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by etskinner 9y ago
Is there any reason to believe they don't just smear both leap seconds?
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by etskinner 9y ago
I think the point of the parent comment was to say that people never get denied because of credit history, choice of major, etc. in the way that they might be denied for a credit card.
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by etskinner 9y ago
Isn't it possible that the two companies being under the same management could have a second-order effect of expanding their Minute Clinic business? That is, because Aetna is part of the same company, it would be less costly for patien
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by etskinner 9y ago
I see no reason that it would ever go backward, so yes. Especially with leap second smearing, meaning it's not only monotonically increasing, but also never stops (never a slope of zero).
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by etskinner 9y ago
Something about the evens/odds heads/tails comparison the author makes doesn't sit right with me. If you're confident that the coin will make more than one flip, then how much cumulative time it has spent in 'heads&
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by etskinner 9y ago
Very cool. Might be a good idea to add a volume slider instead of just toggle, since that's often easier to get to than system volume.
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by etskinner 9y ago
The point seems to be that this isn't expected behavior in most people's minds, and that if someone truly wants to allow users to write to a directory, but not allow them to delete a file, that file must be flagged immutable. Just
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by etskinner 9y ago
"There will always be a need for someone to wipe down the tables, mop the floors, and take out the trash so a few minimum wage level positions will linger on." Hah, yeah right. Boy is the author gonna be surprised when those jobs
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by etskinner 9y ago
"GNL GPU", must be Nvidia's new line of graphics cards.