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by Duff 15y ago
A currency that people are hoarding because they feel that the faith and credit of Switzerland is proportionally better than other currencies, especially the Euro.
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by Duff 15y ago
The number depends on your cost structure. I can tell you that where I worked, we traditionally planned on keeping most servers in service for 40-72 months. When Nehalem processors came out, the economics shifted, and there was a financial
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by Duff 15y ago
Electronics are not commodities -- you get value out their use. Electronic devices would have to fall in price enough to exceed the value of having and using the device. If you look at people's behavior with a commodity like gasoline, you'l
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by Duff 15y ago
What's the basis for that statement? How many pre-1965 US Quarters and Dimes do you run into during daily commerce? Answer: Very few, since they are hoarded by collectors for their silver value.
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by Duff 15y ago
Exactly. Bitcoin is a commodity, not a currency.
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by Duff 15y ago
That's the stated goal, but it never works that way, at least in the rhetorical sense. If a woman makes a conscious decision to choose a career path or take time out of her career to raise children, for example, that is often perceived by s
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by Duff 15y ago
The original article referenced is promoting a book by Ms. Bloom called "Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World". I have not read this book, but the publishers description of the book is on Amazon.com's listing.
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by Duff 15y ago
Sure, and it's an equally massive leap to say "OMG! Little girls want to be reality TV stars instead of <insert "good" profession here>!" and assume that this is some sort of problem driven by sexism. The folks who deal in this cont
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by Duff 15y ago
Great, another whiny article about the poor, maligned girls doomed to a future of breast enhancement and cellulite cream thanks to misogny. The article is a troll, here to elicit an emotional response that will sell a book. Enter the strawm
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by Duff 15y ago
Many proxy servers within companies use such certificates to scan incoming traffic for malware/policy violations.
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by Duff 15y ago
The SQL constructs are great, but the biggest advantage to relational databases is that the engine handles your data consistency issues for you. Consistency isn't just about rolling the datastore back to a specific moment in time -- you hav
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by Duff 15y ago
Sure, but as a competitor to this technology, that's just more to add to the cost. It will cost many billions of dollars to develop infrastructure to "downblend" waste products, build thorium reactors, litigate, etc.
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by Duff 15y ago
"Cheaper than nuclear" is a great pitch -- you can always adjust upward! Does "nuclear" strictly mean operating costs? Or does it include the billions of government capital investments? How about storing waste for a period of time longer th
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by Duff 15y ago
Remember that higher education is a bureaucracy, and since the types of conflict that spring up are really minor, they are particularly petty, nasty and status-centered. In that sort of environment, your actual contribution to some objectiv
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by Duff 15y ago
Being close to any "VIP" type executive, politician, etc is often awkward. I had the bad fortune of being in an environment where I found myself in the sights of a psychotic, two-bit political appointee from time to time. Not fun.
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by Duff 15y ago
I've had bosses who were just lost in details and micromanaging. It's usually annoying and rarely adds anything to whatever you want to do. But I've also worked for a couple of people who were simply masters of their craft who demanded exce
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by Duff 15y ago
Poor governance, which is allowed to persist due to lower involvement by parents.
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by Duff 15y ago
A key difference is scale. Finland's population is 5 million people -- right between the cities of New York and Los Angeles. So you're looking at 200-300 school districts in Finland and 12,000-15,000 in the US. Standards for everything from
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by Duff 15y ago
"Worse" translates to "urban" or "rural" schools. Think about what that means. (Hint: It's not a money issue)
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by Duff 15y ago
Ultimately, price drives decisions. My neighbor doesn't understand why he can't sell his house. The reason is simple -- he's asking 25% more than the market price without giving people a compelling reason to spend the money. The Touchpad is
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by Duff 15y ago
Thank you for posting this. I somehow managed to never hear of this man.
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by Duff 15y ago
That's hilarious. We kicked them out when the Brit super-salesman in a $10k suit made it clear that they are the most expensive product in the space. Very old-school approach. Fancy books, etc. We have a stack of beautifully produced produc
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by Duff 15y ago
If I need to compare documents, and I'm too cheap for the higher-end comparison tools, what is this going to do that Microsoft Word doesn't?
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by Duff 15y ago
The top voted, open question on that particular SE site is "What should a developer know before building a public web site?" I'm a huge fan of SE, I just find the random prickyness of shutting stuff down without editing annoying.
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by Duff 15y ago
The amusing thing to me is that the question was closed as offtopic. Stackexchange is slowly turning into a Usenet/Wikipedia hybrid.
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by Duff 15y ago
That's just not true! Remember CB radios? They were hot in the seventies with consumers -- and many of the bigger units had scanner functions as well. Any decent newspaper has had a scanner running in the newsroom since the 1960's, although
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by Duff 15y ago
I felt just like the OP did when I was a child. I was teased and picked on pretty mercilessly growing up, and then we moved to a completely new and different area (ie NYC to a town of 3,000). In the new town, I wasn't picked on, but was kin
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by Duff 15y ago
Stop reading books and talk to people. Make it a goal to speak to two people you've never interacted with before every day. At work, say one intelligent or funny thing at every meeting you attend. Make small talk. Be nice to people. Don't "
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Walk into the city desk of any major newspaper and a police scanner is on in the background. It isn't a "geeky" thing at all. Informants have nothing to do with secure comms... the examples of reasons why secure comms are needed usually cen
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by Duff 15y ago
Cellphones and other out of band communications make police encryption a joke anyway. Anything really sensitive or controversial will be communicated via phone to avoid being recorded anyway. The real reason for police agencies wanting encr

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