know if you read the article properly (or maybe I didn't) but the 'accident' was improved privacy. Then they took the better privacy feature out. So that could qualify for a fuck Google comment.
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by nekopa 13y ago
Please don't go back to your corner. If you can, put up a few web pages about bricks. I think the world could use them. I live in a newly built house (+-6 years) and we have a fake brick facade plastered to the front of our house. I ha
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by nekopa 13y ago
I enjoy reading Gladwell's books, but recently I have seen information that means I need to stop regarding his books as non-fiction. Maybe a lot of his books should be sub-titled "Inspired by true events".
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by nekopa 13y ago
I think it would be interesting to see if he did get an affiliate account, and specified all of the aff money would be donated to a charity, how much cash would it raise? A nice way to siphon Amazon's profits into charity...
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by nekopa 13y ago
A lot of the names have given me great business ideas.
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by nekopa 13y ago
I'm sorry, but fields of filet mignon sounds great. Make it fields of bacon-wrapped filets and I would call it my own personal utopia (for as long as my heart held out)
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by nekopa 13y ago
Which version? I installed v2.95, but the library doesn't seem to work.
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by nekopa 13y ago
I've had a chance to see the US. From NY to LA, Mississippi and Denver to Hawaii and Alaska. And I am never going back to live there. And I am an American. I used to be so proud of my country that I even quit working in IT for a few ye
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by nekopa 13y ago
A side note: as a teenager I spent one summer working in a clothing store in London, with a bunch of Spaniards and Italians. They spoke to each other using their respective tongue, and said they could understand each other. Just basics of c
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by nekopa 13y ago
I accept your offer. You have 24 hours to send me $5 (billing details to follow), or else you shall receive my three ideas about your business.
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by nekopa 13y ago
True, but what he mentions, and what you can see in the photo is that they forgot about the floor. Unless the security tent comes with a floral printed, carpeted floor...
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by nekopa 13y ago
In 2005 it took me just under 72 hours to get my freelance work permit (US citizen). I am now in the Czech Republic on a freelance work permit. You seem to be spreading FUD.
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by nekopa 13y ago
Fair enough. I think it's relevant to HN because when the hacking is over, sometimes it's necessary to make money From what you built. There was a post recently where a guy built an awesome piece of software, but had almost no use
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by nekopa 13y ago
I grew up cycling in London. Came from a family of cyclists and motorbikers. My uncles taught me one rule, which has saved me on numerous occasions (on a bike and in a car): "Ride like you're invisible. Drivers don't see you
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by nekopa 13y ago
My biggest worry is that it's not science that is in trouble, it's humanity as a whole that is in trouble. The drain towards industry is to solve industry's problems: make a profit. And yes, these can be extremely interesting
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by nekopa 13y ago
Maybe I fell for it, and shouldn't feed the trolls, but did you even read the fine article? It was packed with actionable information, even down to templates you can grab to do the same thing. This is highly relevant content for HN
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by nekopa 13y ago
I'm afraid I may be outta place here, but for me its classical music. Anything Bach, but my big fave is Mozart's Requiem. It makes me sing while I code. Especially Tuba mirum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-i5S4uX
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by nekopa 13y ago
Holy shit! I have no idea how you can code to that music, but thank you for expanding my horizons. There are some great tunes there!
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by nekopa 13y ago
An honest question: Why not?
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by nekopa 13y ago
While I do agree with your point wholeheartedly, I believe that the mere fact that an innocent person's life can be ruined by these types of shenanigans shows the flaws in our current system. Our system is supposed to protect innocents
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by nekopa 13y ago
Unless the seller is actually a co-op of sellers, distributed world-wide. It would be fairly trivial to make the seller group wide enough, and using a lifestyle type of profit (i.e. each person makes a reasonable amount of money, but no-one
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by nekopa 13y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what happened with Persuasion? I was working in the industry at the time (not coding though) and I can't remember hearing about it.
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by nekopa 13y ago
I want to help, but all I have is time and skills. So if anyone here needs some English language proof reading done (I do have some tech skills but they are very rusty) contact me, I will do the work, and you can donate something to this ca
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by nekopa 13y ago
On a related note: I read somewhere that your HyperCard methodology was the reason PowerPoint was created- to explain complicated processes visually, so engineers could talk to business people. It's sad to see where that ended up.
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by nekopa 13y ago
I understand being wary of MS, I've used their products since the mid 1980s, (Switched over to Linux for everything but gaming about 10 years ago), but you do realize the article you referenced is from 2003?
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by nekopa 13y ago
Maybe my sarcasm detector if off, but aren't windows updates and Microsoft Security Essentials (a pretty good AV from what I hear, I wouldn't know as I run Linux) completely free?
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by nekopa 13y ago
I think Orson Scott Card also writes something similar in the book 'Hot Sleep'. Long story short, some people wanted to recreate society by starting a primitive colony where there was know to be iron ore under the surface. They di
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by nekopa 13y ago
Second the reading of Cryptonomicon, great book. My idea was originally inspired by reading his Diamond Age many moons ago. I loved the idea of the primer, especially as it started from scratch and worked up to more complex ideas. The bitco
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by nekopa 13y ago
That's a very interesting site. Thanks for the link.

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