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Why Marissa Mayer should acquire IFTTT and go all in on Yahoo Pipes - jfornear
http://jfornear.co/why-marissa-mayer-should-acquire-ifttt-and-go-all-in-on-yahoo-pipes/
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newobj
Holy cow with the grandiosity of the title I would expect a master 5 year plan
about how Pipes will take over the world. Instead it's ju... | {
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RethinkDB Expands Beyond SSDs, Launches Its Speedy Database To The Public - spahl
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/06/rethinkdb-expands-beyond-ssds-launches-its-speedy-database-to-the-public/
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samstokes
This looks like an interesting product for cache-like use cases.
Have you considered including Redis in your b... | {
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Most trees alive today won’t survive in the climate expected 40 years from now - oftenwrong
http://www.rapidshift.net/most-trees-alive-today-wont-be-able-to-survive-in-the-climate-expected-in-40-years/
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_jstreet
Worrying news. There's a YouTuber - CodysLab (relevent video:
[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sghWcjGY... | {
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Ask HN: Is the Golang/Rust hype developing the same way as the ruby hype? - valevk
I was not aroung when ruby "got big". Is it today the same with new languages as it was earlier?
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claudiug
I do not like hype languages or framework. remember node.js? Today is golang
or rust. Leaving for the hype will... | {
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Is CO2 an Indoor Pollutant? (2012) [pdf] - pauldw
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/120/12/ehp.1104789.pdf
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greenyoda
From the abstract:
_" Relative to 600 ppm, at 1,000 ppm CO2, moderate and statistically
significant decrements occurred in six of nine scales of decision-making
performance. At 2,500 ... | {
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Ask HN: Would You Go to the Doctor Right Now? - _bxg1
I have a minor doctor visit I need to make that's <i>probably</i> nothing serious but there's a small chance it could be. It's something that has to be looked at in-person, so I can't just do a remote appointment.<p>But I'm also in Texas an... | {
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2015 State of Clojure community survey - dgellow
http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2015-clojure-community-survey
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venantius
The results from these are always really fascinating and I think if you look
at the past few years you can really see a lot of momentum behind the
language. I'm excited to see the results of t... | {
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You Can Leave Your Children in a Tesla Now and They Won’t Die Because Technology - uptown
https://jalopnik.com/you-can-leave-your-children-in-your-tesla-now-and-they-1786946299
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midgetjones
They could still starve, though.
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Facebook's Bet on an Augmented Reality Future - prostoalex
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathleenchaykowski/2018/03/08/inside-facebooks-bet-on-an-augmented-reality-future/#5575cacb4d56
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seibelj
AR / VR has been the biggest bust of all tech buzz words in the last decade.
The hardware is currently too expensive and... | {
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It’s not the reader’s responsibility to subject themselves to your advertising - Adrock
http://tumblr.quisby.net/post/700811683
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apowell
If the ad-blocking crusaders succeed in eliminating all discrete advertising
from the web, then what we're left with is (1) very little content (2) lots of
paywalls and/or (3... | {
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Ask HN: How did you keep improving your typing speed after 100 WPM? - sixhobbits
I type at 100+ WPM on a Laptop (Qwerty) keyboard (120+ on a nice cherry blue keyboard). I know many typists get faster than this. I practice on http://play.typeracer.com/ a bit, but it doesn't seem to improve my speed ... | {
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GPS and Relativity - jcr
http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/Ast162/Unit5/gps.html#
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IvyMike
I seem to remember that the original satellites (which were the first highly
accurate clocks in orbit) had a hedge--if the effects of general relativity
turned out to not be correct the system could drop that part... | {
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Implementing a shell for Bytengine using 'state functions' - wilsonfiifi
https://github.com/johnwilson/bshell/blob/master/core/shell.go
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wilsonfiifi
I thought this would be a good opportunity to use 'state functions' to
implement a shell for Bytengine. Rob Pike mentions the use of state functions
in his talk "... | {
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Ask HN: Name good examples of Modern C++ usage - marenkay
Hi folks,<p>I'm basically looking into making the transition from a C++98 world into what is supposed to be Modern C++.<p>Since that is a rather opinionated field I'd love to see a few real world examples. Shoot links to your favourite Open Source pro... | {
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GitHub RCE by Environment variable injection Bug Bounty writeup - helper
https://gist.github.com/joernchen/a7c031b6b8df5d5d0b61
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mappu
I decided to actually read man ld.so and came across this:
--ignore-rpath LIST
Ignore RPATH and RUNPATH information in object names in LIST.
