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16y ago
I have been places that have been through this same routine with backup after backup being found to have failed even though they were all checked recently through test restores. Another thing that likes to happen is that even if you have a
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16y ago
Holy cow, the 2010 guidelines on obviousness is 18,374 words long of complex legalese. There's no lawyer in the world that can say with any certainty what it means.
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16y ago
The article is one in a series of discussions about whether it is possible, or well advised, to start up a company if one has small children at home. Children need child care, health insurance, time, and money to support them. This is a dif
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16y ago
Great article. I fully agree with its findings that 93% of US economists are me-too academics who don't understand economics and whose "consensus" is destroying the world.
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16y ago
Now that the feds have the legal right to grope everyone's testicles and vagina without a warrant, this is a pretty good job for pedophiles and perverts to take. If you are a pedophile or pervert, where else do you have not just the legal r
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16y ago
Working 5 hours a day on projects for clients, taking 15 minute breaks once an hour, and then working on the startup whenever there is time left after all that isn't really the same as creating a startup in a serious way. It also sounds lik
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16y ago
1. How opinionated are they? Like religious fanatics very opinionated programmers will argue endlessly over trivial matters that in the end make no difference, wasting valuable time, all because they can't just let their arbitrary preferenc
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16y ago
Very good engineering analysis explaining the tradeoffs and that no system is perfect.
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16y ago
I started work at a place where I didn't have an office but worked on a folding table with a broken chair in a small storage room. After the first month of this it became intolerable. I noticed though that there was a very large office form
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16y ago
Not in Lion 10.7. However, that could change in the future. Most likely what will happen in future versions (let's say 10.8) is apps that don't pay the apple tax will get very scary warnings about how they are potentially dangerous to the u
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16y ago
A three month window that started last month? Seems like this bill was custom crafted for some specific person that has already made his move. It seems very unlikely that many investors hearing about this bill today will be able to change t
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16y ago
The best way to improve your chance of success in business is to avoid doing all the things that ensure failure, nearly all of which are well known. There is no specific plan that will give a high chance of success, but there are many speci
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16y ago
For more detail on the background of factory education and the reason for it, and a bit more details on alternatives, check out John Taylor Gatto's works. He's a former NY state educator of the year who came to realize that school as we kno
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16y ago
Safari/OS X. You have to set "None allowed before asking" in Security if you want to be informed before a db is established. The issue is not that there is a message, it's that it's alarming to have a db set up without an obvious reason for
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16y ago
"The website “ http://desksnear.me” is requesting 1 MB of disk space to store “html5 test db” as a database on your disk." WORKPLACES, SIGN IN and Search By city or address all use novel UI elements of thinly recessed semi-transparent oval
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16y ago
OK, this web site has a terrible terrible interface. It uses these nonstandard recessed ovaloids and SOME of them are text fields and others are buttons that take you to other pages. It also tries to establish a HTML5 database without letti
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16y ago
I must admit that after reading the title I was not surprised to see the disclosure at the top that the article was written by someone with a lot of twitter stocks he's probably thinking of unloading.
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16y ago
Yes, it makes sense that whoever has the most money to pay lawyers to drag the case through appeals until the other side is bankrupt should also then be able to pin the bill for the whole thing on the peasant they have defeated. For too lo
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16y ago
We might want to clarify here that you are a professional writer for the site in question and the author of the given post; also you post a similar comment there in response to a similar question. Also, despite having access to the alleged
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16y ago
Both of you are correct they are not circumventing anything. Their plugin is just to track which blogs, which are freely available, you are actually reading so they know how to split your $5 according to what you actually read each month. T
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16y ago
Um, no one sees any problems with that chart? Every single point except the first one for the current year is theoretical and assume projections of increases per year that are more than total current capacity. That's like taking the US GNP
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16y ago
They were promoted by both majority parties not as stimulating the economy, but of saving it from otherwise certain collapse. They are also government spending which the NYT article claims hasn't happened. The exact statement in the article
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16y ago
Error in the textual description of the document: it's not larger than "all combined". You can't fit all of europe and the rest in there simultaneously. Note that most of europe is excluded from the largest map shown. One of the small alter
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16y ago
Let's not mention the bankster bailouts, clearly they did not happen according to the propaganda rag that is the NYT.
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16y ago
As a data point, I've participated in Topix forums for many years and have never seen a single spam post despite the lack of required registration. But I have seen a lot of really dumb and contentious discussions.
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16y ago
There's every chance that article has been written by the world's greatest whiskey expert. He still gets it wrong. He says to sniff. Don't sniff. You don't breath through your nose. As I said before, place your nose above the glass and then
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16y ago
Good article. I agree about the glass and water. But for smelling it, saying put your nose and sniff, he has it all wrong. Try this instead and I believe you will be convinced it is the superior method. Place nose over edge of the sherry gl
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16y ago
It really seems like the author of that article has brought it upon herself because she continues to tolerate it, and does it herself on occasion. The rule is wait 15 minutes and then leave. After a couple such incidents, then you flip the
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16y ago
Oh yes yes yes. At last. I can use this much.
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16y ago
I tend to agree with you. What strikes me about these cases is that the people readily jump on opportunities to earn income through honest work such as carving, transcribing and other things they are asked to do by the baiters. That they ar
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