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Open Network Linux(github.com)
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by simula67 8y ago
> politics isn't just about helping businesses. It's mainly about helping people Many politicians are not about helping people, many are about helping themselves. Also, sometimes you can harm people with the intention of helpin
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I did not understand most of what he wrote. I thought he was being too obtuse. So I have been reading contemporary explanations of his ideas ( like those from Edward Feser ). I have a slightly better opinion of Acquinas today
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by simula67 8y ago
US economy is strong enough that it rebounds after a crash like in 2008. The recovery under Obama was the worst in a long time [1] Stock markets ( which are a rough proxy for investor confidence ) went up on the eve of election results [2],
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Google, Apple ditch college degree requirements(axios.com)
2 points by simula67 8y ago|0 comments
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by simula67 8y ago
> One of the most pernicious parts of Twitter is how people will retweet something dumb, offensive, or awful that an opponent said, along with a message mocking that opponent. Over time, this leads people on all sides of an issue to see
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by simula67 8y ago
Care to explain ?
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> under President Trump, who has been willing to build alliances with foreign powers to conspire against his own country. Say what you want about Trump, but he loves his country
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From HN guidelines [1]: > Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data. [1] https://news.ycombin
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by simula67 8y ago
Clearly it was meant to be $36 million
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> Analysts pointed to two major reasons for the increase: A growing number of Americans are using opioids, and drugs are becoming more deadly. It is the second factor that most likely explains the bulk of the increased number of overdose
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Please do not deploy demagoguery here
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Even if this happens after Windows 10, it will still be a problem since you still need upgrades and access to latest applications. I hope PC manufacturers start pushing Ubuntu extremely hard
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by simula67 8y ago
> You use it wrong Self-deprecating humor ? https://www.engadget.com/2010/06/24/apple-responds-over-ipho...
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One reason I switched from Emacs was because it took longer to launch
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Arista Networks Literally Gets Its Mojo Back(fool.com)
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Facebook has pulled similar tactics in the US also : https://www.wired.com/2010/11/google-facebook-data/
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> Those who have been disallowed to associate with Facebook remain free to associate with other very similar platforms. Facebook has been abusing it's massive size to block access to competitors using their Facebook Zero program :
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I think it a grave offense to the dignity of men and women to deprive them if vital truths like this. The French really have fallen
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> The problem of fake news isn’t actual lies, it’s framing. Agreed. Here is an example : https://i.imgur.com/3lSpqUP.jpg Same facts, wildly different framing
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I have seen statements like 'even bad tests are better than no tests'. I feel that for unit tests, 'no tests are better than bad tests'. Failure in unit tests often break CI and I have seen many tests which tests the str
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https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443590 has info on why : > We've discussed this on several occasions but apparently nobody ever filed a bug. > There are a number of reasons using clang-cl for our of
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by simula67 8y ago
Modern energy is clearly how we are all living like kings. Without it, we would not be able to feed all the people, build sky scrapers, build transport lines, cars and other machines - basically on autopilot - so most people can sit at home
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Carl Mäsak – ‎Regexes in Perl 6 (2013)(youtube.com)
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Google search ( and all web search engines ) disappearing would probably cause serious productivity decline in many fields like law enforcement, research and development, supply chain management etc Being able to acquire, understand and act
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Also in the past, the Saudi government has threatened to nationalize the then Arabian American Oil Co. (or Aramco) [1] company. At the time it was an American company and this forced the company to share profits with the kingdom. It will no
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by simula67 8y ago
What would version control look like after Git ? Git famously was not built for monorepo [1] I would like to see sub-tree checkouts, sub-tree history, storing giant asset files in repo ( without the git-lfs hack ), more consistent commands,
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> My software engineering career started after git got popular, but I had to work with ClearCase Me too I agree with you, the code I had inherited was built with clearmake and no one had any idea how to move it to a newer build system. I
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Contributing to Open Source projects (2010)(brad.livejournal.com)
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> If Git repos just "had" wikis, issues, etc. inside them, the lock-in wouldn't be there People clearly never cared about that, since Fossil ( https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/

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