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166,553 | null | null | Thats all containers are?<p>They are an abstraction over OS level isolation. | null | AlphaSite | null | 1,491,934,754 | "2017-04-11T18:19:14Z" | comment | 14,090,888 | 14,089,877 | null | null | null |
166,554 | null | null | Every single cellphone that uses broadcom wifi (basicly all of them) has remote root via wifi. 95% will never be patched. | null | throwaway2048 | null | 1,491,934,758 | "2017-04-11T18:19:18Z" | comment | 14,090,889 | 14,090,760 | null | null | null |
166,555 | null | null | Pedantically? If we take your new definition, how many countries is the US currently invading with its airforce (particularly drones)?
It isn't invading them because it's armies aren't in them and that's what the term "on its soil" means. | null | lostlogin | null | 1,491,934,743 | "2017-04-11T18:19:03Z" | comment | 14,090,886 | 14,090,762 | null | null | null |
166,556 | null | null | I personally prefer Gitter & other tools over Slack for open source communications. The Slack signup process can be a road block as it takes to many steps. To often I run into open source communities that require you to join their Slack channel for posting any questions (that may or may not be bugs in their software).<p>I really like Slack for a lot of things, but it's often a tool used incorrectly due to its popularity. | null | mattferderer | null | 1,491,934,751 | "2017-04-11T18:19:11Z" | comment | 14,090,887 | 14,087,002 | null | null | null |
166,557 | null | null | <p><pre><code> I take it to mean they've never actually worked on a truly hard problem in their lives.
</code></pre>
I certainly have some empathy for this view. On the other hand, the right time to have addressed actually fixing some of these problems is 25 years ago. The second best time is today (to steal/abuse a phrase). Enterprise organizations sometimes punt these things down the road with half-assed solutions. It's cheaper today and tomorrow maybe it will be someone else's problem, right? All the while the overall issue becomes worse.<p>It sucks sometimes to be at the bottom of a deep hole you dug yourself into without a ladder, but at the end of the day, it's your hole.<p>And you are right that sometimes it's just a hard problem. But you can always make those worse. | null | ska | null | 1,491,934,731 | "2017-04-11T18:18:51Z" | comment | 14,090,884 | 14,088,303 | null | null | null |
166,558 | null | null | > It doesn't matter how complicated it is to implement - the user doesn't give a shit, they just want two monitors.<p>Evidently it <i>does</i> matter how complicated it is to implement, or it would just work by now. | null | wtetzner | null | 1,491,934,723 | "2017-04-11T18:18:43Z" | comment | 14,090,883 | 14,036,295 | null | null | null |
166,559 | null | null | Well, perhaps but I am more trying to develop a service to avoid the Slacks and Basecamps of the world, while still being aware of what's going on, rather than just being a multi-network client. | null | AsyncAwait | null | 1,491,934,718 | "2017-04-11T18:18:38Z" | comment | 14,090,880 | 14,090,852 | null | null | null |
166,560 | null | null | I don't quite understand what everyone has against email. Just get a good client and server with imap IDLE support and you should be good to go. | null | swiley | null | 1,491,934,720 | "2017-04-11T18:18:40Z" | comment | 14,090,881 | 14,087,002 | null | null | null |
166,561 | null | null | Swatch tried to do something like that in '98:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time</a><p>Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided into 1000 parts called ".beats". Each .beat is equal to one decimal minute in the French Revolutionary decimal time system and lasts 1 minute and 26.4 seconds (86.4 seconds) in standard time. Times are notated as a 3-digit number out of 1000 after midnight. So, @248 would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight representing 248/1000 of a day, just over 5 hours and 57 minutes.<p>There are no time zones in Swatch Internet Time; instead, the new time scale of Biel Meantime (BMT) is used, based on Swatch's headquarters in Biel, Switzerland and equivalent to Central European Time, West Africa Time, and UTC+01. Unlike civil time in Switzerland and many other countries, Swatch Internet Time does not observe daylight saving time. | null | tsbinz | null | 1,557,237,113 | "2019-05-07T13:51:53Z" | comment | 19,849,279 | 19,849,243 | null | null | null |
166,562 | null | null | >And these were aimed at at the parent:<p>And they were questions.<p>>Are you actually here to discuss<p>Yes, that is what questions are for. Why are <i>you</i> here? You don't seem to have any intention of trying to contribute in a productive manner. | null | imanaccount247 | null | 1,417,301,001 | "2014-11-29T22:43:21Z" | comment | 8,675,345 | 8,675,030 | null | null | null |
166,563 | null | null | You have a constitutional right to privacy from the government. There is no such constitutional right (in the U.S.) that would prevent private surveillance, especially in cases where it is consensual. | null | hshehehjdjdjd | null | 1,528,150,477 | "2018-06-04T22:14:37Z" | comment | 17,233,109 | 17,219,727 | null | null | null |
166,564 | null | null | Budweiser is popular in China because it's practically a Chinese beer... it's brewed in Wuhan and made with rice. This means that in Germany it isn't beer.<p>The internet censorship isn't intended to change the attitudes of the upper class -- the government figures that anyone who can understand English enough to read foreign news is already lost. And they don't care about foreigners circumventing the filter for personal use, as long as you aren't actively spreading subversion. Definitely don't spread subversion.<p>They want to keep the common person ignorant and the censorship helps. If the momentum of the people ever shifted, things could change, so there is enormous reason for the government to maintain the status quo. The protectionism is incidental (but is a nice perk0, the censorship of ideas is why they do it. | null | rms | null | 1,226,433,872 | "2008-11-11T20:04:32Z" | comment | 360,888 | 360,664 | null | null | null |
166,565 | null | null | I thought only Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria have MiGs? Due to that article where they were considering giving them to Ukraine. | null | akmarinov | null | 1,646,261,497 | "2022-03-02T22:51:37Z" | comment | 30,534,502 | 30,534,234 | null | null | null |
166,566 | null | null | Could we please stop with the intellectual terrorism on HN?<p>People can't write a blog entry anymore without being labelled either homophobic or sexist.<p>What's your take on humor btw? You know, like stand-up comedians making fun of white people or making fun of black people? | null | martinced | null | 1,360,287,614 | "2013-02-08T01:40:14Z" | comment | 5,185,770 | 5,185,065 | null | null | null |
166,567 | null | null | 200M daily active users? | null | dfc | null | 1,360,287,621 | "2013-02-08T01:40:21Z" | comment | 5,185,771 | 5,185,755 | null | null | null |
