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symlock

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About symlock

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    Comment #19668391

    The more companies though, the more times the same dollar can be taxed.

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    Comment #19646225

    Well, other arguments aside, there is a little bit of a difference between a single-system ENIGMA and building multi-system spaceships.

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    Comment #19646129

    Very Interested, but what markers are there for me to trust you/your company? Is it Open Source? Have you been around for long? Are you audited? Is there a sustainable business mod…

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    Comment #19627124

    For those wondering how the image was constructed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMsNd1W_lmE Basically, the image has been constructed by calculations on massive measurement data…

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    Comment #18911525

    Sphinx is a workhorse. Very light memory and CPU usage compared to the popular Elasticsearch.

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    Comment #18846535

    Understanding non-altered History, science communication, one-or-more scientific fields, marketing, and the human mind is much more than almost anyone can hope to achieve. This mea…

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    Comment #18846284

    Recommended Open Source Alternative: https://photoprism.org/

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    Comment #18827139

    or just greater consequences (fines, imprisonment) so even legitimate uses-cases (whistle blowers?) are scared to say anything.

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    Comment #18681789

    This headline is incorrect for how little is actually measured in this study. It's like staying that rammed earth houses are bad for the environment because they use more dirt that…

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    Comment #18249833

    This looks like email, but with shared storage of emails similar to the way IPFS allows nodes to cache pinned content.

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    Comment #18249780

    How long do air wave licenses last? Is there a substantial cost to renew or do you simply have to re-bid?

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    Comment #17929085

    Yes, don't be afraid to quit. I've left companies for some of these situations/items and I'm financially better off.

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    Comment #17760256

    I'm not a "serverless hater", but every company I've ever worked with had backend processes that were not tied to HTTP requests. I still keep actual servers around because the HTTP…

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    Comment #17758992

    There are government run (even if by proxy) social networks. The are worse that Facebook. https://vk.com/ is government run. The Chinese "Credit Score" is run by Alibaba and Tencen…

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    Comment #17645654

    Crowds can't have "wisdom" by nature of the averaging that must occur for binary choices/responses from a crowd. "Knowledge of the Crowd" is the correct phrase as the storage capac…

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    Comment #17604493

    Yes, gofmt is a wonderful since so many other languages can have very different way of writing code leading to harder-than-necessary digestion of new libs or projects.

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    Comment #17393212

    Most antibiotics & modern medicine kills gut flora. It seems gut flora have more to do with proper nutritional absorption preventing the need of drugs to begin with. Consider the t…

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    Comment #17307040

    > "...had rejected Comcast’s earlier offer partly on concerns the government would block the deal." > "we are pleased to present a new, all-cash proposal that fully addresses the B…

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    Comment #17299677

    > 22. I saw that women are more decent and self-sacrificing than men The majority of men love themselves while women love others. Men will sacrifice for themselves. Women will sacr…

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    Comment #17299001

    > problems caused directly by excess body fat I would say this is putting the cart before the horse. It's not excess body fat that is the source of health problems. It's the lifest…

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    Comment #17298316

    What do you mean?

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    Comment #17298119

    The only time I find I need generics is when I'm prototyping things and making lots of changes. Node, Ruby, & Python are great for this. In fact, PHP's associative array is really …

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    Comment #17295708

    Really neat to see beaker broswer support native P2P with progressive enhancements like github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase providing the cute URL's we all like. I'm sure hashbase.io…

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    Comment #17294021

    "I hate that" people think calories and weight is the primary gauge of health. It's true weight is very often a negative health indicator because of the toxic nature of the diet th…