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by ajays 15y ago
Here in San Francisco, some of the "old money" people control a large chunk of the medallions. The whole process is very opaque. Drivers usually rent the taxis from these owners; typically, it's $100 for an 8-hour shift, double that for wee
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by ajays 15y ago
You are forgetting Eagle Claw, and the fiasco at Desert One. Look, neither of us can prove our claims, since we weren't there. But I have read several news reports along these lines, that Obama pushed for more redundancy. One might ask: why
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by ajays 15y ago
There were a total of 4 helicopters (including the Chinook), from what I've read. Two went in, while two others hovered nearby. Apparently, Obama himself asked them to have a backup plan: http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/03/obama-pushed-f
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm not sure your location is the correct one. In the ground photos, you can see high-tension wires running near the compound; your don't appear to have any. And the compound is in the middle of a residential area (there's video from @Reall
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by ajays 15y ago
Excellent writeup. I agree, the last 2-3 years seem to have been real James-Bondian stuff in Pakistan. Just to add to your comment: allowing the Kunduz Airlift (shortly after the invasion in 2001) was another of Bush administration's big mi
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by ajays 15y ago
You must be a mind-reader to know what GWB was thinking of when he made that comment? (This is not an ad-hominem attack). All we have to go by is GWB's actions and words. The actions at Tora Bora alone are a strong datapoint; but over the y
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by ajays 15y ago
At a tactical level, you are correct: the credit goes to the US military. But you have to give credit to Obama too. Bush had his eyes focused on Iraq, and let BinLaden escape a few times. I still vividly remember, at some press conference a
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm leery of downloading and running an unknown applet. Is there any other way for me to extract the data of interest and upload it myself?
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by ajays 15y ago
Meh, too much back-and-forth for me to jump in. There may be a perfectly good reason for Google to exclude contractors from the "Googly perks": the Microsoft lawsuit. If Google treats the contractors just like its employees, then the contra
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by ajays 15y ago
This is HN, man. Post the solution here and see if it works or not.
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by ajays 15y ago
I think most smokers start at a young age; if you're not a smoker by age 25, there is little chance of you becoming one after that. This is why a lot of cigarette advertising is subliminally targeted at young folks.
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by ajays 15y ago
Here's how I see it: Manning gets thrown in torture chamber, and Obama doesn't give a shit. Despite the outcry from top sources[1] , he doesn't care. Then he announces his candidacy, and as he finally starts talking to his core supporters (
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm sorry, but you're giving AI too much credit. There was only 1 reason why Bradley Manning was moved: 2012 election. Obama knows that as long as Manning was being tortured, this would be a sore sticking point with his core Democrat suppor
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by ajays 15y ago
Assuming that the people managing this challenge are the same ones as those that did the previous Hearst Challenge, I'll stay far away from it. They don't think through the rules, and change them on the fly. Last time, at one stage, the lea
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by ajays 15y ago
He gives reduce as an example of "purely functional programs have no side effects and are thus trivially parallelizable.", but reduce by definition is not trivially parallelizable.
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by ajays 15y ago
How difficult is it to visit some of these? I'd love to just walk around near these planes and see (and photograph) them from up close.
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by ajays 15y ago
I think the word "job" comes from the old mainframe days. Each program was encapsulated in a "job". There was even a language on some systems (aptly named "Job Control Language", or JCL) to specify the different aspects of the job.
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by ajays 15y ago
It's all fine and dandy till a speck of soot blocks the optics, and the engine dies. A better solution (IMHO) would be to have multiple spark plugs.
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by ajays 16y ago
abuse.me may be a better alternative... ;-D I love this little hack. Sure, it may have no practical purpose; but it gave me great joy to see this. I'm still smiling.
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by ajays 16y ago
blogs.law.harvard.edu also belongs to harvard.edu, so what's the problem? Many universities give blog space (and email accounts) to alumni, as a way to keep them engaged (and hit them up for donations...).
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by ajays 16y ago
You know, these "asset forfeiture" laws will never change as long as it's the 'little people' who are getting reamed. The day the government grabs the assets of a few rich people, you can bet your ass these laws will change in a hurry.
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by ajays 16y ago
This is funny. I was thinking of doing the same for a long time. But I figured there was no money in it, and I didn't want to be stuck maintaining such a site. Kudos to him on making it work.
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by ajays 16y ago
Here's the link to the vending machine: http://greenaid.co/pages/Greenaid-Vending-.html Their prices are $15/lb of seedbombs. I don't know how much each weighs, but: if it has clay, soil, etc. then it can't be light. I'm guessing about 10
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by ajays 16y ago
This is impossible! Zuck promised _me_ half of the company back in 2004. Here's the email: -------------- Dear Ajays, Thanks for the beers last night, and giving me all the ideas for "The Facebook". I feel your contribution i
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by ajays 16y ago
$0.50/day could pay for an EC2 micro instance... :-)
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by ajays 16y ago
But the US has long arms. See the harassment Assange is geting in UK and Sweden. Do you think the authorities there would be pursuing him so hard if he was just a random guy who slept around? Note: YES, I'm aware of the charges against him.
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by ajays 16y ago
"First, Khan has never lectured." "Second, Khan has never taught." This is such BS. When I came to the US on an assistantship, I was assigned to TA an intro to programming course. The problems were: a) I didn't have an undergrad degree in
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by ajays 16y ago
These are all just cheap shots. If something goes wrong down the road, the writer can crow "I told you so" and strut around like a rooster. If nothing goes wrong, then who remembers some unknown writer in some forgotten rag? The beauty of t
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by ajays 16y ago
"Michigan State's team of engineers hope to have a car-sized 25-kilowatt version of the prototype ready by the end of the year." I'll pay attention once this happens. As they say, there's many a slip between the cup and the lip. Lab project
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by ajays 16y ago
Geez, what university are you at? In my previous job (a Univ), we all wore t-shirts. If someone showed up in a collared shirt (or a suit), it was because they were interviewing somewhere.

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