166,568 | null | null | Nice idea overall, it is really annoying to follow all the shows I usually watch.<p>First suggestion - somehow differentiate between shows that are currently airing, postponed, and canceled/finished. There is no point in following Fringe, for example, however there is a point in 'liking' it in order to get better recommendations. | null | jedmeyers | null | 1,360,287,627 | "2013-02-08T01:40:27Z" | comment | 5,185,772 | 5,185,740 | null | null | null |
166,569 | null | null | I never made an assumption about the author and certainly never said that the tool wasn't useful. You can feel free to move along yourself, though. | null | Minor49er | null | 1,646,261,518 | "2022-03-02T22:51:58Z" | comment | 30,534,503 | 30,529,588 | null | null | null |
166,570 | null | null | Yeah, the video [0] by Fermilab that taught me this explanation blew my mind.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2JCoIGyGxc&list=LL&index=94" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2JCoIGyGxc&list=LL&index=94</a> | null | cropcirclbureau | null | 1,642,512,085 | "2022-01-18T13:21:25Z" | comment | 29,978,609 | 29,978,230 | null | null | null |
166,571 | null | null | China's new regard for environmental safety can also be interpreted as a failure in the older model of disregarding the environment.<p>Rather like how the US laws were passed due due to failures in its older model.<p>> main reasoning behind UBI is the crime threat created by the poor<p>That's news to me. Source please?<p>Checking Wikipedia - nope, don't see that listed as a factor. Checking Google Scholar found <a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25538/w25538.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w25538/w255...</a>:<p>- One commonly cited reason to adopt a UBI is the combination of labor-displacing technological change –journalist Annie Lowrey calls this“the robot apocalypse” (Lowrey 2018)–and rising inequality and wage stagnation.<p>- Alternatively, a UBI might be seen as a response to perceived inadequacies --ineffectiveness, inefficiencies,unfairness, contingency, or insufficiency --of the current social safety net.<p><a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050317-070954" rel="nofollow">https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-polis...</a> lists:<p>- Those proposals share with recent versions of UBI a commitment to the view that a share of the wealth produced by all in common, or by previous generations, should be redistributed to all in the form of a direct payment to individuals.<p>- In a context of systemic discrimination against African-Americans and the resulting widespread unemployment and poverty, Martin Luther King, Jr. [2010 (1967)], the Black Panther Party, and James Boggs (1968) also considered guaranteed income as a strategy.<p>- Meanwhile, feminists, including the Wages for Housework movement in the 1970s, also discussed an income separate from labor as a way to weaken the prominence of the male breadwinner model<p>- Milton Friedman [thought] it would reduce the paternalistic and intrusive state bureaucracy required to decide who, among the poor, merits assistance<p>While there does seem to be evidence that UBI reduces crime, that appears to be a supporting argument, not the main one.<p>I strongly doubt the Black Panther Party would have supported increased police funding instead of UBI. Friedman's argument was "market forces ... accomplish wonderful things" but "cannot ensure a distribution of income that enables all citizens to meet basic economic needs".<p>I therefore believe your position does not have a solid foundation.<p>> and next year will become a non-US person for tax purposes?<p>The US has an expatriation tax. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax#United_States" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expatriation_tax#United_States</a> . And the US isn't currently accepting expatriation requests, which require an in-person interview, because of covid. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29745981" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29745981</a><p>And US politicians have threatened to pass laws to make it harder to use expatriation as a tax-avoidance mechanism. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-PATRIOT_Act" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex-PATRIOT_Act</a> .<p>So I don't think you understand the actual details.<p>Further, his leaving for this purpose would greatly decrease the influence of the Gates Foundation, and limit his ability to visit the US, where he has the most influence.<p>> but no foreign capital will come in<p>Yes, I got that - you want the entire world to be a tax haven, catering to the richest of the rich, with warnings of the dire consequences should there be the slightest restriction in the free flow of capital.<p>> it is a country for the 1%, or even less.<p>8 billion people on the planet * 1% = 80 million. Population of the US = 330 million.<p>By your numbers, the US is <i>NOT</i> a place for at least 250 million of the current population. You've implicitly agreed that that's a bad thing, but you seem to think increased police funding is the better way to improve it? Note that the US already pays a lot in police funding, which doesn't seem to have helped.<p>> the end of the good old U.S.<p>I don't know what that means. Why would the US will break up because of this?<p>> simply become an irrelevant backwater<p>When did Brazil become an irrelevant backwater? Does Embraer no longer produce planes?<p>Brazil is ranked #12 in GDP by country.<p>> Do you want to be like the EU where people immigrate mostly for the "free stuff", and sometimes never work at all again after moving in?<p>Odd then that all the people I know who immigrated to the EU work. Given your earlier statements, I'm going to need some stronger evidence for that claim.<p>Nevertheless, since I support UBI, knowing that some people will sit around smoking pot all day while watching the surf, absolutely yes. Yet you sound like you're surprised?<p>I also expect that a lot of FOSS developers will jump at the chance to work on software projects used around the world, without having to worry about where the money comes from.<p>I think the benefits of the latter will far outweigh the former.<p>Famously, UB40 get their name from the unemployment form all of the band founders needed to sign, as they were unemployed when the founded the band. Famously, J. K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book while living on benefits. | null | eesmith | null | 1,642,512,085 | "2022-01-18T13:21:25Z" | comment | 29,978,608 | 29,977,925 | null | null | null |
166,572 | null | null | I'd love to use the Google photos API but it's really frustrating that Google won't include geolocation data. | null | dddddaviddddd | null | 1,642,512,070 | "2022-01-18T13:21:10Z" | comment | 29,978,605 | 29,978,429 | null | null | null |
166,573 | null | null | It doesn’t stop piracy, but it decreases it by making it much more difficult and higher-friction.<p>Claiming DRM does nothing is a bit like anti-vaxers claiming the Covid vaccine “doesn’t work” because the virus can still spread… | null | umanwizard | null | 1,642,512,069 | "2022-01-18T13:21:09Z" | comment | 29,978,604 | 29,978,267 | null | null | null |
166,574 | null | null | They're not always synonymous.
