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by olefoo 9y ago
I do that too. I probably wouldn't if I hadn't learned on a shell server where that was how you found out who else was up.
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by olefoo 9y ago
If the autonomobile was speeding... it is very definitely at fault. And given that it's Uber we can expect that there's an email chain where a programmer is told to ignore the map layer with speed limits on it. I hope the prosecut
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by olefoo 9y ago
s/Business /Sales/ If persuading people is your job; meetings are great because you have lots of real-time feedback on whether your pitch is working or not. If you put a salesperson in charge of a software team, you
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by olefoo 9y ago
Googlers with the power to change things; if you're reading this you will make many people happy and return utility to google searches that currently end up with captive images and no context.
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by olefoo 9y ago
Thank you. I was beginning to think that reading comprehension was a lost art here at HN
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by olefoo 9y ago
> Can you convince me of why I should trust Youtube's owners to police what I can see and hear, rather than rely on my own whims and judgements? Asking this question is precisely the systemic risk to Youtube. If there's thought
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by olefoo 9y ago
The ethics of this move are quite questionable on Youtubes part. Dumping a large cognitive load on shared volunteer infrastructure without some level of compensation? Not cool. The fact that Youtube is doing this and is not: * paying wikipe
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by olefoo 9y ago
And if you're an American citizen; you'd still be legally obligated to report income gains realized by sales through those exchanges.
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by olefoo 9y ago
Have you considered the incentives that they have when talking to a paying customer? Particularly one that is going to rate them based on the interaction? Of course they "love their job"; they want to create a positive experience
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by olefoo 9y ago
If just 10,000 more minimal housing units ( think a barebones efficiency suitable for a single adult ) had been built in the Bay Area in each of the past ten year there would be no housing crisis as such. This would have been easily doable.
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by olefoo 9y ago
"I simply am not able to accept it." - how about, now just hear me out on this one. How about, You entertain the possibility that the dude got fired because he deserved it and wrote something that was intentionally aimed at making
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by olefoo 9y ago
Most likely you were looking at things on the internet that implied a need for masking tape. For example if you looked at blogs about home remodeling and interior painting you could be generating signals of intent that suggest you might be
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by olefoo 9y ago
Reddit, much like this site; offers the potential for anonymity but it is all too easy to inadvertently leak correlation handles that allow for deanonymization. General rule is going to be the longer you use an identity the more likely you
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by olefoo 9y ago
Did somebody say tariffs and trade wars? http://www.bbc.com/news/business-42784380 Not to mention which the post-world-war-II international order is falling apart politically which suggests there will be a monetary rea
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by olefoo 9y ago
You can blame private enterprise and the outsourcing mania for the sad state of .gov internet presence. When vendors can sell crap like weblogic to an org that really only needs an easy to update static site; and the taxpayer ends up on the
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by olefoo 9y ago
I may have been using rhetoric; but I would be surprised if the direct cost ( lab time, process control, packaging, etc. ) were more than $40/dose. And consider that most of the research on which Humira, Embrel etc. came from was spon
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by olefoo 9y ago
For added corruption under the American model: AbbeVie runs what is called a co-pay assistance program where they pay the difference between your insurance coverage and your copay. So they book a sale at full-price, paying (full price - (am
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by olefoo 9y ago
In the US Kik has a pretty active userbase; but it's demographics skew older, poorer and more female and more rural. So that might be why you haven't heard of it.
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by olefoo 9y ago
Literally none of that matters to a prosecutor. In fact, taking steps to obscure the source of funds is going to be considered a crime in and of itself. You may not like it but KYC/AML regulations exist and are enforced.
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by olefoo 9y ago
Wasn't the internet supposed to liberate us from one size fits all cultural norms? The author isn't asking for a ban on bra ads; she just wants to be able to control her feed and see ads that are more relevant to her life. She is
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by olefoo 11y ago
Install it, and then build something. A few things you will want to look at that are different: 1. data types are much richer and more useful than in mysql 2. transactional DDL means migrations are atomic. 3. schemas are what mysql refers t
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by olefoo 11y ago
Actually i'm not so sure that happens by itself. Housing is governed by public policy. It's not like affordable housing couldn't be built in the bay area for physical reasons. It's just not possible under current zoning
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by olefoo 11y ago
This is a case where you have the right if you insist on it. Your BATNA is to walk away from a deal where the counterparty refuses to give you the information needed to make a rational decision.
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by olefoo 11y ago
While you can always find the degenerate case; it is somewhat of a strawman. I personally don't get too hung up on whether a given test is a unit test, a system test or an integration test. For any reasonably sized project you're
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by olefoo 11y ago
If you don't have a test for a given item of functionality; how do you know it works? If you don't have a test for your subsystem that covers the more common use cases; how will you tell if it broke when you updated one of the fun
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by olefoo 11y ago
If you live and breathe good software engineering practices; it's sometimes hard to realize that the actual practice in industry varies wildly. From shops where everything flows through the CI server to shops where whoever last pushed
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by olefoo 11y ago
A slightly more practical system for defeating surveillance cameras specifically. http://hackedgadgets.com/2008/02/21/ir-leds-used-to-defeat-s... Not as noticeable to bystanders. Much more passive approach th
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by olefoo 11y ago
The way to achieve this is to develop new forms of economic contract that allow independent collaborators to capture the economic benefits of their intellectual labor. That and automate the CEO role in the company as much as possible. The m
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by olefoo 11y ago
It seems unlikely that someone so disconnected from society as to be completely uninvolved and unopinionated on the topic at hand would have created an account for the specific purpose of commenting on the story. We are social creatures; we
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by olefoo 11y ago
A fresh account, commenting on a new, extremely controversial issue should probably disclose affiliations before getting too embroiled in arguing interpretations and facts.

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