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by vageli 6y ago
Yeah, that totally worked in Afghanistan.
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by vageli 6y ago
Many brokerages allow you to short the actual underlying, without resorting to options.
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> > Saying everything is so integrated that it can't possibly be decentralized is basically proof of monopoly. > This doesn't matter from the standard of antitrust law. What most fail to grasp is that being a monopoly is
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by vageli 6y ago
> How well does the redirect scheme work for a device that connects to a central DNS server listening on, say, port 5353 instead? How about 80 or 443? Just because it is not a silver bullet doesn't mean it is not effective for a lar
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by vageli 6y ago
Powershell offers this I believe.
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by vageli 6y ago
I think you nailed it. When a company stands behind "process", well, they shouldn't be surprised when employees do the same. At one of my earliest jobs, I would take a short lunch at my desk (I was very young and didn't
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by vageli 6y ago
> Paypal has my banking details and can use those or credit/debit card to complete my payments. They always prefer to use bank because of no fees with cc/debit as backup. Google could do the same. ACH is really creaky and old.
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> I wonder how close that skirts laws around false advertising At the time it wasn't fraudulent, though.
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How is this an advantage?
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by vageli 6y ago
> From what they said above, it sounds like that's exactly the kind of thing it would catch unless you consistently wrote "ture" and "flase" many times in the same document The trigrams tur and ure are not that u
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by vageli 6y ago
This seems to be for WSL1 though.
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> The biggest obstacle will be the graphical user interface requirement of Android apps, but with the release of WSL 2, Microsoft has begun working on a project called 'WSL-G,' or 'WSL - Graphics Architecture.' This p
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by vageli 6y ago
Mods should probably merge with the other post with more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25229544
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by vageli 6y ago
> gets me thinking — this is totally doable for open source code. someone just needs to build some giant indexes across git repos + package repos (maven/npm/pip/etc)... Sounds a lot like sourcegraph.
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by vageli 6y ago
> It got me worried about history. The whole story sounds like 90s zine fiction, which I think it is - there is no record I could find beyond the original story from 1995 on Harper’s Magazine [2], yet it is now in Wikipedia, stated as a
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by vageli 6y ago
> (In closely related news, just try buying a house during a pandemic, I dare you. There are amusing pictures floating around online of my wife and I shoving documents back and forth through barely-cracked car windows for notarization ..
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by vageli 6y ago
> Relying on generosity when there are infrastructure costs does not seem to be a workable model. It's somewhat amazing that it has survived so long. I too was initially surprised but then I thought of github (this was also the case
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by vageli 6y ago
> Interesting, TIL. But is there no profit in kicking the bucket? Not for the deceased, at least.
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> Oh, okay. So, just don't be poor, right? > More seriously, money laundering happens in some insane ways when you start talking about seriously rich people and avoiding taxes. Take a look at the modern art market these days. The
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by vageli 6y ago
> You’re attacking the first sale doctrine here though if you think about it! I can sell a Mac but can't hold myself out as a representative of Apple.
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by vageli 6y ago
> Wayland is a protocol. It has nothing to do with multi screen support. You're talking about the compositor you used. The one I use handles multi-screen setups quite well. Which compositor do you use?
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Are you saying that I can't still legally record TV on my VCR or DVR?
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by vageli 6y ago
> Legally, even running a program is making a copy (from disk to RAM): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp .... > I think the question is whether the license YouTube implicitly provides to
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by vageli 6y ago
Going back to your minimization of support requests comment, if your mom is unable to delete a file (like when SIP is enabled) she won't make a superfluous support request as she was prevented from making the error. As computers contin
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> How can we say simultaneously that "computers are the future" and also accept a situation where the majority of people are just assumed to be technically incompetent and incapable of learning? This succinctly captures the iss
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by vageli 6y ago
You raise a good point that my oversimplification obscured.
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> In the past, the Mac was more open. Believe it or not, there was a time when code signing didn't exist, and you could modify your system however you pleased. This seems inevitable as computers become more accessible to less techni
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> Lye dipped pretzels are a thing! I didn’t know that thanks! Lye-pickled fish is also a thing (lutefisk)!
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Lying is a behavior, and cheating is dishonest.
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by vageli 6y ago
Who said the parent is unconcerned about humans? Are people expected to list out all of their concerns when addressing the article at hand?

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