Much of the time it's a little of column A, little of column B.<p>Even so, I try to ensure that my contracting engagements demonstrate my value as a consultant. | null | jpitz | null | 1,642,512,075 | "2022-01-18T13:21:15Z" | comment | 29,978,607 | 29,978,523 | null | null | null |
166,575 | null | null | It is not about plain fertility rate but tipping of demographic balance between communities by various means. It can create pockets of Muslim majority in countries where they are minority and then "right to self-determination" means partitions. | null | dharmach | null | 1,642,512,071 | "2022-01-18T13:21:11Z" | comment | 29,978,606 | 29,978,448 | null | null | null |
166,576 | null | null | Next to the usual 3-2-1 backup cycle I also keep a downscaled (around 5 Megapixels) full backup on my phone (SD card). The originals have several terabytes. Should everything else fail - at least some will survive. Also it's nice to quickly browse the collection. | null | gsich | null | 1,642,512,064 | "2022-01-18T13:21:04Z" | comment | 29,978,601 | 29,978,099 | null | null | null |
166,577 | null | null | I like yours better but then I have to explain it to non-techincal people. | null | JaimeThompson | null | 1,642,512,062 | "2022-01-18T13:21:02Z" | comment | 29,978,600 | 29,974,906 | null | null | null |
166,578 | null | null | The things you describe are reasonable in general, but break down under the extremes of present day security, software development too. The problem is that <i>most</i> people who think they can do it, can't. That is, most professionals will take on more challenging problems than they are practically qualified for. If the bulk of an industry can't judge its own competence, customers and courts have no chance of doing so. And yet this is increasingly a requirement for doing business at all. You can't simply tell people to stop using computers.<p>If you can't define "reasonable" for the purposes of writing a law, it's a good indication that people won't know what it means when they try to obey the law. You can't make laws that nobody knows how to follow. | null | extension | null | 1,274,442,967 | "2010-05-21T11:56:07Z" | comment | 1,367,051 | 1,363,778 | null | null | null |
166,579 | null | null | That's security by obscurity - either do it right (if your data demands it) or don't put any effort in it at all, IMHO. | null | parasec | null | 1,642,512,068 | "2022-01-18T13:21:08Z" | comment | 29,978,602 | 29,978,581 | null | null | null |
166,580 | null | null | I think you exaggerate. Some native apps I use were last updated 5 or 10 years ago. | null | pseudalopex | null | 1,626,063,038 | "2021-07-12T04:10:38Z" | comment | 27,806,964 | 27,806,296 | null | null | null |
166,581 | null | null | It was 2018. See this CNBC article on how they scrambled to try and fix it.<p><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/19/amazon-internal-documents-what-caused-prime-day-crash-company-scramble.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/19/ama...</a> | null | nodesocket | null | 1,626,063,038 | "2021-07-12T04:10:38Z" | comment | 27,806,965 | 27,806,787 | null | null | null |
166,582 | null | null | Correct. The price of Insulin has nothing to do with "funding research." It is simply price gouging - that's it. | null | pkphilip | null | 1,626,063,047 | "2021-07-12T04:10:47Z" | comment | 27,806,966 | 27,806,937 | null | null | null |
166,583 | null | null | What you're saying should be absolutely correct, but in practice incredibly naive.<p>First, I don't disagree the market and price discovery can benefit from shorting. But here we're talking about retirement accounts that are already long the stocks in question. There's no world in which the owners of those stocks benefit from them being lent out to short sellers, despite creative rhetoric to the contrary. If the shorters are right and the company is a fraud, it's STILL not in the interest of owners of stock in that company to lend their shares out. If anything, it's even MORE in their interest to NOT lend them out to be sold short, instead, they need all the help they can get to keep the price up so they can make a controlled exit themselves.<p>Second, why, if a decrease in price is all just an artifact of shorting, and it is in fact a solid, profitable business with a bright future, can't this be easily countered by simply pointing that out and buying the shares at a discount until the market catches on and the price skyrockets back up?<p>Because, unfortunately, it's much easier to just go with the momentum and jump on the shorting bandwagon, betting the stock will go down even more. Even if you tried to stem the drop, the short sellers can just borrow even more stocks and continue to overwhelm you with selling pressure.<p>This dynamic plays out all the time in US stock markets, and this isn't even taking into account abusive naked shorting, which is actually kinda sorta illegal except even the rules against that aren't meaningfully enforced. | null | bedobi | null | 1,626,063,079 | "2021-07-12T04:11:19Z" | comment | 27,806,967 | 27,806,769 | null | null | null |
166,584 | null | null | Fascinating story. Of course, it doesn't make a lot of sense on its face, and many people would say that it's impossible.<p>No doubt you can identify an example of this happening? Even once? | null | Lazare | null | 1,626,062,987 | "2021-07-12T04:09:47Z" | comment | 27,806,960 | 27,806,819 | null | null | null |
166,585 | null | null | The "open" Internet is done for because in recent years most governments have realised that the natural culmination of an open Internet is in fact an open, cross-mingling, world culture, community and economy, and eventually, the deprecation of the traditional idea of nation states. And you can prise that control from their cold, dead hands.<p>PS. Include mega-corps in 'nation states' above. They both want total control over the Internet. They <i>will</i> get it too, in some proportion. Because truly democratic forces are too weak and disorganised, as always. | null | Santosh83 | null | 1,626,062,999 | "2021-07-12T04:09:59Z" | comment | 27,806,961 | 27,805,937 | null | null | null |
166,586 | null | null | AWS and Amazon run on completely separate systems/hardware.<p>Amazon's internal, last i read, was years behind AWS's infrastructure and they're generally jealous of not having the same tools available.<p>I tried finding the article, but maybe someone else can help me remember? | null | irjustin | null | 1,626,063,005 | "2021-07-12T04:10:05Z" | comment | 27,806,962 | 27,806,813 | null | null | null |
166,587 | null | null | But the issue when I avoid render_template() is this:
