wildgift

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by wildgift 13y ago
Ha ha. Ridiculous. The reason why smartphones and some tablets are popular has less to do with touch than with size. It's pleasant to hold a small screen a foot from your face for reading and watching videos.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I beg to differ. They have an awesome rice cooker, and their Panasonic Platinum line of big portable radios was cool in the 80s.
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by wildgift 13y ago
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by wildgift 13y ago
Sure, it's not hard, but there are some things that are challenging, like controlling customer expectations without upsetting them, making deadlines, or moving deadlines.
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by wildgift 13y ago
This is probably because a lot of them lack internet. Our internet penetration is around 75%. Medical insurance is 85%. I suspect there's a lot of overlap between the un-internetted and un-insured.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I'm suspecting that there's a diversity of situations among the people in the individual market that would make this challenging. These are people who are self-employed, or have low wages, or irregular work.
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by wildgift 13y ago
There's some discussion about this above. If the population is 70% white, then the job categories should be 70% white. 90% white isn't random.
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by wildgift 13y ago
There are a fair number of Vietnamese doing residential construction work. Same for Koreans. There are a LOT of Polynesian people doing construction. They aren't numerous in absolute numbers, but something like half the men work in
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by wildgift 13y ago
My guess would be that a large fraction of EMTs are in fire departments. Fire departments are notorious for being full of racists. They were pretty segregated until the mid 20th century, too. As the system was taken over by the government,
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by wildgift 13y ago
I thought this too, but then, due to my lame password management, my mtgox account got owned and they took out around $250. Oh well. Easy come easy go. But what I learned is that bitcoins really are like cash. You lose it, and you won&#
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by wildgift 13y ago
When Adobe buys them up, will funders get shares of Adobe stock?
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by wildgift 13y ago
she's probably getting ripped off in this deal.
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by wildgift 13y ago
That's messed up for the neighbors. Please don't do this.
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by wildgift 13y ago
The killer app is gvim and ctags.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I gave a linux pc to my coworker, for her kids, and they have been using it for a while to do homework. They have some issues now and then, but it works pretty smoothly. The computer is really old - a Sempron with a couple gigs of RAM.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Who is going to bother with a portscanner when there are plenty of targets on port 22. The targets on other ports are more likely to have been set to use keys, or at least have better passwords.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Attacks on port 22 end up consuming CPU.
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by wildgift 13y ago
The tech side is great. The wages side... not so great. Also, it's not a "sharing economy" when people are selling things.
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by wildgift 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if the regulations exist but aren't enforced. What these workers need is power to enforce the laws... and in the absence of adequate laws, to marshal enough popular force to create agreements that are bett
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by wildgift 13y ago
This isn't about that kind of sexism. It's about a softer sexism that's really about familiarity. It's real, and it's a problem. Look at how Hilary Clinton was dealt with by critics and her handlers during her run
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by wildgift 13y ago
There's still plenty of room for anger and protests. Maybe not in this particular situation, because it's basically an elite situation where you're trying to effect a cultural change, but in other situations rage is necessar
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by wildgift 13y ago
Because it's true. Older men don't like to report to younger people in general, but are more okay with younger men than younger women.
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by wildgift 13y ago
There's sexist and there's sexist. Even the nicest person can be biased, and the bias can be basically invisible to everyone involved. Sexism isn't just about male chauvanists.
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by wildgift 13y ago
When you're leading, it doesn't necessarily matter who is at fault. Hiring someone who screws up reflects on the leader. Likewise, being unable to pull in the talent was a problem.
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by wildgift 13y ago
Why didn't he hint that during negotiations then? My guess is that he just didn't feel comfortable reporting to a younger woman. Maybe he couldn't really figure it out, but he wasn't put into his comfort zone and backed
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by wildgift 13y ago
Oh yeah, DOS sucked. I remember Xenix and MKS and some other unixy toolkit. Oh yeah also Coherent. I ran a shell called Gulam on an Atari, and it was nice. Fake pipes were better than no pipes :) Did all the processes run in the same ad
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by wildgift 13y ago
Really? I though OS/2 was on the 386. I thought that the 286 had some limit on the size of a process, but you could execute multiple processes. I don't know why, but I think it was 64k per process. Also, the other thing I reca
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by wildgift 13y ago
Ah, yes he did, except he was obstinate about using anything more fancy than email. As I remember it, though, there were a lot of ports of the GNU tools to all the unices, and the PC was still not as good as the Unix workstations. So wher
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by wildgift 13y ago
Calendars work when other people are depending on your decisions, and it's basically more important to make a decision than anything else. Everything is driven by the need to make that decision. The decision may be imperfect, but the
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by wildgift 13y ago
Linus also had the internet. Look at rms' signature - UUCP, ARPAnet. The internet, usenet and the patch program made collaboration much easier.

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