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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>$0.55/month is the mean for the entire userbase. A good distinction but even if you assume a power-law/Pareto distribution for the revenue per customer, it would be roughly ~$2.20/user/month.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>I don't get it Let's say you're gay. You shoe maker belongs to the Mormon Church. When you purchase shoes from her, 10% of her income typically goes to the church[1]. The Mormon Church then uses that money to lobby the
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
It also relies on whomever is modeling the reductive, simplistic "cost model" to know the effect of all the other variables that factor into the companies success. Do these people really think that the legal/compensation cos
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
1.02 Winter PUE is very impressive. I took a class on design for low PUE implementation and some comments from government data center technicians who said, in order to comply with the federally mandated PUE requirements, that people were le
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
The human body has a tendency to attempt to attenuate sensory input. The process you describe is similar to a practice in audio engineering where by an audio engineer will start with the lowest volume and gradually turn the volume up. If
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Rather than 4 data points is there any large-sample-size conclusions about people who identify as Middle class?
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
If you click and hold on the symbols, an overlay appears that decodes it.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>The easiest way to tell if someone understands financial markets is to find out whether they believe they can time the market. People also unwittingly imply have actions where, if you asked them, they'd say they couldn't predi
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing that info! The syntax around the requirements creates ambiguity but: "Meet the following requirements: Be a member of a recognized religious sect conscientiously opposed to accepting benefits under a pr
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
I would like to opt out of Social Security.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>We never see or store your admin password. The dialog box you see is a native OS X API (i.e. made by Apple). If that's the case, How is it that the accessibility preferences are changed without root authorization?
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
If that's the case, How is it that the accessibility preferences are changed without root authorization?
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
I suppose it depends on what legal weight there is around the request. Depending on the legal situation, if a company is "out of compliance" they may be fined etc.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Juno music also allows for FLAC download purchases.
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>you trust dropbox with your files, and you trust them with a kernel blob implementing the filesystem, but you don't trust them to silently have accessibility rights? The problem here isn't that you don't trust them to hav
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>you can make a replica of it but it won't behave the same because you'll be able to minimize or close it but it would still achieve its purpose of phishing a root password
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
I'd rather pay for privacy and security with compute cycles. To whom else do you give your root password and hope that nothing bad happens?
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>We were even talking about possibly locating it in Santa Cruz. This was in spring of ‘94. Jeff went back home to New York and started thinking about where he wanted to locate. We were looking at office space in Santa Cruz but as he lear
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
As an advocate of FLAC, it has limited appeal beyond Hi-fi geeks / archivists / or music makers. Heck even storing local MP3 files is dated (though not recommended) with the proliferation of comprehensive streaming services (no e
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
At least in California, Good Samaritan laws will protect someone if and only if they are rendering medical aid that is in line with their training. Meaning if you know CPR and attempt to resuscitate someone who has no pulse and they die &#
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
In the report, they call the ratio of "Requests For Which At Least Some User Data Was Disclosed" to the "Total Requests" the "Compliance Rate". In this report it's 43.6% which implies that Airbnb is &quot
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>A high school graduate, Lazar had no formal training or computer expertise. He told the New York Times that he obtained access to high-profile people’s email and social-media accounts by reading their Wikipedia pages and guessing passwo
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
A bit impracticle given real world data shows that "About 60 percent of men and 40 percent of women will have an affair at some point in some marriage "Monogamy Myth", Therapist Peggy Vaugn" aka ~50% of couples who think
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Trulia has even better tech than that: They have a time-commute topology map dependent on your destination
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Make sure your face isn't included in the learning set!
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Political resistance to new housing also comes, paradoxically, from low-income people too in San Francisco. Obstructionists use the term 'Affordable Housing' to rebrand subsidized housing [Market rate housing is also rebranded &#
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
There are more international Walmarts than US Walmarts[1]. ~6k vs 4k [1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/269405/number-of-stores-o...
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Why not just use a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply)?
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>What Gawker did was illegal I didn't follow the case. What did Gawker do that was illegal?
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I wonder if the style of the author is either to 1)Mimic an English-as-a-second-language author 2)Thwart stylometry analysis[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

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