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by yaskyj 10y ago
Snopes' take: http://www.snopes.com/seth-conrad-rich/
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by yaskyj 11y ago
Also, his first TV role was in 1978. And even his age during Die Hard was wrong. Born in 1946, Die Hard came out in 1988 so ~42
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by yaskyj 12y ago
Also, you can't have these solar panels without the power companies. The solar panels only produce electricity while the sun is up so the people with solar panels are essentially using the utilities as free batteries - produce power du
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by yaskyj 12y ago
That's simply not true. For the majority of the United States, solar panels don't make economic sense. Your average kWh price after solar installation needs to be less than what the utility charges for it to be feasible. This only
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by yaskyj 12y ago
Exactly. Also, the argument that solar provides the grid with power when it needs it most is incorrect. Solar production peaks at around noon while electric consumption peaks around five when people arrive home from work. Solar houses basic
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by yaskyj 12y ago
You should check out Ramsey's Ultimate Cookery course (or 100 recipes to stake your life on). Last time I checked most of the episodes were on Youtube. Consists of simple recipes while showing basic techniques (e.g. in one of the first
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by yaskyj 12y ago
Read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Pertinent parts: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag i
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by yaskyj 13y ago
Exactly. It took several individuals two months to get into his files. I don't understand why number one on their list of attack vectors is physically breaking into his house. You're pen testing an individual and number one is B&a
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by yaskyj 13y ago
From the Hacker News Guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Under "What to Submit": "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.
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by yaskyj 13y ago
Just in case: https://www.google.com/doodles/30th-anniversary-of-pac-man
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by yaskyj 13y ago
It's interesting that I kind find news for this on google itself, but Hacker News already has two posts.
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by yaskyj 16y ago
"at the end of the employee lockout period" That's why I said it's on paper. These employees have the opportunity to possibly make 10 to 20 years of their current salary in a day. Most people don't need more of an incentive than that.
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by yaskyj 16y ago
Dilution doesn't really apply to these employees. They don't care about their amount of ownership in the company. All that matters is how much stock they get and what they expect the stock to be worth at IPO. If they've received 10,000 shar
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by yaskyj 16y ago
Not sure what you mean by prose. His writing was prose, so was yours.
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by yaskyj 16y ago
It might have been marked dead because both developers posted a submission for the site. The other post is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1800422 and contains some constructive comments.