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by zymhan 8y ago
I mean that directly contradicts the subtitle of this article: > "For the price of one Israeli engineer, an [Israeli] company can hire three Palestinians in the West Bank"
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Philadelphia passes a law banning “cashless” retail stores(arstechnica.com)
7 points by zymhan 8y ago|1 comments
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by zymhan 8y ago
Yeah, the older I get, the more I realize the need to be comfortable on a flight, especially if you want to be productive after you arrive.
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by zymhan 8y ago
And that company is EyeMed. Your Vision insurance is almost certainly through them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxottica
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by zymhan 8y ago
Why, why didn't I just go into a ton of debt right after college and buy a house in Atlanta...
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by zymhan 8y ago
Yeah I don't know what they mean by "Functional Correctness" in this situation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness_(computer_science)
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by zymhan 8y ago
Definitely small for something so powerful.
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by zymhan 8y ago
65,000 lines of code? I'm not a developer but that seems impressive.
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by zymhan 8y ago
Apart from Redis, I just wanted to say thank you for starting dump1090. The community that has grown around it is massive, and it has given me a new hobby and interest. It is a great demonstration of the power of open source software and FL
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by zymhan 8y ago
And a subreddit about ADSB: https://www.reddit.com/r/ADSB/
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“Takedown notice” sent to Defense Distributed was fraudulent, from Slovakia(arstechnica.com)
45 points by zymhan 8y ago|4 comments
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by zymhan 8y ago
A Default VirtualBox configuration does not allow direct host-> guest access, it's on some hidden VB-only NAT. You need to change the Network Interface type to Bridged or Host-only or something else to have access to the VM.
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by zymhan 8y ago
You're telling me some random customer wrote _THAT_ writeup? That's impressive.
644.
by zymhan 8y ago
Well in Atlanta for example, it's either Instacart or Prime Now, and Prime Now from Whole Foods is about the worst grocery delivery service possible. Mostly because you maybe get half of what you ordered.
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by zymhan 8y ago
As an American I also agree, since restaurants in Europe have to pay a higher wage, they can only afford a couple wait staff, which definitely makes it harder to get service. Waiters in Europe also seem to be less interested in coming to yo
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by zymhan 8y ago
Funnily enough, Twitter and Google were/are neighbors in a QTS datacenter in Atlanta.
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by zymhan 8y ago
What kills me about Chromecast now is that you _have_ to log in to a Google Account to manage any Chromecast devices. Previously you could manage them without signing in if you wanted to.
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by zymhan 8y ago
The last thing HN needs is discussions based around a comment from someone who didn't read the article. I don't care about your contextless philosophy.
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by zymhan 8y ago
9 years _is_ immature when you're talking about systems that will store data and operate for decades, with various components being upgraded over that time.
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by zymhan 8y ago
If that was the case, my Pi-hole would not be blocking thousands of outgoing network requests from my Echo and Google Home.
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by zymhan 8y ago
Is anyone reading the updated article? > Court allows Chairman Eddie Lampert another chance to buy Sears, pushing off decision to shut stores
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by zymhan 8y ago
The point isn't that they were too early, it's that they gave up too quickly. Buying online and picking up from a store really isn't that advanced of a concept.
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by zymhan 8y ago
You're being willfully naive if you think that Google wouldn't take an internal project, productize it, and then proceed to screw up said product. This is literally the past 15 years of Google.
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by zymhan 8y ago
Well, this sounds like the goals of Diaspora, which never gained tons of traction, but has been around for years. https://diasporafoundation.org/
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by zymhan 8y ago
Advertisers can still figure out how who you are without linking an account. It may take them slightly longer, but the information is out there.
656.
by zymhan 8y ago
> Simple tried to reinvent banking, but they never seemed to go beyond polishing the UI. Simple closed my account with no notice or recourse, because they failed to notify me that I needed to update some information. I honestly can'
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by zymhan 8y ago
But in which order do you ferry the animals across the river so as to not have the fox eat the duck?
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by zymhan 8y ago
Does anyone else look at this title and see a jumble of letters? I miss the days of pronounceable acronyms
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by zymhan 8y ago
hahahahahahaaaaaaa I'd love to see a cogent argument for this. In no way does Brave address the issues with a monopolized web in the way that Mozilla does.
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by zymhan 8y ago
When you first install Firefox, it asks if you want to import that data from other browsers that are installed. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/import-bookmarks-data-a... Additionally, you can install a 3rd p

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