... | {
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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact - Anon84
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/history/2013/01/for-40-years-this-russian-family-was-cut-off-from-all-human-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii/
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georgecmu
_Lacking guns and even bows, they could hunt only by digging traps or pursuing
prey... | {
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Shazam's Search for Songs Creates New Music Jobs - wallflower
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/14/technology/14shazam.html?_r=1&hp
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soulclap
as a (currently 'idle') tastemaker/music blogger, this seems like a sweet job
opportunity to me. shazam, holla!
that aside this is a real interesting article, i always won... | {
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Ultima Underworld bugs - rsaarelm
http://dfan.org/blog/2011/02/21/ultima-underworld-bugs/
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jasonkester
Ultima 3 was the ultimate hacker's game. You could crack it open with a Hex
Editor and mess with anything you wanted. Your characters were all stored in
one place, with every attribute easy to find (and chang... | {
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Why input validation could cost you a lot - thierryrietsch
https://medium.com/because-we-love-software/1b9dcc107a27
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nraynaud
One thing I did on my website was being quite lenient in what I accepted and
then re-formulating what I understood to the user
[http://i.imgur.com/NiPtDEX.png](http://i.imgur.com/NiPtDEX.... | {
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He Spoke Out Against Somalia’s Terrorist Groups. Now ICE Has Deported Him There - domevent
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/31/ice-detention-immigration-somalia-refugee/
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dahdum
Certainly the conditions sound horrible and should be addressed. They glossed
over his convictions, so I searched and found the article... | {
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I Took a Dump the Same Way the Apollo Astronauts Did–and Dear God Was It Awful - siberianbear
https://jalopnik.com/i-took-a-dump-the-same-way-the-apollo-astronauts-did-an-1836637152
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bradknowles
Oh, dear god. I am mightily embarrassed to say that this was one of the
funniest things I have ever read in my life. I... | {
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GrubHub, Doordash accused in suit of pushing prices higher - hhs
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-13/grubhub-doordash-among-delivery-services-facing-antitrust-suit
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rogerkirkness
You can have price fixing, or liquidity. Choose one.
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Making a Ransomware Payment May Now Violate U.S. Sanctions - rbanffy
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/making-a-ransomware-payment-it-may-now-violate-us-sanctions/
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kartan
Ramsomware (like any ransom) is a typical "tragedy of the commons" situation.
To pay is beneficial for yourself, as you get you... | {
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a tiny thread - Threaded discussions for Twitter - idlewords
http://a.tinythread.com/
Joshua Schachter's latest
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covercash
Not sure how I feel about moving the conversation off twitter completely. I
think I'd still like my comments to be posted to twitter in their entirety,
not as a link to another site.
Right... | {
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Ask HN: What are some examples of good achievements on resume? - FahadUddin92
I am looking forward to understand what counts as good achievements on one's resume after 5-7 years of experience. What kind of wins do employers/recruiters/managers look for?
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edent
Something quantifiable. Saying "I wor... | {
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What To Do When Ol' Man Winter Freezes Fiber Transmission - usea
http://www.polywater.com/icefree3.html
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DonGateley
Reminded of the time my VW's trans-axle froze up in -27 degree weather and
couldn't be started by pushing it (it just skidded down the road) I was
wondering what the hell a fiber transmission is.... | {
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An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments - Anon84
https://bookofbadarguments.com/
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chrisbennet
I got a security warning when I visited that side. (Microsoft System
Essentials)
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Software Circus conference announced for September 10th/11th in Amsterdam - mrmrcoleman
http://softwarecircus.io/
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puja108
This sounds like it will a pretty legendary event!
Btw, great design and choice of location.
