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by surge 13y ago
I own this laptop, had it for almost a year. I love it except after a while I noticed random hard freezes, basically the display freezes in place and the system doesn't respond. I would have to hold down the power button to force an un
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by surge 13y ago
If you look at his blog, and read the captions you get an idea of how controlled his experience is. First, the camera doesn't get checked (although it might have been) because they have a "no photos" rule in certain places, l
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by surge 13y ago
What's sad is, and maybe lost on the jury, is it actually increases his credibility, he's so accomplished in his field those with the earned degrees said "we view you as a peer or recognize you as a pioneer of our field, just
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by surge 13y ago
So his crack about levees didn't in anyway color or piss off the border patrol? I mean when I'm entering a country, I too like to crack wise about their recent national tragedies to get into the border officer's good graces.
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by surge 13y ago
It was on truereddit on the guys blog: http://dasmag.nl/why-i-will-never-return-to-the-usa/ His crack about a major tragedy (levees breaking) probably is what did him in.
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by surge 13y ago
I just installed 13.10 today, perfect!
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by surge 13y ago
You never heard of the Reconstruction? The South went into severe poverty for decades after the Civil War.
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by surge 13y ago
The only thing I feel strongly about is hating COBOL. Seriously, kill it with fire.
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by surge 13y ago
That's basically how my Swedish coworker aced it too, I faired much worse.
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by surge 13y ago
Not surprisingly, my Swedish coworker got 20/20. I got 10/20 which given I was basically guessing/coin tossing every time is statistically sound. Apparently, its so easy because while Ikea names are kind of random, they mean
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by surge 13y ago
I don't know about this person's service, but someone else posted something similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6471713
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by surge 13y ago
Wills and life insurance are morbidly weird, but like it or not people need them. People have "digital" estates now, that need to be managed just as much as one's physical affairs once they die.
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by surge 13y ago
I've long thought of a start up that would offer a kill switch service. Something that you checked into every so often to verify you were still alive (by email, text, or it just monitored your social feeds). If over a custom set period
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by surge 13y ago
One, there was one open table, they had purchased their ice cream and were entitled to a table before you do. You don't "call shotgun" on tables. So what, the family who has their ice cream has to stand now while you wait in
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by surge 13y ago
I've used Bitcoin intentionally to get away from PayPal. So for me, the more PayPal stays away from Bitcoin, the happier I'll be. I'd much rather deal with a new company, like coinbase, who can jump through the necessary hoop
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by surge 13y ago
I have checking setup on my PayPal, maybe they should only allow direct confirmed withdrawals then, if VISA or Mastercard is the problem.
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by surge 13y ago
Because PayPal's job is simply do deliver money from Party A to Party B. It's not their job to worry about how the money is used, the USPS does not audit the check your Grandma sent for your birthday. Crowdsourcing is a gift, like
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by surge 13y ago
It actually didn't make sense (P2P) after a certain point. There was a huge Skype outages because of a SuperNode back in 2010 when it was P2P. The problem was a lot of super nodes ended up being desktop hardware that simply couldn&#x27
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by surge 13y ago
Well, there were at least two guys from the NSA who blew the whistle before, the legal way, and it got them a whole heap of trouble and nothing came of it in the media. So far, going outside the law seems to be the only tactic that garners
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by surge 13y ago
I think a Netflix tech sounded off on reddit about this and said that it's not up to them, its up to the distributor they license the content from. They request the 16:9 format, but in the end they have to go with what the distributor
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by surge 13y ago
Well, if people over hear heard something like the KGB can spy on people who use Russian tech company products, people would avoid them even if it isn't necessarily true. Supposedly, the encryption iOS implements is supposed to be NSA
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by surge 13y ago
Well most of the firmware is written by an Asian company, doesn't put it outside the realm of possibility.
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by surge 13y ago
I wonder how much of it's related to fears that every iPhone is a secret NSA listening device? I mean if you knew the KGB could possibly listen in on your phones, how likely would US carriers keep it? I've been thinking an oversea
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by surge 13y ago
For me, the most liberating thing was "not wasting film", I didn't have to worry about taking a bad shot and could take more risks or take pictures of just about anything without worrying about using up a finite amount of rat
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by surge 14y ago
Ever seen Steve Hughes on being offended? If you're offended, so what, nothing happens. If we all walk on egg shells because any kind of discourse might offend someone, you'd suck the air out of the room. Seriously, by the rules at PyCon, I
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by surge 14y ago
PyCon is a conference for Python programmers, professional and amateur, no where is the term "professionals only" stated. It's a conference for people who have an interest in Python. If it is, maybe I missed the business attire requirement,
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by surge 14y ago
It's a personal conversation then, in either case, its NOYB. Unless he was using actual obscene words, I don't get it. She can't be offended by behavior she herself publicly broadcasts on twitter to anyone who follows or reads her feed. A c