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peterjlee

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    Comment #17076527

    Alternatively, you could put your computer in a tank of mineral oil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V06LLTNxc4

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    Comment #17069713

    Millennials still watch sports and it's still pretty hard to watch sports without having your parent's cable service logins..

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    Comment #16990027

    Have you tried https://play.pocketcasts.com/ ?

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    Comment #16989984

    I've been frustrated with many free podcast apps so I paid for Pocket Casts and I've been happy since. I think it's a smart move by NPR et al. What they want is the usage data like…

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    Comment #16761727

    I don't like using fingerprints because my fingerprint is literally left on the reader. Anybody with a scotch tape can get a copy of my fingerprint left on the reader or the screen…

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    Comment #16701812

    I think what killed AIM, MSN, etc. was SMS. You had to meet your friends in person at school or be home in front of a computer to talk to your friends. With SMS you can talk to the…

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    Comment #16504483

    Here's a 2014 study of top 39 US CS programs on what language they user for their intro courses. More than half use Python, followed by Java. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/1…

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    Comment #16488896

    I'm using unit cost here so it's easier to see how I personally feel about it. Just multiply the number by however many employees you want to imagine.

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    Comment #16488623

    I'm just using the per user cost here. $6.67/user/mo is the standard plan price if you pay annually.

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    Comment #16488390

    If Slack was down for 5 minutes in a month that will break the 99.99% SLA. If you pay $6.67/mo for Slack, 6.67 * (0.01%) * 100 = 0.07 Yea I'll rather have Slack for that 5 minutes …

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    Comment #16488341

    I'm not suggesting any theories. I'm just pointing out that Apple isn't really in a terrible position because of this news.

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    Comment #16481634

    This might be a good scenario for Apple. Apple doesn't have to build a backdoor, which is good for PR, and the Feds got what they want to they'll stop bothering Apple. Which is the…

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    Comment #16431695

    One thought I had was that species evolved to maximize the survival of the species, not the individual organism. Once an organism is too old to reproduce or contribute to the survi…

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    Comment #16342390

    Just anecdotal but all of my friends who majored in chemical engineering are somehow software engineers now..

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    Comment #16342291

    How does one go about telling the DMV that your car is no longer in use because you sent it up to space on a rocket?

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    Comment #16336774

    Who are the "wilfully accepting" people you speak of? I think most people aren't accepting nor rejecting anything. Someone is hungry and now they have food delivered. Someone doesn…

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    Comment #16318016

    I think the point of undergrad is to have as much exposure to relevant material in the field, so later in their professional life if something relevant comes up they'll at least re…

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    Comment #16311301

    I've been wondering why Korean and English is so different and one obvious reason is geographical. If humans originated from Africa and spread East and West, Korea is pretty much a…

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    Comment #16236013

    This isn't something new. Scoop is already doing this and Lyft had carpool for a while before they shut it down.

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    Comment #16227129

    Finding the origin of contents are already a challenge these days. A random idea I have is creating a blockchain where content creators can register their creations to prove their …

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    Comment #16217147

    I agree with the gold comparison. Gold is priced far higher than it's industrial usefulness because it's seen as an value holding asset. The properties that make gold a good value …

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    Comment #16216857

    Whatever inherent value gold has is far below it's current price though. If gold wasn't seen as an asset and was purely valued based on it's utility like iron and copper, it'll be …

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    Comment #16208889

    I don't think $1B is the transaction amount. In the last 24 hours, trade volume on GDAX(Coinbase's exchange) for Bitcoin alone was $247 million.[1] Their trade fees are around 0.25…