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by accountoftheday 14y ago
The Roman numeral M (mille) means 1000. M^2 therefore equals one million.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
I hope Dow Jones realizes that Le Canard enchaîné is publishing satire.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
University in continental Europe is very much like what you describe, though a shift in public attitude towards higher education as a means of job qualification is (sadly) changing this.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
You are strongly verifying that someone paid the ~$25 incorporation fee, nothing else. The identity of directors does not even get verified during the process. It does not mean much without a trading history.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
In terms of outcomes I am convinced that co-founder disputes (been there done that) are still a lesser risk to success than the banal reality of simply losing motivation as a single founder. I am a rather determined person but would I have
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
What surprised me is that Paypal is facilitating the payment for gigbucks, the marketplace where this is (still) offered.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
there are patches for Android that correct the Google maps offset in China. tried it there, it works ;)
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Actually... you do not need that fast a network. You can converge state incrementally rather than transfer it in one go. Xen and VMware do this. Surely the cost of a fast SAN and interconnect would quickly outpace the (imho minor) savings f
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
were the affiliate tags really necessary?
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
The blame should go squarely to NIC.at. A long time ago we registered a domain for my fraternity, a registered legal entity in Austria, and it was refused by NIC.at on the grounds that such a thing does not exist. A silly thing to do facing
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Their behavior here is embarrassing and labels them as not trustworthy in the future. Pacta sunt servanda. The other side ending up potentially getting the better end of the deal, a nowhere near certain thing here from a 2004-6 perspective
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
why?
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
i am curious about what you find wrong with UAE transit or stops. was fun to me.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Think of Ryanair as the libertarian airline. Them fucking over the passengers not clever enough to figure out the rules or causing exceptions makes it a particularly joy to fly with them as you do not subsidize others' inefficiency.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
my old T61p's 1920x1200 15.4" panel disagrees.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Reasonable and fundably talented people can easily save the kind of amount offered while working at said "safe job".
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Even with optimal coding you are still limited by achievable signal over noise due to the Shannon limit.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
There isn't. You could easily achieve zero overhead by shipping a rover with a OTP for time-keyed IVs and just not do any padding.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Humans on Earth are (still) cheaper than robots for almost any task.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
These personal certificates are turning out to be Facebook accounts, which is arguably worse.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Wrong. You can stay private with >500 shareholders, you just have reporting requirements matching those of a public company.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
I assume this is not really a problem because YC are in some cases prepared to deviate from their typical equity ask.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
Are you suggesting time travel is possible now? Fisheye is a much older product than github.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
one way to think of it: with your average salary you are propping up all the people not as good as you who still get the same salary. if you cannot feel good about this you then move away from your socialist country. I did.
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by accountoftheday 14y ago
This is nonsense. Block ciphers do exist.
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by accountoftheday 15y ago
I am willing to bet that prices being only comparable through an agent is completely intentional on the side of the insurance companies.
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by accountoftheday 15y ago
Anecdote: the only fraudulent credit card charge throughout my entire life occurred shortly after signing up for Google Checkout. There was a $300 adwords charge on my account, and I do not even have an adwords account, so this clearly defi
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by accountoftheday 15y ago
Except in SV you actually can raise further funding on reasonable terms.
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by accountoftheday 15y ago
The hieroglyphs from Lotus Notes are rearing their ugly heads in disguise.
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by accountoftheday 15y ago
Full disk encryption provides some level of protection against backdooring.

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