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Jamie_Dobson_CS
It's the anti-conference. Loads of live music and great beers. Conference... | {
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Ask HN: Learn operating systems fundamentals - aportnoy
What is the best way to learn the fundamentals of operating systems, with a focus on UNIX/Linux? I am a recent graduate in mathematics and I've taken basic CS courses but stopped short of taking OS/Compilers.<p>Not looking for a 600+ page tome, a b... | {
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Ask HN: What is your go-to thing to do while compiling/building - sowrabh
What's your go-to thing to do while your build is running?
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bradknowles
[https://www.xkcd.com/303/](https://www.xkcd.com/303/)
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May 11, 868: Signed, Sealed, Delivered - Anon84
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/05/dayintech_0511
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chaosmachine
"Reverently made for universal free distribution"
The first known instance of a creative commons license?
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i2hsu
That's Chinese, not Sanskrit...
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Arctic sea ice trend since 1979 - jseliger
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/22/climate/arctic-sea-ice-shrinking-trend-watch.html
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Afforess
An even more interesting arctic graph. Arctic sea ice extent by area:
[https://goo.gl/b5ciWZ](https://goo.gl/b5ciWZ)
Which year is not like the others? Most of th... | {
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Tibetan Monks Can Change Their Metabolism - yters
https://mindmatters.ai/2019/09/tibetan-monks-can-change-their-metabolism/
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0-_-0
Reminds me of this guy:
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof)
"He has set Guinness world records for swimming under ice and prolonged f... | {
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GiveYC: One month of free advertising space - khangtoh
I wanted to repost this since my last submission was on Sunday and might not have got to the people I had wanted to help - BootStrappers.<p>Update: There is no catch! You do NOT have to link back to Simplebucket or anything like that.<p>Here's my pitch: One month ... | {
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What are the problems faced by people who are starting to contribute to OSS - sudo_bangbang
I'm starting a project to address the problems faced by noobs to opensource community.<p>I've started out with a simple readme file which explains the basic git and github workflow. Please give me feedback
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vito... | {
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Disney, a Mobile Company - NickSarath
http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/16/disney-a-mobile-company/
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aaronbrethorst
This is the stat that most blows me away:
Over 55% of ESPN’s traffic in a record
September was exclusively mobile. Not
just ’also mobile’, but ‘only mobile’.
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g... | {
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U.S. to host World Press Freedom Day - ZeroMinx
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/12/152465.htm
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abhimishra
This paragraph is hilarious: "The theme for next year’s commemoration will be
21st Century Media: New Frontiers, New Barriers. The United States places
technology and innovation at the forefront of i... | {
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Coinbase is down. - rafeed
https://coinbase.com
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aryanet
I am new users of CoinBase. I personally have almost all my orders cancelled
since last Monday. Customer service is not responding.
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rafeed
Just dropped $200 and I can't do anything about it.
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misframer
Works for me now.
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rafeed
It's be... | {
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Ask HN: Is the Gitlab stylesheet also busted for you? - wheresvic3
It looks like the gitlab stylesheet is not being loaded ...
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ahuang1018
Does the stylesheet works now?
Do you mind documenting this question in an issue?
[https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-
org/gitlab/issues... | {
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From DOS Games to BBSes: Five Ways To Reminisce About Your Online Past - ckcin
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/five_ways_to_reminisce_about_your_online_past.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29
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bluesmoon
When copying links out of your feed reader, i... | {
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How politics makes us stupid - js2
http://www.vox.com/2014/4/6/5556462/brain-dead-how-politics-makes-us-stupid
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DrScump
"Kahan compares the HPV debacle to the relatively smooth rollout of the
hepatitis B vaccine...."