I can't add the CSS file along with the HTML one, unless I create a <style> tag at the end of the file that has all of the CSS content. Can you comment on that? | null | redfox2 | null | 1,626,063,035 | "2021-07-12T04:10:35Z" | comment | 27,806,963 | 27,799,995 | null | null | null |
166,588 | null | null | One is none, two is coincidence, three is enemy action, let's not get ahead of things here. Older MIGs are not the most reliable craft and single engine jets are always at risk of some kind of mishap. These planes are now flying many more sorties than they have made in years. | null | jacquesm | null | 1,646,261,547 | "2022-03-02T22:52:27Z" | comment | 30,534,507 | 30,534,086 | null | null | null |
166,589 | null | null | Am I wrong or is this a new round of brigaded down votes? | null | readflaggedcomm | null | 1,626,063,084 | "2021-07-12T04:11:24Z" | comment | 27,806,968 | 27,801,685 | null | null | null |
166,590 | null | null | Hopefully we'll see some sort of writeup regarding what caused the global amazon network to start chucking errors. I'm curious as to how this wasn't isolated to one individual region | null | beefjerkins | null | 1,626,063,090 | "2021-07-12T04:11:30Z" | comment | 27,806,969 | 27,806,618 | null | null | null |
166,591 | null | null | Who approved that application? Your old manager? | null | hinkley | null | 1,646,261,554 | "2022-03-02T22:52:34Z" | comment | 30,534,508 | 30,534,406 | null | null | null |
166,592 | null | null | > Not sure where you get that number.<p><a href="https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html" rel="nofollow">https://wonder.cdc.gov/vaers.html</a><p>Like I said, the VAERS site.<p>> The response to Covid and vaccine insanity has been ultra overblown.<p>Last year the UK ran short of mortuaries and body bags.<p>On several occasions, hospitals have been unable to meet demand in various different ways, from beds (meaning staff for them rather than literally beds), to oxygen.<p>> I had a family friend that shot himself in a hunting accident. Drove himself to the hospital bleeding, didn't make it 24 hours. Tested positive for Covid. Labeled covid death.<p>My condolences.<p>But it works both ways: If he’d had a recent vaccine instead of a covid infection, that would be listed on VAERS as correlated to the vaccine, from what I gather. | null | ben_w | null | 1,639,596,010 | "2021-12-15T19:20:10Z" | comment | 29,570,400 | 29,569,509 | null | null | null |
166,593 | null | null | It's not available for me in Indonesia with this message:<p>This title is not available for customers from your location in:
Asia & Pacific<p>What will it cost when it's released later? | null | bertzzie | null | 1,345,209,527 | "2012-08-17T13:18:47Z" | comment | 4,396,172 | 4,396,117 | null | null | null |
166,594 | null | null | If it's 2022 and someone is _still_ saving plaintext in a non-Unicode encoding where going with Unicode is a perfectly viable option, I will personally ensure that (figuratively) they are burnt at the stake.<p>In addition to UTF-8, my language happens to have ~2 additional code pages/Latin based encodings. Some websites still serve (or very recently used to serve) text files in such broken encodings, so I have to convert such files before use. It's deeply unpleasant. Windows has supported UTF-8 in some fashion for over 15 years, get with the program people.<p>(I would make an exception for preserving historical non-UTF-8 files in their original byte-exact form, for the same reason that I wouldn't digitise an analogue photograph and then burn the original - but let's be real, all such files have been created by now) | null | selfhoster11 | null | 1,646,261,557 | "2022-03-02T22:52:37Z" | comment | 30,534,509 | 30,527,638 | null | null | null |
166,595 | null | null | I think the question is, do the potential proof you speak of exist in this specific case | null | make3 | null | 1,513,735,572 | "2017-12-20T02:06:12Z" | comment | 15,966,423 | 15,966,315 | null | null | null |
166,596 | null | null | On the other end of the audio stack, I highly recommend this multipart video lecture about microphone design. The guy is a legit microphone engineer who knows what he's talking about and explains it really well. Some of the principles, like how directional vs. omnidirectional microphones work, are actually quite intuitive and much simpler than I would have guessed.<p><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihAG6cMpUlY" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=ihAG6cMpUlY</a> | null | baddox | null | 1,417,301,118 | "2014-11-29T22:45:18Z" | comment | 8,675,349 | 8,675,155 | null | null | null |
166,597 | null | null | Reddit is a misinformation hotspot right now. It’s a tabloid where the most decisive and sensational tidbits rise to the top. | null | wmeredith | null | 1,513,735,570 | "2017-12-20T02:06:10Z" | comment | 15,966,422 | 15,965,286 | null | null | null |
166,598 | null | null | It's not perfect yet -- Facebook knows that I went to university in Cambridge (UK) but keeps asking me if photos from my undergraduate years were taken in Cambridge (Massachusetts). | null | grifaton | null | 1,324,467,398 | "2011-12-21T11:36:38Z" | comment | 3,377,193 | 3,377,018 | null | null | null |
166,599 | null | null | I am Asian.<p>What I've noticed is that the kids who have to be "forced" to study ad-nauseum usually aren't the top performers. They're around the middle, but their families desperately want them to be the top.<p>The top students are much more self motivated. They tend to be more or less equivalent to their supposedly more-well-rounded white counterparts. | null | vineel | null | 1,366,847,100 | "2013-04-24T23:45:00Z" | comment | 5,604,771 | 5,604,068 | null | null | null |
166,600 | null | null | The editor is not open source, it's just a client SDK towards their API. | null | tmikaeld | null | 1,639,596,024 | "2021-12-15T19:20:24Z" | comment | 29,570,405 | 29,567,592 | null | null | null |
166,601 | null | null | > and different definitions of "sane"<p>It's even so to a point that it is funny that they use this word in such an argument. Who in their right mind would assume that "sane" (and "hypersane") would be an objective enough of a concept to even dedicate time discussing? Neither science knows what is sane, nor does spirituality teachings use that word often. | null | Erlich_Bachman | null | 1,565,680,923 | "2019-08-13T07:22:03Z" | comment | 20,683,528 | 20,682,896 | null | null | null |
166,602 | null | null | It does look impressive but keep in mind the presentation would likely be tailored to the tool's specific strengths.<p>Every WYSIWYG editor I've ever used was always only useful up to a point. Maybe this one breaks that mold but there's no way to know until we can take it for a spin. | null | gaoshan | null | 1,382,211,034 | "2013-10-19T19:30:34Z" | comment | 6,577,492 | 6,576,943 | null | null | null |
