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by pasttense01 7y ago
I am opposed to this: subsidizing child care but not subsidizing parents staying home to raise there kids. A better alternative is a children's allowance.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
"“There are a lot of things I say and not all of them have the same quality of thought,” Musk said, in what was likely the understatement of the decade."
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by pasttense01 7y ago
Some others articles which may not have a paywall: https://www.dallasnews.com/business/2019/11/30/schwab-is-the... https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Charles-Schwab-..
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by pasttense01 7y ago
There have been numerous posts on HN showing why Google will collapse: information search on Google just isn't very good any more--results for information search (not talking about product search) are dominated by shopping results, blo
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by pasttense01 7y ago
And you wonder how many fires are going to be started by pervasive backup generators.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
How do you execute this?
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by pasttense01 7y ago
"Multiple Services - Mitigated Summary of Impact: Between 00:57 and 03:40 UTC on 20 Nov 2019, customers and services utilizing Azure Front Door (AFD) services were impacted by an infrastructure service failure. This resulted in a loss
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by pasttense01 7y ago
The major use of Usenet currently is for file-sharing of copyrighted media. It's safer than torrents if you only want to download--since for torrents you are also uploading.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
Anyone compare Bing vs Google for searches recently?
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by pasttense01 7y ago
This was mostly based on this article: https://www.hiringlab.org/2019/11/19/today's-top-tech-skills... What's is interesting is to go half way down the page where it says "Suggest Skills"
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by pasttense01 7y ago
Now we have a reference we can refer people to when they complain about our spaghetti code...
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by pasttense01 7y ago
Sure. Why wouldn't it be?
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by pasttense01 7y ago
For much more extensive discussion see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21542716 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102483...
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by pasttense01 7y ago
It's just a signup page. Some of us want a lot more information before signing up for anything.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
Unfortunately no discussion of exactly how this $300/month is calculated.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
A problem with Google Scholar is that 75% or so of the results are behind paywalls.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
If you do a search with several more general terms and one specialized term: for several of the search results they will drop the specialized term.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
You can divide searches into 1. Shopping searches where you want to buy something and 2. Non shopping searches. This article is about a type of shopping search. Lots of us have little interest in doing shopping searches on Google--we search
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by pasttense01 7y ago
And a key point: "Our founding members are Mozilla, Fastly, Intel, and Red Hat" Where are Google, Microsoft and the other big names you would expect?
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by pasttense01 7y ago
There has been no update here; Hiren's 15.2 is several years old.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
Doctors don't feel like they are kings--while they make very good money there are massive amounts of red tape, filling out Epic... It's the bureaucrats who are kings.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
One interesting statement: "Most of the companies that I have worked with over the past 25 years are spending 95% of their IT budget (and usually even higher!) just to keep old stuff running." This is an awfully high number. Anyon
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by pasttense01 7y ago
You missed a very big one: Walmart. Walmart started in 1962. Before Walmart got big people bought a significant amount of stuff at Sears that they now buy at Walmart.
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by pasttense01 7y ago
No. That would mean an average speed of 77 miles per hour. And given that you need to slow down in the small towns and before passing that means your normal speed would be more than 85 mph. Around here the rural speed limit is 55 mph so peo
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by pasttense01 7y ago
Exactly. Small town grocery stores have significantly higher prices and lower selection than in bigger places. So it turns out that the people with cars only use the local grocery store for perishables/emergency shopping trips and do t
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by pasttense01 7y ago
These places (with the exception of Alaska) have populations of a few thousand people. That is plenty big enough to have one or more supermarkets--and probably a Walmart too.