The following premise assumes that the HPV vaccine _s_ (emphasize plural)
consumption was lesse... | {
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Improving Connectomics by an Order of Magnitude - lainon
https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/07/improving-connectomics-by-order-of.html
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martythemaniak
For those of you who would like to learn more about the field, I highly
recommend this 3 part lecture by Jeff Lichtman, one of the leaders in this
field
Part 1 is ab... | {
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Ask HN: What's the best time to post to HN - pattle
Does anyone know what's the best time to post to Hacker News to achieve the most visibility?<p>I live in the UK so I'm guessing the best time for me to post is around 5pm. That way people in the UK may read my post plus I know there is a large user base in the U.S ... | {
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Web Developer Security Checklist - aeronautic
https://simplesecurity.sensedeep.com/web-developer-security-checklist-f2e4f43c9c56
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sho
While it means well, I think some of this advice is pretty bad, or at least
unbalanced. From the very first section:
> Encrypt all data at rest in the database
ALL data? How are... | {
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Schools monitoring pupils' web use with 'anti-radicalisation software' - SandB0x
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/10/schools-trial-anti-radicalisation-software-pupils-internet
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skidoo
If only the same programs could be used to block searches for Justin Bieber,
Dancing with the Stars, Fast and Furiou... | {
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Tesla 5-1 Stock Split - ikarandeep
https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000156459020039353/tsla-8k_20200811.htm
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sfblah
Does anybody else share my sort of shell-shock WRT Tesla? I'm one of those who
thinks its stock (and probably all the big tech names) are in a bubble. But
whenever I say that... | {
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} |
Deja Vu: Google Settles Age Discrimination Lawsuit for $11M - rmason
https://www.forbes.com/sites/patriciagbarnes/2019/07/20/deja-vu-google-settles-age-discrimination-lawsuit-for-11-million/#456d9f5971f1
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btown
> In 2010, Google settled a lawsuit filed by a one-time Silicon Valley
> superstar, Brian Reid, then 5... | {
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Ask HN: Is it worth it to learn desktop GUI frameworks anymore? - rnovak
I don't consider myself entirely noob-ish in software/computer engineering. I've worked for a few years in low level development, and I think I have a good enough understanding to get a lot of things done.<p>I also spend a lot of t... | {
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Apple Is Said to Work on Cheaper, Smaller iPhones - solipsist
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-10/apple-said-to-work-on-cheaper-more-versatile-iphone-models.html
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brudgers
This is one of those articles written as if Apple's entire strategy was
centered on the US market - e.g. ATT exclusivity, two year con... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hacking SWF – Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Shapes In Flash - jgalvez
http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/hacking-swf-1-shapes-in-flash/
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chipsy
My favorite of Flash's many non-sensical quirks:
If you create, in code, a Graphics object with a color of 0xFFFFFF(pure
white), it won't draw. But 0xFEFFFF... | {
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Java bytecode fundamentals - cgbystrom
http://arhipov.blogspot.com/2011/01/java-bytecode-fundamentals.html
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verroq
Having never touched Jave bytecode. I have to say I was pretty thrown off.
Perhaps I need a "Java bytecode fundamentals" fundamentals.
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barrkel
I don't know what you're specifically missing, b... | {
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Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion - suprgeek
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6537
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beamatronic
"In effect, this small asteroid is caught in a game of leap frog with Earth
that will last for hundreds of years. "
...and then what? Would be interesting if they speculated on the end game. O... | {
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} |
So you want to manage a product? What no one tells you about the role - ggonweb
https://medium.com/managing-digital-products/so-you-want-to-manage-a-product-c664ba7e5138#.bc5ag6x7a
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skaplun
The pm does care more than everyone, its a fitting definitiom but once you
learn all the things you say you're not you'll i... | {
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How do you find your passion? Am I off course? - rootsudo
I'm in the deepest, darkest part of my life.<p>I'm not overly depressed. But sad because I don't know what I want. Directionless<p>I've been making income by crypto daytrading/localbitcoin. It's been great, not the most income but ... | {
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The industry’s magic bullet for robocalls is currently useless on an iPhone - smacktoward
https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20875500/stir-shaken-robocalls-ios-13-apple-call-verified-currently-useless-iphone
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bradknowles
I much prefer the other option that Apple added to iOS 13:
[https://www.cnet.com/how-to/this... | {
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} |
Skysafe Can Disable and Take Over Drones - paulsutter
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/skysafe-can-disable-and-take-over-rogue-drones-in-midair-161620854.html
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sharemywin
I imagine it has figured out the comm protocol for the popular drones but I'm
sure if you created your own protocol it wouldn't work.
| {
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Researchers: We can detect life on other worlds through its vibrations - whyenot
http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/12/researchers-we-can-detect-life-on-other-worlds-through-its-vibrations
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Houshalter
This sort of reminds me of the voyager experiment that some people believe
confirmed the existence of life on... | {
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} |
Tesla reveals revolutionary new wiring architecture to help robots build cars - evo_9
https://electrek.co/2019/07/22/tesla-revolutionary-wiring-architecture-robots-model-y/
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Glawen
So the idea is to make ecu in the vicinity to be responsible of the
components, and drive them through communications.