166,603 | null | null | Wow is this really how the industry views it? The notion of having one "less fixed" engine on a twin engine commercial jet aircraft is ok, so long as the other engine is the more fixed version? Sounds incredibly risky.<p>For such a critical component, I figured they would adopt the military position: "2 is one... one is none". | null | thelittleone | null | 1,565,680,933 | "2019-08-13T07:22:13Z" | comment | 20,683,529 | 20,682,128 | null | null | null |
166,604 | null | null | Most important paragraph, IMO:<p>> Conducted Oct. 8 to 10, the online poll surveyed 1,545 Canadians and cannot be assigned a margin of error because internet-based polls are not considered random samples.<p>It's a pretty good sample-size, but we don't get error bars. I don't remember if there was anything FB-critical happening that week (when did the study about teen mental health come out?), but the timeframe could also affect the survey. | null | distortedsignal | null | 1,634,314,949 | "2021-10-15T16:22:29Z" | comment | 28,879,519 | 28,878,991 | null | null | null |
166,605 | null | null | > Because you have to do something beyond having your telephone ready to use, like making a call - and the call associated Metadata is a given, location is somewhat inherent to a landline.<p>Concerning cellphones, that is a distinction that only you make. Network-based location service doesn't make it, nor do the authorities, nor do the telcos, nor does your phone. Network-location can be done even on dumb phones, and if they can capture your location from making a call, they can capture your location without you making a call.<p>Regarding handset-based GPS technology also does not depend on whether or not you're actively making a call or not. Obviously, this excludes dumb phones that don't have GPS, but location tracking is done anytime your phone is on and the GPS radio is active. if the GPS radio is inactive, network-based location still works. If your phone is on, your GPS radio is active, if someone is tracking you based on that information, it makes no difference to them whatsoever whether your phone is making a call or not -- you are just as trackable either way.<p>Beyond this, again, I fail to see the distinction anywhere. If we're just talking about what's in Smith v MD, which was decided in 1979, then we can exclude all cell phone data whatsoever, as they weren't in use then. If we're talking about just landlines, then the content of the calls would be excluded anyway. Either way, none of it is necessarily conclusive without the content of the call itself, because anybody could have made the call.<p>I'm just confused as to where you chose to draw the line specifically, as there really isn't a line there. You're of course welcome to make the distinction however you like, but if you're basing it on some precedent, I'm afraid there isn't any. If you're basing it on technological limitations, then again, there isn't any. If it's just your personal preference on how trackable you think you ought to be, then I'm worried you're dramatically underestimating the implication of what you're saying. | null | bmelton | null | 1,387,308,507 | "2013-12-17T19:28:27Z" | comment | 6,923,278 | 6,922,914 | null | null | null |
166,606 | null | null | True for the desktop, when targeting certain browser versions, though. | null | pjmlp | null | 1,387,308,509 | "2013-12-17T19:28:29Z" | comment | 6,923,279 | 6,923,169 | null | null | null |
166,607 | null | null | > The analogy with the railroads simply is not apt, their monopoly was so powerful because there was often no other way to get from point A to point B, so they had complete leverage.<p>I still believe the analogy holds, just substitute geographical points A and B with person A and person B (or business A to potential client B), and the similarities are obviously clear. There is often no other way to get from person A to person B than to use Facebook, or from person C to D without Twitter, ... . Yes, there are various social networks, but there was also various railway barons. Just like the railway was not a single nationwide monopoly, but instead a series of smaller regional monopolies, a single social network is not an all encompassing internet-wide monopoly, but instead a monopoly lording over a subgroup. | null | SkeuomorphicBee | null | 1,634,314,910 | "2021-10-15T16:21:50Z" | comment | 28,879,510 | 28,878,992 | null | null | null |
166,608 | null | null | Good catch, thank you. While Steam currently <i>prints</i> money AFAIK, they're simultaneously 30 years behind Apple and Microsoft (as far as being the driving force of a desktop) and the reason Steam (and gaming on Linux) has come so far, so fast recently. | null | 29083011397778 | null | 1,634,314,914 | "2021-10-15T16:21:54Z" | comment | 28,879,511 | 28,879,431 | null | null | null |
166,609 | null | null | We truly don't own our devices. | null | vardump | null | 1,634,314,928 | "2021-10-15T16:22:08Z" | comment | 28,879,512 | 28,877,303 | null | null | null |
166,610 | null | null | There's more to screen quality than just pixels. | null | megous | null | 1,634,314,939 | "2021-10-15T16:22:19Z" | comment | 28,879,514 | 28,878,346 | null | null | null |
166,611 | null | null | The VB6 runtime is still installed on Windows 10, but no one (should) considers that a viable Framework to target in 2019.<p>Maybe a better analogy is that .NET Framework 1.x and .NET Framework 2-4.x are side-by-side installed still in Windows 10. If you wanted you could still target .NET 1.0 and it will run in an entirely different runtime (.NET 1.x and 2.x are hugely different). .NET was designed for that sort of side-by-side deployment, they just haven't done it in a while.<p>Yet I've not met a developer that still sees .NET 1.x as a viable Framework recently. Do you want .NET 4.8 applications to just break? What do you expect here? The "current framework" is always a combination of marketing and support and this article seems pretty clear that all marketing and support effort will be on .NET 5, and .NET 4.8 is "done". | null | WorldMaker | null | 1,557,178,462 | "2019-05-06T21:34:22Z" | comment | 19,844,124 | 19,843,629 | null | null | null |
166,612 | null | null | Edit: My understanding of the science here was at least slightly wrong. Please see the reply from
LurkingPenguin and eventually my reply to them<p>I think results like vaccinated individuals “can” have viral loads as high as unvaccinated individuals are next to useless. I need to know how likely I am to have high viral loads and my understanding of the science there is that vaccines still do a decent job of lowering the odds. I know you aren’t really arguing against vaccination here, but it seems like it needed to be said and I think the “vaccinated individuals can have high viral loads” line is particularly bad | null | space_fountain | null | 1,634,314,942 | "2021-10-15T16:22:22Z" | comment | 28,879,516 | 28,879,357 | null | null | null |
