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by borism 16y ago
because that's what's often offered as default by chart drawing software? people with money love it ("the pie is getting larger!!!"), so it must be default.
602.
by borism 16y ago
They're just not in the same left Obama is (if he's in the left at all, he's much more to the centre).
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by borism 16y ago
Vanunu just confirmed what was public secret, and Israel doesn't seem to be doing too badly after that. Game theory 101 - if you have Doomsday Device, let the World know about it! In fact there probably would have been less of a need for St
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by borism 16y ago
Everybody lies and blindly trusting anyone is hardly a good idea. But it's the political system in the US that makes things so much worse. There are other systems that do a little better, though no one is ideal.
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by borism 16y ago
Is there any evidence it was created in the US of A? Anyway, yes, you can disappear even if you're citizen of USA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_detainees_at_Guantanam... and there are countries with even more lax standarts: http
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by borism 16y ago
seriously? when was that? was it not so long ago we had armed plane hijackings almost every month?
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by borism 16y ago
Just wanted to amend my previous statement a bit: One thing this thing will do good is deliver a some payload (including satellite or UAV) to any place on Earth REALLY fast. This thing is simply not very good platform for intelligence g
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by borism 16y ago
Anyone can track anything (*that remains in it's orbit) from the comfort of their home: http://www.heavens-above.com http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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by borism 16y ago
Read past headlines. The issue author raises is clearly with it's dual use. Secrecy in the title comes from that. Satellites and UAEs have long replaced planes, no matter how fast or stealthy, for intelligence gathering. One thing this thin
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by borism 16y ago
it's just a news article pulled off Associated Press wire for god's sake...
611.
by borism 16y ago
.ly domains saga instantly came to mind :)
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by borism 16y ago
air resistance has nothing to do with weight of an object, it depends object's aerodynamic drag.
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by borism 16y ago
> unless you know of some magical way to get list of "active" users look for users who tweeted in last X days? also look for their repliers+buddies, since they too are likely to be active. doesn't seem hugely complicated to me?
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by borism 16y ago
"Net Income was actually down for the first three quarters to $6.2 million from $10.4 million in 2009."
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by borism 16y ago
really? I might have watched too many Hollywood movies, but I have a feeling that many of the oil people are actually more hacker types than those coding drones at your Microsofts and Oracles... that's not to say that it's essential to thei
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by borism 16y ago
there are tons of non-hacker driven successful companies too. In fact the majority of them.
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by borism 16y ago
true, there are a lot of axioms in many branches of economics that noone is allowed to touch, some have more, some have less. But AFAIK nowhere as much as in Austrian School today.
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by borism 16y ago
in fact it can't. in middle ages (and indeed to this day) it is common sense that heavier objects fall faster than lighter ones, yet it is blatantly false.
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by borism 16y ago
of course math is not the only ingredient needed to do science, but it's something you can't do without. If your theory is based on "self-evident axioms" that nobody is allowed to challenge, what you've created is a cult or religion, not sc
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by borism 16y ago
Right! Everything else uses math, and math is HARD! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School#Criticism_of_th... Critics have concluded that modern Austrian economics generally lacks scientific rigor,[10][12] which forms the basis of
621.
by borism 16y ago
that's after his death, and even then it's just a way to avoid inheritance tax.
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by borism 16y ago
because this is not particularly popular opinion in extremely libertarian tech circles, no matter what people more knowledgeable about those things say.
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by borism 16y ago
There were 7 months between Bear Stearns (Feb '08) and Lehman (Sep '08) events, and things started to go downhill long before that - August 2007 in particular was the turning point. Many in the US were simply asleep at the wheel, both in go
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by borism 16y ago
I'm still waiting for Japan's default and that should have happened 20 years ago...
625.
by borism 16y ago
certainly not because they want to be seen on par with CIA or NSA :)
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by borism 16y ago
more likely they don't want to be behind F-Secure who did the first widely-discussed Stuxnet write-up.
627.
by borism 16y ago
is Autism a disorder? (I suspect it's autist in me asking)
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by borism 16y ago
Well, he was at FB at least 1 year, so there was some vesting I assume? Not entirely incidental, is it?
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by borism 16y ago
love the X-Plane screen shot there! (Millenial here)
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World Bank president Robert Zoellick suggests new gold standard(marketwatch.com)
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