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This is the problem I have about people who leak documents. They have an agenda and so only release the parts favorable to their bias rather than the whole archive. What was held back from the story that there were documents that showed tha
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They may be a pension fund, but they do use hedge funds to balance their portfolio. https://www.otpp.com/investments/performance/investment-stra... "Additionally, we complement our efforts by using external h
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I have a solar powered IBM calculator, the size of a credit card. Got it from an on-site IBM CE at the insurance company data center I worked at.
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Objective-C had an IMP pointer, essentially a function pointer. If you needed to send a message to an object in a tight loop, you could extract the pointer before the loop and use it inside.
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In the early years, Microsoft had written some system hacks that they used to run Word and Excel on Apple computers. Apple had to be careful not to break those hacks when releasing OS updates. Eventually Apple got tired of a vendor dictatin
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Lava Lamps Help Keep the Internet Secure?(kottke.org)
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Coal plants also create nuclear waste. Trace amounts of uranium and thorium in coal become concentrated after the coal is burned away, leaving high concentrations of nuclear waste.
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They has also put through a rule that drug companies were required to show the cost of a 30-day supply of the drug in their TV commercials. They did it for a few months before that pharmaceutical companies went to court and got a judge to r
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The law also specifies that publishers must provide data in easily accessible formats so that web developers can make price comparison tools for the public.
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Another astrophotographer, Thierry Legault, has done many spectacular shots, including the space shuttle docking with the Hubble telescope when it was being repaired. http://www.astrophoto.fr
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I bought an LG smart TV because the picture looked good and it was a good price. I have never enabled any smart features and it’s disconnected from the internet. I have an Apple TV box that I use as my tuner.
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A really good book around the same subject is Human Scale by Kirkpatrick Sale. The book was written 40 years ago and talked about how society was getting too far out of scale for humans to control.
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He did say "prominent". I agree, inline screenshots on the site are preferable to a Flickr gallery.
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ARC stands for Automatic Reference Counting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Reference_Counting
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Is your software safe from multiple simultaneous cosmic bit flips? The FAA required Boeing engineers to handle this situation when rewriting parts of the software even though flight computers are hardened against this sort of anomaly. http
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There was a technical reason that WP was used by law firms. When submitting briefs to a court, total word count in a brief is extremely important. WordPerfect counts words in footnotes as part of the document, MSWord did not. This led to on
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Apple does not charge for OS upgrades.
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People don’t realize that Amazon Prime doesn’t promise 2 day shipping from the time you order. It’s 2 day shipping from the time they fill your order, which could be a week or two later.
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But this visualization has nothing to do with projections or modeling. It's straight numbers, plotting out various pathways for either side to win.
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The app remembers your previous orders. If you order the same thing each time, you just press the previous order to order it again. Done in like 5 seconds.
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Like the scene from Five Easy Pieces with Jack Nicholson. He asked the waitress for an omelet with a side of toast. She says they don't have a side of toast, so he asks for a chicken salad sandwich, on toasted wheat bread, and hold the
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At the end of the video, they'll state that all people in the room (like director, photographer) are fully protected using PPE.
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That's caused by the mechanism described in the article. If you squeeze the handle hard you get a fast flow. This can cause the gas to splash back into the nozzle and cuts off the flow because it appears that the tank is full.
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Fastening one piece of metal to another piece of metal is a solved problem. Why is Tesla having to relearn that problem?
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Musk will text out don't worry, it's an anti-theft measure, stock jumps up 5%.
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Wow, I didn't know CF did registrations (makes sense though). And looking at their rates shows they don't markup prices. For example, most places charge $12 for a .com address. CloudFlare charges $8.03, which is their cost, they a
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After the E. coli incident at Jack in the Box, people flocked to eat there. Who wouldn't, since they were so heavily scrutinized during their mitigation period.
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Foundation alone (due next year) is worth the cost.
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All of Apple's EULAs are published on their website. You can download the PDFs and read through them before you decide to purchase software that Apple creates and sells. https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/
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L7 is a Level 7 employee, going from lowest to highest, Bezos is level 12. ER is Employee Relations (HR).

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