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by hack_edu 11y ago
> living a decent life in scandinavia is just available for a larger percentage of the population due to equality. To put it another way, its one of the last industrialized nations able to hold onto a homogeneous culture and rooted in a
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by hack_edu 11y ago
Admittedly, its all off record hearsay as it's not to smart to talk badly about your C-levels in public discussion. Though I must say, as a user its hard to sincerely distinguish the business motives of Firefox from other parts of the
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by hack_edu 11y ago
Now if only it all wasn't spent on the current massive expansion of the Marketing team and their new executive's salaries. The new CMO has a very checkered history with questionable results. Very much the nepotist who manages to p
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by hack_edu 11y ago
I don't keep up too much, so what basic civic engagement issues have they acted on since the one highly publicized incident? A browser like Mozilla, and its place in the market, is overtly political in itself. It always has been; open
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by hack_edu 11y ago
They have an itemized list of all countries relating to leaks on their wiki, which includes (the remaining few) Russian allies. https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Countries Wikileaks has released a number of Syrian l
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by hack_edu 11y ago
Actually, effective and reliable communication is the number one thing most all companies are looking for in engineers. No one wants a developer that is resistant to daily peer cooperation. A developer that can't clearly explain thei
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by hack_edu 11y ago
Well, expect to find the non-clown engineers to be found enjoying beer and pizza with friends rather than random meetups. That is engineer networking. That is how devs find their next job. No one should expect to find them at the equivalent
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by hack_edu 11y ago
Well, if you need a central source to store and provide the state or content then it's not distributed anyway. The notion of developing on a distributed system is a whole different paradigm than traditional web development. Otherwise,
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by hack_edu 11y ago
Take note that about 20% of the country lives in Earthquake Country, where just about all residential dwellings tend to be built of wood.
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by hack_edu 12y ago
> What's the problem with public toilets???? The Public.
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Still SF, and more than ever.
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by hack_edu 12y ago
... yet none of it matters without discipline.
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Something tells me there's a lot more Surge Pricing in our futures. And just when you thought the modifiers were high enough, or that surge hours already have become any-waking-hours... Rather than the bait and switch, why not just rai
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Or, at least not have to listen to the guys one pod over "spontaneously" discussing last night's sports statistics for a half hour block on the daily. Perhaps they're "doing it wrong" but they have their right
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by hack_edu 12y ago
To answer part of your question, the high-income/education zip codes are residential neighborhoods in the hills and more northern neighborhoods. This has been the case for a century. The zips on the lower end are also residential neigh
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Probably in a very drab, anonymous office park just like most companies in the Valley.
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Why would Uber, a company who's entire business is based on location data and the analysis, sign such a deal?
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An attack on the timestamp semantics of Bitcoin(bramcohen.com)
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by hack_edu 12y ago
They are, but there is a near bottomless pool of people ready to take their seat. If there is any constant to the Valley over the decades it's the old fashioned American pioneer success story; strike it rich and take the money home.
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by hack_edu 12y ago
OK, so yes. We agree that it is unsustainable if the effort is put forth to make your product actually convenient for the volunteers whose shoulders you sit on. Meanwhile you insult us by simply saying "fork it." That doesn't
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Could you add a few more words to explain your interpretations of those terms in practice here? The rest of the folks in the thread and on the Github issue are exploring what those terms mean. I'm not seeing you provide much insight or
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Firstly, you need to make abundantly obvious and clear promises as to what happens to money left it accounts. There is no reason to trust your escrow, let alone your ability to manage or secure it. I honestly still can't find it spelle
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Would the project be sustainable, or more fair, if it allowed project maintainers to whitelist currencies, and manage that integration for them? That seems more appropriate and follows the the spirit of giving that the project encourages.
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by hack_edu 12y ago
People have legitimate reasons to avoid messing with BTC or others. Some people don't even want to hassle with currencies beyond their own. Even if they oblige in accepting BTC and just convert it to their preferred currency, they&#x27
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Texture, glossy-plastic feel, size, two or three bulky protruding buttons in between your keyboard and the pad, and being very distinctly sub par in regard to multi touch functions or detection (though OS integration seems to be the main fa
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by hack_edu 12y ago
... and we devolve into the same old debate over the definition of metadata
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by hack_edu 12y ago
I find it adorable how people buy into the rhetoric and trust that Apple doesn't leverage and track your data. They are a hardware and content company, and they absolutely leverage all the data they can in order to better market you
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Apple's devotion to privacy ends at phone unlock; the easiest attack vector to social engineer or forensically determine. Today's announcement is not much more than a PR stunt to cover their ass and distract from their own repeate
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by hack_edu 12y ago
Most likely because they are the office of government in charge of administering the roads...
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by hack_edu 12y ago
You sincerely think that most cyclists in NYC make more than even the average HN reader? You must tip really well! ;) Stay in that bubble, and tell me more about the rich and entitled bicyclists that slow down your Uber.

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