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by Finnucane 9y ago
Rolling shutters go way back. http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?...
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by Finnucane 9y ago
The Third Policeman, Flann O'Brien Ubik, Philip K. Dick 900 Grandmothers, R.A. Lafferty Moderan, David R. Bunch Radiance, Carter Scholz Little, Big, John Crowley Lizard Music, Daniel Pinkwater Camp Concentration, Thomas Disch Peace, Ge
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Download and install? Atom and Chrome are available as debs, PyCharm is easy to install.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
A few weeks ago O'Reilly sold its interest in the Pubfactory platform and the developers who work on it to Sheridan, a printing services company (presumably Sheridan wants to beef up its own digital portfolio). Whether this is cause or
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by Finnucane 9y ago
It is a poverty problem. People become homeless for a wide range of reasons, but once there, it's hard to get out. How much harder do you think it is to get a job, deal with essential bureaucracy when you have no fixed address? It isn&
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Yeah, it's that kind of day, isn't it?
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Yeah, Jeff Sessions is gonna get right on that.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
As others have said, basically it's a problem of control. Normal currencies, in relatively normal times, are semi-managed by central banks. They use tools like reserve requirements and interest rates to influence the rate at which new
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Are we assuming shares is proportional to total viewing?
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by Finnucane 9y ago
The answer is left as an exercise for the reader.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Design a cryptocurrency to have stable value, not speculative-asset value.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Since I have no interest in seeing them survive, I'd take a the Bob Nardelli/Melissa Meyer approach of guaranteeing a nice golden parachute for myself, then drive the company over the cliff, and collect the payout on the way out t
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by Finnucane 9y ago
It's Naked Capitalism, so that's pretty much taken as given.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
It's expanding rapidly because it can reach into Daimler-Benz's pockets.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
"Breitbart article is bullshit" is pretty much taken as read, but letting the cited authors have a Marshall McCluhan moment ("you know nothing of my work") does hav e its own satisfaction. Too bad it won't be seen b
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by Finnucane 9y ago
As someone who is using Django for small projects and still learning my way around it, hints like removing unused middleware are appreciated.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Is that with or without the E. Coli?
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by Finnucane 9y ago
They don't really care about the customer base. They figure their own customer base is bigger than anybody else's already. They wanted an in on the grocery retail business, and WF was a way in. I guess we will have to just wait an
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Since Trader Joe's is owned by the family that owns Aldi, it's unlikely Amazon would be able to buy them out cheap.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Turning into? It wasn't always? Since the dawn of civilization, people have looked for the magical formula to turn base metals into gold--to create wealth out of nothing, for no real work or creation of value. Maybe the latest iteratio
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Most new businesses of any kind don't last very long. 80% fail rate isn't unusual in, say, the restaurant business. Starting a new business is hard, and risky, period.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
There's some difference between obsolete--a method that gets replaced by an improved method later on--and just plain wrong.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
"A lot of the super automatic machines that are out, the primary aim of them is to make the machine as cheap as possible" Yeah, with a lot of multi-function technology, compromises are made on the individual components to meet som
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Like anything else, it's a political issue. Meaning: citizens have to give a shit about it, be informed, and be vocal about it with their representatives. Republicans in Congress just voted to roll back Dodd-Frank, and are aiming to ge
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Well, no, because the problem is not the regulation, but the lack of enforcement of the regulation. And that happens because the political appointees who runt the agencies are too close to the banks they are supposed to be monitoring. If We
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by Finnucane 9y ago
This is why there is a need for properly managed and funded clinical studies. So that these questions can actually be answered in a therapeutic context.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Really. If you anticipate that central government and most societal structures collapse, then your money and deeds to the land become worthless. Billionaires would be holding billions of nothings. Which means they need to be going full prep
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Your bank can do this if it's really too labor-intensive for you to manage on your own.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
Since 1.11 is an LTS release, presumably its share will increase. It'll be the default for new projects now.
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by Finnucane 9y ago
The "Dirty Harry" test mentioned in the article has been the subject of one or two books. At the time, the AEC did not, unsurprisingly, adequately alert the folks in St. George as to the nature of the unusual grey powder falling l

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