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by s_dev 5y ago
Right but the example wasn't a billionaire per se -- just someone who divorced late in life. Bill Gates just being a good recent example of that.
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by s_dev 5y ago
> until some point after the slide begins that has slowly eaten away at your own ability. Whats your commentary on people who marry and then divorce very late in life like Bill Gates? After all if the primary purpose was to protect again
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Stadia was terribly implemented -- almost nothing appealed to gamers from the pricing to the games -- I can't think of a single killer game. I recall it being originally annouced thinking Google -- like Apple -- don't get gaming a
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by s_dev 5y ago
The problem isn't the functionality -- it's the branding. boze.app for Bose headphones. Theres too much likeness.
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by s_dev 5y ago
Conveying it's website is easy though -- stick a protocol or www in front of it. Or even underline it an colour it blue! www.burrito.ai or https://burrito.ai is obviously a website to any layman. Yes -- a server admin will
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by s_dev 5y ago
For digital goods. If you want to buy a coffee with your app you can as the coffee is not digital -- Apple will not take a 30% cut.
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by s_dev 5y ago
German exports alone nearly match the United States despite the US having a far larger population and economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_exports
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by s_dev 5y ago
Other versions of this test include the last question being "Don't answer any questions". The habit the teacher was trying to impart was "read the whole paper" first before answering any questions -- particularly if
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by s_dev 5y ago
Reading between the lines -- is this Mafia related?
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by s_dev 5y ago
I'm not sure it is experimenting people without consent. Though it's certainly shitty and opportunitstic of UoM to do this. Linux Bug fixes are open to the public. The experiment isn't on people but on bugs. I would be like f
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by s_dev 5y ago
>It shows there is a problem with the review process if it is not catching 100% of this garbage What review process catches 100% garbage? It's a mechanism to catch 99% of garbage -- otherwise Linux kernel would have no bugs.
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by s_dev 5y ago
So is Ashley Madison despite the revelations that every user of the service has been exposed as a guillible chump.
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by s_dev 5y ago
Ireland has a Covid19 tracker app that can easily intergrate with other EU covid apps. NearForm the Developer sells a branded version for a million. It's also open source with a generous licence. Why didn't Germany use that? Corru
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>I have no evidence to back this up, but I strongly believe that video quality would have similar effects Any dating website will have this as basic advice. Thats evidence enough for me. Higher quality images are associate with better lo
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by s_dev 5y ago
Hopefully he serves as an example to other Ponzi schemers in Wall Street. It's rare in the US white collar guys like this die in prison.
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by s_dev 5y ago
Seems incredible now the University of Pennsylvania told the inventor mRNA that their contributions weren't worthwhile and let them go. https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-cov... And
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by s_dev 5y ago
^ This is misinformation. AZ is a profit driven pharma manufacturing company. Oxford University developed the vaccine. When Oxford licenced the vaccine to AZ -- it was at the institence of Bill Gates a major donor to Oxford and shareholder
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The UK Gov just got slapped by Apple and Google for trying to exploit the Corona Virus notifcation exposure system by trying to precisely locate people with the Covid contact tracing tracker App.
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>Each app submitted to the App Store undergoes a thorough review process. Thats just not true though -- it does go through a review but the quality of that review is not remotely consistent. I've litterally had reviewers 'rejec
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by s_dev 5y ago
>This is a good thing. True international law requires a world government which would be an unbearable restriction of freedom. The UN is a proto World Government. Einstein, Churchill, Gandhi etc. said was needed in the Nuclear age. The L
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by s_dev 5y ago
Hacker News is a forum for anything of interest to nerds. It doesn't have to be technical or scientific or academic. The death of a royal may be of interest to nerds.
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>I think it’s interesting that you’d blame this family for the horrors of colonialism. Heres the opening for Patrick Freyne in the Irish Times on the British Monarchy: "Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour
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by s_dev 5y ago
>Fish raised in a fish farm is reasonably sustainable It's not though -- thats the myth to be debunked. Also the parasites were disgusting -- farmed fish are slowly being eaten alive -- for every four salmon produced only 1 makes to
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by s_dev 5y ago
My single biggest takeaway from watching it was that there is no "sustainable industrial fishing" despite every political advocacy group stating that as a bullet point "eat sustainable fish" to helping biodiversity and f
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Mail-in-a-Box(mailinabox.email)
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by s_dev 5y ago
> Who exactly is benefiting from this? Facebook.
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by s_dev 5y ago
>I think Facebook (rightfully, IMO) would argue the existence of that data dump is no proof that data came from Facebook’s servers. Mark Zuckerbergs phone number was in the dataset. It came from Facebook.
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by s_dev 5y ago
Dubliners is super easy to read. It's basically the man page for Joyce.
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by s_dev 6y ago
>Is Intel really falling behind Intel is already behind AMD -- they have no product segment where they are absolutely superior. The means AMD is setting the market pace. On top of this Apple is switching to ARM designed CPUs. This also l
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by s_dev 6y ago
https://www.troyhunt.com/the-ethics-of-running-a-data-breach... Other than Troy Hunt being well known and building a reputation on being a white hat security guy. In the world of data the only thing you can trust in absolut

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