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by phyller 8y ago
Good points, perhaps why the 300 year old house in the woods in New England I have stayed in occasionally has withstood the elements. Foot thick beams helped. And maybe there is some type of preservative in all the bat and mouse crap. A rec
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by phyller 8y ago
Similar to the black suit. I bought one 20 years ago, it still makes me look sharp for any occasion that requires dressing professionally. If this wasn't the Heinlein's house it would be unsellable today. The cost to tear down the
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by phyller 8y ago
The stat is from slide 8 of https://www.slideshare.net/adobe/2018-adobe-consumer-email-s... and is clearly ridiculous. The only way the math works is if the 10% of people that are spending over 6 hours per day checking
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by phyller 8y ago
I feel like I understand the author's experience, and his bitterness, I had a very similar situation myself when I was a new engineer, creating an amazing project that was really useful for everyone that got completely shot down for po
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by phyller 8y ago
Classic, the sensors whose purpose is to ensure that something doesn't kill you, actually become the things that almost kill you.
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by phyller 8y ago
Yea, wonder if they felt disappointed or relieved. Regardless, they are part of a very small club of "astronaut's whose rocket broke during launch and are still alive". I wonder who else is in that club?
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by phyller 8y ago
Shutting down consumer Google+ is the least important part of this post. Hardly anyone used that. The privacy changes they are making for everything else are much more important. More granular control of app permissions is a big deal. Overa
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by phyller 8y ago
This is the data that could potentially have been exposed for each person [1]. In their release about shutting down Google+ they made it seem like a lot less. [1] https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest&#
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by phyller 8y ago
No, it would be unethical to do the things you mentioned. Do you honestly believe that we have a hundreds of elected officials who genuinely don't care at all about the welfare of non-Americans, who are all total monsters? Really think
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by phyller 8y ago
Not sure I follow your logic. So if the US doesn't intervene to stop genocide in the Sudan, it is unethical for them to stop genocide anywhere else? If the US was to get involved in a war every time they thought something unethical was
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by phyller 8y ago
If that statement was actually part of the test, that poor guy had a very dangerous job. "Might as well put the new guys in there, if they get killed we don't lose someone more valuable."
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by phyller 8y ago
> And I consider war to be unethical profiteering Do you mean all war? Or something more limited, like conflicts involving the US over the past 20 years. Or, only for the initiators of conflict. I find that line of thinking hard to justi
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by phyller 8y ago
Wow, the Obama administration knew this was happening, even before it happened, and did nothing to stop it?
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by phyller 8y ago
If I'm a white male, but I have the brain scan of a Latino grandmother, does that count as diversity in the workplace?
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by phyller 8y ago
That's not true, if a piece of economic information would be damaging to Trump it would likely get even more coverage.
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by phyller 8y ago
Wow you can see the individual tire tracks
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by phyller 8y ago
Just FYI, but when you hedge with puts your holding period to realize long term gains instead of short term gains gets reset immediately, then you have to wait another year after you close the put position before you can sell as long term
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by phyller 8y ago
The best, and possibly only way of preventing the theft of personal data is to not have it. The amount of surface area a large organization needs to always protect its just too large, we can just assume at some point all that info will be t
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by phyller 8y ago
I think he meant figuratively, like he took credit for his work or something. Not an actual stabbing with a knife.
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by phyller 8y ago
I upvoted you, because while I don't come to the same conclusions I think it's an honest point and logical chain of thought, and a truthful representation of Christianity. I think many people on HN would agree that the point of pr
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by phyller 8y ago
One of the parts you are thinking of is Matthew 7:13-23 [1]. The interesting thing about that is that people who are trying to do the things that Christians do are the ones that are not accepted. So yes, you literally cannot do things good
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by phyller 8y ago
We get both the Jewish and Christian Sabbaths off each week. We have more leisure and chance to reflect then ever before. It's our fault if we burn it up playing video games, watching tv, or working. I've found that since I&#x27
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by phyller 8y ago
Yea but TSMC's "7nm" is definitely smaller than Intel's "14nm"(+++), which is what Intel is actually on right now, and will be for at least another year.
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by phyller 8y ago
Also, I'm really into cryptocurrencies now. Please pay me in bitcoin.
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by phyller 8y ago
These days, the Chinese and Russians can get whatever they want from companies like Equifax without leaving the comfort of their own homes or dealing with messy human interactions. Either one of them can, and most likely did, hack Equifax a
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by phyller 8y ago
I'm not sure about that. The US still consumes a lot more than it produces. It might be the largest oil producer by a little, but it is the largest oil consumer by a lot. Looks like, net of exports, US production needs to rise several
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by phyller 8y ago
I partially agree with your analysis, though I think our system is definitely better, just by reasoning about human nature. An oligarchy is efficient but can be oppressive. Also, the ancient Greeks figured that an oligarchy naturally evolve
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by phyller 8y ago
I thought I had this experience years ago, I'm surprised this is only happening now. I use an email app (just regular Mail on the mac) to access my Gmail. Your email is stored and synced locally so it is accessible offline, and you don
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by phyller 8y ago
Yea, well that is the result of our more socialized system. My better health care plan was canceled when the affordable care act was implemented, and I had to get a worse one. These government healthcare systems (which, long story, I happen
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by phyller 8y ago
Good to know. In the US, your employer pays half of the social security, that's around 7% of your income, plus some medicare taxes that are a lot less.

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