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by alister 11y ago
Even though it's on a US government website, I'm dubious about their numbers and methods. That report (and earlier ones from 2006-2014) are riddled with weird inconsistencies. Examples: (1) Vatican has 100% refusal it says. The Po
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by alister 11y ago
> The correct column is the other one, 'Total overstay rate'. Yes, you're right. I used the column that indicates "overstayed the visa and are still in the US as far as the DHS knows", whereas the Total Overstay
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by alister 11y ago
Since there's lots of discussion here about overstays, here's the US government report for overstays broken down by country: https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/FY%2015... Some
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by alister 11y ago
The fees are small and perhaps the form itself is simple, but something that bureaucrats never seem to consider is how much documentation you have to read and understand before you can pay the fee and fill the form. The FAQ from the US si
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by alister 11y ago
If I'm calculating right, all of the dipole antennas could have been packed into a box the size of an old-fashioned toaster (a 15cm or 6-inch cube). Calculation: Volume of cylinder (πr²h) x 480M antennas (assume half were of each dia
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by alister 11y ago
> In Brazil, to dial numbers internally but across a certain geographical boundary, a carrier code must be explicitly dialed to say which carrier you will use to pay for the call. Any Brazilians here who can confirm whether this is tru
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Microsoft copied malware techniques to make Get Windows 10 the world's PC pest(theregister.co.uk)
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by alister 11y ago
Not mentioned was Brazil, so I'll add that Brazil is wonderfully simple: You don't tip. http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Tipping,_fraud,_and_s...
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by alister 11y ago
> they should test actual grip Well, the referenced article says that that's what they did (in addition to further measurements to determine area of contact).
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by alister 11y ago
> What purpose do fingerprints serve? Apart from improving our grip on objects... This has been partially debunked[1][2]: The area of skin in contact...was always 33% less than if the fingerpads were completely smooth. This confirmed th
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Julian Assange Will Leave Ecuador Embassy, Accept Arrest If He Loses UN Case(huffingtonpost.com)
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by alister 11y ago
> Economists understand the theories behind money and wealth creation Isaac Asimov was trained as a chemist before becoming a science fiction writer. He relates the story where someone asked him what kind of glue to use for gluing togeth
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by alister 11y ago
The original poster (being savvy enough to use GitHub, etc.) was probably aware of this but didn't think it was worth his time to carefully edit out that info. It's too bad we don't have a universal way of sanitizing all me
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by alister 11y ago
For Windows users, I suggest IrfanView: http://www.irfanview.com/ It's freeware (though not open source) and an excellent and fast image viewer. You'll have to also download the plugins to view the Dicom images (t
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by alister 11y ago
The original title is "How to manage Windows 10 notification and upgrade options" which is very uninformative. I would not have assumed that it provides a way to block Windows 10 forever. I use Windows all the time, so I'm no
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by alister 11y ago
If you're running Windows 7 or 8, finally we can stop being harassed with the insistent and sneaky forced upgrade to privacy-invasive Windows 10. It's an official fix from Microsoft: "Microsoft has released new updates to e
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Official way from Microsoft to never upgrade to Windows 10(support.microsoft.com)
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2016 Prediction: The end for engineering workstations (and gaming PCs too)(cringely.com)
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by alister 11y ago
Any recommendations for microphones that are (a) high-quality, (b) cheap (under US$5.00), (c) small (under a cubic centimeter), and (d) with analog output (such as a 1/8-inch plug)? Note that high-quality and cheap are not contradictor
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by alister 11y ago
Another awe-inspiring experiment that can be done in a basement or high school lab is to show that gravity really does exist between everyday ordinary objects. You'd think that any demonstration of gravity has to involve the Earth or E
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by alister 11y ago
As of 2 months ago Bell Canada has begun intercepting and modifying web traffic as well. Back in October, I started receiving notifications that said, “You've reached 50% of your Internet usage”. In the past these notifications would a
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by alister 11y ago
Simplest explanation: the first Starbucks had enough business to justify a store twice as large but didn't have room to expand. So they opened a second store across the street.
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by alister 11y ago
> Besides, there is also a cultural element here: privacy is a lot more valued in anglo-saxon cultures than in Latino cultures. Brazilians, Italians and others are a lot less concerned about things such as personal space ... Speaking sp
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by alister 11y ago
People that write memos, articles, papers, blogs, or reports need to start off with a 2-sentence Wikipedia-style description of what it is that we're looking at: HAKMEM, alternatively known as AI Memo 239, is a February 1972 "mem
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by alister 11y ago
You have an interesting thought and I was wondering the same thing. OP says that the probability of winning in the 3 cases are: (1) 50% win, (2) 50% win, (3) always win If I understand correctly, you're saying that the probabilities mi
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by alister 11y ago
> the rates that regular banks pay (and receive) for interbank loans Something still doesn't make sense. If bank A borrows $100 from bank B at 1% (positive) interest, then A has to pay back $101 to B. If bank A borrows $100 from b
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by alister 11y ago
What's completely inexplicable is why it took 23 years to do this. Consider this: (1) It's self-contained piece of UI code. It's not like this change will permeate effects throughout the OS. (2) It's a few man days of wo
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by alister 11y ago
No, you're mistaken. It is actually a very big problem. Earlier on the same page you linked to, it explain that "ICANN approved the Internationalized domain name system, which maps Unicode strings used in application user interfac
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by alister 11y ago
To all those players who became billionaires, and also to those financial advisors that show how anyone with modest income can become a multimillionaire in a 50-year working lifespan through the miracle of compound interest: People have bee
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by alister 11y ago
The full wish list of Boyle: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7798201/Robert-Boyles... and the actual list in Boyle's handwriting on exhibit at the Royal Society: http://blogs.royalsocie

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