walkon

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by walkon 4y ago
Consider an edit to your post since it’s at the top?
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by walkon 5y ago
> If you offer someone with the expectation they can't say no, that is in fact predatory. In the absence of coercion or fraud, the offering party's expectations are irrelevant.
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by walkon 5y ago
If someone makes you an offer and you say, "no" and they walk away, that isn't predatory.
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by walkon 6y ago
Ok, why don't you make a test and sell it at cost?
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by walkon 6y ago
Allowing the price to move up with market demand will encourage increases in production. It just takes some time, especially in a pandemic, for the production to catch up.
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by walkon 7y ago
Indeed. Hopefully he didn't mean "fun distraction" in a positive way and was trying to convey it was interesting to watch develop. Especially considering he has friends in the area. > in part because it's been a fun d
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by walkon 9y ago
> I do wonder why "working the fields" cannot be made a good job for humans? You'll get your answer by working in the fields for a few weeks.
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by walkon 9y ago
How can the infrastructure be built for free? Volunteer labor and donated capital?
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by walkon 10y ago
Canada welcomes everyone* with wide, egalitarian arms - regardless of age, race, gender, identity, etc. * excluding the disabled: http://www.ccdonline.ca/en/socialpolicy/immigration
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by walkon 11y ago
I'd like to read it - post the link here when you're done!
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by walkon 11y ago
And when we say a lifetime of memories, we really mean it. With Google Photos, you can now backup and store unlimited, high-quality photos and videos, for free. In Google parlance, a (free product) lifetime is somewhere between 2 - 7 year
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by walkon 11y ago
A property would be assessed at a lower value if it didn't have any HVAC appliances installed in it. Since most properties start with such appliances, replacing them or upgrading them to similar, or even more efficient models, is like
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by walkon 11y ago
The runtime, Core CLR is is open source with MIT and porting is underway: https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr
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by walkon 11y ago
My wife likes to order some detergents, soaps, and other supplies from Amazon, but one rather cumbersome aspect is all the extra packaging that has to be torn down and recycled or thrown away. Since my wife doesn't like to bother with
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by walkon 12y ago
Logic: claiming to be a current apologist of DVCS while simultaneously positing that DVCS should be abandoned.
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by walkon 12y ago
Good to see they fixed this security bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1095859 A proxy could inject cookies on a 407 response and even bypass the authentication prompt - could have been used for session fixa
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by walkon 12y ago
> Are all functions commented? No.
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by walkon 12y ago
Are you saying Microsoft should have intentionally excluded a means to browse http content and instead directed customers to be on the lookout for consumer magazines with a demo disk containing a browser? Where and how do they draw the lin
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by walkon 12y ago
I was there in the 90s. Only having access to Windows when the Internet became common, guess how I went about learning there were other browsers out there and downloading Netscape? How much more difficult would that have been if IE wasn&#x
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by walkon 12y ago
And some unison whistling at the end to complete the cliche. Weird they would even have a video for something like this, leading me to be more suspicious of the mechanisms and data they are using behind the scenes to make this work.
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by walkon 12y ago
The open sourcing moves were in the works well before Nadella was CEO.
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by walkon 12y ago
Hours worked doesn't always contribute to burnout. I can easily feel burnout working 40 hour weeks filled with unsatisfying work (e.g. bureaucratic paperwork, interruptions for unimportant issues, unchallenging problems, etc). Conver
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by walkon 12y ago
The resources they are consuming are for the ultimate goal of satisfying consumer demand in an efficient enough way to profit from it. Are you a consumer? If so, you're an direct and indirect consumer of those resources.
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by walkon 12y ago
Buying a parallel policy could help. I don't understand why the U.S. government has a tax code that effectively makes the most important type of insurance the easiest to loose.
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by walkon 12y ago
> We use Ember at work, although I wish we used React. Could you expand on why you prefer React? I have not tried React yet, but am interested to hear thoughts from someone who's used both.
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by walkon 12y ago
That evidence isn't conclusive. They could be entering the password into an application that verifies with a hashed value.
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by walkon 12y ago
This post has dropped from the front page of HN to the 3rd in about 15 minutes? I don't get HN at all.
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by walkon 12y ago
Do these convex/rounded remotes that this and the Roku have bother anyone else? They seem to slide off the couch easier and if I set it down on a flat surface, it rocks back and forth for several seconds.
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Missing url status bubbles in Chrome?(code.google.com)
1 points by walkon 12y ago|0 comments
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by walkon 13y ago
Good point on the PDF version, especially if Amazon allows PDF sales (instead a Kindle version). I am a bit surprised that pirating was a significant issue with the first book. Didn't they offer free or discounted versions if people

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