throwaway2048

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by throwaway2048 2y ago
all valve games are linux native, as are lots of steam releases
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by throwaway2048 3y ago
Imperator (in English Emperor) was a title specifically invented by Augustus to avoid the title king. It might be roughly translated as "Commander", in a military sense.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
At a certain point this kind of stuff becomes unfalsifiable, but the steady erosion of hard won worker rights and laws, as well as wages still fits in pretty nicely with his theories about end stage capitalism. He certainly did not foresee
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
the best thing about them is you can constantly schedule large stock sales, and just cancel the ones that don't favour you. Look ma, no inside information.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
It needs to be cracked first, which hasn't happened yet.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
because ARM was founded as a joint venture that included Apple, its extremely likely they have special terms.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
DNS is generally looked up once, on ruleset initalization, there is no way a firewall is going to look up DNS every single time a rule is referenced. Since DNS here is changing constantly, this is unhelpful.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Dropbox has nothing to do with open source communities, nor is HN an open source community.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Not sure we agree on a shared reality if you think even literally every single person in Hong Kong owning a gun is going to much of anything stop the CCP.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
What does dropbox have to do with "open source communities"
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Who says they can't do the job? It would be easy for a tech-knowledgeable scammer to interview at 100 companies, collect 100 pay-cheques and then dissapear.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Valve is a privately held company (owned by its employees) that makes ridiculous amounts of money, has no real incentive to sell, and Gabe Newell has publicly stated many times in the past that Valve selling out is extremely unlikely, and s
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
I'm about 90% sure that reddit is going to pull a twitter and kill off API access so apps like Apollo no longer function.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Considering how many multi billion dollar corporations, investments and entire market sectors have been blown out by easily proven, easily deduced fraud that somehow ends up lasting years, or even decades before blowing up, I place less fai
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
I very much doubt companies are going to pay for your lawyers to sue them with.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
I somehow doubt that Microsoft has any pressing need to return profits from the python LSP
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Qualcomm effectively has a near-monopoly on the concept of a cellular radio, especially on the high end, so they really don't have to bend for anyone, even a little.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
HN is not a free speech platform, nobody, not the users or the moderators, is obligated to give stories exposure.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
no automatic blockchain contract can provide you with USD
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Was that before or after he hired a PI to investigate said person to see if he could find any dirt to defame him further, after continuing to double down on the pedophile accusations, further calling him a child rapist, and marrying a 12 ye
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Its ok to not defend bad behaviour from people you otherwise admire.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Musk pretty much waived all contingencies, the contract is public and easily viewed, that's why twitter was willing to agree so quickly in the first place.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Generally speaking governments, unless bound by treaty (and not even then really) are completely free to ignore the results of (most) lawsuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_immunity
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Governments aren't the only people in power in modern America, billionaire (philanthropist or otherwise) hold as much or more power than any politician.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
linux absolutely still does this FWIW, its one of the reasons that swap is a net negative.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
The fact those returns aren't guaranteed is a big part of why they are so high to begin with. Credit card debt is unsecured (no collateral put up to be seized in the event of a default), creditors can walk away from the debt and the is
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
NOx are industrially useful and profitable to scrub out at large scale (and relatively easy too, just pass exhaust gasses through water) because it generates nitric acid, which is an extremely useful and relatively expensive chemical that i
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-04-22
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Id trust old software written in a memory unsafe language that has a sterling track record over new software written in a safer language that has not much of a track record at all.
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by throwaway2048 4y ago
Here is a fantastic archive of old flash and other proprietary browser plugins games, short clips, and other content. https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/

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