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by apetresc 12y ago
> Well, among the key facts necessary to understand that is that the "safety features" are not pure cost-free benefit, and the NRA believes the costs outweigh the benefits. They have some decent arguments for the existence of t
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by apetresc 12y ago
Is the "keep the government in line" thing really a reason that anybody actually believes anymore? Like, if things got so bad that the government was "turning on its own people" with weaponry, somebody really thinks some
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by apetresc 12y ago
According to Kickstarter's own metrics (and I'm sure we agree that they're the clear winner in this space), there's been a total of about $1.5B in funds raised TOTAL, over the lifetime of the site: https://www
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by apetresc 12y ago
From the article: > By contrast, safety features on firearms—such as smartguns unlocked by an owner’s thumbprint or a radio-frequency encryption—are opposed by the National Rifle Association, whose allies in Congress also block funding f
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by apetresc 12y ago
So, for someone unversed in North Korea, what does this mean exactly? The entire country uses this distro exclusively? Or just by government workers? There's going to be an entire generation out there who've only ever used Linux?
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by apetresc 12y ago
> Just a couple days ago, I read that three times as much money is raised from crowdfunding than from VC. Citation required. That doesn't sound possible.
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by apetresc 12y ago
Your argument applies equally well to just about ANY high-profile inside job, and those are incredibly common. Obviously that segment exists. Why couldn't it exist for Sony?
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by apetresc 12y ago
I'm fairly confident Homebrew isn't exploiting this
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by apetresc 12y ago
So when can we expect AWS RDS to support it? :)
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by apetresc 12y ago
And not only that, by ten-year-old daughters, too!
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by apetresc 12y ago
That's not really a rebuttal. Sure, maybe we can ask that question about those things too. Why not? Are you expecting everyone's political opinions to mesh with yours so closely that we'll all agree if a theory seems to con
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by apetresc 12y ago
I'm sure TPB gets torrents added faster than Google caches.
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by apetresc 12y ago
This was noted in AWS' status page for Europe: > 7:26 AM PST We are investigating Internet provider connectivity issues in the EU-WEST-1 Region. > 7:46 AM PST Between 6:41 AM and 7:25 AM PST we experienced impaired Internet conne
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by apetresc 12y ago
Only for the technically naive. Anyone who understands that e-mailing a colleague within your company's email server can be read by someone with the appropriate admin privileges, will also understand that a "direct message" o
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by apetresc 12y ago
It's not a question of whether it'd be "better" or not, it's a question of whether it's actually going to happen. Do you _honestly_ believe Dart is going to replace or threaten Javascript "very soon"?
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by apetresc 12y ago
Whatever, I give it at most two years before some other study directly contradicts this one (just as this one directly contradicts conventional wisdom based on other studies which themselves contradicted the generally-accepted status quo be
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Chinese concept train doesn't need to stop at stations(businessinsider.com)
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by apetresc 12y ago
I'm not sure I agree with his interpretation of his own results. By my reckoning, 4 of the top 5 characters have been continuously in the top 5 for the entire 12-year duration (with Jigglypuff the sole exception and by FAR the most int
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by apetresc 12y ago
> I don't have the source handy, but in the US workplace legal disputes is the number one costs to companies. You're really going to have to qualify that somehow. It can't possibly be close to true in that form.
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by apetresc 12y ago
Well, the efficiency was as low as it was because of an implementation bug on Amazon's side. It didn't work the way it was intended to. If it had, who knows, it might have done well. The campaign certainly makes sense to me in a v
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by apetresc 12y ago
Earlier in this _exact same thread_, literally 100 pixels above your comment, someone called the PR-speak "pablum that insults the intelligence of every reader." Shift your eyes down a bit, and Yishan should have let the PR drone
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by apetresc 12y ago
I'm not sure what Nathan Marz's "Lambda Architecture" has anything to do with AWS Lambda, though
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by apetresc 12y ago
Eh? I thought the tutorial was great. Took less than 2 minutes, I totally understood the rules, and had completed a sample puzzle. What more could you want?
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by apetresc 12y ago
That's what I would have guessed too, that $500K is basically a rounding error to a company like Discover. However, he includes an e-mail from Discovery in the letter, which says "I cannot express my disappointment on how this has
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by apetresc 12y ago
Well, "alumni" implies you graduated, implies you earned a degree. The correct answer is that that "Alumni card" is for the MFP (Mayfield Fellows Program), a nine-month program within Stanford that gives you some entrepr
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by apetresc 12y ago
I'll admit, I had no idea Eric S. Raymond was still actively involved in emacs development.
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by apetresc 12y ago
I e-mailed Groupon directly about it, they sent me the same response, word-for-word. It's clearly a canned text their PR firm gave them to paste.
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by apetresc 12y ago
It's not that it's unstable in an absolute sense – but it is a migration if they started building this prior to 14.04 release (highly likely). And migrations are always time-consuming and risky, even if it's a migration to
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by apetresc 12y ago
For what it's worth, Cox isn't a comedian. He has a PhD in physics, has supervised PhDs of his own, has been a research scientist at some of the best groups in the world, and currently works in Geneva with the LHC. Surely he'
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by apetresc 12y ago
He multiplied by 2 instead of dividing. He meant $5.

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