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by bugsy 15y ago
This article is a very annoying piece of propaganda. The worst fallacy is the poisoned well ad hominem at the end where he claims that those who advise against college have degrees and therefore are selfish meanie "elitists" who are trying
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by bugsy 15y ago
Get two hair pins. Straighten one out and stick in lock. You now rake along the pins on top from back to front. At the same time you use the second one to apply rotational pressure on the tumbler so that after being flicked up the pins rest
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by bugsy 15y ago
Hrmph. With that sort of house key, it's a lot less trouble just to rake the lock. You don't need a key at all.
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by bugsy 15y ago
You know, $500,000 is less than it costs a developer to buy a decent medium sized duplex house within reasonable commuting distance to a tech job in San Jose. I don't really see $500k as an indication of any serious interest at all. It migh
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by bugsy 15y ago
Yeah, the Roadster requires a 220V/70A charging system. I've owned a lot of homes and don't recall ever having seen beyond 220v/30A lines for electric dryers and stoves. A 70A line is definitely requiring a new service box for just about an
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by bugsy 15y ago
Customers proposing that a store they know about and already wish to shop at lower their prices is not the same thing as "advertising". To call this advertising as you just did is a misnomer.
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by bugsy 15y ago
For considerably more bang for your buck, rather than implement a mixed bag of "this and that" gimmicks to "find awesome developers", companies should focus on eliminating all the things they are doing to drive away awesome developers.
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by bugsy 15y ago
> ask your local pizza place for a discount and they could instantly reply whether they granted it or not Sure, that's haggling, it's done pretty much everywhere in the world and throughout all of history. Where it hasn't worked is with
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by bugsy 15y ago
As described, that's just way too complicated. It also fails completely as advertising since the people have to start out wanting to eat or shop at the place.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Thanks very much for that. So according to tesla's latest information at that link, the program doesn't actually pay money back as was claimed, but it also doesn't cost anything to dispose. It also states that 7 years or 160,000km (99,400 m
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by bugsy 15y ago
Ok, no problem. Please state the "life of the vehicle" that you mention in miles driven and years of ownership. Also state whether this figure is backed in a legally binding warranty on said batteries. Then we'll figure the cost of maintain
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by bugsy 15y ago
$58,0000 for 160 mile range, $80,000 for extra batteries to bring it up to 300 mile range, which is $22,000 more. The extra weight of the batteries reduces mileage slightly so the extra pack doubles the battery capacity. Now battery cost is
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by bugsy 15y ago
Or maybe they are underrated and this article is propaganda. The main problem is that he is criticizing the claim that brilliant people in tech are considerably better than average, way out of proportion with their pay. To attack this, he b
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by bugsy 15y ago
I can tell you what happens if you call the FBI to report your site being hacked by criminal syndicates. Nothing. The FBI has no interest at all in investigating these crimes. Unless apparently it is from a group criticizing the government.
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by bugsy 15y ago
I am not so sure that has been established. MS is not historically this sociopathic. It might be a pig in a poke deal. Pay for a company, get an empty bag. We'll know if this is the case if MS says "hey wait a minute" or not.
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by bugsy 15y ago
I'm sure this won't result in any costly lawsuits.</skepticism>
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by bugsy 15y ago
Thank you very much for taking the time to track that down. The facts are incontrovertible in this case, the article about the report is a bald faced lie. This is disappointing on many levels. It's not clear whether Brian Bolduc the article
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by bugsy 15y ago
These are tricky discussions since many people have strong opinions. I'm going to assume you're a bit like me. Self motivated, been designing things since a young age. Reads a lot. Talks to people to find out what they are up to. I even did
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by bugsy 15y ago
It's becoming more of a risk nowadays than when I was in school. Many schools now set up policies where the school can seize ownership of the student's original work. This is outrageous of course and just one more reason to stay out of coll
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by bugsy 15y ago
One group wants Facebook to control identity, another OpenID, another Twitter, and another wants the federal government to impose identity requirements. They all have in common that individuals no longer have control over their own identity
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by bugsy 15y ago
US problems have nothing to do with Greece. What an absurd scapegoat from Greenspan, the incompetent loser that got us into this mess.
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by bugsy 15y ago
You are absolutely correct, I should have phrased it better regarding the cheating. My observation was that the organized cheating groups were populated exclusively by asian students. These were the ones that were highly systematized and ha
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by bugsy 15y ago
The claims that the article documents "one of the world's most efficient studiers" is very bizarre. He studied 3.5 hrs studying for an exam, not counting any of the time studying the subject in the weeks and months before the exam. That sou
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by bugsy 15y ago
Right, very unprofessional to publicly state their private policies that would obviously reflect badly on the company.
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by bugsy 15y ago
You are absolutely right it is the same argument for guns and it is correct for both. Laws aren't going to affect hackers off in Romania and Russia and China and the NSA/CIA. But studying the code and testing it is overwhelmingly the best,
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by bugsy 15y ago
The Wired title is highly biased and misleading. Amazon is not the one that passed a special windfall "amazon tax". The states are the ones that created the situation. A better title would be "States ruin innovation climate with targeted an
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by bugsy 15y ago
I wonder how much it cost them to buy this bill.
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by bugsy 15y ago
How this works in practice is servers are fired if they do not sign off that they earned the difference in tips. This is a big issue with fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut, and cheap buffets where there is a lunch rush and then a slow pe
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by bugsy 15y ago
Also, often the IRS taxes them not on what they actually make in tips if it is low, but on what the IRS thinks they should have made.
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by bugsy 15y ago
The books are not correct as far as practice goes. 10% was standard for years and 15% for great service. Waiters of course have been trying to promote 20%, 22.5% and more as normal. 10% is not great, but is what senior citizens and rich pol

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