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by fr0sty 14y ago
git branch gives you a nice asterisk too: $git branch * MyBranch NotMyBranch It prints the branch as the first line of git status: $git status # On branch Foo ... It also ships with a 'bash-competion' file which gi
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> it's not backed by anything of real, unchanging value. Are you actually arguing that gold's value does not change? Also, what are you using to measure the "volatility" you claim fiat money has so much of?
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What is ridiculous about that? Tbonds are pretty much the definition of the "risk free rate of return" for USD. Is there an alternate (non-zero) "risk free rate" for gold that you would like use instead to make comparisons?
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Just to pick some other dates: 100 ounces of gold in 2000 was worth ~$28k which wouldn't buy much house anywhere. Also, comparing gold @ ~$20/oz in 1913 to a dollar stuffed under a mattress in the same year is a bit of a false comparison. T
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Think of it this way: Person A: one who gives Bitcoins in exchange for Widgets. Person B: one who gives Widgets in exchange for Bitcoins. Notice the symmetry. The name buyer and seller are arbitrary designations depending on what you consid
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> Protip: you can file an extension until October with no penalty. Caveat: This is true ONLY if you are due a refund. If you owe tax you will be charged interest (and possibly penalties) for paying after the deadline[1]. http://www.irs
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They say "food grade" but don't specify further. The pumps are peristaltic[1] though so the only part that touches alcohol is the tubing so it is simple to swap out for another material. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peristaltic_pump
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> My coworker tells me his android won't correct "sre" to "are" (as my iPhone will) because it assumes the first letter is correct. Strange. I just tested this on my two-year-old HTC phone with android v2.3.4 and it corrected "sre" to "
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This is a wonderful little piece of information. Thank you. I had the crazy idea a while back about stuffing a micro-controller, temp+humidity sensor, piezo speaker into my guitar case to let me know if the Humidity got out-of-band but I co
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Also, I can't scroll the page on my android phone. Anyone care to copy/paste the text?
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One nit-pick: The Peter Jackson film shows Saruman stabbed by Wormtongue before falling to his death from the top of Orthanc. Furthermore, I believe it is only included in the extended edition of The Two Towers (but I could be wrong on that
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Thus ensuring all HS and College students that want to work part-time (or during the summer) can't because there are no jobs available that pay the requisite wage. The earned income tax credit phases out a over 40k/yr for a married couple w
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If you are talking about the US "Flash Crash" that theory is little more than urban legend. Here is one of the "b" instead of "m" stories published on the day of the crash: http://www.cnbc.com/id/36998463 Here is the Wikipedia summary of
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> I would much rather a more government-backed system, where the government tallies all the automobile-related accident costs at the end of the year and foots the public the bill. This is pure Moral Hazard. If any cost you may incur is
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It's a great option so long as you are comfortable having ca. $50,000 of your own money on the line every time you get behind the wheel. I'm in no way willing to make that wager though...
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In some states you can self-insure your car if you have the cash.
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tax deductible above 7.5% AGI is very different from tax deductible above $0. Your $100k/yr developer would pay $2,100 in tax on the first $7,500 before the deduction takes effect. Also, the reason you can't deduct the "pre-tax" premiums is
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> It's deductible no matter who pays. That does not square with this[1]: If you are not self-employed, and you don't work for a company that provides health insurance with a cafeteria plan, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) allows you
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No it doesn't. If I work for a company that does not provide health benefits any health insurance I buy is NOT deductible. and that is one of the many odd decisions made. If you are self-employed (which is what the linked page is about) you
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Care to quote any section of that page that mentions patents? "Patent", "Patented", "Pat.", "USPTO", "Proprietary", or "Protected" do not appear in the body of the article. Also, there is this: "The first thermoplastic extrusion was in 1935
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Live updates via Elon Musks' twitter feed: https://twitter.com/elonmusk
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SpaceX Dragon Capsule Suffers Glitch After Launch to Space Station(space.com)
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> the US Postal Service is being driven to bankrupcy by regulation as well More correctly they are being driven to bankruptcy due to ballooning pension payments (and a congressional mandate to actually fund those obligations).
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Medicare and Private insurers are two separate things. Insurance companies negotiate rates with hospitals/doctors/etc. Medicare _dictates_ rates which providers can either accept or reject. The reason the Medicare cost of an Xray is ~$20 is
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Care to name names? Inquiring minds, and all that...
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To your first point: 1 Calorie = 1 Kilo-calorie = 4184 Joules so 200Calories actually _is_ close to a quarter-million calories (small c)
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> They accidentally deployed a test trading partner for their real trading app to the real world. Do you have a citation for this? I saw a lot of speculation at the time but nothing that was ever corroborated.
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There was a book written a while back about orange juice production called "Squeezed: What You Don't Know About Orange Juice"[1]. The author did the talk-show circuit back then and you can find some articles and interviews here and there. [
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Absolutely yes. Four reasons off the top of my head: 1. Dentistry 2. Antibiotics 3. Indoor plumbing 4. Central Air
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I'm not trying to equivocate. GGP commment made an unqualified statement "action in government is slow" adding that the idea of "drastic action" was a "fantasy". I countered by noting that in the present day the government is moving very fa

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