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camiller
10y ago
Yes, but that wasn't the point.
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10y ago
Yeah, I purposely ignored the edge cases of selling treasury stock or existing companies making new issues. An existing company making a new issue is kind of unusual because it dilutes the value of existing shares which is harmful to existi
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10y ago
For property you still have ongoing maintenance to pay for, and real estate agents, and the title company, etc. so there are jobs created due to the buying, selling, and ownership of property. If I by 100 shares of IBM in my self-directed a
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10y ago
Buying stock on the open market also doesn't create any job for anyone, it just transfers wealth to the hands of the seller. Basically, unless you are investing in an IPO, the company doesn't see a dime from the ongoing trading of
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10y ago
Flip side of the coin here, My personal HP laptop was bought on special as Windows 8 was just coming to market and the store wanted to get the older stuff with Win7 off the shelves. That would put it around late 2012, so almost 4 years old.
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10y ago
Well.... Yeah it probably took a bunch of them. Sorry, I was in a hurry and shortened Europeans to Euros. Probably could have said ESA.
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10y ago
Euros sent a probe/lander to Mars, it crashed. The orbiter it traveled with, which has it's own mission to analyze trace gasses in Mars outer atmosphere(I think) is working fine. Earth is 25-29 against Mars.
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10y ago
In my state I can renew my drivers license online, no hassle required.
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10y ago
Sure, you want to come over and be the one to tell one of the states that they are "minor"? Joking aside... understand that we don't actually have a national election system, or even a state one. Each one of the United States
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10y ago
I would not have a problem a problem with requiring photo ID's be free in states that requiring them for voting.
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10y ago
Diebold changed the name then sold the voting machine division to ES&S, which later sold it off due to monopoly charges to Dominion. "As of August 2010, Dominion voting machines are used in 600 jurisdictions in 22 states" - wi
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10y ago
"this is something that before Trump no one had claimed (the GOP or otherwise)" Except when Democrats claimed Bush stole the election. Otherwise no one has ever...
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10y ago
Yes, but they updated it in a fashion to downplay potential misuse of the JVF in Clinton's favor. Edit: for context "We were able to keep him from including more on the JVF, it has a mention in there, but between us and a conversa
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10y ago
Sorry but wasn't the NYT shown to be colluding with the DNC to stack the deck against Sanders in the emails wikileaks published from the DNC hack? https://medium.com/@Starkweather/new-york-times-edited-berni...
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10y ago
I do understand that point of view. And did consider it, but the way I use the different services is segmented by what I use them for which works for me. box is the backup of just my Calibre library, amazon photos, google drive is just docu
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10y ago
I'm a "use all the free space I can get from whichever provider" user. Across the providers I use I have 207.25 GB of storage.Dropbox, Drive, Box, and OneDrive all integrate with Astro file manager on my phone. Media Fire and
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10y ago
This clipboard vulnerability is new to me, but after some research it appears the keepass2android doesn't use the clipboard, but keepassdroid does.
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10y ago
I would think, although possibly wrongly, that if this was drought induced the die off would be more uniform. The pictures look similar to what I saw in Wyoming a decade ago due to pine beetles. Both are likely related, reduced water makes
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10y ago
Well, at this point I believe that when you use Allo in incognito mode it does end-to-end encryption. You also lose the integration with google assistant at that point. https://support.google.com/allo/answer/638372
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10y ago
Yes, I corrected after realizing, and having it pointed out.
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10y ago
Yeah, the local Farm Bureau Co-Op sold TRS-80's to the farmers around where I grew up. I had a Apple //e but bought many Elephant Memory Systems 5.25" floppy disks from the Co-Op.
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10y ago
10MB, fixed Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_Systems#Disk_drives_and...
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My cousin had the pocket computer, I always coveted a model III, but my school installed 8 (eventually 16) Apple //e computers networked to a corvus constelation 10MB hard drive. So I ended up with a Apple //e at home.
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10y ago
Facebook Forced you to install messenger? Not only have I not installed facebook messenger, I removed the facebook app and just use the mobile web interface. In chrome for android if I select "Request Desktop Site" I can still get
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10y ago
I agree, to a certain extent. I expect that I will only end up using Allo with my wife and daughter and only when I need to send something encrypted. I can't tell you how many times my wife has asked for the password to something like
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10y ago
There is an assertion in the article that I'm not sure about. "This is most likely because Android in developed markets in Americas and Europe are more updated and are pushing the Google Allo app through automatic downloads."
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10y ago
Or don't wait until you are critically low on fuel to stop.
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With good AI anything is possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbAI40dK0A see the simulation at 0:55.
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There is a simple algorithm that would suffice.... Whatever I'm using right now is what I want to have preferential delivery. Really it is that simple.
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10y ago
If my old Apple //e wasn't 650 miles away in dad's attic I'd be dragging it out tonight to try this... Well, I'd probably have to figure out how to get it on a 5.25 floppy first.
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