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571.
by burke 14y ago
xkcd ran the numbers: http://xkcd.com/893/
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by burke 14y ago
This raises an interesting question. I wonder if explicitly labeling itself as a Ponzi scheme precludes it from being technically classified as a Ponzi scheme. Is it still technically fraud if you walk up to someone on the street and say: "
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by burke 14y ago
rouxbe.com is very, very good. I went through all of their videos over the course of a week or so a couple years back, and the pacing, depth, and quality of instruction are extremely impressive. I would recommend it to anyone.
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by burke 14y ago
This, I LIKE. It's definitely a band-aid, but what a band-aid!
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by burke 14y ago
I wouldn't normally bring this up, but this is the top comment and you say it six times: it's Palmer, not Peter.
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by burke 14y ago
I think it actually says a lot more about how generally-free our society is. Giordano Bruno was imprisoned and executed for disagreeing with the church, so had much reason to hide his activities, even though they are what we could definitel
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by burke 14y ago
Very much back of the napkin here: 30 year US Treasurys are currently ~2.7%. Assuming someone saves 10% of their pre-tax income each month between the ages of 25 and 55, at that interest rate, they can look forward to 5 times their average
578.
by burke 14y ago
Managed repositories are actually quite a bit different, since the requirements to edit emacs-wiki are quite a bit less stringent than those to submit a modification of someone else's package to a repository. Apt, Yum, etc., require trust i
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by burke 14y ago
I don't mean to be harsh, but if a building that existed at the same time as the war is enough to evoke unpleasant feelings for someone, perhaps Germany is not a great place for that person to be living in general.
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by burke 14y ago
/r/askscience and /r/depthhub are pretty consistently good.
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by burke 14y ago
It's like a corollary to Poe's Law. I love it.
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by burke 14y ago
I believe I was taking 2.5mg. Maybe I'll try 1.25 next time I need it. 2.5 seemed to have a pretty strong effect for me.
583.
by burke 14y ago
I take melatonin sometimes when my sleep cycle is off. It's really helpful for correcting it, but I don't like that, even with small doses, I feel vaguely like I'm walking around in a dream world until noon or so the next day.
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by burke 14y ago
the NAFTA really does a number on us (Canada) here in making it so easy to work in the States on TN status. I went to university a few years ago with a small group of 3 other pretty bright programmer friends. It turns out it's hard to find
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by burke 14y ago
What part of the code isn't self-explanatory that a comment would be able to band-aid? It's all very clean. Comments for comments' sake are much worse than no comments at all.
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by burke 14y ago
The way it generally works is that Big Pharma releases a new "2.0" version (often a cis-isomer or the same molecule with a non-functional dangly bit on it), then hands out a bunch of money to get a portion of doctors to quit prescribing the
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by burke 14y ago
" To me, this outage is the most worrisome of all AWS service disruptions that I know about. In a nutshell: AWS effectively lost its control plane for entire region as a result of a failure within a single AZ. This was not supposed to be po
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by burke 14y ago
I'm going to echo everyone else's concerns here and say that the drama from wakemate, lukewarm-to-nonexistant support, and now just letting the wakemate domain expire altogether have not exactly inspired confidence in this product. Maybe if
589.
by burke 14y ago
After getting 10 wrong in a row, I've decided to start buying more mutual funds.
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by burke 14y ago
As much as this isn't reddit, I can get behind this.
591.
by burke 14y ago
What a disgustingly blatant cash grab. I wonder how long ICANN-monopolized DNS as we know it will stick around.
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by burke 14y ago
"In what way is money not being taken from the pockets of others?" In the way that they are taking money out of their own pockets by not catering to this sizeable crowd. Intellectual Property does not fit neatly into our existing socio-econ
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by burke 14y ago
I'm only one data point, but: I used to pirate (all of my) music. I have bought a grand total of one CD ever. Now I happily consume most of my music through a paid subscription to Rdio. Similarly, I pay for netflix. I (grudgingly) go to the
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by burke 14y ago
Strong financial incentives for selected individuals to reproduce; penalties for others.
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by burke 14y ago
I saw that too. I tend to mistrust anything originating on 4chan, but it would explain the authentication server blowing up. I'm looking forward to reading (hoping they release) a post-mortem on this.
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by burke 14y ago
I'm very curious what it is in Diablo that's causing the issues. It seems a bit odd to me that they're experiencing issues this severe for two reasons: 1) Diablo was developed from the fairly unusual position of knowing it would face a laun
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by burke 15y ago
I was a member of the ACM for a couple years in my undergrad. All I ever really got out of it was a subscription to the (fairly good) magazine "Communications of the ACM".
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by burke 15y ago
Certainly not evil. It allows me (as a user) to properly gauge whether or not I'm interested in your service before I provide any personal information. It's a win for me.
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by burke 15y ago
As an occasional EVE Online player, I keep thinking these stories are about the EVE universe. It's always a little world-inverting when I realize they're actually about real life. This whole concept of asteroid mining is incredibly awe-insp
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by burke 15y ago
Same here. Had to reboot.

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