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by JimmyL 17y ago
Also interesting: she doesn't campaign for re-election any more. She files the paperwork to be a candidate, and that's it. She refuses to accept any donations (saying instead people should donate to charity), does effectively no campaign ev
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The problem with using that model is that it assumes that once the war/disaster ends, there is a reasonable amount of time (10-15 years) in which the rebuilding can take hold and the economy can develop. Haiti gets a significant natural dis
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by JimmyL 17y ago
My takeaway from the article wasn't "don't use AES" - it was "use a sufficiently high-level cryptography library such that someone smarter than you is deciding which algorithm to use and with which options".
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You think that three developers and an art designer can singlehandedly write the software that runs a nuclear power plant, let alone Android or Apache? I think you're right in that we will see a continued rise in the prominence and impact o
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by JimmyL 17y ago
You probably could - and one could make the argument that someone that industrious is exactly the kind of person you'd want. However, the visa status is contingent on the company following through with its business plan to create X job and/
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Small discussion on this bill last night at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024137 .
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For more detail as to what Polis is proposing, see: - The full text o fthe Act ( http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-4259 ) - His press release on it ( http://polis.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=1... ) - A
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Robokill 1 is the only Flash game I have ever paid for, and I did so happily - very much looking forwards to this. My only complaint was that by the final few levels, my robot was so heavily armed that finishing was never in doubt - it was
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Businesses that fly people internationally will freak out, as many have said - although I would think that it would be because of people having to check their laptops, as opposed to their inability to be productive while flying. When I used
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For this point: A typical 16-hour day...nowhere for the pilot to rest. He or she will be sitting near a gate, in uniform...trying to shut out the noise of thousands of passengers walking by and hundreds of public address announcements. It
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by JimmyL 17y ago
I saw that, and was 50-50 if he was referencing JFK Jr. explicitly. On one hand, Greenspun is a pretty noted Libertarian and not a fan of the Kennedys. On the other, he often references flying to Martha's Vineyard for day trips in his other
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Come to think of it, is the USA a major net exporter of airline-pilot talent? Coming only from personal observations, it sure seems like it's an exporter (I'm not sure about how major), but only to certain types of countries - specificall
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Several nice sweaters, a suit, some decent stationary, a watch, and a plane ticket home to see my family.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Depends on the country it was shot in, and if the animal was wild or not. Wild Leopard is a CITES Appendix I species, meaning that it's pretty much illegal to trade in or to move across borders. It's possible to do it legally, but in order
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by JimmyL 17y ago
As far as I know it hasn't - there's an article like this every year or so in the British press, and they all have similar conclusions. Furthermore, if the linked article is right, it should be pretty difficult to change this structure.
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by JimmyL 17y ago
For this and other reasons, SeatGuru.com should be your best friend when doing online check-in. I've just done an intercontinental trip to visit some family, and spending five minutes on there got me an extra three inches of seat pitch - wh
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Most seat mockups are pretty worthless anyways - if you want to know what the cabin will look like on (for example) AA's new planes, look at the seating in their existing planes and change the backdrop. Seating is often manufactured by thir
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by JimmyL 17y ago
* Harpers and The Atlantic - great plane reading * Defence Technology International - interesting to see what is new in defence technology, subscription is free * Bloomberg Markets - semi-technical stuff on finance, as well as solid general
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by JimmyL 17y ago
Agree - I didn't have all my settings defaulted to _everyone_ - there were a few, but for the most part the "new" settings were the same as the old ones. What really did piss me off, however, was the re-classification of my profile picture
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Cuba (along with Syria, Sudan, and Iran) compromise the State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism - which I would assume is the origin of their being on that list.
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Anyone know more details about this, and if it's been approved? My understanding is that everything that's part of a home wiring system (like this) needs to go through a bunch of test (UL, etc.) before it can legally be installed in a house
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by JimmyL 17y ago
If you want to learn a language from the perspective of getting something done (in the startup webapp sphere), go for Python/Django or Ruby/Rails - they both have mature, well-established communities with plenty of documentation and availab
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>> Puts private sales on an even footing with brokered sales by legitimizing non-brokered transations. If you're trying to get realtors to buy in, why would you make this a goal? Private sales == less commission for the relators ==
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Incidentally, "trust but verify" was the cornerstone of Ronald Reagan's nuclear policy vis-a-vis the Soviet Union, and could effective act as a summary of the INF treaty.
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I took that job - hence the travel. If you're interested in the back story, shoot me an email at M8R-houvju@mailinator.com and we'll chat.
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Believe me or not, it's up to you. As for who/what I am, wallflower is correct in that I used to be a Canada-based programmer. While I'm still based here in Canada, I now do something 100% different (having nothing to do with software devel
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It depends on who "you" are in this example. If you're someone who is flying for personal reasons or non-mission critical business reasons, then you're 100% right - knowing ahead you'll probably be late is interesting, but not enough to do
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Being a small fish means you get killed by brokerage fees, which don't get cheap until the value of your trades is in the millions.
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Bloomberg's offices are, depending on who you ask, either fantastic or terrible. Yes, they've got a bunch of art and screens everywhere (including a curved escalator, which I had never seen before I went there). Yes, there are some great fr
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Try changing your ambient lighting - when I had an ergo exam at work, they suggested that I make sure that the areas beside my monitor were of a similar brightness to the monitor (the idea being that it's stressful for your eyes to adjust b

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