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by dnlbyl 3y ago
I believe that is the Great Loop: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/great-loop.html
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by dnlbyl 4y ago
Didn't Japan start that war?
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by dnlbyl 7y ago
> “the golden rule of conversation” was “to know nothing accurately.” I've witnessed so many fun conversations killed by someone looking up the facts on their phone.
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by dnlbyl 9y ago
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton is a very approachable introduction to Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Shopenhauer, and Nietzsche and the practical takeaways from their teachings.
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by dnlbyl 10y ago
Contactless cards did exist here in the US a number of years ago. I had one from Chase. Then around 2014 when it expired, the replacement card did not have contactless payment anymore. According to this article it was simply a lack of dema
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Own Startup Shares? Know Your Rights to Company Financials(wsj.com)
2 points by dnlbyl 10y ago|0 comments
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by dnlbyl 11y ago
I'm a subscriber to the NY Times. Out of curiosity I disabled Ghostery and reloaded this article's page. It took 5.5s to load the page and then almost 30 seconds to load the _49_ trackers/widgets/beacons etc. This all ov
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by dnlbyl 11y ago
A.k.a A list of your exes.
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by dnlbyl 11y ago
You inspired me to look into this more and it turns out that George Orwell was inspired to invent Newspeak (from his book 1984) from his experience with Basic English. He was initially a big proponent of it but eventually turn against the i
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by dnlbyl 11y ago
I'm sure I'd love to have a private office but just how feasible is that? My current company has 18 full-time "knowledge workers", where in the world is a startup going to find them all private offices? I'd really l
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by dnlbyl 11y ago
.ie is Ireland's TLD.
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by dnlbyl 11y ago
Humor by committee. What could go wrong?
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by dnlbyl 12y ago
That explains a lot. I've always wondered why such an otherwise industrious and hard working people will head home or stay at home at the first sign of a snow flake, even amongst people born long after 78. Cultural memory in effect I g
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by dnlbyl 12y ago
Devolve is not the opposite of evolve. To devolve is to transfer ruling power to a lower level, e.g. from a central government to regional governments. A species evolves to adapt to its environment. The opposite (if there can be such a thin
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by dnlbyl 12y ago
99% is probably better than my success rate with reCAPTCHA...
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by dnlbyl 12y ago
The article really tries to make this about her gender when on the face of it it's about her role. "she had been paid a salary of $60,000, half what her male colleagues made" doesn't sound as bad when stated as "the
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by dnlbyl 13y ago
The word beautiful is starting to lose all meaning.
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Complaint filed against Irish subsidiaries of Apple, Facebook(irishtimes.com)
181 points by dnlbyl 13y ago|44 comments
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by dnlbyl 13y ago
I had the same thought. I'd also have too many grainy, out-of-focus pics of my younger brothers doing shots. And don't forget "meme" pictures. That would be lovely.
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by dnlbyl 13y ago
Humor by committee.
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by dnlbyl 14y ago
What's the current market price for the personal contact details of 11,000+ individuals? Keep in mind that these people are willing to sign up for something they know nothing about...
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by dnlbyl 14y ago
Looks like GCE has instances in the US only right now https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/available_resourc... EC2 is available in Ireland, Tokyo, Singapore and Sao Paulo as well as the 3 instances in the US.
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by dnlbyl 14y ago
No, you can't play Tetris in it.
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by dnlbyl 14y ago
How would fluffing the salaries benefit a company? The result would be new employees expecting matching wages and existing employees feeling they are underpaid relative to their peers.