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by barkingtoad 7y ago
Most common car repairs 2015: Replacing an oxygen sensor – $249 - Teslas don't have these Replacing a catalytic converter – $1,153 - Teslas don't have these Replacing ignition coil(s) and spark plug(s) – $390 - Teslas don't h
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by barkingtoad 7y ago
What happens then?
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by barkingtoad 7y ago
After this culture war is over, the first people in the hole will be the actual right wing racists The second people in the hole will be left wing people throwing that accusation around at any spare target. The leftist McCarthyists need to
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by barkingtoad 7y ago
Well that appears to be what your media has informed you
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by barkingtoad 7y ago
In the UK you can be arrested for teaching your girlfriend's pug to heil as a joke.
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
The fax protocol includes a strong "read receipt" type mechanism that the machines can't ignore. "Did you get the last page?" "Yes, no bad lines." Legally, this is interesting because it doesn't exist
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
As an engineer looking, it's rather depressing how many places have job requirements that are just a wishlist, or a resume-whittling strategy.
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
Because the end of the last ice age was only 12,000 years ago; and in that time frame, if that warming was caused by a prehistoric civilization, there would be a ton of evidence for that civilization's existence.
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
Generalists are never going to happen. In this industry people only hire Specialists.
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
UPS drivers are all about timing. They know precisely what they can carry, and what amount of time it will take them to manage the packages, with or without the awesome heavy-duty UPS convertible hand truck. Partly because they are trained
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
Enforced monogamy, i.e., marriage
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
So: if you are both skilled at tech AND at working with people, and you're shooting for a tech job with an experienced interviewer... BE MORE AWKWARD!
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
Well that's the thing about the slippery slope argument... it always leads to jackbooted thugs marching into your living room and by then it's too late Having heard this argument made so many times in my lifetime, I've been a
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
This same argument has been made countless times. "Linux has no chance in the corporate world. HP has thousands of paid devs working on HP-UX." It turned out there were a greater number of devs NOT at HP... and today, there are mo
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
We should be able to derive this from the immediate actions that were taken in 1970-71 that actually prevented the end of civilization.
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
I'm trying to think of what it is, exactly, that Facebook has a monopoly on. The nearest I can come up with is: Facebook has a monopoly on Facebook users. The followup question would be: how can that be broken up?
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by barkingtoad 8y ago
> people change, even if they were a good hire a few years ago, now they may not any longer be good at that position in that company. When a manager takes a very skilled person and demotivates them, that is what that looks like. It happe
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by barkingtoad 9y ago
And that's why farmers take care of their land, because farmers generally retire on the worth of it.
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by barkingtoad 9y ago
To be more exact, RSS is headline-oriented, so it's about clickbait. It is not about sharebait .
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by barkingtoad 9y ago
Linux Engineer, 53. When my cow-orker lent me the book version of "No Country For Old Men" saying "Here, this is going around", I figured I might be in trouble. I was laid off in the middle of the bad times, could not fi
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by barkingtoad 9y ago
"a calorie is a calorie" This is the exact point the article is... arguing against in a very convincing fashion
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by barkingtoad 9y ago
HylaFAX Enterprise is a full SW solution, (roughly) HylaFAX plus the Dialogic SR140 which does both T.38 (new school fax) and G.711 (old school telephony fax). But generally it's 14.4k - believe it or not V.34 (33.6k) is still somewhat
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by barkingtoad 9y ago
User #333 here. Back in the day, someone offered me oral sex for the low user number. What a perfect metaphor for the dot-com era: offering to wildly overpay for a social media asset that would eventually turn out to be useless.
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by barkingtoad 9y ago
corporate told us to call it TEAM-building.
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by barkingtoad 9y ago
depending on who's counting, the deviation is currently like +0.21 degrees C since 1980. although it is a meaningful amount you probably could not actually "feel and experience" it
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by barkingtoad 14y ago
Agreed. Also I think a big chunk of the regular desktop users out there are going to be nothing but annoyed at the interface, and will do what they can to avoid Metro. It's been what, 17 years of clicking on "start" (or equivalent) and pick
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by barkingtoad 14y ago
What a coincidence - "Pepe Deluxe" is my name for my penis. . ...what do you mean lowbrow humor isn't allowed on hacker news?
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by barkingtoad 14y ago
You tell me man. I guess the difference is I can install many more times more server horsepower for the $500/month rental of a half rack at my colo, and the result will be better uptime than EC2. I just can't install them immediately.
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by barkingtoad 14y ago
My co-location provider's data center has had about four hours of downtime in ten years. It turns out a backup diesel generator, redundant connectivity, and a good network/sysadmin are all anyone needs. People are now working out how to fai
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by barkingtoad 14y ago
That level of robotics (and generation of cheap energy to run them) will lead to a world where goods are plentiful and cheap. That in turn means the poor win, or rather the definition of "poor" is re-defined, as it always is.

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