Nothing new,... | {
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} |
Getting Started with Modern Web Development - mikehostetler
http://modernweb.com/2014/07/16/getting-started-modern-web-development/
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gjreda
It seems like there is a good amount of posts hitting the front page lately
that are simply collections of tutorials, libraries, or other references
without much substance... | {
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} |
Open-Plan Offices Are Making Us Less Social - mancerayder
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-07-04/open-plan-offices-are-making-us-less-social
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betadreamer
I’m not sure if it makes us less social but I noticed that open plan creates
one of the two environments:
1) Super distracting. Everyone is talkin... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Take down Notice from Y Combinator - jizie
http://getintoycombinator.com/take-down-notice-from-y-combinator/
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stackcollision
I don't see a (TM) on the Y Combinator logo. Is that necessary for this sort
of thing to be enforced?
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mattl
you should edit the HTML and take down the phone number properly.
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Sed – An Introduction and Tutorial - aethertap
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/sed.html
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narrator
I just use | perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/g' , etc for this kind of stuff. Is there
anything I can't do with perl on a line that sed will do? I can see how perl
is a lot more complex than sed, but I went through the whole pe... | {
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Marcin Wichary Interview - js2
http://ajaxian.com/archives/web-ninja-interview-marcin-wichary-creator-of-google-pacman-logo-html5-slide-deck-and-more
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js2
Marcin is responsible for the (in)famous Google Pacman logo, as well as
today's logo celebrating Jules Verne.
Aside, today's logo is orientation-aware if y... | {
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} |
10,000 year clock gets lowered into Texan mountain - fanf2
https://www.theengineer.co.uk/10000-year-clock-texan-mountain/
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kragen
This is great news! Thank you for posting this, Tony!
The Long Now site says, "Located under a remote limestone mountain near Van
Horn, Texas, it will require a day’s hike to reach i... | {
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} |
The Mind Wanders - atomlib
http://bit-player.org/2018/the-mind-wanders
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nicolashahn
I wasn't able to finish, but the first section was worthwhile. Very
interesting ideas about how the brain encodes and associates information, and
trying to find an algorithm and data structure that behaves the same.
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Show HN: VideoWorkLink (VWL) – Work remotely via live video with privacy - kentich
http://videoworklink.com
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kentich
Hi, Guys!
Would you like to work remotely in a way that that product offers?
What do you think about the product?
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Ohmm Mining: Turn Flared Natural Gas into Bitcoin - seibelj
https://upstreamdata.ca/
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michaelt
A few years ago, I wondered if my electrically-heated office could instead be
heated with bitcoin mining hardware. It would effectively be free electricity,
right?
What I found out from sources like [1] was, because t... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Memory Deduplication: The Curse That Keeps on Giving - iliasku
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/events/8022.html
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iliasku
i will add the video link as soon as it appears here :
[http://download.mette.org/videos/33c3/](http://download.mette.org/videos/33c3/)
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Phithagoras
When that happens... | {
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} |
Introducing HelloSign for Eventbrite: Attendees Can Now Sign Waivers Online - guiseppecalzone
https://www.hellosign.com/eventbrite
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mikestew
I guess the only news to me is, "wait a minute, they dont already do this?"
I'm a runner, I run races, every race I've probably run over the last 40 years
requires a releas... | {
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What, exactly, is a lead investor? - speek
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/11/what-exactly-is-a-lead-investor.html
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pg
Not all startups want a VC in the office with them acting as a "virtual CEO."
In fact I suspect increasingly few do.
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fredwilson
I totally agree Paul. But that isnt what most good VCs do. The... | {
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Achievement Unlocked: Get Hired as a Junior Developer - byaruhaf
https://skiplearnscode.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/achievement-unlocked-get-hired-as-a-junior-developer/
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jeena
> "the fact someone has a degree in Computer Science means complete dick"
I don't agree, sure you can learn everything yourself, but you w... | {
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When is it not preferable to specify your types first? - raphaelss
http://pchiusano.github.io/2015-10-28/top-down.html
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molyss
I can't help it but disagree with the author.
