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by drx 13y ago
You don't have to keep money in multiple countries, just be able to receive SWIFT and/or IBAN transfers. Many banks in European countries don't charge anything for receiving any wires, including SWIFT, only sending them. (the $15 fee is jus
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by drx 13y ago
Being able to receive international bank transfers on Stripe would be amazing. Our bank charges us $15 per received wire.
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Plans to place a telescope on the moon with Internet live feed in 2015(cbc.ca)
3 points by drx 13y ago|0 comments
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by drx 13y ago
It is obvious, yeah. I wasn't implying you didn't know it was or anything, just explaining the first sentence to someone who might not have studied complexity theory.
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by drx 13y ago
> Do we run into the limits of undecidability? For this particular canvas, no, as the canvas is finite. Given enough time or space we can exhaust all states of the canvas and catch cycles. This applies to any finite canvas. I would gues
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Python -m (stackoverflow.com)
1 points by drx 13y ago|0 comments
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The McDonald's Theory of Bad Ideas(medium.com)
442 points by drx 13y ago|135 comments
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by drx 13y ago
Can you email me? Thailand related :) My email's in my profile.
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The Universe Is 13.82 Billion Years Old(slate.com)
4 points by drx 14y ago|0 comments
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by drx 14y ago
> I pay $118/mo for better coverage than ~any company I've seen Could you please elaborate on this?
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by drx 14y ago
Try recovering the iPhoto files. Unless the data was overwritten, they might still be there. Note: I've done this successfully on FAT and ext filesystems, not sure about HFS.
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by drx 14y ago
I'll take 100m users of which 96% pay nothing any time. My email is in my profile.
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by drx 14y ago
Interesting to see some evidence for my anecdotal experience that people severely overestimate McDonald's calorie counts (not to mention unhealthiness). People look at me like I'm a crazy person when I tell them you could eat 4 cheeseburger
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by drx 14y ago
I guess you could make a case for FB being a de facto monopoly on connecting with friends and therefore needing to behave in certain consumer-friendly ways. Alternatively, "you want to do business in our country, you must follow our rules".
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by drx 14y ago
I agree. The other day I had to unsubscribe out of two Yahoo! Japan newsletters that suddenly started to arrive (for two different accounts I've apparently made years before). To unsubscribe I had to login to both. And for one I didn't even
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by drx 14y ago
I greatly prefer Droplr's workflow -- just press Alt+Shift+4 and a screenshot is uploaded and the link is placed in your clipboard. If someone made that without Droplr's issues, I'd switch in an instant.
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by drx 14y ago
> Billions of dollars could be raised by turning these into entrepreneur visas or charging per visa (it's not like the US doesn't already do this, but the price is way too low) Every year a number of EB-5 visas go unclaimed (which cost
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by drx 14y ago
The funny thing about this is it wouldn't even benefit most people who hold a non-U.S. Master's degree. U.S. Bachelor's degrees usually take 4 years to complete, after which a U.S. Master's degree takes 2 years. Many non-U.S. bachelor's deg
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by drx 14y ago
Thanks.
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by drx 14y ago
This is very very interesting. Can you please point me towards some related reading material?
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by drx 14y ago
Obviously science is not the only way to find truths; there is also math.
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The state of IE after installing the top 20 downloads from Download.com(freefixer.com)
2 points by drx 14y ago|0 comments
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by drx 14y ago
Yes, blame the victim. Not to mention your remark about being stranded in Berlin not being so bad.
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October 2009 iPhone 4 Prototype Shows Up on eBay(macrumors.com)
1 points by drx 14y ago|0 comments
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by drx 14y ago
Assuming you mean desktop and not laptop PC, there's this: http://www.apple.com/magictrackpad/
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Chocolat Text Editor for Mac 1.2 is out(chocolatapp.com)
1 points by drx 14y ago|0 comments
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by drx 14y ago
No it isn't. If a remediable cause can be found (for example, depression and society's attitude towards it), the problem can go away. And the problem is far from microscopic; not all murder-suicides are flashy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by drx 14y ago
I will. I don't give a shit about someone's grammar if they're good at what they do.
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by drx 14y ago
All of his arguments boil down to "open web good, twitter bad, ergo LoC shouldn't archive twitter".
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by drx 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation also known as the golden mean fallacy

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