166,613 | null | null | Facebook also sells the Oculus Quest 2 for business. You need to activate it with a workplace.com account, but the headset no longer requires a personal Facebook account to work.<p>Incidentally, the business version is also twice as expensive and comes with a yearly $180 support subscription. The price of privacy, I suppose. | null | jeroenhd | null | 1,634,314,943 | "2021-10-15T16:22:23Z" | comment | 28,879,517 | 28,878,321 | null | null | null |
166,614 | null | null | That's quite the slanted framing.<p>An alternate framing: one was president of the United States and one got pushed down a flight of stairs for making fun of a kid because his father committed suicide. | null | kevinh | null | 1,667,772,261 | "2022-11-06T22:04:21Z" | comment | 33,497,865 | 33,497,735 | null | null | null |
166,615 | null | null | I think this has been much relaxed recently. You just need to prove that you live in Shanghai for more than 6 months (rental is okay) and either pay social security taxes or are registered as seeking employment. Thanks to the one child policy, if they don't relax enrollment policy the schools are going to run out of students.<p>The condition for enrolling in public schools:
<a href="http://www.shanghai.gov.cn/nw2/nw2314/nw2319/nw12344/u26aw55084.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.shanghai.gov.cn/nw2/nw2314/nw2319/nw12344/u26aw55...</a><p>The condition for obtaining residency registration:
<a href="http://zwdt.sh.gov.cn/zwdtSW/zwdtSW/juzhuzheng/lsjzz.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://zwdt.sh.gov.cn/zwdtSW/zwdtSW/juzhuzheng/lsjzz.jsp</a> | null | fspeech | null | 1,521,428,393 | "2018-03-19T02:59:53Z" | comment | 16,615,958 | 16,613,194 | null | null | null |
166,616 | null | null | fossil helps alleviate these issues with it's autosync feature: <a href="http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/concepts.wiki" rel="nofollow">http://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/concepts.wiki</a> | null | zie | null | 1,521,428,391 | "2018-03-19T02:59:51Z" | comment | 16,615,957 | 16,613,142 | null | null | null |
166,617 | null | null | I think of it as like a magazine. I follow many people I think are interesting and news companies I like. Usually they are tweeting links to articles or interviews I'm interested. | true | ImSkeptical | null | 1,521,428,317 | "2018-03-19T02:58:37Z" | comment | 16,615,956 | 16,615,316 | null | null | null |
166,618 | null | null | Yep, and I consider this one of the main advantages of tools like SASS, even. | null | ken | null | 1,521,428,287 | "2018-03-19T02:58:07Z" | comment | 16,615,954 | 16,612,484 | null | null | null |
166,619 | null | null | Grenada is not comparable to Ukraine and Mexico. | null | lern_too_spel | null | 1,521,428,267 | "2018-03-19T02:57:47Z" | comment | 16,615,953 | 16,599,305 | null | null | null |
166,620 | null | null | Possibly of interest to LuneOS developers, whose codebase started with an earlier source drop of webOS. | null | petecox | null | 1,521,428,219 | "2018-03-19T02:56:59Z" | comment | 16,615,952 | 16,615,740 | null | null | null |
166,621 | null | null | According to Webpack's donation site, <a href="https://opencollective.com/webpack" rel="nofollow">https://opencollective.com/webpack</a>, the creator of Webpack, "Sokra," made $44,164 off of Webpack development in 2017 (and $9,000 so far in 2018).<p>We're in a new world of sustainable open source software development, enabled by services like Patreon and this one.<p>Maybe it's petty, but as someone who works on several open source projects without reimbursement, I hope that such "hefty" funding leads to better documentation, better community support, and cleaner upgrade paths. Webpack is notoriously fickle and confusing when it comes to configuration, and at a glance Webpack 4 doesn't seem to have helped with that. Although I certainly appreciate performance improvements.<p>Can I request that funds be diverted into community support and enforcing clean writing across documentation pages? That's what Webpack needs most, and has always needed, by far over any core API changes. | null | stevebmark | null | 1,521,428,215 | "2018-03-19T02:56:55Z" | comment | 16,615,951 | 16,615,275 | null | null | null |
166,622 | null | null | The problem comes up when send tickets in the mail though. Cops game the system by putting motorway cameras in speeding traps to draw money into the court system.<p>Atleast when a cop gives you an unjust ticket they have to face you. With a machine it's just print a ticket and ship it out. Who do you appeal to? | true | wpdev_63 | null | 1,521,428,206 | "2018-03-19T02:56:46Z" | comment | 16,615,950 | 16,604,033 | null | null | null |
166,623 | null | null | There is no doubt that, in large parts of Congo, people are worse off than they were ca. 1960. But do you seriously propose a return to colonialism as the solution? Because that is what your governor Pétillon remark seems to say... I don't believe such plan could get major support in Congo atm.<p>My objection is with the after the fact justification of colonialism. Charity was never an objective of colonial efforts, it would be very naive to think otherwise. The fact that the rapid decolonization (which was by no means the end of foreign intervention in Congolese affairs) did not lead to a stable and prosperous independant state, is no argument in favour of colonization either.<p>I'm honestly surprised of the upvotes these neo-colonial comments are getting. | null | td | null | 1,276,632,677 | "2010-06-15T20:11:17Z" | comment | 1,433,739 | 1,431,468 | null | null | null |
166,624 | null | null | Part of the issue with Bell is that it's not clear to anyone that it was really in jest, or even just a hypothetical future proposal. He proposed an assassination market, <i>and was collecting home addresses of IRS and FBI officials</i>, coincidentally. | null | _delirium | null | 1,381,710,266 | "2013-10-14T00:24:26Z" | comment | 6,544,697 | 6,544,557 | null | null | null |
166,625 | null | null | I'm sure I could <i>subsist</i> on a very minimal salary. But what would I be left doing? I enjoy traveling, I enjoy playing several musical instruments, I enjoy owning a reasonable computer (granted, my main laptop is a $300 eBay find), I enjoy eating interesting food, I enjoy buying books, I enjoy doing fun things with friends. And I wish I worked less so I could do all of the above a lot more.<p>Sure, I could compromise on all of that. Couchsurf. Use the library (both for its books and its computers). Become a better cook to make more with less. Do other things with friends. Etcetera etcetera etcetera.<p>But the mere term "compromise" implies "loss of originally-expected value", and there comes a point where I could have all the time in the world and not enjoy spending time on anything. Back to the OP, I question what Price does all day when he's not working odd jobs. I almost expected him to be an artist or novelist or somesuch. | null | tsm | null | 1,381,710,255 | "2013-10-14T00:24:15Z" | comment | 6,544,696 | 6,544,012 | null | null | null |
