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Jimmc414

15,889karma·2,834submissions·April 9, 2019
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Interesting that this is now a much more generous title than, "Yellen Accepted $700K Speaking Fees from Citadel; Will Not Recuse from Hearing"
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees it that way.
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What you show is forbidden to me.
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You have a point. I'm trying to find the differences between this attempted insurrection and a police sting and there are less than I first guessed.
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My guess is that it was a calculated decision to allow to allow a poorly organized insurrection attempt to fail as opposed to shutting things down and strengthening their cause. Life was certainly los…
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These HN bitcoin threads sure do garner a disproportionate amount of downvotes. My opinion and advice would be to stop listening to opinions and advice on Bitcoin do your own research and follow the…
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>> It'll leave you sad and angry Indeed.
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Factor in how rare it is to find a software defect like this and how many fruitless hours of work go into finding it, the author is hardly breaking even. The only financial advantage I see is bestowe…
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"A single transaction takes as much electricity as 800,000 VISA transactions, or watching 50,000 hours of youtube videos." Respectfully, I'd like to call BS on those points. I'm …
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It looks like they merged it into it's author's main page. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect …
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Wouldn't you be perpetuating this hostile work environment by not managing your notifications?
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>> Imagine if you were running a business, and deployed CentOS 8 based on the 10 year lifespan promise. You're totally screwed now, and Red Hat knows it. The hypothetical you posed is the…
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You would need control of 51% of the nodes to submit a block with arbitrary data and override consensus. You can’t just add any hash to a block and add it to the network. In order to be the miner to a…
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Not to be argumentative but there are numerous studies involving these compounds individually evaluating their effect on blood glucose, cardiovascular health, cholesterol and other measurable health-r…
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Without a counterpoint providing an opposing view, how are we supposed to take your comment seriously?
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>The reason honey kills microbes is it has exceptionally low water content. Do you have a source for this? A simple search on scholar.google.com for "manuka" and "MRSA" studies …
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The irony of the first amendment getting down votes in this thread is poetically tragic. It's almost as if writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell had the models down so well that predictio…
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Do you believe Alex Jones is still entitled to First Amendment rights?
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Thank you! I actually really need this right now.
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Who are the trustworthy actors in global politics?
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I would expect most technologies to be capped at 56k otherwise using a phone line for transmissions would circumvent FCC rules on transmission power.
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This looks like a great service. Thank you. > Shodan has servers located around the world that crawl the Internet 24/7 to provide the latest Internet intelligence. That needs to sink in for a…
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To be fair, I'd probably hire the programmer with the knowledge of greek mythology over the one without. Personal preferences aside, great programmers are very rarely one dimensional
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Are you basing this on your experience or the current market realities?
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I clicked your link to disagree with you but the evidence is on your side.
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If you had not excluded them do you believe it would have pushed down salaries?
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The author doesn't seem to understand how supply and demand work. Unless there's about to be a massive increase in the availability of these jobs, this is going to create a bubble that will…
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I agree and think q-tip use has damaged my hearing considerably over the years.
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