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by wang_li 8y ago
> The remedy for the next guy... Again, you're leaving your problems for someone who has no connection to you. It should be you who files those forms to stop the mail you don't want to receive, not the poor person who happens t
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by wang_li 8y ago
>The workaround is to do a temporary change of address, and contact each company that sends you mail forwarded from your old address individually, to update your address record. When the mail stops forwarding, you stop getting mail from
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by wang_li 8y ago
There are also jumpers for configuring where it gets the boot loader, so when I did happen to put a bad build into the SPI flash, it was possible to recover by using the SD card. I'll have to revisit the TianoCore build as my previous
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by wang_li 8y ago
The MACCHIATObin Double Shot[0] from Marvell is reasonably fast. CPU wise it's twice the speed of a RPI, has two 10 Gb NICs, one 1 Gb NIC, 3 SATA ports, a PCIe 3.0 x4 slot, in a mini-ITX form. I picked one up from Solid Run with 16 GB
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by wang_li 8y ago
Your complaint seems to be that it's not convenient for you to take responsibility for the choices you make. It's trivial to order bulk grains and dried beans online delivered in cans, paper bags, or barrels. Regardless, if it&#x2
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by wang_li 8y ago
>This might be a better fate than having them end up in a landfill... If you're not recycling them, why is burning them better than putting them into a landfill? Is it the fact that plastics don't biodegrade and will last in th
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by wang_li 8y ago
>Why should the onus be on the consumer when the reality is that there are massive corporations that aren't paying the external costs they are inflicting on our environment? There are zero companies that create and distribute produc
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by wang_li 8y ago
How about them buying new trains that don't fit the tracks and maintenance barns? https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/sea...
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by wang_li 8y ago
> Is it safe to backup a database by just straight copying its files? ZFS snapshots are atomic. Recovering from a snapshot is the same as recovering from a loss of power. All serious databases don't acknowledge commits until either
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by wang_li 8y ago
We're told frequently that 18-22 year olds are incapable of understanding the implications of their college spending and the associated debt. Is a fifteen year old supposed to be more financially savvy?
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by wang_li 8y ago
That's quite a nice list. It makes me happy to see it as I have several close friends in Vietnam.
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by wang_li 8y ago
Considering that a typical office worker in a large city in Vietnam makes about $300/mo, that's like a $100 million investment in the US. Personally, I'm happy to see such things happening as they should never have been so ce
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by wang_li 8y ago
The cost of birth control is not expensive. Multiple different formulations of the pill are available for $10/month without insurance. Condoms are less than a buck each. Someone talking about birth control being expensive is either ign
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by wang_li 8y ago
Lobbying is talking to legislatures and regulators in an attempt to change laws/policy. Arguing in court is trying to do an end run around the legislatures and regulators. Big difference.
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by wang_li 8y ago
Talking about human intelligence is necessary because a computer that can perform a task better than a human can perform the same task doesn't mean it's intelligent, e.g. my iphone is not intelligent because stockfish can destroy
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by wang_li 8y ago
Only in the context of data gathering. There is plenty of buggy software that doesn't result in my social security number, credit report, passwords, and chat history spread across the internet. It's no different than requiring, e.
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by wang_li 8y ago
If we make the developer, the developer's manager, and the entire org chart from there up to the CEO personally and criminally liable for any leaks and improper use of data, there would be zero need to opt out as they could not then ex
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by wang_li 8y ago
Being offended when an algorithm picks one of two words that represent 99.9+% of the population is madness. Also the words in question are not used to address a person. When I am speaking to a person, regardless of their gender identity, I
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by wang_li 8y ago
Where do you live that walls are transparent to infrared radiation?
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by wang_li 8y ago
Yeah. That'd be awful. $ bc bc 1.06.95 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. ^C
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by wang_li 8y ago
I doubt many VC angels are reading and voting on HN.
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by wang_li 8y ago
Human fat is substantially more complex than olive oil. Also he survived on more than his fat. He also survived on his skin, some muscle tissue, organ tissues, etc. Research shows increased autophagy during fasts like the one described at y
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by wang_li 8y ago
The <title> of the page is "Jason Fung explains why intermittent fasting and ADF diets work" The large type header at the top of the page is "A diet guru explains why you should eat dinner at 2pm".
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by wang_li 8y ago
Linux also destroy intel e1000 nics for a while. And up until ext3 it lied about synchronous writes. Linux has been far from safe for storing your data.
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by wang_li 8y ago
It seemed incredible to me that they talked about these tiny little components being added to systems that allowed the evil doer to take complete control of the system. How exactly is something with 2 connections to the motherboard going to
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by wang_li 8y ago
I also wonder how they define a farmer. Is a Mexican laborer who arrives in the spring and works through harvest time a farmer? Or is it only the people who own the farm? >When you are too old or infirm to farm at all you sell it to your
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by wang_li 8y ago
>- Republicans shut down the US Government four times under the last president. our credit rating was lowered and government debts could not be serviced. the only thing that was immediately resolved was most airlines abilities to ferry s
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by wang_li 8y ago
>if you're traveling, backup your phone online, wipe it, and then carry it with minimal personal information It would be nice if phone vendors provided a mechanism to backup my phone, wipe it, then some time later merge the backup w
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by wang_li 8y ago
This is kind of thing is not new. Canada doesn't let people with DUIs enter the country. They also inspect electronics and have for a number of years. And marijuana is not legal anywhere in the US at the moment. There are simply some s
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by wang_li 8y ago
When an authoritarian government enforces policies that lead to massive wealth inequality it becomes pointless to measure things on a per capita basis. If China had policies in place to lift the quality of life of the majority of the popula

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