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> They could clearly have done this at any time in the past six months, when I was pressing my manager on it every single week. They had no incentive to. I was recently in the same situation - doubled my salary after years at another pla
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In twenty years you'll be in your 70's. Most people in their 70's are unemployable, no matter the field. If you don't have a retirement plan, then you got to do some extreme saving and lifestyle adjustment (or you'l
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Are you saying experience counts for nothing? Besides for the muscle memory of being able to knock out a script quickly, there's also the advantage of having seen weird one-off problems before. To give a simple advantage, not really a
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It's not just the US. People here in London would happily spend four figures on their (ultralight aerodynamic) bike. My perspective: I used to be like you and spend around $250. The bikes would break more easily (although maybe with an
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Hmm, seems similar to http://nvd3.org/ , which is also built from D3.
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I thought everyone interested in a FOSS office suite was using libreoffice.
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Kudos for them for finding that photo. I bet the guy who dug it up is getting high-fives all round and is feeling really smug. Tries to promote the idea that Apple (who put 'Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in China' on
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My thoughts too. If we knew there were only 10,000 stars, it could seem likely that the chances of life existing are 1/50,000, and we happen to be lucky. But there are over 100 billion stars in the observable universe. I think the law
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And even that isn't necessarily true - the cost of illiquidity and the risk of holding Amazon's stock for a few years could mean that even though you underestimated that everyone else thought that Amazon would be hugely successful
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If the polls are any indication, Trump is heading for a drubbing, and the Senate might go to the Democrats, but I very much doubt they'll win the House (the House favours Republicans for a variety of reasons, but you almost certainly w
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404. You probably mean: https://shiromarieke.github.io/tor
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Seems to be an instance of Cunningham's Law: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
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Just for the record: > So I personally consider security bugs to be just "normal bugs". I don't cover them up, but I also don't have any reason what-so-ever to think it's a good idea to track them and announce th
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Yup, same with anti-vaxxers. But they (like anti-vaxxers, or even vaxxers) think they're doing the kids a favour.
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Do you think the Fox News or the British Daily Mail makes an attempt at presenting both sides of the issue? These are traditional networks (tv, newspapers). People always had filtered content available to them.
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> Of course, if you only want a regular bar chart, you'll do better with things like C3, nvd3 etc'. I know you probably know this, but for other people's sake - NVD3 requires the D3 library to work. It's therefore pro
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Irish people can vote in UK elections because of the Good Friday agreement - basically ensured that Republicans originally from Northern Ireland (and therefore had British citizenship) who resided in the Republic of Ireland and Loyalists fr
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I think 'religion is the opium of the people' cuts both ways. Politicians will push through popular socio-economic policies (e.g. gay marriage) in order to be able to get enough support to also push through their unpopular economi
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Do you forget what a shambles Tony Blair was? Led us into a pointless war that cost 100,000s of lives. As bad as David Cameron was, he kept us out of war.
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Except that once theere's a lot of money in smart contracts, people will hack the contracts without letting people know. Somebody's going to complain about "losing all their money in a contract and they don't know why&qu
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Google didn't register hooli, HBO did.
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But that's exactly what tmux does. Are you familiar with tmux attach and tmux detach? (Some people only use tmux for split screens and to keep the session from dying).
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That sounds like it was a submission for shithackernewssays.
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Less accidents leads to lower premiums.
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It's about how much machine learning you're currently doing and how much you expect to spend. E.g. if you play around for a little bit, you could end up spending $50 on the cloud. By contrast, a card will set you back $350+. If y
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Apparently they're using BitPay, so presumably they don't get any actual bitcoins.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Sov... There's also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
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There are multiple advantages in taking someone local. Mostly in requirements gathering - it's easier to do this face-to-face, but there can also be cultural differences, knowledge of local business practices. Additionally, if it all
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It is possible to boot into Linux on some baytrail chromebooks, although it seems only through google's custom build of coreboot, good luck trying to compile coreboot yourself for it. [Source]( https://johnlewis.ie/custo
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The article made it look like you were basically fucked. I stopped using guis for git about a week into starting using git. Just avoid guis, use homebrew, and you'll avoid this problem.

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