themartorana

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by themartorana 10y ago
It's a loophole, but you're also not getting to see a movie for free. You paid actual money. You could also resize your browser to block ads in a side column, but it's not the same thing.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Hey! This is great, although I imagine difficult to do when it's your business, and harder to do as a hobby. But I'd love to hear about your experience with this. In any case, if I turn on uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, I still
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by themartorana 10y ago
"...if they allow the public to view their content, they cannot dictate how the content is viewed..." You could not be more wrong. I am having a hard time imagining any art installation, public park, etc., that does not have r
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by themartorana 10y ago
Spec work. No one likes doing it. I'd much rather have a contract for my time and effort than sell logos like a sidewalk artist and hope you like them and are willing to part with $5.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Hey, we're chatting about it, right? Would a site with $100 logos make it to the front page of a highly trafficked site like this?
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by themartorana 10y ago
Hopefully no one will be driving by then.
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by themartorana 10y ago
I don't think we're seeing a Github decline. Yes they've had some internal strife not all that connected to business, but Google just moved a lot of its OSS there, Microsoft just moved a bunch of stuff there. Git repos take a
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by themartorana 10y ago
What I didn't get from your comment is he died on 9/11, heading back upstairs for more people. Sounds like he still wouldn't count himself a hero, though.
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by themartorana 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_default_swap?wprov=sfsi... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_protection_insuranc... http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing&
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by themartorana 10y ago
"...some hardworking person loses their savings" No they don't. Loans are insured against default. Interest rates more than cover extremely low default rates and then some.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Same goes for every credit rating agency in the country (world?). Remember all those AAA rated swaps? It is disturbing how the entire economic system is set up to make life harder on those it's hardest on. Poor, in debt, barely making
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by themartorana 10y ago
I agree that mostly it was people, not the machine. That's the basis of my love affair with autonomous cars - remove humans from the equation and watch casualty numbers plummet.
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by themartorana 10y ago
I'm not sufficiently versed to have this opinion probably, but why are we building pipelines all over the place? Isn't oil a dinosaur (heh heh) at this point? I mean, no, obviously the world runs on it, but I expect to in my lifet
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by themartorana 10y ago
That was entirely tongue-in-cheek. I wouldn't ever expect you to do that! It was an exaggerated example.
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by themartorana 10y ago
...high school is wondrously efficient at making interesting things dull..." Ain't that the truth. I learned that not because I recognized it my day to day as a student, but because I had one or two teachers in high school that
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by themartorana 10y ago
Depending on slave labor is so abhorrent to begin with, I don't much care what happens to communities that lean on it.
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by themartorana 10y ago
So right. Many people in prison land there because they were never treated with any dignity in their life to begin with. We don't even need to wonder if it would work. We can look at other countries for proof (and if you want proof our
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by themartorana 10y ago
Making money is the point here. It's not illegal for me to point at a guy selling bootleg DVDs on the streets of NY. But if you pay me to show you where you can buy bootleg DVDs in NY, I'm pretty sure I'd be found to be at le
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by themartorana 10y ago
You'd think that would be at least one metric...
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by themartorana 10y ago
It's maybe a level of details thing. "A bad deploy went unnoticed, causing a cascading failure. We identified how that happened and have new checks in place to prevent it in the future." Two lines, with the same information s
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by themartorana 10y ago
Is that a difficult migration? Admittedly our stack is tens of servers, not tens of thousands, but at first glance it looked like I could achieve migration via a simple update to a cloudformation script.
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by themartorana 10y ago
I feel this pain. Used to be longer than 2 weeks...
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by themartorana 10y ago
The problem is when blame is not cast on the removal of regulations that let banks run wild, and it is not cast on for-profit healthcare companies that post massive premium increases while posting massive profit increases. Instead, some of
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by themartorana 10y ago
Also "Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading" which I also disagree with. Downvoting here is sometimes worthy, but often retaliatory/punishment for world-view non-c
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by themartorana 10y ago
The lens cover on the iPhone is sapphire. Not unbreakable, but.l not quite glass either. That should help.
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by themartorana 10y ago
There were rumors about them being Bluetooth+ - proprietary extensions on top - and since they claimed to eliminate transmission delays, I was curious if the rumors were true. Thanks.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Can confirm this is a thing.
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by themartorana 10y ago
Are the AirPods Bluetooth? Seems to me that wasn't mentioned once in the presentation.
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by themartorana 10y ago
I wonder if there's any way to measure the actual financial impact on this movie, which I'm guessing is close to zero (and the MPAA will tell you is millions of dollars). The amount of work and security put into these encryption s
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by themartorana 10y ago
Stop subsidizing education? Do you propose this for just higher education? Or is it all education you'd like taxpayers to stop paying for? Unsubsidized education either a) means more private loans somehow now exempt from bankruptcy pro

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