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by aneth 15y ago
"Saying you can cover liabilities from notional future profits is illegal" Almost every business does this, so I suppose they should all be prosecuted and we should send our financial system back to the Middle Ages. If I take out $1M loan a
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by aneth 15y ago
This is the government fishing for a law to prosecute unrelated behavior that is insufficiently regulated or completely legal. This was not a ponzi scheme as many others have commented. They kept enough cash to pay more than enough of the a
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by aneth 15y ago
The article says: > According to statisticians, it is almost impossible to manipulate data in a way that a certain outcome is guaranteed and Benford’s Law is met at the same time. Hence, tax authorities in several countries are using Be
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by aneth 15y ago
Would the every podcast had a transcription. Listening is such a waste of time.
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by aneth 15y ago
I'm curious what effect sleep, meditation, and rest would have on willpower.
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by aneth 15y ago
Wouldn't this be to ensure that one degree of latitude is always approximately the same distance? (i.e. one mile)
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by aneth 15y ago
We can inspect the skeletons and determine if there was cancer present. I have also read that it was largely non-existent in paleolithic cultures, indicating agricultural products and lifestyle, but I'd like to see further confirmation of t
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by aneth 15y ago
In my experience, Rails is much slower to start up than Java frameworks, even if the rvm itself loads faster. Also, Play does allow you to see changes instantly. Read the docs for more information. As far as static typing goes, that's a lar
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by aneth 15y ago
It may be more lucrative to partner with deal sites and take a cut of revenue through ads and the like - without the expense. In some way, Facebook Deals is like Google getting into ecommerce - it's better just to be a middle man and sell a
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by aneth 15y ago
More evidence that Google is tone deaf. They lack compassion and understanding for their users and community, and they abuse their power. This a precursor to grand evil - lack of compassion plus grand intentions. Slide? G+ names? What other
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by aneth 15y ago
Anyone worth $58M is doing it for more than the money. Jobs most certainly wouldn't have hand picked a successor who would choose retirement over running Apple.
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by aneth 15y ago
'Steve, look. I don't give a fuck about Apple. Just make up your mind' I need friends like that. Glad to know indecision has good company.
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by aneth 15y ago
Assuming the anecdote is accurate, my guess is this was Steve's subtle way of nudging Vic to be more attentive to details. I don't think Steve would call anyone at anytime making a fuss over such a small thing - he would never get any work
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by aneth 15y ago
This is a huge improvement over their developer forums, which are a mess of unanswered duplicate questions, terrible search, and didn't even support Facebook login.
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by aneth 15y ago
I like the "virtual jobs" concept mentioned here. I recently wrote a post addressing this issue as an urgent matter. http://blog.stacktrace.com/2011/08/16/end-of-employment-eter...
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by aneth 15y ago
Now the question is, how can De Beers extend their extorted monopoly to all flame?
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by aneth 15y ago
I think you answered the question. You scale Rails by slowly replacing it. The problem with their architecture is that they hadn't done that yet. Node is handling their web scale traffic as-is.
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by aneth 15y ago
I'm a 5 year + rails developer, and this doesn't actually surprise me. Ruby and Rails are just incredibly slow in my experience unless you cache everything , which can greatly increase complexity. Right now I'm struggling with the creation
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by aneth 15y ago
Could everyone make sure every Republican and Tea Partier they know reads this? Republican concerns are critical to this country, but the current incarnation is deeply harmful.
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by aneth 15y ago
A reminder that we should be thankful for the academic orgins of the winning Internet standards. We could live in a world of fragmented protocols and pay walls at every turn. Instead we live in a world where the hacker standard prevails - t
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Cryptographic stenography could thwart Internet censorship(futurity.org)
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by aneth 15y ago
You are correct that Windows was responsible for the commoditization of computing. You are also correct that many hacks occurred through means other than unpatched Windows machines. Neither of those truths changes the fact that Windows XP h
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by aneth 15y ago
The millions of hijacked Windows XP machines ready to a botnet's bidding might beg to differ. Let us never forget that Microsoft Windows is responsible for, among much else, the transfer of critical trade secrets, diplomatic communications,
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by aneth 15y ago
I'm not sure that's the case here. It's not an anonymous recipient, it's Jonathan's stored value card and therefore Jonathan. Jonathan authorized anyone to use his card to buy coffee. He did not authorize anyone to steal his money. Another
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by aneth 15y ago
This seems like an unauthorized use of the card and could be criminal theft. If I give you my stored value card to buy coffee and you instead steal all the money, it doesn't matter whether you're donating to charity or disagree with my caus
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by aneth 15y ago
Personally, I find working in an open office environment terribly distracting. It feels like a constant meeting and people always feel now is a good time for a question or a chat.
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by aneth 15y ago
Without patents, secrecy would be the norm. Instead of revealing drug formulas, companies would lock them up forever and sue people who stole them. Patents serve a purpose, even if they are terribly broken right now.
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by aneth 15y ago
SCSS and Compass support is important to me. I avoid plain CSS whenever possible, and CSSEdit is pretty useless (certainly not worth paying for) without SCSS support.
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by aneth 15y ago
The battery life is 40% longer on the 13", which to me is enough to swing the balance. The size is only about an inch different in two dimensions and 1/2 pound. I have a previous generation 13" and I find I use the SD port often, which is m
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by aneth 15y ago
I particularly like their much simpler approach to null-safety. Null is a ghost that haunts every imperative language, and it's great to see a good solution. Scala's is also nice, but wordy and difficult for newbies. Simply being able to ca

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