bdonlan

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by bdonlan 9y ago
Admiral shares are a function of the Vanguard mutual funds themselves; if you're buying the underlying companies directly, "admiral shares" don't matter, since you're not paying management expenses at all.
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Index funds buy or sell blindly, at whatever the prevailing best price is. Naturally, if there were only index funds in the market, the price would vary randomly. That being said, consider what would happen if stock prices did start to vary
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by bdonlan 9y ago
This is increasingly being done with congestion charges and time-dependent road or bridge tolls, but it still remains difficult, from a practical perspective, to maintain a continuous auction of road capacity. Notably, wireless deployments
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by bdonlan 9y ago
Purchased by who? With what money? There's no way they'll get twitter users, collectively, to pay enough to buy out the existing investors.
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by bdonlan 10y ago
With HKPK (which I think you're talking about here - HSTS just requires that https be used at all) expiration is not an issue as you whitelist the key, not the certificate (and are required to list a backup key, which should ideally be
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by bdonlan 10y ago
Because he's taking the fifth amendment privilege against self-incrimination, for civil court purposes they assume his testimony would be as incriminating as possible. Or so waymo is arguing anyway.
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by bdonlan 10y ago
It's called margin, and you can only margin (use as collateral) shares that are liquid - i.e. publicly traded.
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by bdonlan 10y ago
There is DTLS if you really want turnkey encryption for UDP, and it's implemented by openssl so it's straightforward enough to find an implementation. Not the most widely deployed protocol out there, to be sure, but if browsers wa
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by bdonlan 10y ago
For most reasonable search regexes, it's reasonably fast if your repository is already cached in memory. However, it's still fairly heavyweight, and the cost of running even these reasonable searches hundreds or thousands of times
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by bdonlan 10y ago
There's also the option to transition to 32-bit protected mode and then go to virtual 8086 mode from there. Or to simply emulate the entire CPU. It was probably just a cost-benefit trade-off in the end.
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by bdonlan 10y ago
AIUI they're just doing a margin account that charges a fixed interest for a certain level of maximum lent cash (subject to normal margin limits on top). For $1k _maximum_ loan at $6/mo that works out to around 7.2% interest, whic
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by bdonlan 10y ago
If you're looking for a minimal debian image, debootstrap is probably the best way to get one - certainly its result is likely to be more minimal than a live CD.
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by bdonlan 10y ago
The R&D needed to invent an entirely new CPU architecture isn't worth it for a game console, so they all use some off-the-shelf architecture - in this case, PPC, which is a 32-bit architecture like most other PC/workstation ar
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by bdonlan 10y ago
Read/write are certainly a bit slow, but this may well be acceptable for most applications. High performance apps can use mmap, which can be extended to directly map the nonvolatile memory in question.
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by bdonlan 11y ago
In theory, yes. In practice, patent examiners mostly only look at patents when checking for prior art. Once someone else gets a patent for your invention you'll face a costly legal process to invalidate the bogus patent.
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by bdonlan 11y ago
Why does the SEC care that you bought shares at a price higher than the cheapest? How does that hurt anyone other than yourself?
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by bdonlan 11y ago
The problem with some of these old lines is that they might have level crossings in which pedestrians or cars might occupy the tracks - so someone needs to be there to stop the train if that happens. Fully automated systems like the SkyTrai
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by bdonlan 11y ago
It's a 401k, there are no taxes upon sale.
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by bdonlan 11y ago
If the leap second was really just expressed to the application as the 61st second of a minute, it wouldn't be so bad. But instead the second of 23:59:59 happens _twice_ (UNIX time steps backwards one second), which tends to confuse ap
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by bdonlan 11y ago
The read-side code in question is hand-written assembly code, isn't it? And on the hardware side, observing pc will probably result in an actual memory barrier happening anyway (even if no signal is sent internally the kernel must stil
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by bdonlan 11y ago
The author is _why, isn't he? It would be misrepresentation to claim otherwise. The person making money here is the person who submitted to Createspace, who is effectively the publisher (along with Createspace as well)
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by bdonlan 12y ago
The real problem is when you have someone who is just competent enough to deliver mostly-working bit terrible code. Which the rest of the team has to maintain. If the person is fresh out of college, of course, this is understandable and a s
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by bdonlan 12y ago
Not if the physical switch physically disconnects the write enable pin on the flash chip.
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by bdonlan 12y ago
Sounds like the point of the (presumably criminal) trial was to determine whether Vanderklok was guilty of the charges presented - once he was acquitted, there's no point in continuing. If he wants to present a case against his accuser
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by bdonlan 12y ago
First, removing the cabin will cause a large shift in the plane's center of gravity; without adjustment of the flight controls, it is likely to stall, dive, tilt to the side, enter a spin, or some combination of the above, and is unlik
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by bdonlan 12y ago
In general, most ISPs will drop any routes more specific than a /24. Presumably datapath has negotiated with some specific providers to allow /32s; it's up to that ISP to scale their routers to handle it; other ISPs will only
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by bdonlan 12y ago
http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?node=14:2.0.1.3.10#se14... Assuming this is a part 91 flight, when flying overwater more than 30 minutes flight time or 100 nm from short, they are legally required to have on board
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by bdonlan 12y ago
Then you have the remainder of the plane falling, uncontrolled, and potentially towards populated areas. Without a parachute at least the pilot will (hopefully) be trying to aim for an empty patch, and with a parachute at least the rest of
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by bdonlan 12y ago
Ah, the prospectus linked was for the ETF, and the other link was paywalled, so I assumed that was what he meant to refer to.
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by bdonlan 12y ago
The Winklevoss Bitcoin Trust is not an exchange, it's an Exchange Traded Fund. Basically you can think of it as a shell company that exists solely to possess (approximately) 0.2 BTC per share; buying into it is _approximately_ equivale

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