166,626 | null | null | Thanks for submitting this news through a link to a professionally edited newspaper rather than through a press-release-recycling website. This preliminary study needs more replication, of course, just like most preliminary studies, but it has interested implications. I wonder what a study of the effectiveness of televised public service messages about not snacking while watching television would show. | null | tokenadult | null | 1,381,710,255 | "2013-10-14T00:24:15Z" | comment | 6,544,695 | 6,544,506 | null | null | null |
166,627 | null | null | Right. The last time i used subversion was about 7 years ago, so i forgot it. But it makes sense for centralized vc | null | phaer | null | 1,381,710,253 | "2013-10-14T00:24:13Z" | comment | 6,544,694 | 6,542,558 | null | null | null |
166,628 | null | null | Vagrant is also an awesome alternative to a VM or full installation of any Linux flavor. I've been playing with it and together with the subset of Linux commands that comes with MSysGit I can even SSH into the Vagrant box from the regular Windows command prompt or Console2. | null | tucaz | null | 1,368,817,458 | "2013-05-17T19:04:18Z" | comment | 5,726,128 | 5,726,076 | null | null | null |
166,629 | null | null | Stock options: There is a thrill to knowing that, however small the chance, there is a large payout potentially waiting for you. | null | ttrreeww | null | 1,368,817,459 | "2013-05-17T19:04:19Z" | comment | 5,726,129 | 5,725,984 | null | null | null |
166,630 | null | null | I assumed those were recorded with consent (or in jurisdictions where unilateral recording is legal).<p>Unilateral recording is old law; I wouldn't de-facto assume Google is just blowing past that without some much stronger evidence. | null | fixermark | null | 1,525,814,655 | "2018-05-08T21:24:15Z" | comment | 17,025,289 | 17,025,246 | null | null | null |
166,631 | null | null | More details in XDA Developers interview with Kan Liu. Also suggesting GPU acceleration support later this year<p><a href="https://www.xda-developers.com/chrome-os-linux-app-support-google-pixelbook/" rel="nofollow">https://www.xda-developers.com/chrome-os-linux-app-support-g...</a><p>My prediction: VS Code / Pixelbook becomes a formidable devenv for many in the coming months ;)<p>You can always try Neverware on a live usb to get a taste<p><a href="https://www.neverware.com/freedownload" rel="nofollow">https://www.neverware.com/freedownload</a> | null | indescions_2018 | null | 1,525,814,653 | "2018-05-08T21:24:13Z" | comment | 17,025,288 | 17,024,637 | null | null | null |
166,632 | null | null | I think it's hilarious this announcement is in the middle of 30 different huge GoogleIO AI and Machine Learning announcements.<p>Confession: This is the one I care about. | null | scrollaway | null | 1,525,814,651 | "2018-05-08T21:24:11Z" | comment | 17,025,287 | 17,025,087 | null | null | null |
166,633 | null | null | This has to my favorite part: <a href="https://youtu.be/ogfYd705cRs?t=2536" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/ogfYd705cRs?t=2536</a> | null | Jaepa | null | 1,525,814,645 | "2018-05-08T21:24:05Z" | comment | 17,025,286 | 17,022,514 | null | null | null |
166,634 | null | null | I wonder how many of these features could be implemented (far sooner) if a universal UI scripting language was available for users... | null | tomp | null | 1,525,814,622 | "2018-05-08T21:23:42Z" | comment | 17,025,285 | 17,025,003 | null | null | null |
166,635 | null | null | That end game seems very wasteful and Rube Goldbergian. Why use an 1800s technology as the transport layer when salons, yoga studios, and more already use things like MindBody, which already has an appointments API? I’d honestly be way more interested if this integrated with MindBody, OpenTable, DMV websites, car dealer appointment systems, medical office scheduling systems — all of which already have APIs or at least web pages. But then, saying that you wrote and will maintain some WWW mechanize stuff that posts forms is way less marketable to the general population who see this as magic.<p>Also, they’ll discontinue it after a year once it gets enough negative press about how it doesn’t work well and loses business for businesses. | null | seanp2k2 | null | 1,525,814,615 | "2018-05-08T21:23:35Z" | comment | 17,025,284 | 17,023,963 | null | null | null |
166,636 | null | null | I work frequently with startups / early-stage companies and have not found remote to be a legitimate problem or any different than the experiences encountered by established companies with regard to working remotely. Managing international payroll, or frankly even dealing with tax and regulatory differences among the 50 states is likely something many startups would be willing to outsource. Just dealing with several states was a burden, plus the administrative costs of a payroll service felt like a lot for the service received. | null | poulsbohemian | null | 1,525,814,614 | "2018-05-08T21:23:34Z" | comment | 17,025,283 | 17,021,655 | null | null | null |
166,637 | null | null | I miss Obama. Jesus christ, I can't believe i'm saying that now. | null | thrillgore | null | 1,525,814,612 | "2018-05-08T21:23:32Z" | comment | 17,025,282 | 17,024,398 | null | null | null |
166,638 | null | null | I'm 50+. More and more ready to chuck it. Or at least take a long sabbatical.<p>I have the funds to do it, probably. My parents both worked until they were about 70 and neither lived to see 75. So I'd like to avoid that ending.<p>If I do, I think I will go tech-free for a while. No internet, no cable TV. Books, some other non-tech hobbies. If I really need to look something up I can go to a coffee shop with a tablet. Sounds very tempting. | null | ams6110 | null | 1,525,814,609 | "2018-05-08T21:23:29Z" | comment | 17,025,281 | 17,024,023 | null | null | null |
166,639 | null | null | Yeah, no. No, I don't wish this was real. I want a real keyboard. This one looks even more ridiculous than the current disaster that is the butterfly keyboard.<p>Current trends are leading us to a laptop that is basically two iPhones (or tablets), connected with a hinge. The upper one being a display, and the lower one being a touchscreen, on which some neanderthal users will choose to run a keyboard/trackpad app. No thanks. I want a real keyboard. I think I lucked out -- my mid-2015 15" MBP turns out to be the peak MBP. | null | geophile | null | 1,525,814,606 | "2018-05-08T21:23:26Z" | comment | 17,025,280 | 17,025,175 | null | null | null |
