the_hangman

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by the_hangman 11mo ago
Afaik many of the people who were on board to help start gem.coop have stepped back after the recent controversies with Andre Arko, at this point I don’t think it will ever be anything more than a ruby gems mirror
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by the_hangman 11mo ago
Genuine question: how do you take something which you have already been paying for? They removed other maintainers access to their AWS account, and one of them had allegedly taken a screenshot of the root password from a password manager an
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by the_hangman 1y ago
It's been a while but if memory serves me correctly the controversy at that time was actually about him unilaterally deciding that people at basecamp shouldn't be talking about politics in off-topic slack channels after people sta
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by the_hangman 10y ago
My understanding is that building subways in LA is costlier and more labor-intensive than in a lot of the cities you mentioned, but the subway system is currently undergoing a massive expansion in LA. The main difficulties are the fault lin
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by the_hangman 10y ago
Wow, this is utter shit. There is literally nothing here. No wonder he was going 70+ days without being paid.
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by the_hangman 10y ago
I thought you were just being petty until I tried to read it. There is so just much context switching without any clues at all to the reader, it is really jarring.
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by the_hangman 10y ago
A good friend of mine recently was able to purchase a home in the Bay Area (we're in our late 20's). It has been absolutely fascinating the last few months watching his views towards housing supply do a complete 180 from "We
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by the_hangman 10y ago
Correct. But none of those entities are controlling transportation infrastructure in the United States. They're manufacturing vehicles or parts necessary for those vehicles, or controlling the air traffic on a completely separate conti
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by the_hangman 10y ago
I'm not sure I follow. I just sat here with my 6S trying various ways of holding it for a good 10 minutes, and I can't figure out for the life of me what you're talking about when you say that you have to hold it lower to dou
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by the_hangman 11y ago
What? Who paid for Windows 10? I thought Windows 10 is supposed to be free?
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by the_hangman 11y ago
A simple Googling will help you answer this query: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/04/magazine/only-one-top-bank...
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by the_hangman 11y ago
It just keeps getting better (or worse, depending on if you invested with him)... In addition to failing to settle a huge short position, he managed to turn $1.12 million into $58,500 in 28 days . > Contrary to SHKRELI' s represent
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by the_hangman 11y ago
> On or about December 2, 2010, Investor 1 [...] asked SHKRELI in an email about, inter alia, the fund's assets under management and the names of its independent auditor and fund administrator. SHKRELI told Investor 1 that MSMB Capi
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by the_hangman 11y ago
Well, seeing as it's only been 958 days since they promised improved customer service, we should really cut them some slack here..
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by the_hangman 11y ago
Care to go into a little more detail for those of us who are curious what it is that makes speed limit laws so complex?
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by the_hangman 11y ago
> The US and other countries have two sets of data protection rules that govern police and security services. One set of rules for residents of that country (e.g. US persons) or domestic data and another much less stringent set or rules
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by the_hangman 11y ago
> It perplexes me why they don't shift their delivery period six hours later to start at 15:00 and end at 21:00. That would cover both business and residential hours. I would imagine that is because the highest margins are made off
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by the_hangman 11y ago
While this indictment makes it clear what he is charged with, it doesn't seem to imply any sort of motive. Any ideas? Another article on the subject[1] gives me the impression that the goal may have been simply to speed the process up
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by the_hangman 11y ago
This is actually not true as far as fallout is generally concerned -- "air bursts" of nuclear weapons have shown to have a smaller fallout than similar sized ground blasts. Part of the reason for detonating the first atomic bomb 5
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by the_hangman 11y ago
> Harvard waives fees altogether for families making less than $65,000. More than 60% of US households have income less than that+, yet only 20% of Harvard's undergraduate class pays no fees. From this we reasonably say that Harvard
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by the_hangman 11y ago
Most engineering programs (at least in the US) have students sign documents that state that the University will own the copyright to anything that they create in labs or for University classes.
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by the_hangman 11y ago
I'm confused how the indictment is considered facts, but the verdict of the case that resulted from the indictment is merely narrative. They were exonerated from all charges after trial, wouldn't that make the pre-trial "fact
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Tempo Calendar Acquired by Salesforce, Shutting Down(tempo.ai)
3 points by the_hangman 11y ago|1 comments
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by the_hangman 12y ago
> Well, Google does read your email to show you better ads. But they never made a secret of that. I really wish this trope would die already. Google is not a person. Google does not read your emails. Employees at Google aren't sitti
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by the_hangman 12y ago
This. It took far too long for me to realize that noticing and questioning something that others have either not noticed or not questioned didn't make me any smarter or better than anyone else. I think that a lot of younger, geeky type
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by the_hangman 12y ago
Chrome supports mp4 on Mavericks (as well as on older versions of OS X).
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by the_hangman 12y ago
Yes, but a surface is only two dimensions, and we're measuring a volume (three dimensions). The average depth of Earth's oceans is a paltry 4.3 km.
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by the_hangman 12y ago
I'm still not 100% sure I'm not just feeding a troll, but here goes. --- > Women tend to feel unsafe in situations in which they are statistically not unsafe, at least when compared to men. In fact, men are overwhelmingly more
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by the_hangman 12y ago
At first I thought this was a joke. What a strange article. Just because Yelp's reviews can be analyzed like baseball statistics doesn't make it a proper treatment of the data. It's not even a good analogy; one set of numbers
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by the_hangman 12y ago
Are you trying to say that you have felt threatened, unsafe or like you were going to be alienated because you had to friendzone a female? Because I can't say that I have. And I honestly have a hard time believing that you have either.

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