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WettowelReactor
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WettowelReactor
12y ago
While the article stress the importance of understanding your power requirements on the server side you also need to be very cognizant of the power restrictions in your colo contract. Often times power draws will be your biggest limiting fa
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12y ago
While the monopoly control provided a simplified avenue for distribution the free price tag alone cannot be held to blame. By that analogy any free, open source product can push its way into a new market and kill the paid for competition wh
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13y ago
With no generated side income how do you throw off the yolk of that monthly income?
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13y ago
Gentrification is a really complex problem that is superficially bandied about. While it involves changes they are not all negative and the net impact on existing residents is very situation. http://www.npr.org/2014/01&
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13y ago
Have you looked at web2py ( http://www.web2py.com/ )
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13y ago
The British government has taken steps to address teh 26,000 that are still alive [1]. While this should be automatic it is still a step towards progress. [1] < http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/sep/02
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13y ago
Part of what he may be trying to get at is that the US population has no idea of just what the stated mission of the NSA is. Do we as a population think that spying on our allies is OK? This is a discussion that needs to happen publicly and
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WettowelReactor
13y ago
or you know $22 a month for office365.
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13y ago
No dispute about the harmful effects of hard drugs. The question is whether the current model of criminalization is effective at handling those issues.
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13y ago
Or in this case you could divert the funds used in prosecution to secured covers for the outlets. Same outcome, no further use of the resource, with a reduced cost to everyone involved.
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13y ago
What about most folks who work for not for profits? Often their wages are below what they could make in other positions but they value they derive from their work has merit. I am not claiming that working for PA has a feel good social cause
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13y ago
So A/B testing does not work because people using it don't understand the underlying statistics and don't have a large enough sample size. So the solution is an even more complex test with even more variable? Makes sense to m
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13y ago
What is puzzling to me is that many of the statistical errors showing up in all the science literature are well understood. The problem is not all the junk science that is being generated but that the current tools and culture are not readi
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13y ago
McDonalds has about about 1.7 Million employee's. For arguments sake lets round that down 10 1.5 Million. Assume none of them work full time, in-fact lets say they work 1/3 of a full time job so about 700 hours a year. That's
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13y ago
The door analogy does not carry over well. Its more like I had a yard sale on my front lawn with an invisible line beyond which you are trespassing.
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13y ago
When we used to have MelbourneIT they sent us an email with our login password in it in a promotional email. When I inquired how they could possibly be properly securing my account when if they where storing my password in some recoverable
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13y ago
I do not understand the stigma associated with talking on the phone. Having some time discipling into when you take/return calls is no different than taking an organized approach to email. Personally I find that calling is like a super
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13y ago
You make it seem like crypto is a solved domain. Implementation of crypto is incredibly difficult to do right even when the underlying "math" is provably secure.
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13y ago
Starting Strength is bandied about like the bible of fitness. While it is a great read, especially for beginners, you should take any such cult following with a grain of salt. For anyone who has never done free weights I cannot recommend en
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13y ago
Last line in the article since it has been updated: "We've also obtained the police report from the incident. It shows that Wilmot was mixing toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil." Link to police report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13892725
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14y ago
Calling them a traitor is pretty preposterous. Your argument also seems to indicate that monetary gain is the only motivation for these folks doing what they do. It is possible that they are true patriots for their country fighting injustic
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14y ago
Have you looked at Vizio's new ultra-book lineup. They have all been upgraded to touchscreen and the 15in models run at 1920 x 1080
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14y ago
I would think the fact that they are, by and large, getting away with not having any support, a great argument that they have made the right decision for now. If not having support is not impacting the bottom line what would their reasoning
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14y ago
The fact that a currency like bitcoin with all the shortfalls you are describing has any traction is more indicative of the feeling we have about our current options.
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14y ago
The other solution is for the U.S. to reign in all the statutory laws that have dropped the requirement of mens rea. Originally to be criminally guilty you had to have intent and action. Over the last few decades we have been progressing or
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A very small percentage of Americans ever enter an airport. If the TSA presence expands beyond that their tactics will be felt by a far greater percentage of voting americans. It may be that expanding beyond airports will be very detrimenta
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14y ago
You can't install it from the play store but side-loading works fine with or without rooting the phone. You have to continue to side load all updates though so keep that in mind.
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14y ago
How is it that when it comes to copying corporate owned assets like music the debate is always on how its not theft as the core product remains. Yet now that we are talking about user submitted content that view does not hold.
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14y ago
Salaries are one of those numbers where averages are a very poor metric. The compensation for the highest earners tends to be astronomically more than those a few percentage points lower on the pay scale. I suspect the median salary of CEO'
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14y ago
The quote "Vendors are motivated to protect their profits and their shareholders’ interests over everything else." misses the point. You cannot build share holder value over any extended period of time by screwing your customers. It is chea
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