fkdo

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by fkdo 7y ago
They could just be hedging their bets.
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by fkdo 7y ago
Theoretically if 51% of ownership of an oil company wants to seal all oil wells isn't that what the company should do?
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by fkdo 7y ago
Free software plays a very large role in our communication infrastructure.
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by fkdo 7y ago
The Xbox One X doesn't maintain those specs. The resolution drops during game play. You actually need a machine north of $2k to support 60fps 4k.
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by fkdo 7y ago
> every OS is calling home to some degree. It's funny to speak in absolutes. Plenty of operating systems don't phone home regularly, just not ones popular with consumers.
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by fkdo 7y ago
I think it would change the VC market too. A lot of companies are funded because they potentially make good acquisitions for larger companies.
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by fkdo 7y ago
> it would be atypical for a suburb to have significant independent restaurants within 5mi of any given point Some cities, like Dallas, seem to have a higher percentage of chain restaurants than the average suburb. Other cities, like Sea
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by fkdo 7y ago
> "It's immoral to eat them because they can have thoughts and an internal experience, just like us," and "But they taste good" is not a counterargument. There is an implied "We are on top of the food chain&
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by fkdo 7y ago
Almost nobody tracks their time to better understand how they are spending it. I've talked to several people that have started, but even the most detailed oriented find it to not be worth the hassle. If you really want this data, I th
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by fkdo 7y ago
Yes. I remember AWS asked about the size of the databases I have worked with in the past, and then negged me when it was smaller than their databases. Of course the databases I worked with were smaller, they deal with some of the largest i
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by fkdo 7y ago
Someone can be sane but still have poor mental health. Healthy people don't kill innocent civilians.
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by fkdo 7y ago
I disagree about banning guns. There are other weapons mass murders could use. Anthrax in the mail and homemade bombs have both been used in US history. We cannot reasonably prohibit access to all dangerous materials. Even a large SUV can
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by fkdo 7y ago
I bet there is a direct correlation between how much good will someone extends DOD and how much they believe their history books.
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by fkdo 7y ago
I think most Americans receive a quality education that covers a lot of really valuable material. The US population isn't the most well educated, but it's unfair to our teachers to say that most Americans are poorly educated.
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by fkdo 7y ago
Does the first amendment apply to none us citizens/residents?
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by fkdo 7y ago
I don't see a single open platform or piece of free software in this entire situation.
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by fkdo 7y ago
The article says nothing about Tinder making this release on App Store, just Play Store. If Tinder requested this update be sent to Apple users than the review process would reject the update. The Play Store doesn't put a person in th
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by fkdo 7y ago
It's my right as a member of a democracy to call out when a company is doing something unethical with the hope of swaying the opinion of my peers against such business practices. It's my privilege to do so on this platform. This t
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by fkdo 7y ago
> I have quit social media The comments section of Hacker News is social media.
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by fkdo 7y ago
Yes but it seems like many video game designs are engineering towards exploiting addictive behavior. This is predatory business behavior.
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by fkdo 7y ago
I use to be hyper motivated and constantly working towards a goal. I worked full time, went to graduate school, ran a small business (~10k annual revenue), maintained an exercise routine (3hr/week) and did household chores like cleanin
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by fkdo 7y ago
Walmart has been known to put pressure on brands to reduce the cost of their products. Sometimes they can find the cost savings in the economy of scale of doing business with Walmart. Sometimes they find cost savings by making a cheaper p
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by fkdo 7y ago
In this argument fusion energy would eliminate the need for wars, because all countries to safely generate huge amounts of energy, enough for desalination even.
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by fkdo 7y ago
Why would you want to lock into a cloud provider? You're losing a lot of operational flexibility for less devops and sysaadmin work. You are really limiting your tech stack by using standardized things like Jenkins, Docker, K8, mqtt,
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by fkdo 7y ago
I'm going to pile on this point. Each state requires different health insurance plans, so the employer would need to supply 50 different health insurance plans. It would roll back local minimum wage hikes. Forming unions would require
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by fkdo 7y ago
What if both companies have a production outage at the same time? The employee would have an obligation to give 100% focus to both of his employers. On top of that the employee is probably providing microfriction in day to day life: asking
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by fkdo 7y ago
Missiles are bigger (they carry their own engine and fuel), are in the sky longer due to their longer range, and shooting missiles from the sky has never been implemented with a high success rate in active combat.
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by fkdo 7y ago
If building codes were increased to force these nicer buildings how much of an increase of rent tenets would see. My understanding is most of the price of housing in West coast cities comes from the value of land, the building permits, and