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by ebrenes 13y ago
Does it even matter if you read or comprehend the material? IANAL. As far as I'm aware knowledge of the law does not preclude it from affecting you. It's not a contract they're giving you, they don't need your consent. F
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by ebrenes 13y ago
I would be surprised if a definite case could be made that scientists are completely unvested in their theories. I think it's a lofty ideal to strive for, but it's often the case we'd like to have our intuitions and theories
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by ebrenes 13y ago
At no point in time did I ever see a concrete effort of the administrative or judicial to protect Snowden and not do anything but seek the harshest punishment against him. In fact, most rhetoric supported the NSA's actions and demanded
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by ebrenes 13y ago
Given it was just his girlfriend, why would you expect the level of commitment that would even strain a marriage? The guy basically made himself target #1 of one of the world's super powers and he's on the run. Why would he force
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by ebrenes 13y ago
I'm facing the same dilema. I'd be happier if there was an option for a monthly subscription that was somewhat equivalent to the microtransaction route. I'd feel more comfortable with that route than with the micro option, which as you ment
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by ebrenes 13y ago
Just as an anecdote, a friend started playing the guitar in high school and he loved it and played constantly. However, he never reached a level at which he could be considered an expert despite his incessant playing. What did happen is he
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by ebrenes 13y ago
I beg to differ, when I was in college in JHU the text books consistently made use of feet and other imperial units like lbs. Granted there were metric units mixed in as well, but there there were imperial units mixed in as well, often to t
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by ebrenes 13y ago
Exactly. But why would he be touchy about an employee providing feedback? Where I work that's the escalation path, talk to your manager about things that bother you or that you're not comfortable with. A manager refusing to take my criticis
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by ebrenes 13y ago
I'd even go so far as saying his boss arguing with him over the correct wording is another red flag that you're not being listened to.
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by ebrenes 13y ago
Just yesterday I was talking with several people who head organ donor foundations (seeking to aid those who require an organ donation). One of the things they mentioned was how hard it was for both donation recipients to find a job after th
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by ebrenes 13y ago
I assume the intended word was "unveiling" as Microsoft said it would unveil the product May 21st, if memory serves me right.
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by ebrenes 13y ago
Last I checked volleyball and tennis are sports... And there's several very popular limited contact sports like baseball and basketball. And that's sticking to the technical definition of contact sports, when I think we're really talking ab
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by ebrenes 13y ago
Right, but just give them that option, just as part of being nice. That way if they ever bitch about it, you can always say: "if it wasn't worth $x for you, it sure as hell ain't worth $x for me!" :p
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by ebrenes 13y ago
Just provide your friend with a deadline for when you're shutting down the service along with the list of possible services he can use to replace the existing one. I would also just provide him with the option of taking over the server acco
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by ebrenes 13y ago
Because someone who does read the story is going to then make a summary and that will spread. Which is the nature of news nowadays where tl;dr is the norm and people summarize nuanced and complex topics into little zingers.
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I couldn't find any interviews with Rowling on the Colbert Report, but I did find this for The Daily Show: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-october-15-2012/j-k--r... Was that the episode you were referring to?
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I think you kinda have to put the pieces together. On one part it says: "By the time the FDA said it realized the Chinese honey was tainted, Smuckers had sold 12,040 cases of individually packed honey to Ritz-Carlton Hotels and Sara Lee sai
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by ebrenes 14y ago
This might sound like a nitpick, but I think it's important, the parent's step-father most likely spent his money on what were advertised as cures and treatments that guaranteed to solve his baldness problems. I doubt he put that money dire
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by ebrenes 14y ago
That's also a death rate chart, it doesn't take into account how many people got infected and then had to deal with the crippling after effects of a polio infection such as permanent muscle paralysis, disability and deformity. The death rat
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by ebrenes 14y ago
The degree of controversy is obviously diminished when someone has been successful. But I'll take a stab at the last question... As for controversy with LEGO's founder: 1. Structuring the company around "doing good" instead of profitabilit
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by ebrenes 14y ago
All abstractions are leaky. Visual Studio and its associated files are meant to act as helpers and thus abstract away several details of the project, what it does with them but there's still a process to it all. Project files are like build
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by ebrenes 14y ago
To add to what jasonwatkinspdx has said already, it seems to me that this follows the typical pattern of disruption. First you'll see the bottom markets being let go by the big studios and you'll start seeing other independent bodies pickin
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by ebrenes 14y ago
As I see it, using DDG instead of DuckDuckGo is not the core problem. It's not that doing so dilutes the brand (it does in way, but that's really irrelevant) I think the main point is that if the users feel compelled to rename then there is
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by ebrenes 14y ago
And yet the banana industry was financed in great part by american companies which established banana republics throughout the world. To be honest, there's not a whole lot of innovation in the banana industry as far as I've seen it or heard
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by ebrenes 14y ago
It's not whether the brand can be abbreviated or not, it's what you choose to build your brand around. A short, easy to remember name is crucial [1]. You don't hear much about International Business Machines, but you do hear a bit about IBM
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Maybe I didn't explain myself properly, but what I was stabbing at had everything to do with privacy. As does the whole point the OP mentioned of having communications monitored. Whether or not the US government can at this point in time re
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Really? I'm sorry, but this just struck a nerve. You feel safe hiding behind the theoretical/practical integrity of a cryptographic library? I'm almost tempted to link the requisite XKCD cartoon. I think ensuring private communication for a
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Except judges are so easily swayed by sealed evidence about national security. And national security has been arbitrarily stretched to encompass all manner of things. They'll definitely try and make a case about terrorism and drug cartels a
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by ebrenes 14y ago
This is pretty much, par for the course. During G.W. Bush's first election my SO at the time received a similar corporate communication from the executives in MBNA. Pretty much telling them they would all be out of a job if they didn't vote
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I'm the opposite, I've been yearning for an even thinner phone. And now that the new one has a unibody aluminum case I won't feel so compelled to fit a rubber bumper around it. Also my current phone, the iphone 4s, feels a bit short, so I c

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