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by KGIII 9y ago
That's actually pretty horrible. Gotta be honest. HN has enough people who could design a protocol and hardware to do exactly that with wifi. HN can't adequately explain dark matter, except to say it is a placeholder and to define
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by KGIII 9y ago
That would absolutely explain why I've never seen it. In my generation, if I invite people out, I expect to pay the bill. There is no bill splitting. If I'm paying someone, I've probably got cash. Yeah, I even have a landline
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by KGIII 9y ago
Some of the trendier merchents have Square in my neighborhood. I'm in NW Maine. I just bought some alpaca wool and the nice lady swiped my card through a Square device attached to her phone. The pie lady takes Square too. I think the n
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by KGIII 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the two names of 'dark matter' and 'dark energy' have caused more confusion than anything else in modern science. They were horrible choices that were worse than even the 'god particle.' Ho
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by KGIII 9y ago
Bethany Hughes, BBC Doc... probably pirated... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vuTpN4WUI Well worth watching, very related.
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by KGIII 9y ago
One of the great benefits about living where I do (Maine) is that so much land is open for public use. I don't want to derail the thread so I will simply point out that it is really easy to cede your land to a trust, in many areas wh
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by KGIII 9y ago
Not Federal and I am going to just quietly link to an option. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Trust_Alliance
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by KGIII 9y ago
If it helps, my first computer contact was an HP 9100 in '72. I just hated it and would avoid them for years afterwards. ;-)
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by KGIII 9y ago
See, now you're just being dishonest. I'm not even sure why? I really, really shouldn't engage you further, but I'll try one more time. No, the law isn't that 'over there.' The law isn't that anywhere
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by KGIII 9y ago
If you rein in the ad industry, you're just going to be stuck with a bunch of ICOs. Kinda bleak, really.
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by KGIII 9y ago
> Why not? From your post above... > whatever I want to do I think we are done here. That's not how society works. You don't just get to do whatever you want to do and expect the manufacturer to still cover the warranty. The
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by KGIII 9y ago
I am famous to maybe six people. So, it's not much. However, I wanted to add an account to this. I can tell you the exact moment, problem, response, and teacher - that changed my life forever. It was at that single moment that I unders
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by KGIII 9y ago
We aren't going to fill the courts with that. If there's a manufacturing defect, return it before tampering with it. If it is a common defect, it will be covered by a recall and not a warranty. Sorry, the line has to be drawn some
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by KGIII 9y ago
Dialing in to the 1200 baud MODEM pool was both uneconomical and didn't even confer any great benefits. The 900 baud pool was only like a buck a minute and the 1200 baud pool was $4 per minute! That said, I might actually have to get o
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by KGIII 9y ago
Too difficult to judge once it has been tampered with. The courts don't have time to judge each case on its merits and there's no reasonable surety that your modification didn't harm the product. The line has to be drawn some
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by KGIII 9y ago
I'm not sure I'd call MIT 'hostile.' I admit I'm heavily biased, but I'd say it is demanding. If universally demanding excellence is 'hostile,' then I guess I can agree with you.
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by KGIII 9y ago
There are many, many varied beliefs in Libertarianism - even within America and within the Libertarian Party. On the political compass, it is opposite authoritarianism. Taken to extremes, it is anarchy. It can have left or right components.
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by KGIII 9y ago
I wonder if there is a competitive advantage to be had there? UMaine is a pretty good system. When I retired, I taught math at UMF for a little while, so I got to see the system from the inside. UMF has one of the best teaching programs in
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by KGIII 9y ago
Capital gains are taxed at the same level as income tax, except when they are long-term investments, meaning longer than a year. The reason long-term investments are taxed at a lower rate is because you want to incentivize long-term investi
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by KGIII 9y ago
Oh, I'm familiar with that. It's just that most don't take away the right to vote permanently. They take it away until you're done serving your sentence and then it is automatically restored. (See the link.) A couple of
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by KGIII 9y ago
> we deny felons the right to vote in most states. Only while incarcerated. http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-v...
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by KGIII 9y ago
I'll scrape the whole book and read it. Thanks! I know weather models still do it on supercomuters but understood the currently have plenty. I look forward to reading the book.
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by KGIII 9y ago
I wonder why they think I was actually wanting the oversimplified stuff? I thought I'd made it clear that I wanted the technical details from their experience. Ah well... Your response is better than mine would have been.
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by KGIII 9y ago
I have done some COBOL and even some PASCAL. Yeah, I'm old. I hired professionals in 1995. I was done doing any of the coding by 2000. I sold and retired in 2007. I took only one course in C. Everything else was learned on my own, info
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by KGIII 9y ago
Rust is out because of their cultlike traits and their need to turn a language into a political statement. Elixir I know nothing about and an absolute necessity is a wide variety of educational tools, existing projects, libraries, and help
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by KGIII 9y ago
I'm not new to programming. I just haven't done much for a whole lot of years. Brainfuck, I'm familiar with it, is never the sanest choice. I've narrowed it down to Python or Java. I've done C, C++, BASIC, QBASIC, P
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by KGIII 9y ago
That's a pretty handsome sloth! It appears to even be smiling. I am not sure why, but that made me feel better.
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by KGIII 9y ago
Instead of jumping to $500, is raising it by $50 an option? If you jump to $500 and some pay, but not enough, then you revert to a lower number, people who paid $500 may feel slighted. Moving up at $50 reduces the impact and those who paid
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by KGIII 9y ago
Alas, HN only allows me to vote your comment up once. I really love the detailed and expansive responses that some questions generate. Hopefully, they are of interest to more than just myself. I've been retired since 2007, so it is liv
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by KGIII 9y ago
Still very strange that they even claimed the citation came from a very specific source. I'm mostly just curious, at this point. Also, if we count all the various regulations, even at just the Federal level, I'm pretty sure that &

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