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by crystaln 12y ago
> Any commercial company operating in China needs to have 51% Chinese participation. This is not true. Wholly foreign owned enterprises have existed in China for many years, and their permissible activities have increased greatly over th
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by crystaln 12y ago
This would seem to undermine companies like Chariot, who are offering more MUNI-plus like services: http://chariotsf.com
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by crystaln 12y ago
I'd be curious to know as well. Given his claim that the NSA and CIA are hiding UFO data, I have to wonder why none of that was released by Snowden.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Value to humanity is not highly correlated to economic value. Value to humanity is but a small, often inconsequential segment of demand.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Is there any evidence that fasting for 3 days is not safe or is this just an assumption? As I understand it is perfectly safe for all but the most fragile people.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Why not pass the small operation off to someone who has the chance of keeping it alive?
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by crystaln 12y ago
Genetic adaptation seems unlikely except for very species specific adaptations since humans don't seem to share any of these instincts, nor do they seem to be shared by genetic cousins in a way comparable to other traits.
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by crystaln 12y ago
If anyone is interested in the sordid history of the prescription and prohibition drug dichotomy, I highly recommend "This is Your Country on Drugs." The book details how the drug war came to be as a political and economic tool to
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by crystaln 12y ago
This can also cause serotonin syndrome, which can cause serious damage to your brain and untreatable side effects. Not a safe combination.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Exactly, although inertia might be more correct, particularly for the horizontal dimension. More gravity, to a point, will increase running speed. Would be interesting for someone to calculate the optimal gravity for running.
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by crystaln 12y ago
In theory, centralizing such requests with a ping should make it much easier for a browser to disable the pings, so if anything this improves security. Of course, if Google wanted to detect the lack of clicks from a given user and fall back
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by crystaln 12y ago
Not exactly. Horizontal acceleration takes the same amount of energy. The mass of the body must also be supported upon landing, which obviously takes more energy with more gravity.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Yes, some people just don't get the difference between historical and observational science.
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by crystaln 12y ago
We moved off of CloudFlare because of repeated outages and bugs. Our uptime improved significantly without CloudFlare. Granted we are probably more vulnerable to DoS, but our general uptime is far better now.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Hopefully not. CloudFlare is remarkably unreliable for a service that claims to improve uptime.
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by crystaln 12y ago
The most compelling feature of Skype was end-to-end encryption - that is before Microsoft centralized the service, subjected it to man-in-the-middle attacks, and partnered with the Chinese government to produce a back-doored version Tom-Sky
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by crystaln 12y ago
You have obviously never spoken to a cab driver about the "due process" and fairness they are treated with by cab companies. There is a reason cab drivers are abandoning their corrupt, inefficient, and oppressive employers for Ube
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by crystaln 12y ago
Why would anyone invite a BuzzFeed editor to an off-the-record dinner, and not expect a sensationalist click-bait article to come of it?
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by crystaln 12y ago
Most definitely not an accident. China throttles every successful foreign internet startup. They prefer the economic benefit confers to Chinese, and political control remains in China - for obvious reasons.
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by crystaln 12y ago
While I admire the attention to detail, it is all in vain for me. I much prefer the simplicity of a solid line to the awkward fragments dodging descenders. My brain continuously tries to make sense of the incomplete line, and some words no
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by crystaln 12y ago
You should never answer such a question from a police officer. You should respectfully decline to answer. You should also not listen to me, though I think you'll find the ACLU provides the same advice.
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by crystaln 12y ago
I'm curious what sort of vulnerabilities this could expose. Conflicting git check ins, breaking cache layers, tampering with downloads, etc
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by crystaln 12y ago
This does not account for the full effect of the act of voting. The greatest influence on human behavior is the behavior of other humans. By voting you are making voting the standard of your community, and those who vote because of your enc
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by crystaln 12y ago
The attack on homosexuality was not based on the degree of harm. Regardless, at one time, 4% of all women died in childbirth - a direct consequence of heterosexual sex. That is far more than people who die from homosexual sex, yet no one so
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by crystaln 12y ago
Male-female intercourse significantly increases your chance of dying in childbirth. Is that destructive?
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by crystaln 12y ago
For tabular data, tables are semantic.
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by crystaln 12y ago
Hopefully you're joking. As if it wasn't already hard enough to figure out the code path in a ruby application, now we can make it largely indeterminate and dependent on an ever-changing fuzzy algorithm!
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by crystaln 12y ago
> Reversibility is all about trusting a third party with your wealth, which has obvious downsides. If you do not have reversibility, you are trusting every automated intermediary, their security practices, reliability of software, hardwa
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by crystaln 12y ago
This misses a major benefit of our current system - reversibility. Currently, if someone initiates a fraudulent billion dollar wire transfer from the fed, it would quickly be reversed. Does anyone thing the Fed or our monetary policy should
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by crystaln 12y ago
Definitely a problem with the phone manufacturers. They should fix this problem ASAP so that you can sit on your phone.

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