166,640 | null | null | because most of ppl buy 1tb/2tb plan on Dropbox and OneDrive do not use all the space? whereas s3 is pay as you go model. | null | tuananh | null | 1,628,750,921 | "2021-08-12T06:48:41Z" | comment | 28,152,859 | 28,152,741 | null | null | null |
166,641 | null | null | good job chrys, looks impressive. Haven't used it yet, but happy to support. | null | dustineichler | null | 1,276,632,584 | "2010-06-15T20:09:44Z" | comment | 1,433,733 | 1,433,699 | null | null | null |
166,642 | null | null | thank you! | null | acdw | null | 1,663,360,838 | "2022-09-16T20:40:38Z" | comment | 32,871,755 | 32,779,699 | null | null | null |
166,643 | null | null | Hacker News is part of the elite, so that will never happen. Just look at how VC and YC companies Uber and AirBnB have eroded workers' rights and zoning laws for elite profit. That's the secret with all of these companies; they claim that using computers means they needn't follow the laws. Look at how YouTube shows children things no television network ever would've been allowed to show them, for another example. | null | verisimilitudes | null | 1,663,360,830 | "2022-09-16T20:40:30Z" | comment | 32,871,753 | 32,861,602 | null | null | null |
166,644 | null | null | I'm asking specifics, you're giving me ideology. Unless you have some evidence that people had to prove that they would it would be more profitable to layoff/close unless they got the loan, which is what I've asked.<p>> If that had happened, all of those people would have been applying for unemployment, COBRA, Obamacare plans, Medicaid, etc as well.<p>If we don't prefer direct aid over middlemen, why don't we route all social programs through middlemen? I'd like to volunteer, as long as I'm allowed a 40% cut off the top.<p>I have no objection to the government sending money to people who were made unemployed by covid. I have little objection to the government propping up marginal businesses that serve a valuable purpose in better times, but would otherwise fail during covid without aid, although I feel it was largely a landlord subsidy.<p>I'm asking a process question. | null | pessimizer | null | 1,663,360,829 | "2022-09-16T20:40:29Z" | comment | 32,871,752 | 32,870,941 | null | null | null |
166,645 | null | null | That makes sense. If people ended up not liking them or they broke easily developers could fall back to using the d-pad instead. | null | vlunkr | null | 1,426,189,426 | "2015-03-12T19:43:46Z" | comment | 9,193,272 | 9,193,084 | null | null | null |
166,646 | null | null | It's not corruption, just 'more of the same' nepotism. If you're shocked by this, you haven't really been paying attention. | null | aaronbrethorst | null | 1,426,189,449 | "2015-03-12T19:44:09Z" | comment | 9,193,273 | 9,192,154 | null | null | null |
166,647 | null | null | <i>In the end, it's all about pragmatism and experience. Over the years I've been bitten for over abstracting and under abstracting. Over the years you develop a weather sense for how extensible a particular piece of code needs to be.</i><p>Bingo. It's easy to sit back and say "never guess about extensibility that might be needed in the future." But I posit that there are degrees of guesswork; that is to say, there's a difference between a wild assed guess with no basis at all, and a guess based on years of experience solving similar problems in a related domain. Experience counts for something, and part of that is noticing familiar patterns (not "design patterns" necessarily, just patterns in the general) that tend to crop up in certain situations. I think making some speculative decisions based on the latter form of guesswork can be a net positive more often than not.<p>Of course I don't have scientific evidence to back that up, but I believe it very strongly based on my own experience. | null | mindcrime | null | 1,296,100,749 | "2011-01-27T03:59:09Z" | comment | 2,146,518 | 2,144,325 | null | null | null |
166,648 | null | null | An embarrassing confession: I never know the final total until I do taxes. ("Oh, I spent <i>how much</i> on that hotel stay?", "200 hours of overtime pay in one month? Surely that is a mispr... I am so glad I quit.") | null | patio11 | null | 1,296,100,760 | "2011-01-27T03:59:20Z" | comment | 2,146,519 | 2,146,285 | null | null | null |
166,649 | null | null | Looking at my local Home Depot's website, they do have a few different options for NEMA inlets in stock, but the options are pretty limited, and they're all larger connectors, not your standard 3-prong connector onto which you could shove the female end of an extension cord (which is what I really wanted for my power-strip-with-detachable-cord projects; I can't really speak to why others might want a male-to-male cable). | null | TOGoS | null | 1,663,360,820 | "2022-09-16T20:40:20Z" | comment | 32,871,751 | 32,870,517 | null | null | null |
166,650 | null | null | I, for one, sincerely hope the semantics of truthy/falsy operations of which I've grown accustomed to these past 19 years don't change. I tend to appreciate these expressions in JS moreso on actual user input operations. | null | say2joe | null | 1,426,189,450 | "2015-03-12T19:44:10Z" | comment | 9,193,274 | 9,192,075 | null | null | null |
166,651 | null | null | Even those in the 'backroom' (like me) are typically under some fairly agressive non-disclosures with the VC themselves to avoid leakage of company info. That won't stop jerks from trying to pump people for information but I have yet to see someone get any mileage out of that. I <i>have</i> seen a reputation or two being destroyed that way (of the person trying to get information in such a back-handed manner).<p>VCs are very image conscious, if they lost their influx of potentials because their reputation took a hit because of a real or perceived hi-jack of someone else's idea then they would suffer immensely so they are very protective of this channel.<p>I'm not sure if it would be an existential issue but I'm definitely sure that it would hurt badly to be known as 'the VC that you can't pitch to because they'll rip your idea'. | null | jacquesm | null | 1,426,189,452 | "2015-03-12T19:44:12Z" | comment | 9,193,275 | 9,193,231 | null | null | null |
166,652 | null | null | norova, do you know anyone else in the Chicago area who would be interested in doing this? Let's get the ball rolling. | null | faitswulff | null | 1,296,100,626 | "2011-01-27T03:57:06Z" | comment | 2,146,512 | 2,146,433 | null | null | null |