narrowingorbits

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by narrowingorbits 7y ago
With taxes, you do.
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by narrowingorbits 8y ago
Most spam calls in the US originate overseas (India) and ignore US regulation such as do-not-call registries.
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by narrowingorbits 8y ago
Cheap, off-brand USB chargers often have poor or no circuit isolation. Some have even been tested to expose one leg of full AC current to the USB ground. Not a problem until you're between that and a ground.
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by narrowingorbits 8y ago
People whose reactions when confronted with something new, unknown, and unexpected are to laugh at it or respond sarcastically, instead of to accept the surprise, approach with curiosity and humility, and question if there is something they
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by narrowingorbits 8y ago
I also used to do exactly this. Except with Safari as my untrusted 3rd. Eventually, I just got tired of the trouble and found that having a complete, searchable web history was actually so much a useful feature for me. So I stopped pretendi
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by narrowingorbits 8y ago
One of those times I should have read the comments first. Thanks.
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by narrowingorbits 8y ago
But that would be SQL injection! Unlike the parent. Barbaric.
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by narrowingorbits 9y ago
*Conscientiousness
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by narrowingorbits 9y ago
A guy in my office ordered a 60-inch LCD TV. They delivered. Two weeks later another arrived. Customer service wouldn't acknowledge the first, so now he has two.
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by narrowingorbits 9y ago
What you describe there is a broken and unusable value system.
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by narrowingorbits 9y ago
Exactly right. For at least some of the 99% of startups that are not VC-backed, it can be the constant struggle between working /on/ the business and working /in/ the business, when resources are limited. That can mean a
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by narrowingorbits 9y ago
As I said, that makes sense, and I agree. That does not mean it's financially possible.
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by narrowingorbits 9y ago
This makes sense. But, for many (at least bootstrapping) startups, $1800/mo for the database is not in the realm of the possible. Is not having to deal with (future) sharding headaches "worth" that much? Sure. But that doesn&
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by narrowingorbits 9y ago
The server.
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by narrowingorbits 11y ago
The demand for source code would likely include accompanying documentation necessary to build/use.
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by narrowingorbits 11y ago
Nope. Incorrect. Google and Apple both have open SDKs for streaming to their devices. Amazon has chosen not to support them
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by narrowingorbits 11y ago
Sounds like a market for an aftermarket service company to reprogram the pumps not to break!
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by narrowingorbits 11y ago
> Victims have every right to hate their offenders and a just society should do everything they can to help the victims... Yes, society should do everything it can to help the victims---to help the victims to heal. Society has no imperat
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Datastax Cassandra on 5-Node Raspberry Pi 2 Cluster(medium.com)
2 points by narrowingorbits 12y ago|0 comments
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by narrowingorbits 12y ago
Or else they're making such a fuss specifically to help sell the supposed effectiveness.
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by narrowingorbits 12y ago
> If I 3D printed a set of lock picking tools would Wired run a story on me? Yes.
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by narrowingorbits 12y ago
This is not SkyBox related, but rather aerial. Note the 15cm resolution.
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by narrowingorbits 13y ago
> Seriously, he is more insignificant than any random educated citizen Wow. You're really living in your own little bubble.
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by narrowingorbits 13y ago
> I'd rather not be born than be born in a place where I have a high change of dying of malaria, or dysentery. Seriously? You prefer a 0% chance, over, say, a 60% chance? But then I'd jump at the offer of a 4% chance of making
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by narrowingorbits 13y ago
> More people living doesn't necessarily mean people living better lives. I rather think living is a necessary prerequisite to living better .
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by narrowingorbits 13y ago
Yes.
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Change the culture, change the world(sethgodin.typepad.com)
3 points by narrowingorbits 13y ago|0 comments
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by narrowingorbits 13y ago
OP is on flaky legal ground reproducing and distributing other's designs without permission as it is; but then to suggest that MailChimp is in the wrong, simply for, in a very polite, even friendly, letter, acknowledging their brand an
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by narrowingorbits 13y ago
Sure, but I guess a question, then, is whether "social mobility" is the highest end in and of itself.
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by narrowingorbits 13y ago
And I guess that's the important dichotomy here. There are many, many choices that people can make in life that are qualitatively neutral. For instance, the decision of those female Ph.D.s to value marriage over a career utilizing thei

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