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by rndmize 11y ago
Forget it. I do too much tech support already. The kind of people that should consider switching to linux are the ones that can figure it out themselves.
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by rndmize 11y ago
I'd consider myself a lurker most of the time and I tend to express myself more through actions than posting on the web. In this case, I already do pay - I have a subscription to DI.fm, and was actively looking for something similar on
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by rndmize 11y ago
Damn right. I choked on the "...as colleges attempt to rein in costs" bit. Last I heard, prices for private colleges are somewhere in the 60k range now (up from ~40k 10 years ago I believe?) and Jerry Brown is duking it out with t
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by rndmize 12y ago
I wonder sometimes what is left for banks to do that couldn't be fully automated (at least on the consumer side). Creating accounts, making deposits, withdrawals, transfers, paying bills can all be done online or through apps. Getting
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by rndmize 12y ago
I acquired a dislike of regexes in school, and it wasn't until I found http://www.regexr.com that I felt I could efficiently figure out how to use them (and started to feel that they were seriously awesome). I think that re
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by rndmize 12y ago
Rich people don't get rich by giving away money. I've heard plenty of stories about private non-profits that spend significant percentages of their take on administrative costs and similar. Not to say they're all like that; b
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by rndmize 12y ago
> The reason there are very few remaining alternatives is largely because (in most systems of government today) the State has taken tax dollars from the private sector's solutions, thus starving them of resources, to fund it's
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by rndmize 12y ago
I feel like it would easy to rewrite this post with a focus on just about any other arbitrary technical metric; like, say, how you host your blog. I mean, hosting your blog on squarespace? Isn't that like using some kind of basic, user
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by rndmize 12y ago
I'm hopeful this is as solid as the video makes it look. All the points it covers - forgotten passwords, bad coverage, troublesome initial configuration, no easy way to extend a network - are things I've seen people choke on. I do
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by rndmize 12y ago
I believe there was a post just yesterday for a piece of software that would lock and unlock your machine based on proximity to your phone through bluetooth. Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8917992
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by rndmize 12y ago
I know some of the people that were working on the program. I think the easiest way to start helping out would be to attend one of the related meetups: http://www.meetup.com/hackreactorx/events/218681201/ (I
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Holy Grail(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by rndmize 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndmize 12y ago
Just because your goal is to eliminate jobs doesn't mean another entrepreneur can't aim to do the opposite. I think a lot of the types of companies that would be useful in this direction don't so much "create jobs"
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Colonization of Venus(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rndmize 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndmize 12y ago
I find this kind of thing disturbing. How often do companies exploit the legislative process like this but with no opposing side to complain? How much lobbying machinery and back room dealing is designed to achieve precisely this at any lev
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by rndmize 13y ago
Trinomial cube: https://www.google.com/search?q=binomial+cube&source=lnms&tb...
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by rndmize 13y ago
It's dangerous to go alone! Take this: http://www.reddit.com/r/lfg
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by rndmize 13y ago
Did you even read the article? The entire point made is that not everyone has the opportunity to do college straight out of high school for any number of reasons, and those students, often without strong life/career/academic guida
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by rndmize 13y ago
Oh for the love of... > that 400 tons of radioactive wastewater... an additional 300 metric tons of highly contaminated radioactive wastewater Wikipedia: > The volume of the Pacific Ocean, representing about 50.1 percent of the world&
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by rndmize 13y ago
> Business Idea: Make it easy for Joe Schmoe's like myself to take action against issues like this. I do believe that's called a PAC. Lets be frank though - how much money are you going to get if you put together an anti-teleco
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by rndmize 13y ago
Back in high school I had one of the standard required classes on Government, the majority of which I've since forgotten. But there was one bit which has stuck with me in the years since. The teacher drew a box on the board and put the
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by rndmize 13y ago
I fail to see why. Perhaps you could detail the jobs that would be shipped overseas as a result of this, particularly those that haven't been already? Further, I don't really see how a high top income tax bracket would affect much
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All around the world, labour is losing out to capital(economist.com)
207 points by rndmize 13y ago|280 comments
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by rndmize 13y ago
Link to the original developer's page for the game - http://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/ Also - > What will happen if I hotlink to a rawgithub.com URL on a production website? > Bad things. If you hotlink to a
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by rndmize 13y ago
I think the issue is that the rate of improvement has fallen pretty hard. I remember when nvidia moved from the 5 series to the 6 series, their new flagship card doubled the performance of any current card on the market. The same thing happ
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by rndmize 13y ago
I can't see how paying citizens from age zero could possibly be a good idea. Either the government will have control on how that money can be spent (through regulation or otherwise) or the parents will, and I wouldn't consider eit
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by rndmize 13y ago
> It’s not all bad, though. The tools and platforms listed above have given way to a “personal revolution” that’s delivered unprecedented productivity and reach to small businesses and entrepreneurs. You don’t need nearly as much money t
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Understand(infinityplus.co.uk)
2 points by rndmize 13y ago|0 comments
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by rndmize 13y ago
It's good that you mention Skyrim because I do happen to have a similar beef there, and the basis for it is precisely because I think my expectations are pretty reasonable. Skyrim has an enchanting system where you can reduce the mana
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by rndmize 13y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. To be blunt, Notch's work has continually been very... half-assed. I first felt this when I played Minecraft; with successive patches and new added elements, it always felt as if Notch had had an i

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