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by wmil 8y ago
Github stars are proportional to the size of the community. You don't want to bet your company on a project with only a few thousand stars, it could die quickly.
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by wmil 8y ago
You rip the big box down and start over. There isn't any value in the existing building
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by wmil 8y ago
The short answer is that Google has money and articles like this are about activists trying to get money from Google to fund various programs.
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by wmil 8y ago
A staffer working for the Senate Intelligence Committee was dating a reporter who was writing stories based on exclusive intelligence leaks. They weren't exactly being super careful.
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by wmil 8y ago
There's still a common attitude that video games are for kids, so they shouldn't go overboard on sexual content.
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by wmil 8y ago
Steam already has parental controls. Even AAA games have been selling titillating nudity for a while so you'd best already be using it. And honestly any kid who's started puberty is going to try to watch VR porn videos, which are
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by wmil 8y ago
Hey, he's committed himself to improving the world by sitting on the boards of innovative companies like Theranos.
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by wmil 9y ago
The risk isn't active oppression by the military. The risk is that the government will prevent the police from defending opposition groups or anyone who is politically inconvenient. Even in Venezuela most of the violence toward opposit
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by wmil 9y ago
Chavez was charismatic but not very bright. Maduro is his former drinking buddy who isn't charismatic or bright. Basically most of the farms shut down because the government mandated food prices below the cost of production. Food was i
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by wmil 9y ago
Things are more complicated than you think. There are many SSNs in use by multiple people. It's an immigration issue so the IRS turns a blind eye. Also there's a larger number of cases where the address the IRS has on file is inco
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by wmil 9y ago
Financially it's smarter than being a post-doc or untenured lecturer.
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by wmil 9y ago
Actually format shifting is expressly allowed under US copyright law. So it's entirely legal for you to create a CD from a vinyl record you purchased. Or a DVD from a VHS tape.
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by wmil 9y ago
Worse than that, if they get lazy and misreport your mileage a few times your car can get flagged as having miles rolled back. Which will destroy its resale value.
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by wmil 9y ago
The job market in Law is far worse than most people think. Make sure you do some serious research before you consider switching. It's easy to end up six figures in debt with no decent job prospects.
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by wmil 9y ago
Avocado is a high fat fruit. So for vegans or people on low fat diets they're especially delicious.
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by wmil 9y ago
It's the whole point of node. Instead of threading it's all async. Then you just spawn more processes to take advantage of your additional cores. It's a simpler model than trying to make everything thread safe and guess the c
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by wmil 9y ago
> has home-grown homelessness that is rising I'd be curious to see any stats on this. How many of the current homeless were actually living in the city 10 years ago? I'd expect that many Seattle's homeless are migrants fro
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by wmil 9y ago
Susan Wojcicki is just the wrong person to run YouTube. She comes from an advertising background and doesn't know how to work with creators. Really her appointment was nepotism and she'd already have been replaced if she wasn&#x27
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by wmil 9y ago
It's actually a neat story. Infoworld magazine made their authors write under pen names to prevent them from building up personal brand and moving to different publications. Mark Stephens built up a following under the Cringely name th
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by wmil 9y ago
It's blocked by 90% of corporate firewalls. So trying to get started on using IRC requires big buy in from the network admins.
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by wmil 9y ago
It doesn't work in the case of moral panics like this. Apologizing only convinces the people who are called for his head that they were correct. Usually it will lead to further sanctions.
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by wmil 9y ago
GearVR is really good for watching movies on flights.
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by wmil 9y ago
It's sad that we no longer get names like "antidisestablishmentarianism".
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by wmil 9y ago
A bottle of wine is less than 26 oz. So the wineries need to catch up.
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by wmil 9y ago
Ctrl+F Canada And crap. Looks like I'm not going to get more Coffiest any time soon.
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by wmil 9y ago
I notice that it counts "Educuation" as non-STEM. Weird things always happen when you try to classify occupations, but I suspect a there are a lot of high school teachers who needed their STEM degree for their jobs.
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by wmil 9y ago
Programmable thermostats have existed for a long time and it's easy to find internet enabled ones these days. The problem is that you're renting so you can't do any cool home automation stuff.
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by wmil 9y ago
Turtles were also very important to early man, along with shellfish the were easy meals for tool users.
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by wmil 9y ago
The Economist is strongly pro mass low skill immigration. One major change in the US has been border enforcement and a promise of deportations instead of amnesty. If that's what's resulting in higher blue collar wages and employme
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by wmil 9y ago
I have two thoughts. 1. This is a huge improvement over VBA. 2. This is going to make creating unmaintainable mission critical Excel macro based monstrosities even easier. So a small software improvement may be releasing new terrors into th

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