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by desdiv 11y ago
>The real truth the crisis underscored is that the ratings agencies are useless at actually scrutinizing the risks on the things they rate. Enron was rated investment grade by the rating agencies four days before its bankruptcy. Fool me
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by desdiv 11y ago
The Ukrainian constitution requires a three-fourth majority vote to remove the president from office. The actual 2014 parliamentary vote only had 73% for his removal[0]. If you polled people in the west, at least 80% of them wouldn't b
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by desdiv 11y ago
>If not, would it be possible to build a device to flood them with fake/spoofed IMSIs? Technical ability wise, yes. Legally, no. The Mobile Telephones (Re-Programming) Act 2002 [0] makes spoofing IMSI, even that of your own, illegal
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by desdiv 11y ago
I had a pretty simple query: "What's the cheapest flight from my airport to any given airport in Japan for the next 12 months?" I didn't care which city I was heading to because I planned on visiting quite a few cities a
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by desdiv 11y ago
>for example, copying the German Transrapid train design (or a Siemens power plant!). If you're talking about the Shanghai Maglev then it's not a unauthorized copy but a licensed one[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by desdiv 11y ago
>“Why should I not want to die for a country like this when the government is ready to go an extra mile just for me,” one commenter wrote on CCTV’s Facebook page. “This is the meaning of good governance penetrating right to the grassroot
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by desdiv 11y ago
GSM900 is 890-915 MHz; 802.11ah gets around this by using region specific frequencies that sidestep GSM900: 902-928 MHz in the US (26 MHz bandwidth) 863-868 MHz in Europe (5 MHz bandwidth) 916.5-927.5 MHz in Japan (11 MHz bandwidth) Limit
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by desdiv 11y ago
Ironically the first two google results for "UPSERT" is from wiki.postgresql.org.
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by desdiv 11y ago
"Both circuit breakers" refers to the 7% all-day halt circuit breaker and the 5% 30-minute halt circuit breaker introduced in the previous paragraph (which I omitted for brevity). A full quote would make more sense: >The propos
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by desdiv 11y ago
China's circuit breaker is actually bi-directional. NYSE is indeed uni-directional like you described. [0] http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/07/chinas-latest-step-to-curb-sh... >Meanwhile, a 7 percent rise
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by desdiv 11y ago
>Cities can stab themselves in the back, too: >They can restrict enterprise. The haves like to keep the have-nots out of business, apparently under the belief that prosperity is a zero-sum game; the result is at best lost opportunitie
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by desdiv 11y ago
The single thread limitation is caused by the global interpreter lock[0] that's common to most interpreted languages. Along with JS, it also appears in CPython and Ruby MRI, the reference implementation of Python and Ruby respectively.
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by desdiv 11y ago
The pills in question are self-administering oral pills, so you don't even need to stick around for 3 months. Just fly in and fly out. The FDA allows self-importation of personal use prescription medicine, as long as it's within a
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by desdiv 11y ago
Considering the part of world we're mostly fighting in now, maybe it's high time to reactivate this Civil War era experimental unit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps
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by desdiv 11y ago
No consumer Skylake chips will have AVX-512. It's going to be on server Xeon Skylake chips only ("server Xeon" as opposed to "laptop Xeon"[0]). [0] http://www.imore.com/intels-xeon-coming-soon-laptop
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by desdiv 11y ago
>A telescope on the moon could be larger due to the reduced gravity, and have a better view without the atmosphere. Couldn't a telescope in space be even larger, due to zero gravity? Suppose we're modifying the James Webb to
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by desdiv 11y ago
CPR was a mandatory component of phys ed during my high school years, and the good news is that more and more places are making it mandatory: http://schoolcpr.com/about/states-where-cpr-training-is-mand...
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by desdiv 11y ago
They can't afford Netflix, at least not any time soon. Netflix's market cap is almost a third of Disney's right now.
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by desdiv 11y ago
To add to that, China's simplification process happened during the 50s and 60s, back when China was deeply impoverished, had massive famines thanks to the Great Leap Forward[0], and had basically zero international influence (didn&#x27
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by desdiv 11y ago
Sometimes I use E-Prime as sort of a verbose flag for English. Instead of: "Mount Everest is almost 8 km tall." A verbose E-Prime version would sound something like: "I recall having read an Wikipedia article that reported th
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by desdiv 11y ago
I would suggest "He introduced himself as Jack." since we don't actually have access to the name property of people. Perhaps English speakers found his real name too hard to pronounce, or perhaps he lives under an alias after
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by desdiv 11y ago
For anyone else wondering why isn't National Five-Digit ZIP Code and Post Office Directory in public domain like every other work of the US government: >Works by certain independent agencies, corporations and federal subsidiaries
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by desdiv 11y ago
Unfortunately that won't work. Twitter doesn't support the full Unicode; they strip out any Unicode code points that's not used by "normal" people.
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by desdiv 11y ago
Just curious, were you asked about your hung jury experience during the voir dire?
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by desdiv 11y ago
Perhaps the author's city's racial composition is very different from that of US's national average, hence his implicit complaint. Since the author wrote anonymously (and understandably so), there's no way for us to know
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by desdiv 11y ago
318,000,000 ÷ 25,000 = 12720 That's a little excessive, don't you think?
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by desdiv 11y ago
I love this factoid: when was the last time a Republican won the presidency without either a Bush or a Nixon on the ticket? 1928 [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/post/who-wa...
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Los Angeles: LA Metro Washington D.C.: Washington Metro Miami: Metrorail
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He got a reduced sentence for saving two kids from a burning house.
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The Mochileros – Young Backpackers Risking Their Lives in Cocaine Valley(bbc.co.uk)
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