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by Duff 15y ago
Cops are human, and thus vulnerable to exploitation. Do you seriously think that some gang leader somewhere doesn't have local police radios given to him by cops on his payroll? Periodic rekeying is like physical inventory or periodic passw
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by Duff 15y ago
In that scenario, you have a moral and legal obligation to report the crime. So you meet that obligation by giving the appropriate authorities the information they need, then leave.
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by Duff 15y ago
"Lie" in the eye of the beholder. To the cop, stating that you touched someone means that you've opened the door -- it's a thread connecting your story to the plaintiff's. Since you are probably not routinely interrogated, your body languag
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by Duff 15y ago
Rule #1: Don't talk to the police. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik You're better off taking the beating.
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Don't you care? Think of the children!
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by Duff 15y ago
It's worse than that. Many Soviet bureaucrats were very smart people who believed in what try were doing. But "merit" in the context of a system that is just wrong on many levels results in a warped perception of "merit".
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by Duff 15y ago
Funny, because for a long time executives used BlackBerry devices to avoid litigation hold/e-discovery considerations. BBM's are popular with certain types of "entrepreneurs" for the same reason that Nextel/Boost direct connect was -- they
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by Duff 15y ago
You're assuming an actual spec existed. When budgets are tight, the ability to hire someone occasionally comes out of nowhere with an insane deadline. So instead of writing something up, the recruiter or manager googles around for "enterpri
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by Duff 15y ago
I'm glad that you're so progressive, but you happen to be the exception. You also are reading what you want to, and not what I said. The nationwide trend is that social interaction between Americans has been in decline substantially in rece
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by Duff 15y ago
I know nothing of the book that is being mentioned here, but various policies in the mid-20th century DID force the breakup of the traditional ethnic neighborhoods. It's not an issue as simple as black and white. I live in an area that in t
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by Duff 15y ago
Financial markets don't like uncertainty, and the S&P downgrade introduced a big dose of it. Not necessarily because people think the US is going belly up, but because the US is not going to be the white horse galloping in to save the E
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by Duff 15y ago
Also important to mention that it is non-trivial to tell the difference between a good, bad or indifferent CFL. Frankly, I'm not interested in doing a product comparison or multiple return trips on a lightbulb.
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by Duff 15y ago
It would have to be. The only people using Windows Mobile were masochist enterprise types who didn't like BlackBerry for whatever reason. Since WP7 doesn't or didn't support most of the features that matter to masochist enterprise types, Wi
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by Duff 15y ago
Huh? Estimates on deaths due to the Chernobyl disaster are in excess of 1 million people. In that case, even in the immediate aftermath, a couple of battalions of soldiers and firemen died within months.
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by Duff 15y ago
It's safe to say the many of the workers who tried to stabilize the reactors will meet early ends due to cancer, etc. Beyond that, we'll learn that from public health statistics.
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by Duff 15y ago
Not necessarily. The traditional conservative nutjob string pullers are people who own natural resources. They are getting very rich right now -- and that's about all they care about. The traditional patrician Republicans are getting owned.
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by Duff 15y ago
Welcome to the HN reality distortion field... "It is bizarre that people are upset about this. After all, nobody has ever died as a result of a nuclear accident, right?"
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by Duff 15y ago
The thing that's different today is that we've transitioned the economy increasingly to one where we provide services to each other rather than produce wealth. In discussing potential Medicaid cuts in New York, advocates claim that over 12%
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by Duff 15y ago
Social Security has very well defined costs that are manageable if you implement some reforms. Medicare is a another story altogether. Fact is, a 1960-style PPO for every old person just isn't sustainable when health costs rise like 13% per
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by Duff 15y ago
The string-pullers behind the conservative "movement" see the Evangelical Christians for what they are -- a bunch of easily fooled suckers. (Especially the non-denominational types) They are insecure, fearful people who respond to the crazy
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by Duff 15y ago
Hyper-V is a hail mary play, in case EMC/VMWare does something really stupid to screw up a good thing. VMWare is an enterprise product. How many big enterprises are using Hyper-V? (A: Zero, officially anyway)
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by Duff 15y ago
What planet are you from? This guy's mega-rich clients are mostly from "financial services, real estate and government contracting". All of those things are either indirectly or directly subsidized by the US taxpayer. So the public is borro
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by Duff 15y ago
Why would it? Railroads essentially operate monopolies on transport within a given region, and we're against regulation these days. Plus, those pesky workers know that, so they do inconvenient things like form unions and demand concessions.
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Anyone who thinks two-dimensionally should be slammed. Trucking creates one of those scenarios where we attribute personal accountability to systemic problems. Always be wary of such systems, for the devil is in the details. You may save a
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by Duff 15y ago
Only if they are negligent or worse. Landlords carry insurance on the structure. Tenants are responsible for contents of their apartment. Hopefully if you rent and use Airbnb, you have a renter's insurance policy with high liability limits.
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by Duff 15y ago
I thought the same thing. I cannot think of a company that more flagrantly demonstrates their disdain for customers every day more than eBay.
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by Duff 15y ago
Great points. If you exercise solid controls around your database operations, you "can" have a the same level of version control as you do on code outside of the RDBMS. But "can" isn't the same as "will" -- in practice, there are practical
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by Duff 15y ago
If 50% of your customers are among that 2%, IE6 matters. If you're a social media startup, the customers looking for social media solutions are probably also the folks who are NOT running IE6.
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Apple purposefully chose to operate in an adversarial relationship with the telcos. They got concessions on app revenue streams (before apps existed), stopped iPhones from being peddled by fly by night phone resellers, and stressed out the
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by Duff 15y ago
Adam Smith's invisible hand will take care of it.

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