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by GHFigs 13y ago
It seems like many Ultrabook shoppers are unaware that there is a 13" Retina MacBook Pro. It's obviously not everybody's cup of tea, but surely worth considering. Typed on an IBM ThinkPad. :)
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Terrorist bombings kill innocent people all over the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents,_Ja...
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Not exactly. The order concerns shutting down the prison on the base within one year, not the base as a whole. More importantly, it is contingent on the law and appropriations (i.e. money) to have any teeth. Within months, that part of the
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I have found that when I have such problems, I'm usually missing one of three things: Sometimes I need a clearer idea of what needs to be done . Is it vague? Make it more specific so you know where to get started. Is it open-ended? Give it
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by GHFigs 14y ago
This is true in theory, but in practice, Congress can be as specific as it likes about how the money is allowed to be spent. For example (from the NDAA 2013, Section 1022)[1]: "(a) In General- No amounts authorized to be appropriated or oth
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by GHFigs 14y ago
For example: http://www.webcitation.org/5jPWyaCDq In a major rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States and denied the administration
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_True_Believer The book analyzes and attempts to explain the motives of the various types of personalities that give rise to mass movements; why and how mass movements start, progress and end; and
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Sites like these mitigate some of the problems with news but they make others worse. A good comment thread can provide a lot of valuable background and context, for example. On the other hand, the bias towards unimportant but attention-grab
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by GHFigs 14y ago
That may tell you more about who buys into the popular notion of keeping up with the news than who's interested in the world. There's a lot of social signaling involved in appearing informed about a somewhat arbitrary selection of current e
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Editing the hosts file works, but then you can't visit those sites at all. Consider doing that for a week (or however long) and see if your habit changes. I've found that sense of effortlessness declines after such a break.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
China is also planning a massive investment in nuclear energy. And hydro. And even coal. There really is no one solution.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You cannot be that stupid. There is absolutely no way. You have to be a troll. I think it is more likely that you simply misunderstood the point he was trying to make, which is that the growth curve[1] matters. We're discussing electric
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I've just assumed that Neal Stephenson's next novel is so large that we're actually living inside it.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
It's certainly possible. As with anything, it's a trade-off, and making the most of what resources you have and being willing to do the hard work and make the sacrifices necessary seems to be key. Some notable examples made under $10,000 US
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I've found grim proof of this by observing people at shared computers in public libraries. It's not simply people watching a video now and then, but dozens of people spending their entire allotment of time watching YouTube as they would wat
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by GHFigs 14y ago
I'm actively trying not to use Google+ and it wants me to create a profile!
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Bitcoin Software Maturity Scale Ah yes, that scale that's numbered from 0 to 0.8 and then back to 0.7.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
You're right. I was thinking of the similar-but-crucially-different situation of using two Apple Thunderbolt Displays chained together. Multiple sources confirm that works, but obviously that doesn't help if you're trying to use a pair of n
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Note that this post is talking about two different things: Redwood Ridge (2Q13) and Falcon Ridge (2014).
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Thunderbolt can currently drive only one 30" monitor. Not exactly. It depends on the controller and GPU. The MacBook Air (probably the most common Thunderbolt device) can drive one. The MacBook Pro can drive two.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Retail is the original massively multi-player role-playing game.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The downside is that it's unlikely that all of the 50 million Americans that use an antenna for broadcast television can afford a computer and internet access. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, and what content is on the pub
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Probably appears worse than it is I don't mean to diminish the significance of any particular issue, but this is definitely true for much of what you hear about the US. Our media, both mainstream and alternative, tends to revolve around s
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by GHFigs 14y ago
What you've got is more of an argument against inefficient or wasteful means of enforcement than the concept as a whole. Compare: "The practical ease with which privacy may be violated is in itself an argument against its rigid enforcement.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Do you consider legal systems which distinguish between degrees of culpability to be unethical?
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by GHFigs 14y ago
One of the reasons I recommend Zed Shaw's "Learn Python The Hard Way" to people that want to learn is that it tells you to type out the code in the exercises. It's not quite the same as stumbling into it with the lure of having a game to pl
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Has anyone beat me to it? Where BitCoin is concerned, the answer is always "yes".
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by GHFigs 14y ago
The problem wasn't anticipated, and the fix has been to enable showing subdomains on only on certain domains, mainly blog hosts like wordpress, blogspot, tumblr.
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by GHFigs 14y ago
Which of course is all wrong because it's created by older people. I wouldn't be so sure of that. The demographic for many magazines are people aspiring to be something they're not and actively seeking to know what they should like. e.g
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by GHFigs 14y ago
If you want to complain about Reddit, could you please do it on Reddit?

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