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by rrggrr 12y ago
This post is a beautiful illustration of self-determination. Often on HN I read about the tyranny of employers, government and co-workers and often I identify with the aggrieved poster. But Begriff's post is a welcome reminder for me
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Suburbs cannot compete with cities for fresh talent. Most businesses I know are opening city offices to Broaden their candidat pool. Its worth noting that sprawl legends like the Dc Metro area, San Fran and Boston lead the nation in job o
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Would you consider uploading your configs to Github or posting them on a blog. I'm sure the community would be grateful for it, at least I would.
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Its good enough for travel, which is what I use the SFPro for because I like to keep my travel bag weight to a minimum. For desktop work it would make me insane and stick with OSX.
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by rrggrr 12y ago
The first generation pixel ate up many hours of my time installing and reinstalling linux on it. Now I have Ubuntu running nicely on a Surface Pro and don't think I could be happier.
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Most have them. I dont see the harm in putting them in the recycling bin though thats not to say they wont end up in the landfill fraction for various reasons.
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by rrggrr 12y ago
I seem to recall CIA director Deutch keeping highly classified information on his home computer. CIA Director Patraeus giving classified info to his mistress. National Security Director Berger taking national archive info? Snowden. Its
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by rrggrr 12y ago
For those wondering when China, the EU or others will overtake the United States' reserve currency status and/or safe-haven status consider this data dump. Currency <-- confidence <-- accountability <-- transparency. Is t
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by rrggrr 12y ago
The article is deprecated and here is why: Not only are we at the beginning of a manufacturing revolution reducing the amount 'rare' materials needed for many applications, we're also now able to recycle materials down to sin
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Military uses of the moon are zero. Moon's distance from earth: 394,000km (238,000 miles); too far for reconnaissance, space-to-earth weapons or even anti-satellite technology if publicly available information is accurate.
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by rrggrr 12y ago
So what? Of course China's capital outflows were huge in 2014 - so was its current account surplus. When China takes in huge amounts of foreign currency for its exports it must recycle those funds - which flow out of the country - pa
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Yoga. That advice may get me downvoted as being off topic, but if you suffer through learning it and practice it 3x per week your situation will improve across the board. Why? Because its physically challenging and you sound like you cou
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Im so grateful for stack overflow. Big thanks to everyone who contributes. Those of us who need to get stuff done owe you our lives, almost literally.
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by rrggrr 12y ago
The US is unequal largely because the US exported millions of blue collar jobs to Asia but did not proportionally increase incentives to create jobs for those displaced. This only affected the middle class as the highest earners benefited
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by rrggrr 12y ago
I'm sorry but you don't understand how reserve currencies work and your conclusions are wrong. Michael Pettis has an excellent explanation here: http://blog.mpettis.com/2014/12/my-reading-of-the-ft-on-ch
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Michael Pettis is the Tony Stark of economics for those unaware. He has a scary accurate track record of predictive accuracy, he has influence in many central banks, perhaps most notably among Chinese decision-makers. Pettis has a rare ac
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by rrggrr 12y ago
That crash you heard today was the real-time data door slamming shut on Facebook, Microsoft, etc. Say what you might about Twitter's slowing growth, but mainstream news cycles and breaking news are increasingly preceded by and/or
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Many options for doing this already exist. Please take my money when you can notify me of specified content, or deliver contextual awareness; and when you can repackage and manipulate the changed data into actionable content for me. Oh, a
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Interesting for Wikileaks type content - where mirroring across thousands or millions of browsers is of value.
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by rrggrr 12y ago
"I think the fears about “evil killer robots” are overblown. There’s a big difference between intelligence and sentience. Our software is becoming more intelligent, but that does not imply it is about to become sentient." It is th
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Refusing isn't the right word. From my experience there are fewer categories of products where a German consumers gets value add from purchasing non-German products (B2C or B2B) as compared to, say, Greece. First how much could Germa
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by rrggrr 12y ago
just the opposite. Many teachable subjects from Journalisism to data science, biology to finance increasingly include Python. NLTK, Beautiful Soup, Pandas, Ipython Notebook, Matplotlib... Programming is a tool for getting things done, and
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Confirms for me that Bitcoin is on track to disrupt credit card payments, possibly ACH/Wire, and not to be a replacement currency. Credit cards handle about 3.6 trillion/year in transactions. With 3% per transaction fees, char
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Merchants lose about $500 billion/year to transactions fees, chargebacks, fraud and equipment fees. Want to know what the inherent value of Bitcoin is? Then think in terms merchants desire to avoid payment processing fees in a 3.6 tr
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by rrggrr 12y ago
My advice based on recent experience: give it time. We made domain changes and rankings tanked, only to recover. We made a major design change and rankings dived, only to recover. Give Google some time to assess.
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by rrggrr 12y ago
Except that Machiavelli didn't believe what you attribute to him. Only the first of four items in your list did Machiavelli advocate in The Prince; none of the items you mention were virtues to Machiavelli in The Discourses. Even in t
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by rrggrr 12y ago
This has potential. When drop.io died nothing filled the gap. If you want some help with this feel free to reach out to me: rrggrr@gmx.us
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by rrggrr 12y ago
I wonder if the hardening of cyberspace requires concepts like this? In the absense of sensational threats pervasive vulnerabilities in areas like usb, wireless routers, HDD/SSD microcontrollers, etc. may remain unresolved. It would
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by rrggrr 12y ago
No. No. No. Successful salespeople get something in return for information they give up. Timeline, budget, application, preferences, payment method, etc. without data a salesperson cannit determine where her time should be spent. Time
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by rrggrr 12y ago
I am happy to give you information (your rough quote) in exchange for information (learning about your need). That is a fair trade because while I can scale my product or service, I cannot scale my time. If I misallocate my time on custom

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