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Re:ProtonMail blocked by Vodafone Turkey on Thursday March 15, 2018 @07:19PM (#16597347)
Forgive me for this n00b question, but what do you get with ProtonMail (with respect to security) that you don't get with, say, gmail?
Re:Heredity Beyond the Gene on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:08PM (#16546744)
Greg Cochran, an expert geneticist who wrote 'The 10,000 Year Explosion' has a different view.

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3310KWlDXg (especially the Q&A which is dominated by epigenetics).

2) This explains it in text -> https://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/10/26/epigenetics/

Re:House Passes Bill to Sabotage Net Neutrality on Friday April 15, 2016 @08:18PM (#11508563)
Yes this is why it's unable to find any music outside of the Billboard Top 20 chart.
Since this is your first job out of school, this tip won't help you unfortunately. In any case, it's good to keep a buffer of 6-months spending handy in savings (outside of retirement accounts, those should preferably NEVER be touched outside of TRUE emergencies). Having a buffer-fund, you will find, will keep your mind at ease and give you options to walk away from very toxic environments. Good luck buddy!
Yes to your 'EDIT'. If we can't even see increasing frequency of hurricanes, then how can we even begin to attribute things to AGW?
Re:For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies on Thursday March 31, 2016 @10:48AM (#11397570)
Ah the Franco-Prussian war then. Nice
Re:For anyone who has been turned down by 38 companies on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @11:22PM (#11394780)
Just wanted to say - cool handle! World War 1 history fan?
Lol Do people EVER follow-up after feel good policies to see how they worked out? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-14/coal-rises...
Just one question, have you looked at the frequency of extreme weather events over the last century?

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/hurdat/All_U.S._Hurricanes.html

http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/Landsea/gw_hurricanes/fig33.jpg

Re:Google Fiber Phone on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:47PM (#11393295)
Your EDIT is right! That was my use case. When I got my new Nexus 6P, I saw a nice, well-functioning new Messenger app and danced a little.
Re:Google Fiber Phone on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @05:11PM (#11384911)
What was really horrible and downright ATROCIOUS was the Messenger (SMS) integration into Hangouts. I was jumping for joy when they freed SMS from Hangouts again recently.
Do you know how much is spent on US infrastructure per year? Do you think it's the lack of funds responsible for sub-par US infrastructure?
+1 lol
I've been listening to EconTalk since late 2006. Gosh, it's been nearly 10 years!
Re:Ask HN: How do I become a Sales Engineer? on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @03:55PM (#11339503)
Great suggestion, thanks.
Re:We only hire the trendiest on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @12:16AM (#11334398)
I've worked at a large financial company (everyone would recognize the name) and TFS was the main build system.
Re:Ask HN: How do I become a Sales Engineer? on Sunday March 20, 2016 @08:42PM (#11325474)
Thanks for the excellent summary. I do feel I'm good at presenting ideas, hence this may be a role for me. I've mostly been at large corporations with boring stability and so wouldn't mind the pressure for a change. If it gets to be too much to handle, I could always switch back to being a developer.
Re:Ask HN: How do I become a Sales Engineer? on Sunday March 20, 2016 @08:40PM (#11325467)
Thank you!

Ask HN: How do I become a Sales Engineer?

Hello HN.I'm a developer with ~6 yrs experience mostly with back-end systems, web services (C#), some Asp.net MVC, some Ruby/Rails, some Node.js. I recently came across a Sales Engineer position and was wondering how one transitions and if it's ever worth it - for context, I like being an engineer, and I'm wondering about pay gaps b/w the two positions, especially their asymptote over ~10...

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Re:Ask HN: What books are you reading? on Saturday September 05, 2015 @02:37PM (#10175622)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Re:Rent-Stabilized Housing Is Disappearing Fast in NYC on Friday July 31, 2015 @02:34PM (#9983460)
Swedish economist (and socialist) Assar Lindbeck asserted, “In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city—except for bombing.”

Cat got your tongue, comrade?

My hunch is that if the company was different, it would lose. Like it or not, this is what's required to defeat our noble overlords a.k.a. the holy regulators and the munificent politicians.

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