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by objclxt 11y ago
> Apparently none of their "interviewed to death" workers noticed the potential ways this could backfire I am willing to bet at least one person on the team raised this as an issue before launch at it was ignored or shouted d
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by objclxt 11y ago
The story says they're exploring a sale and long term leaseback - they wouldn't be moving out, they would be selling the building to raise money then leasing it from whoever bought it.
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by objclxt 11y ago
Succession is especially complicated since the King may take any number of wives, meaning there are a lot of brothers in line.
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by objclxt 11y ago
> Imagine San Francisco house prices without San Francisco wages, that's why people are talking about a generation of renters. As someone who lives in both cities, I can assure you that San Francisco is measurably worse. Before I
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by objclxt 11y ago
I hope they don't. Really they shouldn't be exposing the BIN of the actual card number at all, they should be exposing a token. Your payment card number shouldn't be used to make decisions about your credit worthiness or prof
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by objclxt 11y ago
> [...] and yet I don't even remotely consider myself an engineer. I phone screened somebody not so long ago who asked me if it was the "kind of job where you have to write a lot of code", because they "weren't
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by objclxt 11y ago
Because you have to spend years re-training and certifying to US standards, all the time without a job and earning money to pay for said training: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/02/15/1721088
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by objclxt 11y ago
> is a symptom of increasing politicization that's really degrading the quality of submissions Yes, how strange it is that when PG posts a particularly inflammatory piece about income inequality people might want to respond to i
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by objclxt 11y ago
That is one truly crazy argument. You seem to be suggesting there should be no taxes. After all, "it's your money" Quite how government then functions is beyond me, but I'm sure there's some libertarian argument I&#
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by objclxt 11y ago
Most US domestic airlines don't use satellite links, since they're always above ground. They tend to use ground based microwave technology instead, which offers better latency. Source: I used to do some consultancy for a provider
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by objclxt 11y ago
> and waiting for the requisite number of years for the Green Card to come back (it varies, but 5+ year waits happen) Most of these outsourcing firms are Indian, and in those cases it's actually worse than that. The latest visa bu
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by objclxt 11y ago
> TTIP should come with visa free movement of people earning more than x. So just to be clear, you're genuinely suggesting a system where you restrict the movement of people based on their salary? That seems highly problematic. As a
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by objclxt 11y ago
The article title is a little misleading: > people’s progress across the structure would be tracked by monitors detecting the Wi-Fi signals from their phones, which show up the device’s Mac address ...I think if you said "mobile p
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by objclxt 11y ago
> Bob's Burger is CG No it's not, it's hand drawn using Toon Boom Harmony[1]. They offshore to South Korea in a similar fashion to The Simpsons. Sometimes they'll use cel-shaded CGI for static and complex objects (w
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by objclxt 11y ago
Many devices from many manufacturers communicate through the same network. I don't think your analogy holds: > Those who buy into this as opposed to building their own mesh network are "locked in" to the Apple ecosystem
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by objclxt 11y ago
> Everything one does in slighly different way is innovation No, it is not. If I decide to change the design of a bicycle to have square shaped wheels I have not innovated. I have instead made it objectively worse. I think to innovate i
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by objclxt 11y ago
...really? Because both aircraft and road vehicles today have identifiers painted or printed on them. What about driving around with a license plate or flying with a tail number? What's the difference?
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by objclxt 11y ago
Would you apply the same logic to cars? Because I think all of your points apply equally to cars, but nobody seems to object to the idea of both registering them and requiring a license to drive.
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by objclxt 11y ago
Somehow I have a feeling commercial aircraft, military aircraft, and rocket launches are already registered with the US government. Just a feeling.
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by objclxt 11y ago
The 5th Amendment wouldn't apply. The 5th Amendment protects against self-incrimination, not incriminating evidence (like a video recording from you dash cam) except in very specific circumstances that aren't applicable here.
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by objclxt 11y ago
Millions of people suffer from diabetes type 2 who didn't eat too much. Over-eating and weight gain are major factor, but so are genetics and other conditions. By your logic we should stop funding HIV/AIDS research as well, spen
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by objclxt 11y ago
She might get her eyes back. It's right there in the second paragraph.
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by objclxt 11y ago
The watch has only been out for just over five months, so I'm not totally sure what you mean by "not applying the same pace" as the iPhone.
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by objclxt 11y ago
> But I don't suspect they have revolutionary breakthroughs ala the NSA with crypto. I wouldn't be so sure - GCHQ recruits heavily from Cambridge and Oxford, and I once met a Mathematics PhD who told me in the UK his two main
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by objclxt 11y ago
> more like a virtual pop star in the sense of the pop stars mentioned in the article: meticulously controlled, always-on-brand industrial product Well, that's kind of what a group like Gorrilaz is, I think, although maybe not qui
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by objclxt 11y ago
> Sounds like a story of it's own, bigger than this one. I think the key word you're overlooking is "most", as in " most of the core team" took steps to be anonymous, not all (steps that, for all we know,
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by objclxt 11y ago
> Does someone have some insight into why Netflix has time and geographic restrictions on content? I can understand, in some cases, publishers not wanting to let their movies or TV out to foreign countries Sure, co-financing deals happ
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by objclxt 11y ago
> Why would you expect to be able to come back into having people report to you after a five month leave from a high-paced environment? You seem to be suggesting that if I'm a manager and I take maternity leave it's totally O
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by objclxt 11y ago
No, you don't. Often the sticker value that's declared is much higher than the actual value of the goods. There's a good explanation from a winner of The Price is Right here, where she paid taxes on a prize valued at $14,000
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by objclxt 11y ago
It certainly doesn't literally run Windows for games. The Xbox One is a hypervisor based system where a Windows 8 based OS is used for utility applications and user interface, but a custom OS is used for the games[1]. The believe the

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