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by rubyfan 8y ago
Reminds me of an episode of Futurama. https://theinfosphere.org/The_Futurama_Holiday_Spectacular#A...
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by rubyfan 8y ago
What could possibly go wrong?!
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I was one of the people with. 6S that replaced the battery at $29 recently. I can honestly say I did it because the battery life was getting worse but would have paid the normal price instead of get an XS. It’s just not that compelling over
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I haven't deleted it yet but stopped using it mid-year. The junk political posts from both sides got on my nerves. Nothing on there every caught my interest. I have no plans to go back to using it. I do have quite a bit of family on it
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by rubyfan 8y ago
What type of policy implications does this actually have?
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I loved that style and was so disappointed with what XP shipped with. I’d still take that style of any Win10 style.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Windows Whistler Beta circa 2000. Had the simplicity of W2K with a little flair and a new start button menu. Way better than all the noise you see today.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I like the concept too. Unfortunately due to all those things loading it wouldn’t work in Safari on iOS. I use Firefox Focus as an ad blocker and I suspect it doesn’t like a bunch of the techniques used to load content.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
That’s what you meant to say though right?
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I have to agree it's been a great springboard and we should be doing more. I think the reality on the ground is that solar has only achieved attractive efficiency levels in most recent years. Similarly electric vehicle range and cost h
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I’ve always loved this product. I rarely used it for the live pairing ability but loved its simplicity, highlighting and overall light feel as an editor. Definitely time to revisit SubEthaEdit.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Those deposits are just that, deposits - you get those back. They are in lieu of a credit report. The ability for utilities, property owners and other institutions to provide services and goods that people might choose not to pay for is in
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by rubyfan 8y ago
You can argue about the side effects or extended uses of credit reporting all you like I suppose. The reality of the credit system in the US is not a government driven activity. The market has created a behavior incentive to pay your bills
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Lease agreements typically entitle one to a property for a fixed period for financially agreed terms. It’s incredibly hard to evict a bad tenant. One’s past payment performance is a huge predictor for the future. An understanding of ones de
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by rubyfan 8y ago
The scale, scope and logical extent of these systems are not even comparable.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
At what point did Yahoo’s core business start to shrink or get the stench of being a loser? I have to imagine that Yahoo! acquiring them was a stinker for their users. Did anyone think of Yahoo as bringing strategic value to the services th
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Point being made is that actual experience with aws, azure or google cloud would be preferable to reading some white paper.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
That’s exactly how I would have reacted to the parent in real life. Your failed execution is your fault.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I love the bravery of just quitting to try something new. Not having something lined up but knowing he will, it’s kind of admirable.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
It made sense when I got to this part... His election means that county commissioners from his district will pick a replacement, who must be a Republican and live there. That will most likely play out in the coming weeks after the election
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by rubyfan 8y ago
My son is changing out of computer science as his major after a semester of Scheme. Not sure it’s a direct correlation but I think it had a lot to do with it.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Philanthropy is certainly a more direct way to contribute to a good cause of your choice than via taxes.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Does Apple really compete with Facebook and ad platforms? Does Apple even really compete with Google? Isn’t the Android competition mostly not Google, e.g. Samsung?
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I’d like to see better sand boxing of the Photo album on iOS. Facebook, LinkedIn and others are known to raid your photos if they have access to it. Ideally you could limit their ability to read and write to just a specific photo album. Or
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by rubyfan 8y ago
That’s why I like HN. I visit only a few news sites per day and HN usually brings a treat that I never would have stumbled on myself.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I’m not sure if this deserves the downvotes or not. I get the point that right leaning and left leaning people look at these sources differently. I imagine there are differences with respect to their publishing standards and that is perhaps
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I’m not sure Oppenheimer/Einstein/Feynman would have been referred to at the time as “the factory” nor would I imagine anyone consider their work needing to be highly efficient nor would I imagine anyone would dream the appropriat
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by rubyfan 8y ago
We have some of those too but they are usually junior managers who have a single level team (and likely haven’t had to fire or lay someone off). Org leaders usually have more perspective than to call it a family.
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by rubyfan 8y ago
Well stated. The problem that the blanket ban on one source introduces is that it becomes a divisive issue. The source and faction that subscribes then believes Wikipedia has lost its objectivity (even if it is trying to maintain the truth)
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by rubyfan 8y ago
I can say this absolutely exists in Corp tech shops. I worked in an environment where the CIO would frequently refer to the tech staff as “the factory”. I often encouraged this CIO and others in the management team not to because it was dem

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