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by nirvana 14y ago
Someone from a portuguese speaking country thinks that your email address is theirs and that their password is not working and is trying to reset it. That seems to be what's happening here.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Do you really believe that if all guns disappeared tomorow, those who want to kill themselves would not find another way? Because thats what most "gun related deaths" are-- suicides. But it pads the statistics to make people who aren't payi
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by nirvana 14y ago
Compare that number to the 1,500,000 times a year, according to the DoJ, that guns are used defensively by intended victims to stop violent crime. Constantly talking about how many people have been killed while ignoring how many have been s
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by nirvana 14y ago
" it's the job of any state to regulate actions that cause serious harm to people." Shooting someone is already a crime and always has been. Posessing a magazine with more than 7 rounds is not an action at all, and does not harm anyone. The
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by nirvana 14y ago
FWIW "High Capacity Magazine" is a loaded term. The AR system was issued with 30 round magazines so, these are normal capacity. But calling them "high capacity" is what people who want to ban them do to pretend like there's something unusu
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by nirvana 14y ago
Apple is far more efficient than companies like Google or Microsoft when it comes to reasearch. In the last 15 years, they have produced the iPod, iPhone, iPad, radically different computer designs, OS X, Final Cut, and quite a few other p
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by nirvana 14y ago
Apple's spending $10B this year in CapEx. Some of that is for datacenters and some of that is for the new headquarters and stores. That's $2B more, or about %25 more of the total than last year. If you just look at the expenditures on prod
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by nirvana 14y ago
True, but that's not what's happening here. If a majority of shareholders wanted this proposal, or some other proposal, they could get it in the proxy statement and then get it passed. What's happening here is a lawsuit to try and do an end
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by nirvana 14y ago
Debate the magic of Steve Jobs if you want, but I don't think anyone can deny that one of Apple's strengths is in avoiding conventional wisdom and finding a more profitable path. Imagine if people sued Apple to try and make them license the
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by nirvana 14y ago
Can I sue politicians for lying? Why is it that this is only a one way street? Hell, frankly, I think that heads should roll for the bailout. It is not authorized under the constitution, and it is the largest financial heist in history. A
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Anonymous posts over 4000 U.S. bank executive credentials(zdnet.com)
111 points by nirvana 14y ago|46 comments
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by nirvana 14y ago
It's true. One of the reasons I left Amazon was that I was given the job to deploy code regularly (about weekly) at 1am or so, and one evening, there was a problem due to work of another team, so it escalated and we spent 6 hours dealing wi
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by nirvana 14y ago
I can't compare to other web properties, but when I worked at Amazon, the store going down was a regular event. Something broke almost daily, though it was rare for the whole store to go down. (EG: You might not be able to search, or chec
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by nirvana 14y ago
Can someone whose used both compare this to Unity3D for me? I know Unity is closed source, but it's the one I've used in the past (and found it really nice.) How much harder is Torque3D to develop for (or is it easier?)
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by nirvana 14y ago
I've just been made aware that there is evidence that someone has been trying to steal property worth more than $1M! We need a prosecutor to draw up charges...oh, wait. Who prosecutes the prosecutors?
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by nirvana 14y ago
"Startup" used to mean a "business that is starting up"... somehow it became a very narrow definition meaning "businesses that get venture funding". I guess a "startup visa" under the narrow definition is an improvement, but it isn't really
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by nirvana 14y ago
Despite the quarter being a week shorter, YoY growth on the iPhone and iPad unit sales was around %30. So, even if that's what Wall Street expected it seems ... off... to be down so much. I think the reality is, some people expected %50 gro
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by nirvana 14y ago
CapEx going forward is $10B vs. $8B in the past. That doesn't account for all of it (lower margin due to the mini is part of it) but apple is a manufacturing machine and spends a lot of money in early product cycles to get supply brought o
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by nirvana 14y ago
It appears that this was due to supply issues for the new iMac. A bad situation- they've announced the new product, so the old product is less desirable, yet they can't supply the new product during Christmas. They kinda osborned themselve
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by nirvana 14y ago
I don't know. I'm new to the language, and after doing the "crash course for erlang developers" and reading the release notes about a month ago, I believe I read that there wasn't full coverage, and that it was expected in 8.0 (or maybe 7.4
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by nirvana 14y ago
Yes, there's one reason not to use Elixir that I know of: [Edit: It appears I might be wrong on this.] It doesn't fully cover the erlang syntax. There are a few things you can do in erlang that you can't in elixir. As I understand it, this
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by nirvana 14y ago
USA v. $124,700 shows that the coruption extends all the way up the ranks. The 8th circuit is corrupt. (and the supreme court has upheld this as well, I'm sure, making it corrupt.) For the record, nowhere in the constitution is the govern
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by nirvana 14y ago
They want toughness on violent crime, not government agents perpetrating crimes for their own benefit. These agents profit from destroying people's lives, and they Break the law when they do so. The problem is, who is going to prosecute
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by nirvana 14y ago
It does fall under criminal law because they are stealing his hotel. Theft is a crime. Of course, whose going to prosecute the prosecutors?
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by nirvana 14y ago
Police operate using violence. Markets operate with free exchange. Thus you posit a contradiction.
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by nirvana 14y ago
Did you vote libertarian? Are you going to now? Because both major parties are all in favor of this. Biden was the architect of the drug war that was the excuse for giving the police the power to steal property, and Reagan was the preside
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by nirvana 14y ago
Personally, I've been astounded at the frequency of personal attacks and snotty responses. The signal to noise on HN is something like 1:100. It's sad. I don't comment here anymore simply because there is no point when you never get commen
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by nirvana 14y ago
Suggestion: Put comments on your blog. You might get better feedback that way. There are many people who have given up on hacker news but still use it to find links. (I mean how many times do you want to put up some cogent information o
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by nirvana 14y ago
It's a shame you chose to ignore my point and make a response that is this dishonest. An iPod touch is a great device for editing documents, watching videos, or even creating videos.
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by nirvana 14y ago
You're not even trying to understand my point, are you? I never the shuffle was anything like brave new world. I pointed out that it was an exercise in low cost mass manufacturing. Do you hate apple so much that you're going to claim that

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