furburger

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by furburger 17y ago
Can we discuss health care without the science fiction and doomsday scenarios? only if you travel back to 1981 before these costs started their long-term snowball
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by furburger 17y ago
NO ONE WANTS A FREE MARKET SOLUTION FOR HEALTHCARE. get over it. a free market solution means dying baby gets turned away when parent has no money. otherwise it is not a market solution. no one wants this. no one. move to somalia, you can i
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by furburger 17y ago
some points: - healthcare is not a business. get over it. the law says you cannot decline emergency care. there is no business model here, any more than there is in running the navy. its a cost. - you care about public health. meaning, you
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by furburger 17y ago
viva *bsd. and the linux kernel is progressing nicely as well. its a great time for free OSs.
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by furburger 17y ago
i don't know anything about cal's departure, but i can say that any large co like yahoo, google, msft, apple etc is more or less impervious against the loss of one or a few technical individuals. his departure may have symbolic value but t
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by furburger 17y ago
raw io? facebook better go ipo soon, they're running out of abstraction layers to code through
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by furburger 17y ago
where was thiel bitching about the Fed and its liquidity binge when it was goosing his facebook stake into the billions? haha it will be amusing watching this guy circle the drain with all of the rest of the lauded paypal mafia, whose paper
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by furburger 17y ago
i wonder if amazon will stay on the "wholesale" side of this equation or eventually move into the retail side...seems gdrive or whatever it is google is planning might upset the amazon/N-front-ends racket
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by furburger 17y ago
i thought 3des was still used in ATMs? my (limited) understanding was that its weakness was balanced by its otherwise maturity...and that a potential hacker had very little time in which to make the crack and make use of it
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by furburger 17y ago
it doesn't matter. employees only become rich if the stock goes crazy. lots of profitable companies have craptastic stocks.
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by furburger 17y ago
well the point is, and i think this is the original poster's point...questions like this are not relevant to what facebook is doing, and even if it is, its the kind of thing you look up.
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by furburger 17y ago
haha the amusing thing is that he himself likely only looked up the newton-raphson method ten minutes before phoning you. sadly that is the case for many of these mensa-test mental masturbation questions...if you had asked your interviewer
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by furburger 17y ago
facebook is indulging the exact same hubris we engaged at yahoo in the late 90s. after an initial cadre of so-so developers rode the wave up, we decided to believe the hype that we were uber-brilliant and suddenly no one was smart enough to
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by furburger 17y ago
this is a good. college tuition costs need to not just drop, but crash. they won't until people stop propagating the idea that they are required.
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by furburger 17y ago
yeah its called yahoo groups. there are thousands of little neighborhood groups out there using yahoo groups, google groups, etc. you don't need a dedicated site, all most people really want is a mailing list with a web ui
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by furburger 17y ago
i'm starting to think angels are just dumber, poorer VCs i defy you to spend ten minutes on basho.com and actually know WTF their product ACTUALLY does. no wonder the VCs passed on this fluff
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by furburger 17y ago
okay come on you have totally warped expectations of what a work visa provides. work visas are not created to allow you to wonder silicon valley looking for cool startups to join. nor should it. thats what residency visas are for. a work vi
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by furburger 17y ago
border guards are one step up from prison guards. just hold your nose, blow some sunshine up their asses, and move on.
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by furburger 17y ago
there is no ranking of the applications; Apart from requiring they meet the minimum requirements they are just processed in the order received okay, all H1-B holders who want their applications held up for a year while a reasonable basis
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by furburger 17y ago
search is no longer a technical problem, it is a marketing problem. yahoo continues to throw money at search and has good people...yet their search marketshare is going nowhere. microsoft bought powerset, pours a bajillion into research...t
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by furburger 17y ago
no permit = ripped down at owners expense, pure and simple
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by furburger 17y ago
yes because someone else coming over to the house may not realize that this is dangerous, craptastic, etc. dude may actually be setting himself up for a huge liability should this ever fail on an unsuspecting guest....his house insurance wo
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by furburger 17y ago
good luck passing a housing inspection there dude...presuming he wants to be buried in the house after this bit of idiocy, cuz he'll never sell it
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by furburger 17y ago
oh cripes can we just kill these stupid stereotypes already?
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by furburger 18y ago
actually one common form of nicotine is in fact a deadly poison
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by furburger 18y ago
smoking is partially beneficial? i'm interested to see the hacker response to forty years of medical research to the contrary
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by furburger 18y ago
yeah like gangrene cures cancer
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by furburger 18y ago
don't forget the fifty trillion or so to pay their entitlements til (avg) age of death. or the extra three trillion they'll peel off of the stock market when they are forced by law to start liquidating their 401ks faster than we can make co
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by furburger 18y ago
its not even an issue of features. 99.99% of internet users have heard of google. my guess is 0.001% have heard of simulscribe. this doesn't mean simulscribe can't compete or doesn't have a kick-ass product, but users still have to be able
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by furburger 18y ago
apache is perfectly capable of saturating the outbound connection on static content on any reasonable setup. you may save a little on memory with nginx but you aren't saving on speed (how can you deliver more content than the outbound conne

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