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by danpat 13y ago
I think the parent is objecting to where US courts have decided that their jurisdiction ends. Which always makes me think of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXfWfJz59pk&t=1m33s
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by danpat 13y ago
For buddhists, not killing is mostly axiomatic, based on the Five Precepts. The mental gymnastics that guy was undertaking trying to reconcile that axiom with other dogma that would otherwise allow killing was quite impressive. That's
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by danpat 13y ago
This has been my experience almost exactly (s/Yukon/Alberta/). I now hunt yearly and basically don't any meat that I didn't kill myself. One deer is enough for a couple for a year. I found the experience it very s
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by danpat 13y ago
Small backstory and a question for you. My fiancée is a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Recently, we were having dinner with a few of her colleagues, and they were complaining about the overwhelming number of new medications coming to mark
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by danpat 13y ago
This absolutely mirrors my own experience.
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by danpat 13y ago
Automated ski trail reporting: http://skitrails.info/ Using GPS trackers to watch where grooming equipment goes, then update the "what's been groomed" report automatically and (where there's sufficient c
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by danpat 13y ago
One of the great things about Wikipedia is the ability to follow citations and read the original material. To allow "expert opinion" without opening the floodgates to everyone with an opinion would require some kind of validation,
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by danpat 13y ago
You're not thinking like someone that lives in a cold place :-P In cold climates, the heat could be distributed to reduce the heating load in other buildings during cold months. Where I live (Alberta, Canada), it's continuously be
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by danpat 13y ago
http://www.pnas.org/content/104/47/18854.long and the talk about it: http://www.ted.com/talks/frans_de_waal_do_animals_have_moral...
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by danpat 13y ago
They already made a movie about it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117108/
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by danpat 13y ago
Nice crotch shot jpap :-)
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by danpat 13y ago
Hah, I told you getting your PhD was a waste of time ;-)
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by danpat 13y ago
For the US, IRS publications 515 and 519 clarify all that stuff. The IRS wants to tax "US Source Income", there are various criteria that define it. For goods sold from overseas and shipped to the US, it call comes down to &quot
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by danpat 13y ago
Ditto. I first encountered "grok" in the early 1990s. I read Stranger in a Strange Land for the first time this year.
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by danpat 13y ago
Depending on how anal you are, and how complex your invoices are, one good reason to use a tool over a Word template is simply adding the numbers up properly. I joined a small business that was doing them in Word. After reviewing the last
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by danpat 13y ago
It's not only that. A good buddy of mine is a criminal defence lawyer. He says that a goodly portion of his drug-related cases begin with traffic stops. By goodly portion, I mean 50+%. We've talked about it at length. There would be maj
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by danpat 13y ago
It will be interesting to see if 3D printer tech will change this. Large warehouses full of 3D printers where you can scale up/down your production would be a fairly reasonable analog to AWS and what it provides.
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by danpat 13y ago
Gold's practical value is a small fraction of it's going price. Bitcoin has some utility value in being a digital good that you can reliably exchange with someone, essentially instantly, over the internet, with no middle-man, for a very low
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by danpat 13y ago
True, to a degree, but day-to-day living still requires normal currency. Cash out $1M USD and you'd be comfortable to do whatever you liked for quite some time, while still keeping 99% of his coins.
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by danpat 14y ago
I'll take that bet. Let's say, 2018-04-04 as the date, and use today's high of $147 USD as the crossover point. If I lose, I owe you a BitCoin. If I win, you owe me one. Feel free to pre-purchase that coin. I'll stick a reminder in my c
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by danpat 14y ago
What are your terms on that bet? My take on it is that it's a mistake to think it's a currency. It has a lot more in common with gold, but without the heavy lifting.
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by danpat 14y ago
I'd say that that utility is sufficiently valuable enough to allow BitCoin to survive. Just look at the precursors, like Hawala, and the more modern stuff like Western Union. If nothing else, BitCoin will find a niche like them (and possi
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by danpat 14y ago
There's not much to go on with chat requests other than the senders address. At least emails have a body that's ripe for analysis. Imagine spam filtering based only on the purported sender address. It'd probably suck.
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by danpat 14y ago
Some forecasts predict a decline in the total population within the next 100 years. Birth rates in many countries (not just industrial, first world) have dropped below replacement rates for long enough that we'll likely see a plateau in to
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by danpat 14y ago
That reminds me of an interview with John Cleese where he said something along the lines of "I don't laugh as much as I used to. As I get older, I find that I'm coming across fewer and fewer novel jokes, novelty (to the listener) being a c
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by danpat 14y ago
As part of EMV, the liability is typically shifted to the merchant for non-EMV authenticated transactions. This provides strong motivation for merchants to do a better job of filtering out fishy transactions. The only solutions I've seen t
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by danpat 14y ago
For retail POS transactions, EMV (chip+pin) cards and terminal are an attempt to shift this balance. Unfortunately, the rollout isn't due for another couple of years yet in the USA, and there has been significant resistance to the change a
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by danpat 14y ago
While technically copyright infringement, boilerplate legal text is routinely copied, even by lawyers. This court case (AFLAC v. Assurant, et al.) drew a bit of a line in the sand about what's OK and what isn't: http://danashultz.com/blog/
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by danpat 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
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by danpat 14y ago
You can always achieve a token timeout by embedding a timestamp and signing the blob. However, because you're typically doing a password reset in a centralized database anyway, there's not really much point.

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