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by skwirl 6y ago
This is an interesting topic because it's not something I would have thought about as an American. You aren't likely to find an artifact of much archeological value in much of the United States using a metal detector. Maybe if y
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by skwirl 6y ago
The article was written seven years ago. What you see now is not necessarily what you would have seen in 2013.
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by skwirl 6y ago
The picture this paints of a career in software engineering is utterly unrecognizable to me, someone who has worked in this industry for well over a decade at this point. I can't tell how much of this is pertains to whatever specific
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by skwirl 6y ago
Just flag it. I really don't think your proposed headline would have gotten any traction here and would have immediately dropped off the front page.
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by skwirl 7y ago
Let's say I have three 1TB drives - A, B, and C. A contains 1TB of meaningful data. B contains a sequence of randomly generated bits to be used as a one-time pad for encryption. I use B to encrypt the data on A, store this data onto
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by skwirl 7y ago
>It doesn’t make it better for them to earn less, and a union is one way to group high and low skill labor pool such as the whole can have a better quality of life. It is definitely better for some workers to make more than other workers
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by skwirl 7y ago
Finding photos on a CD that you bought at a house clearance sale does not magically transfer their copyright to you and give you the right to publish them in the media.
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by skwirl 7y ago
Wait, are there any public colleges in the United States that charge anywhere near $25k/year for in-state undergraduate tuition? The public university my brother is going to in New York costs around $25k for four years of tuition.
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by skwirl 8y ago
>Nielsen doesn't explicitly target children. I'm not sure what you mean by this because Nielsen absolutely targets children. The parents are explicitly consenting to having the box in the home but the box is constantly monitor
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by skwirl 8y ago
>But if you tried to sell some significant fraction of the outstanding coins then the sale price would plummet, and you'd never actually reach $5M total. You can't focus on sellers and ignore buyers when discussing the valuatio
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by skwirl 8y ago
This is a bizarre claim to make. This route would be much easier to block than any land route - it's a single bridge disappearing into a tunnel shortly off the coast of Hong Kong. It is about as easy of a choke point to block as you
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by skwirl 8y ago
I would have greatly appreciated this bridge being open when I stayed in Macau for a few days and had to fly home out of Hong Kong. There was a lot of overhead time with the ferry -- even with the Skypier transfer (and ferries to the airpo
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by skwirl 8y ago
I feel like these are frivolous toys that are a net negative to society, but the product has legitimate uses (however silly) and does not cause injury when used appropriately. There are many products in our everyday lives with legitimate us
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by skwirl 8y ago
To add to this - I have watched the industry over the last decade gradually become more conscious of and less tolerant of "accomplished" assholes. The behavior is still endemic but it feels like we are on the verge of a major shif
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by skwirl 8y ago
Saying that we shouldn't ban businesses and consumers from engaging in voluntary activities unless harm can be demonstrated is actually nothing like saying we shouldn't have checks on the president's power because they might
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by skwirl 8y ago
Having just visited Vietnam, this logic no longer makes any sense to me and I’m not sure how it ever did. Standards we set many decades ago for ourselves aren’t even close to being followed in that country. I can see no reason to believe wh
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by skwirl 9y ago
What if Tesla isn't responsible? I assume you don't expect them to sit quietly for a year+ while they are ravaged in the media in that case. What is the correct course of action? I feel like some of the criticism of tech compani
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by skwirl 9y ago
Not comparable at all. The total value of owner-occupied real estate is 2.4 times the total owner-occupied mortgage debt. [1][2] It's not much of a problem having $300k in mortgage debt if my house is worth $500k. I can sell at any
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by skwirl 9y ago
His language is why this particular post is getting such traction. This is what he does. You can't get attention for your bluntness and not have your bluntness discussed.
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by skwirl 9y ago
What if your elected representatives can vote to abolish the royalty?
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by skwirl 9y ago
It's not on the front page because when Americans woke up they flagged it off the front page. It's not "the administration," it's the user base.
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by skwirl 9y ago
Should Amazon be forced to show results for e-readers other than Kindle or audiobooks other than those on Audible? I don't think it's obvious at all where the line is.
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by skwirl 9y ago
That's not how it worked where I grew up in Upstate New York. The assessed value was a number way below market value, but assessed values among different houses pretty much differ by the same proportions as the actual market values.
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by skwirl 9y ago
It definitely factors into my home ownership cost spreadsheet that I use when looking at houses. There's also a property tax deduction.
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by skwirl 10y ago
I don't think complaining about people buying $5 cups of coffee at Starbucks is helpful for making a convincing argument. When you make statements like that, you give people the impression that your true motive is to attack capitalism
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by skwirl 10y ago
I recently went through a Docker Pluralsight course that made extensive use of this removed feature. I can scarcely imagine the politics behind this but it makes things much more confusing and the third party open source tool people recomme
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by skwirl 10y ago
I just bought a P2715Q (27", 163ppi) and I really haven't noticed the difference from my 220ppi 15" MacBook Pro. I'm sure if I put them side by side and shoved my face into them I would notice, but practically speaking,
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by skwirl 10y ago
Go with the outcome d_t_w preferred.
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by skwirl 10y ago
My impression of the Aereo decision was that it was based on the letter of the law. Contrary to opinions often expressed here, the law wording does not specifically apply to cable companies and specific wording was not creatively interpr
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by skwirl 10y ago
The author didn't say or imply either of those things.

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