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by dmurray 10y ago
Other sources [0] say Yahoo's core business is negatively valued. How much worse could this make it? [0] http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/070215/why-yahoos... from April, but the prices haven't
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by dmurray 10y ago
The article is about Verizon threatening to pull out of the deal, or use the breach as leverage to secure a lower price. The market thinks that may happen, hence the fall in price. Even if Verizon end up paying the full price, the fact that
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by dmurray 10y ago
I think Amazon will figure out that hot food needs to be delivered fast and will generally get prioritised over delivering a TV. > For myself, I usually prefer to just go and pick up myself; that's almost always the fastest option.
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by dmurray 10y ago
To operate a fake US embassy, no less. Definitely badass.
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by dmurray 10y ago
Is this like a very heavy flywheel?
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by dmurray 10y ago
The problem is that lifting things up stores and consumes so little energy. You can lift yourself to the summit of Mount Everest for the calories in a single large meal, if you just consider the vertical climb.
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by dmurray 10y ago
That's one good argument against mass hacking: if it was as easy as it's being made out to be to manipulate the results, we should expect to see something obviously vandalized: a black county that voted 100% Trump, or a county whe
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by dmurray 10y ago
Voting in the United Kingdom was public until 1872[0]. After the change to secret ballots, a lot more worker- and tenant- friendly representatives were elected in Britain and Ireland, and it is generally credited with enfranchising the Iris
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by dmurray 10y ago
Who would appoint the leaders of the agency, if not the government? I can't see how you could have this system without the agency being subject to the same political pressures regulators are.
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by dmurray 10y ago
That is one of the mechanisms that they were relying on. Anyone attending the event and relaying moves is likely in breach of contract, and at least could be thrown out of the venue. Likewise, anyone who signed up for the official feed and
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by dmurray 10y ago
Constitutions are generally not written by people trained in law. They are written to be inspirational and aspirational, not legally rigorous.
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by dmurray 10y ago
It looks like you can "decline the commitment" but not exercise "the option to cancel your account" according to the language on the announcement. So I think they will let you honour existing bookings without agreeing to
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by dmurray 10y ago
This was given as the example of a trade we shouldn't do when I was first exposed to the insider trading policy at my current employer, a US trading firm. I think it might still be defensible and not insider trading by US standards,
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by dmurray 10y ago
The pound did not change its value in 1971 as a result of decimalisation. Nor did the shilling or the guinea, in fact - only the penny and amounts derived from that. The reason £25,000 was then worth $125,000 and is now worth less is the fl
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by dmurray 10y ago
Even without the speed limit, you can expect to reach this point. Let's say your technology gets 10% faster every 25-year generation, you should launch a 200-year trip but not a 250-year one. We'll probably keep improving at that
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by dmurray 10y ago
> Wear on roads is to the fourth power of pressure. This isn't quite right. The pressure on the outside of the tire is the same as the pressure on the inside, and truck tires aren't inflated to 3x the psi of car tires - they mi
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by dmurray 10y ago
"e.g." does not mean "ergo".
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by dmurray 10y ago
Not uniquely: Serbo-Croatian is written in Latin or Cyrillic depending what country you are in. Turkish is now officially written in Latin, but used to be written in Arabic. And most prominently, though in a different way, Chinese and Japan
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by dmurray 10y ago
The biodiesel was meant to be equivalent to regular diesel, so it could be sold at the same price, but more expensive to produce. So a "previously non existent or previously carbon neutral industry" wouldn't have any reason t
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by dmurray 10y ago
Running two identical disks in a RAID, or where the same desk could cave in and sweep them off, seems like it should be covered by "1 offsite" rather than requiring two different types of media.
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by dmurray 10y ago
> In one study, a German professor of psychosomatics gave a lecture that included, in the first half, a series of what might be called itchy slides, showing fleas, lice, people scratching, and the like, and, in the second half, more beni
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by dmurray 10y ago
> The military had the capability to look through the clouds but unfortunately the technology never became inexpensive enough for agricultural use. How do the economics of this work out? It seems strange that anyone can afford to spend t
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by dmurray 10y ago
An alternative way of looking at it (that comes to the same thing): Solar City is now cheap.
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by dmurray 10y ago
Not if the satellite is much more expensive than the rocket. Using the GP's figures of $200mm and $60mm, that would mean paying $70mm in insurance instead of just waiting for the next $60mm flight.
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by dmurray 10y ago
I thought this was to deter theft. It's normal, though not universal, in Irish supermarkets.
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by dmurray 10y ago
As a 30-year old white guy, I had more success when I changed my profile picture to include me holding a baby (my cousin). Better to look like a family man than a partier.
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by dmurray 11y ago
The best thing to have come out of this is a headline from satirical online newspaper Waterford Whispers: US Military Introduce Childbomber McChildbombface http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/04/18/us-milita
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by dmurray 11y ago
1.98m is closer to 6'6"
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by dmurray 11y ago
Dr. Arpad Elo, surely, since we're being picky.
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by dmurray 11y ago
At what level does this make sense for the HN case of two college grads founding a startup in California? No US lawyer specialising in paperwork for small businesses would tell you "never mind Delaware, you should go offshore!"

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