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>So you are saying, talking to a passenger "causes the same attention impairment level as someone under the influence of alcohol."? That is not what they said at all. They are correct in pointing out that there is a great dea
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If the Vyatta CLI is important you might consider VyOS [1], which is the open source version of Vyatta. It was forked from the community edition after the Brocade stopped development of it and close sourced the main edition. [1] https:&#x2
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>One fifth is a market segment that is large enough to cater for Keep in mind that that's 21.7% of stack overflow users (i.e. developers), not users in general. According StatCounter (based on browser stats), GNU/Linux repres
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It's also interesting given the relative immigrant populations: As of 2011, 26% of the Australian population was not born in Australia.[1] That's around double the UK. The only nations with higher proportions are Luxembourg, Switz
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Wired published a relatively lengthy article on the incident(s): https://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-com...
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In addition, I'd also point out that the term "nutritionist" doesn't even mean anything is most jurisdictions, as highlighted by the following anecdote: "A demonstration of the ease in which it is possible to becom
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I have a leap (v2?) at home and also vastly prefer it to the Aaron. It also seems pretty indestructible, which is important if you've got kids that like to sit on the arms etc. I bought it new and don't recall it being outrageousl
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Yes, but you need an ANT+ power meter on the bike to make it in anyway realistic. More info here: https://support.zwift.com/hc/en-us/articles/203968635--Setti...
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Archive of the list on Gitlab which is now 404: https://web.archive.org/web/20161014133252/https://gitlab.co...
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Unsurprisingly there is no byline on that article. For those unaware, it has been illegal to defame or insult the monarchy for the last 100 years or so under the country's Lèse majesté law, widely used to silence critics. Some notable
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Consider yourself lucky. There are 6 of those 31 available in Hong Kong and the subscription cost is 10% higher than the US, despite median household income being around a third lower. I really don't understand the logic in charging a
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>So the argument that self-driving cars will reduce fatalities so substantially that we don't need to worry too much about these edge cases makes a lot of sense to me. Even more so considering this case likely wouldn't form p
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This is certainly not the first such case and it's unlikely to be the last. I recall Sony having numerous recalls related to similar issues. It's the nature of dense energy storage media to run into problems if the energy is allow
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That was a surprisingly sensational interpretation by Reuters of the original quote. Looking at the source, he didn't recommend these assets. What was actually wrote was: "At some point investors — leery and indeed weary of recei
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It wasn't even in the top 10 in 2014 according to the BLS Census of Fatal Occupation Injuries[1], as summarized here: http://time.com/4326676/dangerous-jobs-america/ Police and sheriff's patrol officers
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IANAL, but I believe this would almost certainly have been illegal in 2008 under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
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>An alternative way of thinking about this is that we're fortunate that our needs are so well provided for that we can focus on entertainment and life enrichment. It's a nice way of thinking of it and hopefully it's true
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>but this one was a small annoyance in my trip this month There are others. Unfortunately (for the airlines I use at least) there's no way for Google Now to know that a re-booked flight is not a new flight. I routinely need to cha
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That's not all that's changed. Today he likely wouldn't even have had the opportunity as he would have been in prison already: On September 4, 1942, Frank La Salle was indicted in Camden County Criminal Court for the statuto
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How about the actual article? "While the focus here is on Palestinians’ “incitement,” it’s actually very common for Israelis to use Facebook to urge violence against Palestinians, including settlers urging “vengeance” when there is an
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>I would not call a country a democracy if they don't make it easy for everyone to participate in the election Agreed. I'd go one step further and advocate compulsory voting (at least compulsory turning up). Even for the most
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The development of pressurized water systems and thus the ability to quickly extinguish fires likely had a pretty significant impact. The first Steam-pump fire engines only came into (very limited) use in the 1850s and ICE pumpers in the ea
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Hiring the right people is likely to be more productive than hiring more. The FDA has a "revolving door" problem with the industries it is supposed to be regulating. From a NY Times editorial on their poor response to a recent iss
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You raise some interesting points. I would draw a distinction though between fiat currency and the present environment. We've had fiat currency for a long time, but the current level of monetary easing is a recent affair. I do wonder w
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QE is effectively creating money, which is then used to purchase financial assets in the hope that the person selling it will use the proceeds for something that is economically stimulative. It also reduces borrowing costs along the way. Mo
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Excel uses multiple cores for calculations. You can configure how many to prevent it sucking up the entire CPU for long calculations. It's a pretty easily parallelizable problem since the sheet is just a dependency tree with the cells
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I've had colleagues that disconnected their juniors' mice to ensure this. The reliance on excel in all aspects of investment banking is remarkable. From the simple stuff in corporate finance (merger analysis, capital issuance etc.
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>That aside, Jeepneys are horrendous vehicles for anything other than their primary use: going from stop to stop on flat ground, while carrying human cargo with a high turnover rate. Agreed, but that's sort of the point. It's
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>“There is just no competition, anywhere,” says Murray. How about a jeepney then? Perhaps the Ox has an advantage for extremely rugged terrain, but it's hardly cheap. In the Philippines for example, a brand new 20 passenger jeepne
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I'm typically inclined to look at the financials rather than what executives have to say ;) I presume he's talking gross margin, which excludes prior R&D (except capitalized), marketing, distribution & sales costs, office&

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