His example shouldn't make someone think "god, I wish I didn't have to specify
the type here", but rather "wait, there's a problem here. Th... | {
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How not to get a $30k bill from Firebase - squidrings
https://medium.com/@PurpleGreenLemon/how-not-to-get-a-30k-bill-from-firebase-37a6cb3abaca
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paulgb
I really wish cloud providers would allow users to set a hard budget that just
stops the service if you exceed a threshold. I got a surprise bill from AWS
this m... | {
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Achieving reliable UDP transmission at 10 Gb/s using BSD socket - pmoriarty
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00333
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ignoramous
> (abstract) _Optimizations for throughput are: MTU, packet sizes, tuning
> Linux kernel parameters, thread affinity, core locality and efficient
> timers._
Cloudflare's u/majke shared a seri... | {
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Google engineer ends push for crypto-only setting in Allo - eigenvector
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/05/incensing-critics-google-engineer-ends-push-for-crypto-only-setting-in-allo/
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tetrep
It's very dishertening to see people get pushed around by their employers loke
this.
Does censoring the opinions of... | {
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A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom - davedickenson
Are libraries illegal?
Libraries lend out movies, music, and nearly all other forms of information on a daily basis and I believe they're allowed to do it (at least so far -GOD help us when the RIAA or MPAA turn their wrath on libraries, could be ... | {
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Google's new data center in Finland - drtse4
http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/09/15/googles-mega-data-center-in-finland/
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avar
Google page about the data center: <http://www.google.com/datacenter/hamina/>
I can't see it on Google Street View, unless it's that area of tents on the
map. But I don't see anything that... | {
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Steve Wozniak Explains the Biggest Difference Between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates - anaxag0ras
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-steve-wozniak-steve-jobs-bill-gates-2015-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29
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Alupis
The biggest difference between S... | {
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If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel – A tediously accurate map of the solar system - takinola
http://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
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nercht12
Nice of them to add comments and not make the ride so boring. Scrolling speed
is nice with the arrow keys.
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Cheapest place to stay at and work out of in Bay Area? - zkirill
Has anybody got any ideas beyond just watching out for good postings on Craigslist? Looking for insider tips from locals. Not interested in comfort, just needs to be inhabitable. Thanks!
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andymoe
Lake Meritt area in Oakland is pretty cheap and li... | {
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} |
Vivaldi 1.13 is here :) - OlgaA
We’ve just released Vivaldi 1.13! It adds Window Panel, improves Downloads and brings lots of other features. Please take a look at our blog post here and let us know what you think! https://vivaldi.com/blog/teamblog/vivaldi-1-13-adds-window-panel/
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j... | {
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GShard: Scaling Giant Models with Conditional Computation and Automatic Sharding - lawrenceyan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VdEw_mGjFk
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lawrenceyan
For easier viewing:
0:00 - Intro & Overview
4:10 - Main Results
5:10 - Mixture-of-Experts
16:00 - Difference to Scaling Classic Transformers
18:50 - Backpro... | {
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ARM Cortex-A9 SMP Announced: High-Performance ARM - neilc
http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/09/16/ARMCortexA9SMPDesignAnnounced.aspx
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DarkShikari
That's why we dedicated one of our Google Summer of Code spots this summer to
developing ARM support for x264:
<http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=142>
Now we hav... | {
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Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods from Their Massive Stumps - jomaorfe
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/arborists-have-cloned-ancient-redwoods-from-their-massive-stumps
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matco11
“Cloning” here seems the wrong (click-batey) choice of words.
They have horticulturally propagated redwood trees - that’s a relativel... | {
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HN's Submit page sucks - everyone
I really admire HNs design. Its a bastion of elegant pragmatism in an age of bloat and irritating whimsy.. But the submit page sucks. Here are two problems I've just encountered.<p>1. I try to submit something and it says "Please try again." I can try over and over agai... | {
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AI Defeats the Hivemind - J3L2404
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26186/
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futuremint
Wait... the naive-Bayes was trained on Yelp data? Isn't Yelp data _also_
crowd-sourced information? I may not be thinking about this right, but it
seems to me that training the classifier on crowd-sourced data and... | {
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10 Tactics to Improve Blog Readership [video] - noyalizor
http://moz.com/blog/10-tactics-to-improve-blog-readership-whiteboard-friday
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dozzie
Number five should be number one: have actually something to say.
