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mk00··on The Golden Generation: Why China’s super-rich send their children abroad
I am student at UC Irvine. I genuinely believe there is a back-door allowing these kids to buy their way in. You can't believe the lack of skills and extravagances you see. I saw someone offering $250 for anyone to drop a specific class, so that room would open. I suspect fake degrees. There has been numerous instances of Paid Test Takers. Most classes we literally now have to show our ID when we turn in a test, as a result of this cheating
mk00··on Embed Node.js on any website
No use case.
mk00··on Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
If they add some little visual perk, like an icon next to your youtube name, I bet popularity in this would grow.
mk00··on ManagedC: Memory safe execution of C on a JVM [pdf]
This uses garbage collection which requires a stop-the-world pause unless using something like Zing JVM. A STW in many (real-time) applications is why you would choose C/C++ in the first place.
mk00··on Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack
this idea is terrible
mk00··on The Mind of Marc Andreessen
Just a reminder that not everyone agrees with you
mk00··on Apple will buy Tesla for $75b in 18 months
no, they wont.
mk00··on Ezra Zygmuntowicz has died
Ezra was a pioneer in the glass-blowing/pipe industry. Here is some of his work: https://www.facebook.com/jason.lee.16568548/posts/1020460894...
mk00··on SF Engineer Dan Ha Has Been Missing Since 10/31
I wonder if Google/Apple can get anything tracking-related from his Smartphone.
mk00··on Joker – Torrents to streamable video
Worked beautifully for me, including loading at different points. Very nice.
mk00··on What are hedge funds, and what social functions do they serve?
This article claims hedge funds aren't allowed to advertise to the public. That is not true anymore.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/with-ban-on-ads-lifte...

mk00··on Amazon Local Register
Care to back up these wild claims with evidence because I've never seen this happen at Amazon.
mk00··on Amazon Local Register
Goodnight square.
mk00··on A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity
To any prospects, RenTec is made up of mostly PhDs.
mk00··on OnionShare: securely and anonymously share a file of any size
Isn't the Man in the Middle attack warning useless considering the attacker they describe could easily remove it or modify the PGP key they provide?