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by briandh 12y ago
> Aren't USA judges voted in? This case is being heard by a federal court, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Federal judges are appointed by the president with the consent of the Senate.
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by briandh 12y ago
I am not trying to be glib/mean here, but you should probably see a therapist to learn how to cope. It sounds like you are suffering.
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by briandh 12y ago
Will data culled from here be used in Bing Predicts? ( http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2014/06/11/how-does-bing-pre... )
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by briandh 12y ago
Motorola and LG are huge omissions for this crowd, which is probably why "other" is the second-most-voted at time of writing. OnePlus and Xiaomi might also have larger-than-typical (in the West, at least) showings here, too.
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by briandh 12y ago
Online product reviews have self-selection bias, yes, but it is not true that cables are reviewed only or even mostly by people who were not satisfied. For example, on Amazon we can see a 4.5 star mini USB cable with 679 reviews [1]. Simila
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by briandh 12y ago
I know these "blow-by-blow" comments can seem petty, but there are just so many things wrong with this post. It's sad, because I have a lot of respect for Kerr (besides being a very intelligent guy, he participated in weev&#x
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by briandh 12y ago
The article is referring to a brand of colonialism mentioned, also next to Spencer's name, earlier on: > The philosopher Herbert Spencer famously argued that competition among men for survival was not only inevitable but good. [...]
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by briandh 12y ago
> Spencer and his followers read Darwin’s On the Origin of Species as a justification for unregulated market competition and colonization. Please. I don't know about Spencer's unnamed "followers", but he was not quite
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by briandh 12y ago
I think this is it, or at least part: https://chromium.googlesource.com/arc/arc
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by briandh 12y ago
Also note that if you are not able to get such a kit (or even if you are) you can download the raw text file from 23AndMe and run it through Promethease from SNPedia. It is not nearly as clean and curated as 23AndMe but it's still inte
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by briandh 12y ago
No. They want the islands as a means to claim the surrounding waters, which which have a lot of real and potential value in fisheries, sea lanes, and offshore oil. The islands themselves are not very valuable.
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by briandh 12y ago
People upset by this (as I am) may be interested in EndForfeiture.com, a very slick brochure-style site you can send to your friends. The organization behind it is the Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm that has performed amp
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by briandh 12y ago
Honest question: why would I want to use ptel? Glancing at them real quick, they're a T-Mobile MVNO and their mid-range unlimited plan is $50/month with 2GB of high-speed data. Straight Talk, which is usually on T-Mobile but depen
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by briandh 12y ago
Anyone who downvoted bvvv want to say why? I probably would buy a Moto G over a Coolpad model personally, but his/her comment is topical, polite, and provides justification.
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by briandh 12y ago
Shareholders didn't like them being in the lower-margin hardware business; other Android OEMs didn't like having them as a competitor. And all the "analysts" (for whatever their words are worth) are saying that even Sams
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by briandh 12y ago
That's not true. It's being sold in Brazil [1] and if it's anything like previous the previous generation, probably a lot of other countries, too. [1] http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/09/04/the
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by briandh 12y ago
For those curious -- like I was -- apparently the part based on AOSP is the low-level "infrastructure layer", Gonk: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Platform/Arch... They also used ass
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by briandh 12y ago
It's a little pricey and I've never used it, but I think DeepDyve is what you're looking for.
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by briandh 12y ago
I don't think it's neo-Luddism. I just think that certain outlets, like Ars, dislike US telecom companies and will seize on most opportunities to criticize them. Now, US telecom companies aren't very likeable, sure. I'm
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by briandh 12y ago
For some definitions of "properly". Personally, I don't think regulations forcing a company to maintain outmoded infrastructure at the behest of a small portion of consumers would be proper.
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by briandh 12y ago
Minor correction: Opera has followed Google on to Blink.
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by briandh 12y ago
Two samples, not two subjects. Still not definitive, but definitely "something to see" if their methodology holds up (I don't have access).
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by briandh 12y ago
This is way too far down the fold: > For example, new safety requirements mean that individual truckers drive fewer miles than a decade ago: An average long-haul truck can now cover 8,000 miles a month, down from almost 11,000 in 2007, a
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by briandh 12y ago
I've never used one so I can't attest to their efficacy in practice, but there are plenty of apps available that will work offline: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/collection/offli... Al
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by briandh 12y ago
When I've used my mom's Transformer Prime, I've found the touchscreen/keyboard combo much more convenient than my own traditional laptop's screen/trackpad combo. A USB/Bluetooth mouse can be helpful, but t
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by briandh 12y ago
> Now, do I think that American Missionaries, or any ex-pats, should have priority medical care over others, particularly local medical staff? That's the real issue here. What were the criteria for finding patients? While I share th
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by briandh 12y ago
That doesn't follow at all; foreign drug companies sell plenty of drugs to Americans. The test of that assertion is to look at when drugs have been introduced to different markets, compared to R&D costs and the price the manufactur
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by briandh 12y ago
What's missing in your comment, though, is that many other developed countries offer those same benefits, and yet they don't tax foreign-earned income.
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by briandh 12y ago
Inverted companies still pay taxes on US income, it's just foreign income that is no longer taxed.
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by briandh 12y ago
That does not follow. Complaints about double taxation on dividend income are based on the existence of corporate taxes.

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