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by smtddr 13y ago
Of course it's failing. Screwed up accounting allows for easier stealing and harder to pinpoint who/when/where money ended up.
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by smtddr 13y ago
Sometimes you buy it because you like the hardware and know the software is coming down the line. I've done this twice. - I bought an Android phone that had terrible reviews on Amazon come, knowing that there was a cyanogenmod ROM that
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by smtddr 13y ago
http://i.imgur.com/4aaH7GW.png There are definitely some devs who think of themselves as above all others in society. Like Gods or something. I guess if you remain in the SV echo-chamber for long periods of time, you will f
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by smtddr 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5980898 >>this person has decided to spend time writing this nonsense instead of doing something useful. Not to agree with it is one thing, but to call it nonsense? Instead, I no
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by smtddr 13y ago
I need some help understanding this. So, at my job the way I install iOS apps onto phones that are not at the AppStore is that the developers give me the .ipa file and I do: ideviceinstaller -i /path/to/ipafile (You ca
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by smtddr 13y ago
Well played. I laughed, but see my reply to another commentor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949440 I admit without my more detailed explanation, you'd be right. low bank balance is just as absurd a cause for i
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by smtddr 13y ago
Ah, well if you're poor & living in a poor neighborhood then the following are more likely: - Low income tends to imply low education, so maybe not fully understanding the risks of HIV. In some parts of Africa they think(
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>Perhaps the bigger risk factor for heterosexual women is not being black, but being poor. I'm confident you're correct; this has everything to do with being poor/middle-class/rich than race. But you can't
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by smtddr 13y ago
The logic here is that the author's credibility would be ruined if this turned out to be a lie. What reason would he have for taking that risk?
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by smtddr 13y ago
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942165 tptacek 5 hours ago | link I am not generally a believer in the theory that NSA actively subverts Internet standards† †(my best guess is that the standards NSA was act
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by smtddr 13y ago
I can assure you that the rich will group themselves away from the poor. So, I repeat: If you can assure me the wealthy won't take advantage of the poor, then I'm fine. But you can't assure me that. It's going to end up
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by smtddr 13y ago
Seriously. As left as I am, this is crazy talk. SV can't just be its own state. This Silicon-valley-arrogance is out of control. They think they have it all figured out and know better than generations of wisdom before them. What if ev
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by smtddr 13y ago
Yes, crazy and wrong. Let me tell you how this is going to go. A bunch of wealthy people, of limited diversity, will make their own country and exploit all the poorer ones. I would have no problem with your plan if you can assure me that t
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by smtddr 13y ago
>> I hate Reddit so much, it's such an absolute shit hole. Pretend like it doesn't even exist, because it shouldn't. I truly believe after spending so much time on Reddit I became a worse person. I realized after a few
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by smtddr 13y ago
No problem if you're not a paycheck-to-paycheck person and the card is truly your credit-card, not your ATM Debit card that functions like a Visa(as mine does). This could make some people's checks bounce. Sure after you make som
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>Who’s the real victim here? The top victim in my opinion is Target itself. Yeah, those 40 million CCs accessed? Screw those people. The multi-million corp is the one who will really suffer....
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by smtddr 13y ago
No money is actually in the coinbase account. It only stores Bitcoin. If you sell bitcoin, the USD balance will immediate be ACH'ed directly to the bank info you have set up.[1] Otherwise, I guess you won't be able to use the sell
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>All you're proving there is how educated people like ourselves don't take alternative medicines seriously (and for good reason too). So I'm not going to argue one way or the other, I just want to be clear. You think
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>If Bitcoin was less volatile, it would actually do a good job of solving some of the issues faced by poorer "underbanked" people. Bitcoin won't help poor people _directly_, but when it stabilizes I can think of at l
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by smtddr 13y ago
It's possible, but not too likely at all at this point, that China will reverse this decision. I don't know how far BTC will fall, but let me tell you this. If it falls to under $10 like this person[1] says, I'm going all in.
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>(Hint: after high school, nobody cares about your grades anymore.) True for software developers nowadays, but some other disciplines like maybe scoring an accounting job at Charles Schwab I bet still checks that GPA. Ya know what
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by smtddr 13y ago
This is a terrible way to think and only furthers racism in the world. You need to have more self-respect for yourself, and expect it more from others than what you're implying in this comment. I, as a black man, do not welcome being
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by smtddr 13y ago
Agreed. USAgov doesn't negotiate with terrorists and in their mind that's what E.Snowden is. There's no turning back for him; he better just keep on leaking and keep on running forever. He can't return to the life he onc
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by smtddr 13y ago
>>$SOFTWARE_NAME saving passwords in plain text is the correct decision. Is there any situation where this sentence would be true?
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by smtddr 13y ago
The issue is tech-salaries are so high these days, that the once decently priced apartments of SF are now increasing beyond what their non-tech jobs can support. So even the Starbucks employee who moved into SF 2 months ago is always wonder
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by smtddr 13y ago
>> Lena Chen didn't deserve what happened to her, but Is the same as... >> I'm Not Saying She Deserved To Be Raped, But... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/17/joseph-dibenedetto-..
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by smtddr 13y ago
Indeed, which brings us to... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education I thought we, as a society, already concluded that separate cannot be equal. But I have to say, for some reason I don't feel t
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by smtddr 13y ago
From a developer's POV, there are issues between 4 & 2. Nobody should even be on 3; it's like... the Windows Vista of the Android series.
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by smtddr 13y ago
Every time... Conspiracy theory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795 Potential examples: 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6885123 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6
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by smtddr 13y ago
I think you're the best HN user on this whole site.

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