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by ovi256 11y ago
You also pay for a bureaucracy to perform administration and fight abuse. That consumes a fraction of the system's resources. It's hard to argue that this adds much value, or any. What this system boils down to is a compulsory sav
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by ovi256 11y ago
Doesn't matter, the objective of bringing prices back down is politically untenable in most developed countries, so the means to accomplish it are never discussed. If it happens by market crash, well, it's another matter. This req
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by ovi256 11y ago
I think you would come back to it when you're having a critical issue impacting lots of users and to fix it, you finally need to understand that code.
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by ovi256 11y ago
The people contributing to the Apollo program were genuinely frightened of the US being behind in the space race and thus defenseless against strategic military applications of space technology, such as surveillance and early warning satell
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by ovi256 11y ago
Everybody knows it's bullshit, but what else are you going to do quantitative studies on ? Number of Facebook likes ?
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by ovi256 11y ago
Meanwhile, in this universe, travel inside the Schengen area (which covers an impressive chunk of Europe) does not require a passport, but any kind of national ID, regardless how many borders it crosses. Coincidentally, it's the same a
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by ovi256 11y ago
That's a puzzle question worthy of a board of ethics interview.
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by ovi256 11y ago
The HN link text seems to be taken from [1], which contains the CVE id. [1] https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1...
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by ovi256 11y ago
That would reduce the ROI, because doing it often (every day) approximates continuous exponential growth (e ^ x) while doing it in batches reduces to power growth (1 + r) ^ x. See the effect this has in the example given here: http:/&
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by ovi256 11y ago
Looks like this could open a new era of videogames with synthetic textures, procedural maps and sandbox worlds.
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by ovi256 11y ago
Yes, every founder dreams of spending time and effort to customize a third party tool, instead of focusing on their core business. /s
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by ovi256 11y ago
55 gallon drum of personal lubricant, please and thank you. Wait, make that 2 drums.
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by ovi256 11y ago
So that's another datapoint confirming empirically patio11's idea that candidates are underasking. If they would ask for their fair value, 50% of companies would decline their candidature because of the price.
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by ovi256 11y ago
I get that you're using "the silos" as something uber-secret, but note that the UK does not have (and never had) land-based nuclear weapons, so does not have any missile launching silos. The only nuclear weapon the UK has is
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by ovi256 11y ago
Except that schedulers optimized for single cores do not grow on trees, either. Python 3.5, which I think is a language with very high incentives for such single-core optimizations (because of the GIL), does almost two orders of magnitude w
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by ovi256 11y ago
If refusing to process/print Eurion marked things was a legally required feature (which it currently isn't) in printers/image processing software, it could pose quite a conundrum for OSS, if the law also requires that the fea
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by ovi256 11y ago
That part, I'm ready to bet dollars to peanuts, is a talking point pushed by Google PR, which the journalist used (just like the other 99 facts and not-so-facts served to him on a platter all ready to digest by PR) because he's on
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by ovi256 11y ago
Perfectly readable on lynx! http://imgur.com/JmZq2jt
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by ovi256 11y ago
And which investor, when put before the choice of supplying capital to a C-corp or a B-corp, will willingly choose the entity that admits having his ROI as a lower priority than the other, all other things being equal ? By this logic, we co
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by ovi256 11y ago
If such activity is common on summer nights, where are the hundreds of criminal complaints ? Or what's the confounding phenomenon that makes only Colognes NYE generate such complaints ?
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by ovi256 11y ago
As patio11 said a while ago, "in the battle between laws and software protecting consumer rights, consumers overwhelmingly chose software". The lawmakers are still fighting to roll this back, of course.
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by ovi256 11y ago
>micro behaviors that are subconsciously making you more attractive / easy to relate to / superior etc. Dubious at best. Have a look at primate domination behavior. It's a big subject of study for zoologists/ethologis
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by ovi256 11y ago
The amazing observation in your example, for me, is that it's one of the few things you can get cheaply, fast, and reliably. The holy trifecta of impossible requirements. Some 60-70 years ago, you could not get it done for any sum of
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by ovi256 11y ago
Russians and Eastern Europeans eat vegetables, even in winter, at almost every meal. But these are veggies that are easy to store through the winter: root veggies like beetroot, cabbage and potatoes, not leafy stuff like letuce or cress, wh
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by ovi256 11y ago
I agree with Danilka. I provide the same service to French clients. I live in Paris, and I work very closely with client project management teams, in the same offices. This eliminates 99% of communication problems. Email's in the prof
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by ovi256 11y ago
>we're in a sort of tortoise-and-hare race between theory and experiment, where each one advances a bit when the other one catches up and makes a new discovery. So, business as usual ?
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by ovi256 11y ago
Just don't powder them, or, if you do, don't snort the powder. Just use common sense, in other words.
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Tools shape society just as much as society shapes tools.
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by ovi256 11y ago
Please don't forget about living costs (room and board for the years the degree will take - 3 for a licence, 5 for a masters), and opportunity costs (you could have worked full-time and advanced a career). Tuition being free only reduc
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by ovi256 11y ago
The second thing - that thieves can use a radio signal amplifier to open your car - is definitely VW's fault. Even if they did not design that system, they chose a supplier for it. A fresh graduate engineer could have reviewed that des

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