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by ajays 15y ago
"If it fails to perform, Rossi will not get paid" ... This is the key part.
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by ajays 15y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but: for those 1% : does the medical insurance cover you for any after-effects? Does the recipients insurance cover you for any medical expenses arising from the donation?
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by ajays 15y ago
If you open a bank account in the US (and many other parts of the world), you have to show identification. Why not the same in Switzerland? The Swiss can ask for ID when opening an account; if the account holder is a Swiss citizen, give her
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by ajays 15y ago
Switzerland is a "banking mecca" because of its privacy laws, which encourage the corrupt from around the world to park their money in Swiss banks. I would posit and say that the Swiss system actually _encourages_ (large-scale) corruption a
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by ajays 15y ago
That's pretty sweet. The spread of the greenery in the summer, followed by its retreat in the winter, makes it look like the earth is breathing. It would be great if the underlying color images are available for download.
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by ajays 15y ago
This is stupid on Google's part. People are used to mentioning others via "@" (unless, maybe, Twitter has copyrighted/patented this). Forcing people to use "+" will just make adoption of G+ harder. Google should remember that they're the un
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by ajays 15y ago
The number of results reported is just a half-assed guess. The server which got the search term calculates it by looking at what fraction of documents matched, what is the total index size, etc. Usually, the search phrase is hashed and the
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by ajays 15y ago
Argh! Why the downvotes? This is the way the government works! A government agency often needs a legal cover to do something; so it asks the citizens to sue them in court, so that it will have the legal cover. It can't sue itself, because i
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by ajays 15y ago
I would too. Just because he sits on a special chair doesn't put him above me. Now, I may respect a man for what he's _done_ ; but in Obama's case, that isn't much (ex Obama volunteer & donor here).
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by ajays 15y ago
Well, if staying in school longer (till 6pm, 11 months/year) is such a great idea, why didn't he stay in Reed longer?
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by ajays 15y ago
"telling them to sue the agency" This sounds bad in a soundbite, but this is the way the system works. Consider this loose example: suppose 2 people get into a fight. One guy really beats up another guy, and the cops are called. If the reci
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by ajays 15y ago
"Sure he's the CTO of a very important company" .... ... and Yegge's criticism was squarely about Brin's area of responsibility. So it's natural that Brin would be a little pissed about it, because Yegge was effectively saying that Brin's d
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by ajays 15y ago
Hiring has picked up these days, and this is the time to get in. Get a job you reasonably like, keep your head down and build a positive track record. If the job is shitty, don't just get fired; act like an adult and keep them happy while
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by ajays 15y ago
This is fantastic news. However, the vaccine won't be in production and available till 2015. Nearly 1 million people die every year from it; which means, about 1.5 million lives could be saved if the vaccine were in production today. I know
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by ajays 15y ago
She may not be perfect, but she does ruffle some feathers in Washington. We need more people like her! Right now we're in a 1-party government (both Republicans and Democrats serve Wall Street, the couple of gadflys notwithstanding). We nee
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by ajays 15y ago
Being a 3GS owner, I feel like an ugly stepchild. Should I upgrade to 4S, and then watch (once again, as in the case of iphone 4) as the iphone 5 rolls out early next year? If the i5 comes out in Feb, it might be worth the wait. If June...
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by ajays 15y ago
The elegance of Ramsey's proof of R(3,3) was what turned me on to Combinatorics and Graph Theory.
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by ajays 15y ago
"Play" ?? That's what I read it as and I was, like, wow, what is this all about? Got my attention!
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by ajays 15y ago
Every day companies like Google and Yahoo do things which don't have a directly measurable benefit. Why does Yahoo put out YUI, Hadoop, YTS for free? Why does Google give out protobufs, GWT for free? Why are there public tech talks at these
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by ajays 15y ago
I may be biased, but: I feel like Google's "geek cred" is slipping. It feels like PMs (and their "monetization strategies") are gaining control over at El Goog, shutting down anything that isn't "revenue positive". You can't measure geek cr
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by ajays 15y ago
Exactly. On a 24-line VT100 display, you bet that every line was important!
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by ajays 15y ago
They have infected the control computers, and the keylogger (and mouselogger?) is logging all the commands being given. If they can come this far, how difficult is it to, say, insert spurious "fire" commands? Or redirect the drone to some o
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by ajays 15y ago
So all that terrorists have to do is commandeer a drone (thanks to this virus) and then they can rain terror anywhere they want? This is scary.
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by ajays 15y ago
I don't know why people have to adopt the "anti-cultural" attitude to show their 'coolness'. You can be 'cool' without bashing a guy who just passed away; just do something cool on your own. I'm no Apple fanboi, but there's a time and place
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by ajays 15y ago
It would be great if someone could come up with a summary of the offerings by the big 3 carriers; and the quality of service on the network. I'd love to switch to Sprint, but I'm not sure how their cellular network stacks up to ATT/Verizon
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by ajays 15y ago
The sad part is: both Democrats and Republicans are beholden to the corporations, and not to the voters. Every law that gets passed has these hidden loopholes and exemptions that benefit a select few corporations. Who puts these loopholes i
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by ajays 15y ago
With Citizens United, corporations are now "people", so they should be taxed just like ordinary people.
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by ajays 15y ago
Why should they hurt anyone else? The money's just sitting in a bank somewhere.
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by ajays 15y ago
A newer(?) video showing it actually being field-tested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqMVg5ixhd0 // please mute the speakers
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by ajays 15y ago
For me, the biggest challenge is meeting women who I might find interesting. I'm a techie, and, for some reason, I've always got along great with techie women (or women in sciences or math). Maybe it's because they understand me better; I d

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