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by sailfast 5y ago
It’s an interesting take, and a decent attempt at “oral history”. I particularly liked this quote: > Imagine if, like, David Brooks had paid ten bucks and wandered onto FYAD: that was Twitter.
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by sailfast 5y ago
Unfortunately things from H&M rarely last past the first 5 or 10 uses in any semblance of their original shape, size, and color (in my experience)
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by sailfast 5y ago
Afghanistan has a long history of clans based on warlords working for whomever seemed to be winning. “The Taliban” in this regard seems to me to be the group under which the warlords decided to congeal, rather than somehow being the same pe
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by sailfast 5y ago
This only works at a macro level when you refer to “people” as an abstract concept and totally ignore the fact that the government caused the market asymmetry not people. It occurred everywhere. At the same time. There is no magic place to
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by sailfast 5y ago
Perhaps fewer would be behind in rent if more of the rental assistance funds were released to those in need? The percentage of obligated funds vs. used funds is pretty lopsided at the moment, and time sensitive: https://www.washi
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by sailfast 5y ago
Even if most of your folks work from home you need a lot of square footage for gathering spaces, conference rooms, and phone booths when people do get together. (Which, they should when rates of infection get under control, because it’s key
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by sailfast 5y ago
This article thinks you need to be physically present to steal a fingerprint when OPM stores them on hard drives by the millions that have already been hacked? I’m confused about the conclusions. “It’s okay - you’re not worth hacking enough
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by sailfast 5y ago
Death on a large scale? This is the first time I’m hearing of this and I’d be interested to read more. Do you happen to have a study or something I can read?
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by sailfast 5y ago
Per the video, their plan is to 3D print additional sustainable tread on demand and/or switch you over to snow tires if you need them using 3D printing techniques while you have a snack (apparently)
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by sailfast 5y ago
While it is really more of a mid-size agency at 1000-ish folks, there are typically also a number of career execs managing each of the divisions to help assist the executive in delivering on their vision for the organization. Further, the F
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by sailfast 5y ago
I haven't had a chance to dig into this, but obviously it's awesome and I'm here for it!
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by sailfast 6y ago
This is such an awesome article, and I love it. Thanks to the author for the great digging and explanation.
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by sailfast 6y ago
For those that would like to dig more into what SMB is - here's the link to the paper from the article: http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1334587/FULLTEXT0...
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by sailfast 6y ago
Sure, but any crypto coin could do that, and I doubt we would be using a currency as "mainstream" as bitcoin at this point to do it at that point because we could not afford the transaction costs. Probably be some privately issued
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by sailfast 6y ago
Have they fixed the transaction cost issue? Are they going to pay the fees to transact in Bitcoin, or should I continue to pay in dollars? Then congrats on buying something anonymously that you have to register to drive off the lot. Short o
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by sailfast 6y ago
This sounds a lot like making sure you have adequate "Maker time": http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html That said, even if you're a manager you can benefit from the consolidation of things to keep yo
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by sailfast 6y ago
Encrypted drives like Iron Keys (tm) are typically used as a "secure" way of doing this.
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by sailfast 6y ago
European opera houses offer standing room tickets at these prices or less in my experience. (Vienna, and others)
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by sailfast 6y ago
Lots of folks seem to dislike the star / hero approach, but my team has a simple “thanks” column in our retros and it works really well to set the tone for the rest of the conversation - and it’s a great reminder to say thanks. Even if
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by sailfast 6y ago
They tried to sell that to DoD already and obviously did not meet their needs in this way. If they had, they would not be looking for a sale, I’d imagine.
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by sailfast 6y ago
> The goal of her work is to develop a method of obtaining the parameters of the airfoil boundary layer from an existing high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics code, without requiring any more effort from the code’s end-user than was
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by sailfast 6y ago
It says on this outage page (as of 11:11 ET) that the problem with Kinesis is also causing problems updating this outage dashboard which may explain the delay?
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by sailfast 6y ago
OK who here wants to start the next consumer computer company to address this with a Linux distro and a focus on consumer privacy? I'm not your huckleberry, but I'll certainly buy from you. Any margin in the hardware these days?
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by sailfast 6y ago
A yearly print subscription is probably only a couple bucks more per month when added to the monthly digital you’re paying for. Get it in paper at your doorstep and save a bunch of money? Or hang it on the wall daily? If you want to read mo
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by sailfast 6y ago
Specifically: the author used Go to create a routine that would collect user data from submitted JSON requests to the site and then email them at a point later in the day when server load was low so they could sign up for healthcare. (Pre o
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by sailfast 6y ago
Maybe, but in this thread we're discussing whether Pandora was a terrorist. I think the answer is still no.
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by sailfast 6y ago
Assuming the conventional wisdom about the event is accurate: A state military attacking a perceived threat to the national security of that state (while at the same time doing its damndest to make sure nobody knew about it) is pretty clear
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by sailfast 6y ago
The ability to broadly revoke these rights without any cause is different here, though. I don't think you can equate the two in the same way for this reason. You needed to take action against an individual before for a reason in order
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by sailfast 6y ago
Came here to say this. If it's subject to DRM, you don't really own it. It's a limited license. That said, as someone that has purchased a number of many-view licenses (clicked "buy") I feel that this distinction ha
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by sailfast 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Mattermost.

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