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by flyt 13y ago
I don't doubt that she has conviction, but I question her ability to be an effective advocate in Congress compared to the (then) Speaker of the House.
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by flyt 13y ago
Good luck with that, she is an incumbent and incumbents have a greater than 90% reelection rate. All of her primary challengers have been total nuts like Cindy Sheehan in the past, and she easily coasts to victory every two years.
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by flyt 13y ago
Texas isn't really run by Rick Perry, it has a weak governor system. The legislature is the major problem.
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by flyt 13y ago
PRISM is an acronym used all over the place, and may not be the NSA-specific program. http://waxy.org/2013/06/these_arent_the_prisms_youre_looking...
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by flyt 13y ago
Very low DNS TTLs
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by flyt 13y ago
Not when you buy from the general purpose grid. You can eventually become big enough to pressure the power companies to source from cleaner generation types but that doesn't over night.
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by flyt 13y ago
AWS recently released a whitepaper describing the best practices for doing just this: http://media.amazonwebservices.com/AWS_NoSQL_MongoDB.pdf [PDF]
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by flyt 13y ago
You can easily make a VPC fully public, or have fully public subdivisions.
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by flyt 13y ago
They are not "public servants" they are humans who took a job that happens to be under a unionized collective bargaining agreement. Many of these people may not care about the union, and are just happy to have a job. They are not
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by flyt 13y ago
With only two characters for the source ID, somebody at the NSA is thinking long term and using more than just digits from now on. Many more providers will come in the future.
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by flyt 13y ago
Give me a break. The foundation of the valley was military dollars for the silicon industry and research labs, plus aerospace. It's always been part of our DNA.
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by flyt 13y ago
Said absolutely every company ever acquired and neglected.
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by flyt 13y ago
Comprehensive numbers and analysis for those interested here: http://www.asymco.com/2012/06/12/the-ios-app-market-sales-ru...
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by flyt 13y ago
Please. The money Apple makes from their 30% cut is a tiny fraction of what they earn from hardware sales. It supports the operation of the App Store and makes some profit but it's never been their key moneymaker.
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by flyt 13y ago
Apple + Akamai + Star Wars is what really made it all come together, according to this former Apple engineer: https://www.quora.com/Movie-Trailers/How-did-Apple-com-becom...
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by flyt 13y ago
Is this a joke? Much of the Top Secret work performed for the government is done by private companies under contract with full clearances. i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works
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by flyt 13y ago
Anything Yahoo! says rings false after the incident in 2002 when they willingly volunteered identifying data to the Chinese government about a user, which landed him in prison for ten years. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/
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by flyt 13y ago
If you eject every person from the government at once then the only ones left behind will be the lobbyists to influence their replacements, and without any tenure or political clout for those new people to resist.
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by flyt 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
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Republican Party hires Facebook engineering manager as first CTO(washingtonpost.com)
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by flyt 13y ago
Sorry for typos; typed on iPhone with HN client that doesn't support editing :/
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by flyt 13y ago
Yes, and in the next commercial for Axe, women are objectified and treated as total objects by the men than desire them. Both Dove and Axe are Unilever brands; they just target different seems of the population with messages that they know
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by flyt 13y ago
Probably nothing, except statistically nobody uses Linux on the desktop, so it's not a priority.
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by flyt 13y ago
"Favorites" is a morbid word to have on this page. Maybe consider "Highlights" instead.
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by flyt 13y ago
Note that you hire those firms yourself, and they work for you. They want you to pass the audit and will work to make that happen.
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by flyt 14y ago
And the high cost of the Mac Pro, plus its target market's relative price insensitivity, can help finance the early volume until the price comes down.
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by flyt 14y ago
There's your interconnect for the upcoming Mac Pro with a Retina desktop display.
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by flyt 14y ago
And the most important aspect was that their product wasn't bullshit: It was actually really great, self hosted web analytics.
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by flyt 14y ago
Don't forget: open 300 tickets, one for each machine.
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by flyt 14y ago
Most likely the answer here is a mix of your curation (i.e. don't ever show me content from this person that overshares) and Facebook's existing systems that learn, based on what you interact with intentionally and attentionally, what conte

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