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by SixSigma 10y ago
In economics, the Jevons paradox occurs when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used (reducing the amount necessary for any one use), but the rate of consumption of that resource rises because of increa
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Your IP block assigned to domestic suppliers is probably the thing that kills you. My VM in the ISP has no issues, but from home, blocked at lots of places. What you can do is use your ISP as a mail sending relay.
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Clinton Foundation Donors $1,000,000-$5,000,000 Carlos Slim - Chairman & CEO of Telmex, largest New York Times shareholder Can't see that mentioned on the page http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015&#x2F
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"Hi, sorry, no I can't attend the Skype interview, lima on HN told me to stop using it"
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> I feel like we sold out. Because you have. But come on, they could just have copied it and killed you instead. Add another product !
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There was quite a bit of talk that Skype on Linux is dead with the move by MS to the cloud. But there's a new official client coming based on WebRTC : https://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/Skype-for-Linux-Alpha
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Just use F.B. Purity, it is far superior http://www.fbpurity.com/
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A rouge developer eh. those reds under the beds! Why this nonsense ? $ tree node_modules/ | count zsh: command not found: count $ tree node_modules/ | lines zsh: command not found: lines $ tree node_modules&#
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> But unlike syslogd, Fluentd was built from the ground up to unify log sources from microservices, so they can be used efficiently for production and analytics. syslogd(8) -r This option will enable the facility to receive message from
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wire-wire fraud is apparently become more used MITM the email chain and then change the payment info and say thanks for payment http://www.zdnet.com/article/can-you-trust-that-invoice-nige...
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Got to rejig again to keep down the_donald
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In a similar vein : urine into fuel https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=urine+fuel Usually with a platinum catalyst or something rare & expensive "all we need to do is find a cheaper catalyst"
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People who make good forecasts are not polarized enough for punditry. The authors of the book Superforecasting : The Science of Prediction have done research in this area. And a website [2] Nate Silver also tells a similar story in his book
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Seth Rich was not Russian. Or a Hacker. But Carlos Slim has to protect "the narrative" and his millions invested in Clinton
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> “We won’t release that information without a subpoena,” American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein said. Just because Ross said something, doesn't make it true. > And a police dog smelled drugs on the cash There is so much wron
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My UK (previous) address 100 HD1 3BQ
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> If/when the Arab world get rid of the dictators controlling the media and education gets better, they should become more "normal". When will the West do that ?
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> I don't think the NYTimes has any responsibility for that. Except for never mentioning the fact or investigating what the consequences of the war they were propagandizing were likely to be.
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What we used to call "predictive statistics" now has the magic name "machine learning" applied.
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Except the "no encryption at all" crowd gets a louder voice.
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Innovate, Pivot, IPO, Buy-Back, Buy-Out 1945: S. Daniel Abraham incorporates the Thompson Medical Company. 1956: Abraham unveils his first diet product, Slim-Mint gum. 1976: The Dexatrim diet pill is launched. 1977: Thompson Medical introdu
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Farmers tried to switch to natural predators (ladybug lavae etc.) from pesticides. Monsanto ramped up the marketing for pesticides. Today they are a leading provider of natural predators. Monsanto will not "be destroyed" by one pa
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Meanwhile : Obesity rates in Italian two-year-olds are the highest in Europe with a rate of 42% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Italy
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This must be particularly galling for Oracle who have been doing a transition of MICROS support [1] since the 2014 acquisition. Previously it [2] was hosted on BOMGAR [3] who trumpeted the contract for more than 330,000 MICROS systems inst
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Carmack had a 28" Widescreen CRT, 1920x1080 in 1995 ! http://www.geek.com/games/john-carmack-coded-quake-on-a-28-i...
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Generating in the loosest sense. Code up the format of a villanelle and find Twitter posts to fit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanelle > VillanelleBot, created by Felix Jung, is a bot that composes villanelles
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Relative Accused of Raping 2 Boys Article from: Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM) | June 14, 2003 Albuquerque police have arrested a man suspected of raping two young male family members. Jeffrey Dylan, 30, is charged with four counts o
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I just moved from the UK to the US. It is quite surprising how useless Amazon just became for me. So far, every item I wanted to buy has $49 min spend for free shipping attached to it, which is not something I have had to deal with - except
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Lapland starts at Kehä I
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Finland isn't just Helsinki

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