akgerber

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by akgerber 17y ago
It's more that these are ways to make money fast if you're desperate. Plasma donation is usually something people do to get paid, which is why plasma centers are usually in poor neighborhoods.
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by akgerber 17y ago
And then buy an FPGA and bust out some Verilog and write the metal yourself.
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by akgerber 17y ago
Do they have babies? Are any of them sick or old? Are there any low-skill Americans that don't have the tenacious work ethic of most immigrants?
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by akgerber 17y ago
Don't worry. In exchange for their salaries, corporate lawyers have to accept their lives sucking.
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by akgerber 17y ago
I have picked it works like so: 1. Is there something that annoys you, or a crazy idea that comes into your head? 2. Actually do something about it, unlike all the people out there who don't.
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by akgerber 17y ago
As China grows economically what is the likelihood of it simply allowing female immigration and thus pass this problem off to poorer nations?
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by akgerber 17y ago
At my university (Carnegie Mellon) the buildings are unlocked during the day. Just walk in.
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by akgerber 17y ago
At 22, I'm also part of "this age group." If being unemployed just out of college is such a problem for the young man (and that's not unreasonable), he should drop the attitude of "I'm pretty particular about what kind of work I want to be
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by akgerber 17y ago
If it's within three miles or so on each end, you could also try riding a folding bike to and from the train station.
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by akgerber 17y ago
Did you ever notice that a process running a single thread of execution can run multiple processes, apparently all at the same time? Yeah, that. It's called a context switch. It works by "captur[ing] the state of a running application in su
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by akgerber 17y ago
"Sue-somebody-who-screws-me" insurance seems like it has a pretty poor incentive structure.
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by akgerber 17y ago
It is. But considering how many roads we build like freeways in this country, well-enforced speed limits are necessary for now.
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by akgerber 17y ago
This is perhaps applicable on interstates. But not having a speed limit on other roads makes them completely impassable to bicyclists and pedestrians.
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by akgerber 17y ago
Here is a flowchart! Everybody loves flowcharts! http://developer.android.com/images/activity_lifecycle.png
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by akgerber 17y ago
The hard drive on a MacBook is strictly trivial to remove.
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by akgerber 17y ago
If used games are a "problem" for publishers it simply indicates that they haven't worked hard enough to give a game replay value.
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by akgerber 17y ago
You're probably thinking of a psychiatrist. My dad is a psychotherapist and has an MCSW.
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by akgerber 17y ago
I'm a skinny twig & my problem is that most of the clothes on the market from mainstream brands have waaaaay too big of a gut when cut reasonably in the arms, shoulders, and legs.
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by akgerber 17y ago
Q: How do you improve a mechanical device so simple and efficient that it's had largely the same form for the past 100 years? A: Make it more complex and expensive!
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by akgerber 17y ago
The Canon S90 has a soft-dial that can be configured to shutter speed or aperture.
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by akgerber 17y ago
And those people might default. But factoring that risk in is a bank's job.
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by akgerber 17y ago
iWork doesn't come free with Macs. TextEdit does, and it's good for quickly inputting a blob of text of some sort.
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by akgerber 17y ago
I think you mean Snowmageddon.
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by akgerber 17y ago
But studies don't come into existence out of thin air. You need to put things into conversation for someone to put the effort in to go out and do a study.
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by akgerber 17y ago
I think there's a lot more surplus sunshine than surplus Ga or In.
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by akgerber 17y ago
Extended families get a little more hip now that banks aren't giving out money for nothing any more.
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by akgerber 17y ago
1. Most of those large donors are groups with earnings directly tied to government decisions. 2. Those unions represent an entire class of workers nationwide, while a corporation represents a subset of the market; the contributions of all c