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by ahi 14y ago
Heat is bad for PV efficiency. Good solar areas are sunny but cool.
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by ahi 14y ago
Some things, maybe most things that a beginner wants to do are easy, but beyond the basics, R has a cliff for a learning curve. It's a complex language with some questionable design choices.
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by ahi 14y ago
This line of questioning is sometimes useful. However, the first rule of being a good ally is that it is not the responsibility of any member of a marginalized group to educate you. There is no shortage of writing on this topic, including i
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by ahi 14y ago
1. I spend far too much time reading articles like this.
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by ahi 14y ago
"We build for facebook, rackspace, and IBM"is rather marketable, especially with larger/corporate customers which are the bread and butter of the big name vendors.
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by ahi 14y ago
Definitely too much copy before the sell, though long form can work in some cases. Probably too many price points with meaningless (to me) names. Maybe 3 with a lower priced entry? But a/b a/b a/b if you have the traffic. Cross browser issu
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by ahi 14y ago
Most companies think they are hiring those professionals when they go with GS. Forcing GS to state very clearly that they do not have any fiduciary responsibility to their clients is kind of a bfd.
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by ahi 14y ago
I always thought it was a reference to the swedish chef on the muppets. I prefer my etymology.
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by ahi 14y ago
Along those lines, a prof at UMich lost custody of his son because he gave him Mikes Hard Lemonade at a baseball game. So much brilliance and cluelessness wrapped up into one person. http://www.annarbor.com/news/ann-arbor-familys-custody-o
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by ahi 14y ago
IBM's spokesperson: "The reality is, we constantly evaluate our operations, and we look at the best possible infrastructure to maximize our competitiveness in a global market . . . and this is one of the ways we can do that." WTF does that
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by ahi 14y ago
Quirky Bob becomes Annoying Bob when he's down the hall and you have to deal with him every day.
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by ahi 14y ago
I don't think that is currently the central aim of the Federal Reserve, if it ever was.
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by ahi 14y ago
Or sugar? Or crap food? Everything we put in our bodies affects our chemistry. I would be more productive regularly smoking marijuana than regularly eating big macs.
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by ahi 14y ago
Sort of sounds broken. I expect $250 devices to work as advertised.
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by ahi 14y ago
Seems like ASICMiner wouldn't need a mining pool. Why give BTC Guild a cut when you have enough of the network to get consistent returns on your own?
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by ahi 14y ago
The advantage of a three wheel car is that it is not a car for regulation purposes, it's a motorcycle. Same reason there are tons of small motorcycle manufacturers.
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by ahi 14y ago
If your city has above ground telephone poles, you may be able to work something out with the utility. Light poles might also be an option. Power would be an issue though.
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by ahi 14y ago
This is just one of the worst disasters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Creek_Flood Plenty of other "accidents" large and small.
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by ahi 14y ago
The problem with the TANSTAAFL argument in this case is that the NHS is far cheaper than the American alternative. It is also far superior at providing preventative care than the American alternative.
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by ahi 14y ago
It's not actually illegal in the United States. As opposed to child porn that does not have 1st amendment protections.
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by ahi 14y ago
Kelloggs' biggest factory is in the UK, but it has something of a strange American history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelloggs#History
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by ahi 14y ago
Wasnt that zynga's strategy too?
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by ahi 14y ago
Adbrite was no big loss. Most of their CPMs were so small as to not be worth the bandwidth of the link.
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by ahi 14y ago
If you are paid with stock of acquiring company you buy put options on that stock as insurance that you won't get wiped out if the acquirer crumbles.
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by ahi 14y ago
They are currently prepaying health care benefits for workers who haven't been born yet. It's absurd. Congress went from one extreme to the other.
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by ahi 14y ago
See "A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming" Written by a prof at UMich School of Information, it discusses how we know what we know about climate change. http://www.amazon.com/Vast-Machine-Comput
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by ahi 14y ago
1) Require at least partial payment up front if there is any concern about getting paid. 2) Handle this in small claims instead of publicly. This doesn't make the developer look all that great.
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by ahi 14y ago
Sounds like the police got lucky at customs. Apparently, "buy local" is a must when it comes to drugs.
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by ahi 14y ago
Probably not, but disclosure of placebo ingredients would be enough to determine if it was a wise choice for a particular study.
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by ahi 14y ago
It has antacid properties.

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