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by prirun 3y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36998643 Describes selling monopoly online e-book library access company to KKR. Are they trying to corner the book market?
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> The closest thing I can think of would be Alcohol Overeating IMO has become a bigger problem than smoking, at least in the US.
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This reminds me of the latest diabetes drugs that are now being targeted toward weight loss and addiction reduction. It's hilarious to me that they could go through drug trials to test safety and NOT find out that the drugs caused wei
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by prirun 3y ago
Summary: if there are 2 documents outlining rights, it could be confusing which one has priority, so we should only have 1.
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by prirun 3y ago
> surely you’re using Homebrew or MacPorts to get a newer version of emacs anyway? Nope, because I don't care about emacs' latest upgrades. I've been using the terminal version of emacs (emacs-nox) since the 80's and
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by prirun 3y ago
I had to get a B or better in my last class to keep my GPA above the required 2.5 for graduation. I was already working in the computer field since I was 17 and hated school. I think a degree is beneficial for a computer career, but don&#x
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by prirun 3y ago
I upgraded from Mohave to Monterey because a speaker was crackling and some posts online said it might be a software issue. Big mistake! The upgrade removed emacs, the C dev tools, and deleted any top-level directories it didn't know
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by prirun 3y ago
I loved XyWrite back in the day (mid 80's). I used it for everyday word processing, but once also used it to format a several hundred page film catalog. Our school district was having the catalogs typeset every year for thousands of
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by prirun 3y ago
I doubt they've deleted it. They've just made it unavailable for scraping (not logged in), so anyone who wants older data for that purpose will have to pay for it. It seems this action would also have the undesirable side-effect
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> owning the your image within the movie is understandable I don't think it's at all reasonable to own someone's image for an entire movie, to manipulate it for as many scenes as they want, if the actor was only paid for o
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IMO, one reason work is worse now is because companies are more focused on short-term profits and don't care as much about workers as they used to. Workers (just my opinion) used to matter more as people. Now workers are an accountin
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by prirun 3y ago
A web service is not typically compute-bound, so it's doubtful a Python web app is going to use 38x more energy than a Java web app.
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by prirun 3y ago
I keep my Netflix Experience constant another way: I canceled it!
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I have read that some overdoses occur when an addict gets clean for a while then relapses. They think they can tolerate the same dosage they were taking when they quit but their body can't handle tolerate it now, ie, they have to work
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by prirun 3y ago
Re: the adjustable rate mortgages, my neighbor also didn't refinance her (US) ARM to fixed-rate. I talked to her about it when rates were really low, we got quotes for 2.9%, but she didn't want to pay the $3K finance charge (that
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by prirun 3y ago
It's shameful that the judge's son works for Microsoft and she didn't recuse herself.
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> They might also turn the $7 into a requirement to watch YouTube at all, and show ads anyways. Yep. All cable channels started out ad-free. When cable was introduced, the cost was $35/mo for all channels (there were no movie chan
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The reality is, unfortunately, it's more profitable to not have customer support at all if things work for most customers, and let the customers with problems just leave.
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> but never ever anywhere in the rest of the billions of miles of our solar system and everywhere else in between here and wherever they came from How would you or anyone else know this?
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by prirun 3y ago
Not implementing national healthcare is a choice made to placate US corporations that contribute to politicians' campaigns. Like most "hard to solve" problems, it isn't a competency issue and isn't that hard to s
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by prirun 3y ago
IMO, if Nim's goal had been a compiled Python, with restrictions where necessary to ensure this was possible (can't add class members at runtime for example), it would be much more popular. I don't mean you could take Python
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That's easily corrected: split them up. Chase and JP Morgan should have never been allowed to merge in the first place.
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Eat less. Eat fewer carbs. Eliminate sugar and wheat as much as possible. Eat fruit instead of juice. Exercise, mainly to avoid losing muscle mass while losing weight.
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I checked one in Palo Alto: 14 people with 2 bathrooms for $800/mo. Not sure how 14 people could reasonably share 2 bathrooms.
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If the iPhone has peaked, it seems likely because everyone has a cellphone now, and Google's only chance to increase its market share is to convert people from iPhone to Android. I initially went with Android because it was much cheape
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Tree nuts (not peanuts, which are legumes) are really great for diabetic snacks, though you have to have some control and not eat half a bag.
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You can also use nut flour. I put a heaping tablespoon in oatmeal and protein shakes for an extra 100 calories, and it tastes good too.
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People are becoming more extreme, both left and right, to the point that I think an extreme and middle would have a hard time being a couple, let alone opposite extremes. I know a couple where the guy is extreme right and the wife is middle
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by prirun 3y ago
This is exactly what I did when streaming TV starting becoming so bad. I tried a couple of other services via account sharing, and they suck too. So instead of watching an hour of TV at night to relax, I do something else.
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I can believe there would be a lot of competition between the different armed services and even private corporations in keeping this kind of information to themselves, to allow them to use the information for their own private gain. For ex

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