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by rdl 8y ago
I'd love to see H1B completely done away with. Transferrable visas for non-immigrant status freely available in exchange for a fairly massive bond and annual fee ($50-100k/yr), and immigrant visas on a much less expensive basis ba
782.
by rdl 8y ago
If the wait for review/decision is going to be months, there really should be some kind of pre submission check to test validity. This could be done by one’s lawyer usually, but an automated screening and/or immediate cursory vali
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by rdl 8y ago
Key Vault (their HSM product) is even worse.
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by rdl 8y ago
I have used kindles since the beginning. The only device which competes with it for me is my iPad (1 through 10.5 Pro) running the Kindle app. I actively avoid books not available on Kindle; if I’m forced to read something else I use the i
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by rdl 8y ago
Tesla PowerWall is only an Apple-level premium (and not a Vertu-level premium) for what it is. I would probably just go with 1-4 of those for residential unless getting something more capable. I don’t own a house yet, though. My ideal sit
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by rdl 8y ago
Depends on where. There are a couple of remote areas with no power still, but generally in San Juan and the areas where most people live it has been good in q2, with a couple of multi-hour outages. Still, at $0.35/KWh in a high sun p
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by rdl 8y ago
Maybe this applies in normal markets, but in Puerto Rico the grid is both shit-tier reliability and horribly expensive. Rooftop solar and lithium batteries in an off-grid format are both far more reliable and far cheaper than the grid, ass
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by rdl 8y ago
Non-technical people should not have admin credentials on a top-20 website, ffs.
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by rdl 8y ago
What seems least plausible about this to me is that a long period of decline like that (basically what happened to France and the UK) wouldn't result in something like a civil war or other split in the US.
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by rdl 8y ago
I'm amazed that their iOS app runs shitty banner ads for stupid products. Seems entirely off-brand for an Amazon property.
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Now Hiring: A Company Offers Drug Treatment and a Job to Addicted Applicants(npr.org)
2 points by rdl 8y ago|0 comments
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Brock Pierce: Hippie King of Cryptocurrency(rollingstone.com)
1 points by rdl 8y ago|0 comments
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by rdl 8y ago
In the US, it is illegal to use race (or gender), both of which are highly predictive of health care costs. You can use age and smoking, but that’s about it, at least on individual issuance under ACA. The age increase is about 50% of what
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by rdl 8y ago
Gates was worse to compete against than to work for, from what I've read/heard (I've never worked for Microsoft myself.)
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by rdl 8y ago
We will hopefully eradicate polio soon.
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by rdl 8y ago
Apps and other machine to machine can require encrypted SNI pretty easily. Pinning of various other kinds (not just in the binary, but via headers or a list in a browser) solves it too.
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by rdl 8y ago
This is pretty awesome. Have you done load (pps) tests to see how efficient it is vs. other stuff? (Oh, I guess linux is handling all the actual routing, of course. So really the question is performance of dhcp/dns/etc. at peak o
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by rdl 8y ago
The main focus has been on the formal verifiability of smart contracts written in Michelson -- https://www.michelson-lang.com/ I'm checking on Tezos itself.
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by rdl 8y ago
Happy to take any questions from here to the devs/founders. (The 30 June launch date was hard to hit, but I think everyone has recovered by now.)
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by rdl 8y ago
Individual Contributor, i.e. non-manager.
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by rdl 8y ago
Given that it was a professional photographer working for the Times, I think they probably did.
802.
by rdl 8y ago
Please just take drugs, like normal people.
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by rdl 8y ago
Forking becomes less likely/more costly as a system is widely adopted, and as it is widely decentralized. I agree with you on historical precedent but have more faith in this for a variety of technical and structural reasons. Disclaim
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by rdl 8y ago
Probably easiest to just use a crypto fund fiduciary if you're looking to invest for financial return. "Which tech should I build cool projects in" is a more HN-style problem. The problem with cryptocurrencies is you sort o
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by rdl 8y ago
Smart contract blockchain with 1) on-chain governance and 2) a formally-verifiable language for writing the smart contracts. People are excited about the launch both because of what it is, and because it already had a lot of people contribu
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by rdl 8y ago
Something like downtown Palo Alto would be my choice; you could probably do a lot in Palo Alto without a car, although you'd still want to have one available. The problem with Palo Alto is just that it costs 10x too much.
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by rdl 8y ago
For highly abusable kitchen shears, I love these ($20-40) from Kershaw/Kai/etc.: https://www.amazon.com/Kershaw-Taskmaster-1120X-Multifunctio...
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by rdl 8y ago
Musk has every incentive to play up this incident, as long as it's concluded. A single bad event in the past can now be used to explain any number of problems. I trust him enough to believe there's a kernel of truth here, but th
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Tezos Blockchain: A love story – and a horror story(wired.com)
11 points by rdl 8y ago|0 comments
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by rdl 8y ago
I assume most of the demand/volume was secretly subsidized by the company.

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