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by newjersey 9y ago
Yes and simplifying it involves in pissing off a lot of people. Closing loopholes makes people made. People who have money. People who will spend money to keep things the way they are. And (sometimes) we are those people. I don't know
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by newjersey 9y ago
> I didn't understand that our tax brackets in the US are marginal (i.e. we don't pay 35% of our entire income if we are in that bracket), until a quarter way into my PhD program. Is this common? How do we educate people about
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by newjersey 9y ago
Isn't this true of gnu/Linux as well though? A lot of patches are drivers and fixes? For example, one could argue trim for solid state storage is a driver issue?
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by newjersey 10y ago
Why isn't it enough to do the tracking/audit log in the server side? I can't imagine even the JP Morgan Chase CEO lives under surveillance of JP Morgan Chase Bank 24/7. Just require them to use centralized services and k
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by newjersey 10y ago
So in my mind there are two parts to publicly funded projects. One is whether the spending of funds is worth it and another is whether the people have a choice. We think that by definition that when private companies have programs, they&#x2
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by newjersey 10y ago
What makes it difficult and what can we do to make things easier in the future? Is this something the @angular/cli should consider making default so as to surface pain points in as many scenarios as possible?
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by newjersey 10y ago
Wouldn't the next logical conclusion be to get rid of cash altogether? Did I fall for a slippery slope fallacy?
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by newjersey 10y ago
While we are on this topic, let's not forget the real culprits: cfaa and widespread abuse of discretionary power by prosecution. We must repeal (and not replace) the cfaa. Of course, we should name and shame MIT at every junction (sham
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by newjersey 10y ago
> Cloud is still competing with on premises solutions, right? One year is nothing, try ten or twenty. Not an expert by any means but I would put more weight to Google's ONE year promise over (to give an example) HPE's twenty ye
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by newjersey 10y ago
The quote for those who didn't read the email. Linus Torvalds says: > Do we want to migrate to another hash? Yes.
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by newjersey 10y ago
> Again, I'm not saying there are no freak deaths in India. It is common in every corner of the world where there is more than one man. But, death by an individual in a public setting is not common and that too by a gun is almost im
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by newjersey 10y ago
Can anyone comment on how Apple works with retailers? Do retailers "buy" from Apple (and pay within thirty days of delivery)? Can retailers return iPhones they can't sell without paying a premium? Sorry I don't know anyt
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by newjersey 10y ago
Archived at https://archive.fo/DhAB8 Screenshot without comments: https://i.imgur.com/LbqmLV4.jpg Hope this helps.
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by newjersey 10y ago
> The cost of that would be roughly 1/1000 of Google's annual income. I don't own Google stock but 0.1% of revenue would be a huge number that you just can't blink away. Especially when it is not a one-off whim I mean
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by newjersey 10y ago
> How does that help in the situation of a homeowner not being able to afford their tax bill because their property increased in value? If you cant afford the tax, you should move out and sell/rent out. This whole premise is absurd.
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by newjersey 10y ago
I have a question. Do you think this Amazon culture is the cause or the result of service-oriented architecture at Amazon? Or maybe am I completely off the mark here. I found this quote from SEC filings. Jeff Bezos says: > Service-orient
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by newjersey 10y ago
I am not complaining. I don't trust myself with the responsibility anyway but I have 500+ and I cannot down vote stories. I used to avoid voting on comments on my phone for a while because I was afraid I'd end up downing with my f
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by newjersey 10y ago
I'll go further: never* rewrite public history *In most cases, I think we should consider invalidating secret keys instead of trying to delete it and hope nobody saw it. Are there secret keys in your app that you can't invalidate
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by newjersey 10y ago
> Yeah, those are the laws that shouldn't exist. I absolutely agree. I'm no fan of Uber or Airbnb but I still side with them on a lot of issues (except Uber or airbnb requiring you to accept any and every customer in the name o
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by newjersey 10y ago
> Look at their github page, where they even say they want more to amass more data and to "annoy the hell out of users" to make them update - shove updates down their throat a la Microsoft style. I imagine this is by design. Wh
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by newjersey 10y ago
Hm... Is it a crime to write an email, not under oath, to a journalist accepting responsibility for a crime that one didn't commit (and had no idea was taking place)? I'd like to answer no but I'm sure a judge would use the &
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by newjersey 10y ago
I don't have any credibility or knowledge to talk about the exact current issue at hand but don't we at hn pine over the beautiful past where email was distributed instead of going between Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, and Google? A priv
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by newjersey 10y ago
Apparently, they're is a time article about it http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2091477,0... They talk about information density: With this raw data in hand, the investigators crunched
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by newjersey 10y ago
> "Don't break the web" is a hard constraint. Any solution you propose that violates this constraint is unacceptable. What would you rather happen with mangled input like opening tags with no ending tag? Should the browser
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by newjersey 10y ago
I don't understand the distinction. Does that mean any DRM encumbered store would also automatically be in violation of GPL? I'm thinking steam, origin, or any store that doesn't like you sharing binaries with others.
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by newjersey 10y ago
> The FSF argue that the App Store's ToS restricts app redistribution and therefore is incompatible with Section 6 of GPLv2: "You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted he
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by newjersey 10y ago
Wix is still in the wrong though. Saying your vendor is in violation of their license doesn't give you any right to violate their license. I anal but I don't think this nullifies WordPress' GPL.
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by newjersey 10y ago
I'd be very alarmed. How is the retention?
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by newjersey 10y ago
> So democracy is only OK so long as you get the "right" result? And UK should be forced to remain in a union despite their will? I want to agree with you but I can't because I want a new referendum for Scotland well as fo
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by newjersey 10y ago
> But more importantly, Apple could run Twitter at a loss as a data platform around their product. This is something I don't understand. Pardon me if this sounds pie in the sky but how much does it cost to RUN Twitter without any ex

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