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by a-priori 12y ago
No, by 'market rate' I mean what other payday loan shops are charging in the area. The real problem isn't the loan itself, even if it seems exploitative: if someone is in a cash crunch, it's perfectly rational to pay som
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by a-priori 12y ago
Instead of this, set up a non-profit payday loan company that offers loans at market rates, but uses the profits from the loans to offer free financial planning and education for its customers.
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by a-priori 12y ago
No, they're talking about an exploit for the phone's baseband software. All the radio signal processing and the lower layers of the cellular network stack in a cell phone happens on a dedicated chip, the baseband processor. Presum
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by a-priori 12y ago
I can vouch for this. I once worked on a similar project, an OpenGL-based cockpit display unit for business aircraft (Honeywell DU-875/885). We wrote it in MISRA C instead of Ada, purely for personal reasons.
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by a-priori 12y ago
I'm in Canada, not the US, but I have one that gives 4% cash back on gas and groceries and 2% at pharmacies and for bill payments. http://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/0,,86,00.html
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by a-priori 12y ago
The rules vary by country. In the US, the FCC has prohibited amateur stations from using encryption intended to 'obscure the meaning' of a transmission. It's a grey area whether you're permitted to encrypt something for
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by a-priori 12y ago
The idea would be to shift the tax burden from corporate profits to dividends and capital gains.
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by a-priori 12y ago
Glad to help. I wouldn't worry about any of this, by the way. If you feel better on this schedule and don't notice any cognitive effects (e.g. forgetfulness of things that happened in the last two weeks or so), then do what works
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by a-priori 12y ago
Maybe a few dollars? This is crazy cheap... there's a reason Github can offer Pages for free.
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by a-priori 12y ago
A variation of this is to push your Jekyll site to S3 and put CloudFront in front of it. It'll cost you a small amount of money each month (my sorely neglected blog costs me about $0.02/month).
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by a-priori 12y ago
The evidence for medium- to long-term sleep debt is sketchy at best. Certainly in the short term (1-3 days) if you are deprived of sleep, or if you're chronically short on sleep, there's all sorts of cognitive and physiological ef
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by a-priori 12y ago
I work at a startup with a development team of 9 people. Of those, one is in his 30s, two are in their 40s, and two are in their 50s. The rest, myself included, are late 20s. Just because some parts of the tech industry fetishize young deve
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by a-priori 12y ago
A general rule is that you can live indefinitely if you withdraw 3-4% of your investments annually to pay living expenses. There are calculators out there (Google 'FIRECalc') that work out the odds of success (i.e, not going bankr
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by a-priori 12y ago
This is why it seems to me that the core problem with the current patent system is that it's too cheap to obtain and hold large patent portfolios. There's an analogy here to land ownership. Land is a public good. It is owned colle
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by a-priori 12y ago
Why? If you're going to be doing any work on the electrical, you should be shutting off the entire circuit at the breaker, regardless of whether the bulb is controlled by a switch or some fancy home automation system, just in case you
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by a-priori 12y ago
The belief that work is an intrinsic good is a variation of the Protestant work ethic ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic ). Even though only certain groups of Protestants (Quakers, Mennonites, etc.) bel
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by a-priori 12y ago
Yes, that's the correct solution for asking for a name. As an example of this, as a side project I'm building an app for my wife (or other teachers) to collect assignments from her high school students and mark their work. In this
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by a-priori 12y ago
My memory's a bit foggy about what's in each one and how much of an acid trip they all are, but I'd say episodes 6-14 are kind of the sweet spot you're looking for. The next several, from 15-19 cover some good stuff but
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by a-priori 12y ago
While I don't disagree that Bob Martin presents useful information in those videos, his presentation style is... bizarre to say the least. You'll find as you watch them that the signal-to-noise ratio drops with each episode. In th
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by a-priori 12y ago
You can use SNS to act as a fanout exchange. Then you just need to subscribe all your SQS queues to the SNS topic. Events get pushed to the SNS topic, and SNS will distribute them to all the queues for you with the pusher needing to know an
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by a-priori 12y ago
Yes, I think to ensure your privacy by never revealing personal information to third parties, through using open source software and strong cryptography, requires too much inconvenience and vigilance and technical knowledge to be applied pr
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by a-priori 12y ago
For memory, there's the "Lost in the mall" technique for implanting false memories. It exploits an effect known as memory conformity where people's memories of an event tend to converge after discussing it together. htt
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by a-priori 12y ago
Sure, the human brain is not infallible either. It's actually quite similar to how optical illusions are created: by using what we know about the visual system to create 'adversarial' inputs that create strange results.
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by a-priori 12y ago
I'm no lawyer, but I think it's compatible with contract law... If you wanted to create an organization represented by a DAO in this system, then you would still need to register a legal entity with your government to represent yo
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by a-priori 12y ago
One way this 'replay' effect was tested was in rats where they implanted many electrodes into the animal's hippocampi to monitor activity. There are cells there called the hippocampal place cells which encode locations in s
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by a-priori 12y ago
Recent memories (so-called 'hippocampus-dependent memories') are stored in the hippocampus for up to about two weeks, during which time they are gradually transferred into permanent storage in the neocortex, cerebellum, and other
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by a-priori 12y ago
Honestly, I don't know how this interacts with cache lines. As far as I know, Intel has not released any official details about what the PAUSE instruction does other than that it slows down spin loops to a reasonable rate. The best sou
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by a-priori 12y ago
Glad to help :)
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by a-priori 12y ago
I think your colleague is talking about the PAUSE instruction (which is also known as REP NOP, since they encode to the same bytes). It's a special instruction that hints to the processor that it's in a spin-loop waiting on a sync
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by a-priori 12y ago
“If computers of the kind I have advocated become the computers of the future, then computing may someday be organized as a public utility just as the telephone system is a public utility... The computer utility could become the basis of a

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