somedangedname

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   by somedangedname 10y ago

   Yep, looks like PR. nickrivadeneira's account is 4.5 years old and has commented 4 whole times.
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   by somedangedname 10y ago

   The use of fake personas is despicable, whoever is using them. In this case it's supporters of Front national.
3. 63.▲
   by somedangedname 10y ago

   > Only one coffee bean I've ever had was actually memorable. C'mon bud, spill the beans!
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   by somedangedname 10y ago

   Also, the target moves as time goes on. What worked for someone five years ago won't necessarily work today.
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   by somedangedname 10y ago

   > ...we worked with Google's in-house team I'm no expert but I don't think the incentives were aligned properly there. Here's a Reddit thread that says it better than I can: https://www.reddit.com/r&#x
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   by somedangedname 10y ago

   Good to see that the Free Republic is as rabid as I remember it being.
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   by somedangedname 10y ago

   That's really cool. I've always found it difficult to follow discussions on Twitter. Maybe the UI is better for logged-in users but I've never bothered.
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   by somedangedname 10y ago

   Does Pheonix have a home page or a repo on github? Searching only turns up job ads in Arizona.
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   by somedangedname 10y ago

   Hawk your low-effort landing page elsewhere, bud.
10. 70.▲
    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Yep, that's the plan. The recommended family of cards isn't sold in Australia so I'll have to import one. The other issue is my older motherboard/CPU combo which may or may not be able to support the extra PCIE use. Over
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Also many motherboard USB controllers are incompatible with both Rift and the Vive: https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3zrtgs/psa_your_usb... AFAIK neither company mentions this in their supported
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Is it fine to describe a small employer in general terms if listing the company name would effectively identify you?
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    > oissy Is that regional slang? It's a great sounding word.
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    "This (demonetisation) is not an end. I have more projects in mind to make India corruption-free. …. We will take action against ‘benami’ property." - PM Modi [0] Whether he takes further action and if those actions will be effect
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    He's not a big fan of democracy either: "Most importantly, I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible." https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Mind you, AIPAC and co. have a massive influence in the US relative to the size of America's Jewish population.
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    I suspect that the top search result for "water analogies" was hugged to death because of this comment.
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    > A control fraud will often obtain "investments that have no readily ascertainable market value", and then shop for appraisers that will assign unrealistically high values and auditing firms that will bless the fraudulent acco
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    > Also it keeps adding fucking Edge and Store to my quickbar every single update This and the Cortana notifications are a real pain.
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    I'm no expert but surveying the number of kept hives doesn't tell you anything about the health of those hives or the total number of living bees. If colonies are indeed collapsing, beekeepers may need to start more hives to deal
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    DFS == Depth First Search?
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Lack of quality control - the last two-ish months, the search feature on maps has been completely broken for me. They rolled out a feature to limit search results to locations within your current zoom. Great! Problem is, they reloaded the e
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Any tips on not obsessing over how detailed/well-planned your notes need to be? For me, note-taking just ends up being something else to worry about. Particularly when it comes to work.
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Plus the dregs of the Google+ community. Look at the people commenting on the announcement - social media gurus, 'futurists', wannabe viral video producers...
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Plus he's been educated about the dangers of scamming from interlinked accounts. If he does try this again it won't be as easy for the next victim to get their stuff back.
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Weird - the chandoo.com link is blocked by my Internet filter at work. "Category: Made for AdSense"
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    > ...and could be spoon fed the information I fought so hard to unearth! Yesterday HN introduced me to a short story - have a read if you haven't already. You'll get a good laugh out of it. http://www.inf.ufpr.br&#x2
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    > "let it sit in the rack" So do they do scheduled collections of failed units? Or just let them sit there indefinitely?
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Regarding the Harvard study: "In this paper, we assemble two novel and complementary datasets from Yelp – one of the industry leaders – to estimate the incidence of review fraud..." This doesn't strike me as particularly inde
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    by somedangedname 10y ago

    Would be a great intro to a safety talk in shop class.