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by bugsy 16y ago
We know that the oceans are the largest global sinks for CO2. Not only carbonic acid is formed, you conveniently forget to mention that it disseminates as a combination of dissolved CO2, HCO3, CO3 and the H2CO3 you mention. The CO3, carbona
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by bugsy 16y ago
"taxation in the US is _definitely_ not harsh enough" It seems to me that the US spends 46.5% of all money spend world wide collectively by all nations on military spending. China, France, UK, Russia, and then next 10 biggest spending count
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by bugsy 16y ago
Pretty much any coral atoll will do. Kiribati comes to mind for example. The problem with these examples is that coral atolls sink naturally, a coral atoll is what is left after the volcano it was around has finished sinking into the ocean.
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by bugsy 16y ago
The article briefly touches on the fact that this is a Depression and not a recession. More should be said about this obvious fact as awareness of this should drive decisions made. The article says that the solution is "more training" in in
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by bugsy 16y ago
Interesting article about his background but it avoids the big issue. Secretly selling state secrets to enemies of one's country is treason. So is giving the secrets away to those enemies, to advance their cause. However, this is 100% total
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by bugsy 16y ago
> I'm sure the people of tomorrow have better things to do than OCR millions of sheets of paper just to see grandpa's porn collection. That's actually a pretty good thought - whatever it is, label it as porn. People have spent millions
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by bugsy 16y ago
I've never heard of rechargeable batteries with a lifespan of 50 years. Also, the best quality photovoltaic solar cells have a lifespan of 25 years, and their output is down to around 5% of original capacity by the time 20 years rolls aroun
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by bugsy 16y ago
I don't use drugs myself, but this article is very interesting because it contains science and statistics and talks about a specific chemical test, its history, its serious flaws, its misuse, and how its misuse has become a tool to imprison
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by bugsy 16y ago
IBM Trackpoint http://www.pc.ibm.com/ww/healthycomputing/trkpnt.html Best pointing device ever. You can keep your hand in home position for typing and manipulate the cursor. It doesn't actually move, but is force sensitive and is delicat
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by bugsy 16y ago
The "oil rig engineer" sounds like not a actual rig designer, but engineer in the sense of "sanitation engineer" or such. Software development is a form of design engineering.
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by bugsy 16y ago
"in 1960, a coffee maker cost $29.95" Oh sheesh, do you think that that's what had to buy to make coffee rather than a percolator or a french press? This can work both ways. Fun fact: In 1960 a percolator cost $2.95, but in 2010 an espresso
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by bugsy 16y ago
Establishing a fictional name in order to separate concerns is not lying unless you are prepared to assert that Marion Morrison, Samuel Clemens and Brian Hugh Warner are lying when they do the same.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I thought when you said that the "same thing" happened to you you meant you were contacted by a fictional Accounts Payable department after not paying a bill. But I see in a later comment, by "same thing" you j
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by bugsy 16y ago
They are not being deceived. They are being told to pay for the product they received in accordance with the contract terms they agreed to. There is nothing deceptive about a company wanting to be paid for services rendered or products deli
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by bugsy 16y ago
There's nothing unethical about this. The unethical part is the client who doesn't want to pay for the product they received according to the previously agreed terms. Now THAT is unethical, and those people should be shot, and their dog sho
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by bugsy 16y ago
It's amazing you took your business elsewhere because they were "peacocking" and not because their products were faulty, as you said. Most people would take their business elsewhere when they find the quality is unacceptable. But you were O
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by bugsy 16y ago
So dododo, why were you refusing to pay that company for the product you received? Really, I am not surprised that you took your business elsewhere. Probably did them a favor - most companies prefer paying customers.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Nothing about the article says that Tony is a jerk or a thug. Tony's requests for payment will be exactly the same as any other company trying to get paid for their hard work from a customer that is a jackass who won't pay. You start out wi
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by bugsy 16y ago
The fake person is not to pressure them into paying you. It is to separate financial and customer service concerns. If you want to talk about dishonest no good lowlifes, let's talk about the client who doesn't pay for the product.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Here is the post I attempted to write in his comments: "Your analysis is deeply flawed. "Don’t throw things at other people’s stuff." As simple as that? So that rules out baseball, basketball, throwing away trash, tossing a frisbee, etc etc
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by bugsy 16y ago
When you say you also write several hundred lines of code an hour, how many hundreds of lines do you mean by several? 200? 300? 600? 900? Are you including white space? Are you including comments? What language are you coding in?
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by bugsy 16y ago
You write several hundred lines of code per hour? Excluding comments, no doubt. What language?
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by bugsy 16y ago
I know the rules for C (which are the worst of them) and yet I still use parens all over the place. It's less brain burden to read, and if I want to copy and paste it to javascript which has fewer precedence levels, it doesn't break.
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by bugsy 16y ago
This crap has nothing to do with hacking, take your politics to reddit.