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by rubyfan 8y ago
That was my reaction. Microsoft is smart to capitalize on overzealous IT Security departments though. There’s a lot of money to be made in the gradual extinction of Windows. I’m surprised they didn’t go for Android though.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
How do you solve for quality control in the contractor network?
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by rubyfan 8y ago
In what fields is this type of tooling used routinely?
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I recently bought an Orange Pi 3 which is roughly similar to Pine H64. Easy enough to setup and runs Pi Hole and Kodi just fine, unfortunately no way to run RetroPie at the moment. These boards are kind of hamstrung by lack of Mali support
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I understand how they used it. It’s just ironic saying that something isn’t political and then immediately saying that is hyper-political right after.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
> The topic isn't political btw. Saying the President is compromised by Russia, along with much of the Republican party is just a fact. But HN sees that as political I guess, and things are removed. It's really unfortunate. H
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I don’t love designers inflicting what they think looks good without having real user usage data and input from customers. Just don’t do it.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
GEICO and Berkshire Hathaway are a unique beast in the industry. Their ability to gainfully employee capital is somewhat unmatched. Historically many companies managed to eek out an underwriting profit but distracted driving and bodily inju
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by rubyfan 8y ago
The company employs something like 300,000 people. I’d imagine many stories of bad management just at that scale. Since it’s Amazon it always gets an unfair level attention.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Isn’t it more accurate that a seller is using Amazon’s publishing platform to counterfeit and sell other publishers books? The title suggests Amazon has wrongdoing here. You could make the case that they need more policing and review but it
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by rubyfan 8y ago
It’s misguided and incentive. Gut diseases aren’t cured by yogurt.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
The workload size is goofy to say the least.
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No, You Can’t Ignore Email. It’s Rude(nytimes.com)
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Gross. I can’t wait for Impossible Burger to hit the grocery store.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
The $3B in incentives from the state and local governments is nothing. 25K jobs X $150K per year and all of the spending that goes with it, housing, restaurants, transportation, fitness, entertainment probably adds up to something like a $1
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Have they answered where do the 25,000 jobs go now?
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Don’t forget about Java applets
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by rubyfan 8y ago
That’s my guess why they were blackmailing in the first place. He already knew they were illegally obtained and they knew that would blow their deal with the government. They weren’t taking any additional risk, more like playing a risky gam
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by rubyfan 8y ago
How do we know if GDPR is actually working? Did we expect 60K? Does that mean we should expect a reduction in the future because companies are taking the right actions? Should we expect to see a reduction in identity thefts? How does the EU
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by rubyfan 8y ago
More likely they will forget you paid them.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
It was a well intentioned toothless innovation that didn’t work. I’m pretty happy with Safari’s content filters (using FireFox Focus) that actually help me from being tracked.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
It’s reason enough to leave my Facebook account open. I’ve just stopped using it anymore and that’s fine. It’s been months and I don’t miss the constant barrage of political rants from my friends on both sides of the political spectrum.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
No I don’t think that wouldn’t work long term at a public insurer. Expense measures are fairly well understood by analysts, investors and regulators. If expected claims got out of wack with pricing it would become a problem for an insurer.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
This really isn’t how insurance works. These are regulated industries where pricing, underwriting and actuarial models are under heavy oversight. No one at an insurance company is designing policies for you to get screwed over. Most insuran
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I doubt it’s accurate. Most people underestimate their contents, personal property and clearly in this case their liability risk. As much as people want to hate on insurance, it is in fact an enabler for economic stability.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
> For whatever reason, the industry press never liked Ballmer, and I guess they like Satya. Bad business acquisitions and management decisions notwithstanding... Developers, developers, developers. Chair throwing. Bad dancing. Many oth
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Annotations have always come across as a crutch. It’s noisy at best and unsightly in large concentrations.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
That’s a ridiculous anti-competitive poison pill that discourages value added services.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
A million dollars doesn’t seem like the right payout for something like that. I’m not an expert in the field but my guess is this is a small team of people dedicated for a while and need technology to support it. Seems like $10M would be a
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by rubyfan 8y ago
The rest of the quote is admirably tenacious... > What then? he was asked. “Then I go into the antiques business — books will be antiques,” Mr. Bass said.

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