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by qwerta 12y ago
Smart people I know also have a critical thinking. They verify their ideas and learn from their mistakes. What author describes seems more like management issue.
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by qwerta 12y ago
I use web less and less. It just does not have that good experience, compared to dedicated devices and apps. Also it requires constant connection, way too much hassle while traveling. For video I use dedicated apps with off-line caching. F
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by qwerta 12y ago
In my experience those houses were mainly compared to traditional well build stone houses, that's how they got bad reputation.
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by qwerta 12y ago
I would not call it *tocracy but business model. Company can pay under-market salary, if it inflates ego of its employees and make them feel special. It already works in science, fashion, medicine...
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by qwerta 12y ago
Soviets did similar stuff in 70-ties. I think it is very old experiment (possibly 19th century).
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by qwerta 12y ago
That is great idea.
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by qwerta 12y ago
The problem is not the first reaction of taking children away, I totally agree with that. Problem is to get children back after initial claims are not confirmed. They ignore other family members (grandparents, spouse) and just keep piling u
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by qwerta 12y ago
There are many stories how local Social Services kidnap children of immigrants without any chance for repeal. No evidence, just single accusation. I think I will pass.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Most themes allow to set window border size.
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by qwerta 12y ago
I guess as KDE user I was foolish to buy 3x30" :-). Setting font size works just fine...
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by qwerta 12y ago
I think best way with startup is to choose cheap base to stay permanently and travel a bit. I just returned from New York, planning trip to Berlin next month and hike in Anatolia after that. In between I will enjoy summer house on Greek bea
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by qwerta 12y ago
Not sure why you are in California. Health care is bloody expensive there, somewhere else you could afford house AND hospital. And other states offer many outdoor activities as well.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Perhaps it is a good news. Junk airplanes means fewer wars. I am sure EU and US could make decent airplane very fast when some credible threat emerges.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Does anyone else experience poor disk IO performance on AWS? I ran 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file' and the speed is between 1-10 MB/s. I would expect hundreds of MB/s if they advertise SSD.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Plus most sci-fi stuff such as hyperdrive is old news. Clarke, Asimov and most hard scifi are from 1950ies. Some stuff such as antigravity goes back to Wells and Kepler.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Filesystem needs to shutdown and sync correctly. I think best way is to make writes slower and slower. FS can still close, and admin will notice something is wrong.
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by qwerta 12y ago
I live in Europe and my client is American company. That is pretty much only possible arrangement since they have no presence here. Also being employee would mean to give-up my copyright, which I am not that keen to do.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Perhaps we should define what is full-time employee. I am consultant, but I have only single customer/employer who reimburses my expenses without much questions. And I make similar money compared to my old corporate 9-5 job, adjusted f
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by qwerta 12y ago
I read somewhere that MIT or Stanford have more IP addresses than China or Africa. Perhaps there is an option to buy those?
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by qwerta 12y ago
Nice. There was similar extension with Firefox which integrated with Beagle desktop search on Linux. I would love to see something like this for Rekonq.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Article is dumb. Early humans had rocks, they did not need fists. And reinforced skull is good in any case, when living in wilderness.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Article quotes 6 digits numbers to exterminate mosquitoes over large areas. I believe that is within reach of local governments. Even Kickstarter campaign could fund it. So the question is more when, rather then if.
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by qwerta 12y ago
> Investors often wait months before investing in order to let a little more information surface, during which time the valuation can (and often does) increase by literally millions. Given that the cost of doing the extra research for ea
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by qwerta 12y ago
Perhaps not as exiting, but I have aquarium which requires maintenance only 4x a year. Feeder, filters, lights, water exchange etc operate automatically.
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by qwerta 12y ago
> A modern low-wattage bulb built for endurance I do not think so. LED on its own sure, but most bulbs also have power converter and other parts prone to failure.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Github recently started providing distributed hosting for their webpages. You can use it with your own domain. I already use it for my open-source project and are seriously considering to switch my home-page.
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by qwerta 12y ago
People in open-space are more sick, paid sick leave ensures that employer is not passing his cost savings on me. Non-paid sick leave indicates dysfunctional company and lack of trust (at least in Europe). It is a principle. Open-space was m
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by qwerta 12y ago
Reduce buses 10x, remove subway and other urban infrastructure and you are almost there :-)
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by qwerta 12y ago
I am ok with open-office if company provides paid sick leave. In Ireland there is at least one week every year, when 70% of company is at home with flu.
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by qwerta 12y ago
University IT, local cheap supplier, about 10 years ago.

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