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by yborg 6y ago
There are police departments that are an organizational mess and there are departments that are even corrupt. There was a case here in Illinois in Cicero 20 years ago where the State Police were brought in to take over the force until the l
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by yborg 6y ago
Because the VCs get paid win or lose? There's literally no downside, there's massive amounts of money looking for returns and as has been proven time and again, even a long terrible track record is no deterrent to getting money ou
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by yborg 6y ago
Kind of boggles the mind that we've had video games for over 40 years.
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by yborg 6y ago
I think this kind of complaint about the elegant use of language in writing is one of the anti-patterns of a modern society trained to communicate in 140 character ALL CAPS shouting. One of the things that I always find fascinating is the l
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by yborg 6y ago
Doordash is already 'in on it' on a whole different scale than the pizzeria, this is generating order flow and the real payoff is the next couple of hundred million dollars from Masayoshi. That's what they'll notice.
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by yborg 6y ago
So Trend Micro cheats to get Microsoft certified, and my employer then uses Trend Micro virus scanning to get certified for HITRUST. It's turtles all the way down.
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by yborg 6y ago
I'm on week 8 of this shit. If you're one of the 5% that are going to have it turn into a relapsing form like me you really do not want this.
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by yborg 6y ago
They don't really have to be American, just organized in the US and having "significant US operations." So American Honda, for example, can now be funded by the US government. Since it's an indirect funding facility, the
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by yborg 6y ago
There are more or less no limits on the stimulus money, so corporations that have issued debt to buy back shares can use it to retire that debt and then issue even more debt in the current hyper-low rate environment. It's essentially a
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by yborg 6y ago
Realistically it's hard to beat IRC for low barrier to entry. Most major networks have web clients now, you pick a handle, type a hashtag, and you are in. The signup process for Discord makes me roll my eyes every time I have to use it
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by yborg 6y ago
>I don't understand how the best and brightest, sitting at the top of some of the largest organizations in the world, don't see how that rankles a lot of people Because they don't actually care if it rankles anybody. It do
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by yborg 6y ago
At this point everyone that's had a sniffle in the last 6 months will be convinced it was COVID-19. Test data is the only thing that counts.
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by yborg 7y ago
This sentiment reminds me of Gerald Weinberg's observation of four plus decades ago - "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." I w
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by yborg 7y ago
ZNC and earlier implementations have been around for 15+ years to provide queuing proxies. Pretty much all of the "unique" features found in current chat systems were also implemented in one fashion or another in the IRC ecosystem
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by yborg 7y ago
People assume that X is operating a vast Machiavellian conspiracy and then turn around and assume that X is too stupid to check for either disabled or missing on each run. Which is it?
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by yborg 7y ago
Keka is my go-to for this, actively maintained by its author. https://www.keka.io/
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by yborg 7y ago
State Farm is in theory a mutual company, i.e. owned by its policy holders. Years ago (like more than 20) I used to get the occasional profit distribution check, but that stopped happening in the 2000s. Apparently they discovered the concep
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by yborg 7y ago
I guess startup is generally understood now to mean a VC-backed company that doesn't make any money.
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by yborg 7y ago
I'd be interested in one. Not sure how mobile vs. desktop will fit with my workflow.
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by yborg 7y ago
The value of these APIs is that they aggregate data worldwide. I don't want to write against the API of every national weather service in the world.
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by yborg 7y ago
I've switched to CotEditor for lightweight text editing.
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by yborg 7y ago
You're forgetting the 90% market share part.
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by yborg 7y ago
So the dead piling up in Spain and Italy are apparently not compelling enough? I can't recall a common cold overwhelming medical facilities and emptying nursing homes like this. The thing that seems to elude the "it's just a
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by yborg 7y ago
Reference?
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by yborg 7y ago
The root cause of this article seems to be that it's inconvenient having my adult kids in the house and how long must this go on. The idea seems to be to somehow isolate at risk populations (the elderly, mostly) and resume business as
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by yborg 7y ago
I picked the VAB because it's current dollar cost was roughly a billion dollars. Total cost for constructing Launch Complex 39, which includes the VAB and the crawler-transporter launchers was estimated 1t $500M in 1962 for 2 pads. A t
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by yborg 7y ago
They didn't "break" anything, someone screwed up and left the unprotected executable accessible.
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by yborg 7y ago
In 1965, the Vertical Assembly Building, which was at that time the largest enclosed volume in the world, cost $117M (on a $23.5M original construction contract). That would be about a billion dollars in 2020, but it was completed in 3 year
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by yborg 7y ago
Because you can't rip the display off your macbook when you want to browse HN in bed? The convertibility is the point.
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by yborg 7y ago
My Mac Mini home server cost was zero. I retire my old Minis for these functions, I run an IRC server on my 2009 Core 2 Duo Mini and idle power is about the same there.

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