njharman

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by njharman 10y ago
1) yes, but with the "troops" and lower level managers. 2) the Director of the FBI (and other other high level managers) is much more of a political bureaucrat than they are a LEO.
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by njharman 10y ago
> They are still here to protect americans That may be the charter of the the organization. But the individual people running the FBI goals are to 1) be reappointed / not get fired 2) continually expand their budget / power. G
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by njharman 10y ago
It's not "well-known" that is the determining attribute. It's being a CEO of publicly traded company (which have fiduciary obligations to their owners to disclose things that may affect value of their property, i.e. sto
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by njharman 10y ago
Not that long ago we had 90% tax rate (70% effective) in USA. It's been plummeting since WWII https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_history_of_the_United...
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by njharman 10y ago
What pisses me off is the small-government, lower my taxes, SUV driving, Tump voting, homeowners expect government bailouts for the problems they caused/ignored/actively fought against any mitigation of.
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by njharman 10y ago
The point is they were giving them away. Meaning the sats they kept are even better than better than bubble.
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by njharman 10y ago
+1 to $60 being totally reasonable (cheap even) price for 450 page book in color. I (and thousands of people) regularly pay $50-70 for pen and paper RPG books with less page count. And I've paid much, much more than that for niche ar
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by njharman 10y ago
Cars are the dangerous thing on road. Banning them would eliminate half of all motorcycle accidents, cite below. Idiots riding without helmets and being intoxicated greatly skew the fatality statistics. https://en.m.wikipedia.org
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by njharman 10y ago
Being vegetarian really changed my "biology" and "mentality". After a few years I was super sensitive to meat. Could smell it, even just broth, in food. It would make me somewhat sick if I ate it. I think you loose enzym
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by njharman 10y ago
I really hope so. Cause in my country nothing improves unless doing so makes / saves money.
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by njharman 10y ago
It's not like I've eaten at BK in last 40 years. But this is the kind of thing that pushes a company into my "never do business with them ever" category. Currently only Comcast and AT&T have that distinction.
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by njharman 10y ago
- FOSS don't have great track record for this kind of challenge (gimp has never replaced photoshop nor LibreOffice MSO) That's like saying Linux doesn't have a great track record cause it hasn't replaced MS Windows. To
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by njharman 10y ago
I was born in 1970. I grew up (~12 to 17-19) expecting to not live into adulthood. It wasn't always on my mind, but I thought there was pretty high likelihood of nuclear war. It was pervasive meme in the art(movies/books/etc
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by njharman 10y ago
Then educate thyself. Besides all the anedotal evidence of police militirazation, violence, the USA has THE largest prison population in the world and almost the highest % of population in prison, #2 (after seychelles) with 693 per 100k.
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by njharman 10y ago
This is awesome tech. And probably useful. But, art even/esp hand drawn scribbles losses almost everything without the character and idiosyncrasies of the artist. This is little more than a fancy ui for a clipart library. Clip art su
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by njharman 10y ago
Yeah highly configurable, full-featured http(s) servers expandable with modules are TOTALLY different.
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by njharman 10y ago
Huh, I'm surprised Apache is still so high? Are there huge hosting sites that use it or something? Wordpress? I (and I know no one) who has reached for Apache over NGINX in a decade.
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by njharman 10y ago
3-5 years. Truck is probably there next or 2nd next model. Expect announcement after model 3delivery.
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by njharman 10y ago
Whine much?
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by njharman 10y ago
Rather than build own factories. It would be smarter, and someone will do it, to buy batteries and self driving tech from someone else. Concentrate on their strengths of car design, brand, dealer networks. Rather than enter new and risky te
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by njharman 10y ago
Either way, profit. For those willing to accept risk, TSLA has been / is a great investment.
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by njharman 10y ago
The unique thing ad tech does over traditional is provide info on if you clicked the ad, visited the site, etc. marketing to specific demographic is nothing new.
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by njharman 10y ago
Free but with ads is Hulu. Netflix crushes Hulu. Netflix is massive for three reasons. Original content, binge watch/no schedule, no adverts.
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by njharman 10y ago
I have so many entertainment choices at home. I can't imagine ever paying $30 or more! for a movie.
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by njharman 10y ago
How are your RPC examples not REST? RPC would involve client lib. And may or may not even use HTTP as transport. api.get_product(id=1) api.add_product(details)
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by njharman 10y ago
Cause you visited sites that those people also visit. Also cause a lot of adtech is not sophisticated.
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by njharman 10y ago
Swaths of consumer products are targeted at people with self esteem issues. Fashion, makeup, fitness performance, jewelry luxury and stats products of allmstripes. It's especially bad for young women who are bombarded with Photoshoped
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by njharman 10y ago
3-4% of world population is a dent. But non-nuclear/non-biological wars are hardly civilization ending events. Things like deaths of mesoamerican civs due to destroying their environment http://news.nationalgeographic.com&#
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by njharman 10y ago
> it makes it harder to buy. I think you mean, "It makes it harder to decide to buy." A hugely important distinction and the point of having few models. (limiting decision points/places to 2nd think do I really need
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by njharman 10y ago
> Call me stupid, Well I won't say you are stupid. But do you realize we are talking about a time format "designed" 40+ years ago. And some cpus are still compatible with chips from 80's 90's. To imagine all th

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