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TechStars incubator hatches 10 new companies - jasonlbaptiste
http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2009/08/techstars-incubator-hatches-10-new-companies.html
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jknupp
TakeComics, one of the companies mentioned, has the absolute worst copy ever
on their landing page. It is rife with grammatical and spel... | {
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When Mozilla's Fanatics Make Us All Look Bad - jasoncartwright
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001099.html
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ZeroGravitas
This seems a little bit "fanatic" itself, though I've not read what they're
responding to so maybe that's even worse.
I'm glad someone is coming up with the ideas, even if the right answer... | {
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Google Bans VPN Ads in China - jmsflknr
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-bans-vpn-ads-in-china/
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xster
Would Google ban BDS ads in Germany too since it's now illegal
[https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Post-Exposé-causes-German-
cit...](https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Post-Exposé-causes-German-city-to-
remove-pro... | {
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The lies I told for insurance companies about 'Medicare for All' worked - howard941
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/health-care-debate-shows-lies-i-told-insurance-companies-about-ncna1067331
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daveslash
It's good to have an insider speak out and expose some of this stuff, but it
would also be nice to see a ... | {
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Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons - samclemens
http://benschmidt.org/Simpsons/
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UncleSlacky
Frinkiac does pretty much the same thing but in a more entertaining way:
[https://frinkiac.com/](https://frinkiac.com/)
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edpichler
Very cool that site, well done. Thanks for sharing.
------
nkris... | {
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Do you want to change European journalism through technology? - europeandme
Have you ever noticed that almost all media have a national angle? Would you like to change the way we write about Europe? At Europe & Me (www.europeandme.eu), we want to establish a new paradigm for European journalism: instead of stori... | {
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Why isn't Mexico Rich? - cwan
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/12/why-isnt-mexico-rich/
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hga
Here's an important reason that I bet isn't in this article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim>
(Important background that curiously enough isn't in either Slim's or the
NYT's Wikipedia entries:
<... | {
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New Features in Java 14 - pjmlp
https://blogs.oracle.com/javamagazine/java-14-arrives-with-a-host-of-new-features
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rafaelvasco
"Helpful NullPointerExceptions": One of the biggest pain points of Java,
probably the biggest. Good that it's being finally solved;
~~~
cryptos
Java is quite far away from finally solvi... | {
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Trying to understand income inequality in the USA - pchristensen
http://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entry/2266026/
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pchristensen
I agree with <http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html> as the general rule for
creating wealth. My question is, is "middle-class" income and wealth simply a
function of how labor-constraine... | {
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How Yipit deploys from Github with multiple private repos - vacanti
http://tech.yipit.com/2012/09/05/deploying-from-github-the-right-way/
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dekz
I believe you can setup aliases in ssh_config where you specify the actual
hostname and the key to use. Which is what I've used in the past to get the
right key to jus... | {
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Supreme Court to hear arguments on Aereo this week - xhrpost
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/aereo-case-goes-to-supreme-court/2014/04/21/50bbd1e8-c59d-11e3-9f37-7ce307c56815_story.html
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yahelc
SCOTUSBlog has a great deepdive into the case:
[http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/argument-preview-fre... | {
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Growth Hacking Notes - nodemaker
http://tedna.sh/2013/07/26/growth-hacking-notes/
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6d0debc071
Okkaaayyy, I can see why this might seem like a good idea to you. But I don't
see how it's in anyone's interests, including your own, for you to talk about
it. If this becomes widely practised, you've killed the source ... | {
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Why I Don't Do Unpaid Overtime and Neither Should You - qw
http://thecodist.com/article/why_i_don_39_t_do_unpaid_overtime_and_neither_should_you
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grellas
The U.S. has a strong free enterprise foundation and its laws reflect this.
Freedom of contract remains the rule even though it is much criticized in some
circ... | {
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} |
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