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841.
by genwin 14y ago
It's useful for a secondary or tertiary backup.
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by genwin 14y ago
> We work to keep people safe... Real name is unsafe, outside of Facebook's control. The unsafe aspects include bullying and robbery, e.g.
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by genwin 14y ago
My kids are sick of me harping on this. But now they use different pseudonyms for every site, including Facebook, and I'm proud of them for it. They rarely use Facebook anymore; it seems it's becoming boring.
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by genwin 14y ago
Thanks! I understand what this service is: free "cloud" backup, no guarantees. I have no problem with the latter part, given the former part. I'll use it accordingly and appreciate your gift.
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by genwin 14y ago
The Dow could reach 18,000 in a year, or 5,000. FB has $billions to devise new profit streams.
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by genwin 14y ago
One of the big oil companies snatched up long-term leases for potential oil-shale land in Michigan. They made deals with hundreds of parties, locking up the land in exchange for a payment due a year later. Of course the payments were never
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by genwin 14y ago
A shell limits the liability to $thousands instead of potentially $millions.
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by genwin 14y ago
> I personally don't care that my trade happens in a second or a minute because I'm a long-term investor The difference between a second and a minute could cost even the small investor many $thousands in the long term. I prefer millisec
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by genwin 14y ago
> The SHIELD Act sounds like it would make it effectively impossible for any small inventor who is not wealthy to sue a large infringer, because the risk of total ruin would be too high. Worse. It would make it effectively impossible fo
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by genwin 14y ago
Won't there just be new broad patents? It seems the patent office doesn't really consider prior art.
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by genwin 14y ago
Your congresspeople know this is a critical issue for you. They will be happy to take your campaign contribution. They're studying this issue closely. Study results expected in March 2057.
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by genwin 14y ago
The more lawsuits the better for the lawmakers, who get campaign cash from both sides of the issue. Frivolous patents is somewhat a campaign finance problem.
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by genwin 14y ago
I'm a bit biased. I had a professor who informed his classes, after the drop deadline, that < 85% on any test meant an F for the semester. I had no opportunity to cheat. All but a few students failed. It was $hundreds wasted for me. He
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by genwin 14y ago
> Are the students who cheated at Harvard being treated more like they wanted to be treated because they cheated? Had they gotten away with it, maybe! It depends on what the circumstances actually were. Like you say, they may have just
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by genwin 14y ago
> They are probably optimized now, but not for the consumer's benefit. I suspect you mean they've been optimized for the shareholder's benefit.
856.
by genwin 14y ago
Yep, the 10+ year-old ones. Might last a lifetime too.
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by genwin 14y ago
They were perfected, until the new buyers wanted to connect their smartphone to it.
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by genwin 14y ago
You're not getting gold, you're restoring fairness where the rule or law is unfair. You get the gold by leveraging your renewed equal opportunity. "All versions and forms of the proverbial Golden Rule have one aspect in common: they all dem
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by genwin 14y ago
Pledging allegiance to the flag/country encourage kids to support or fight in for-profit wars and other nefarious gov't activities that mainly benefit the rich. The "under God" part is advertising for religions, again profiting the wealthy
860.
by genwin 14y ago
No, e.g. cheating can be okay when the exam is unrelated to the lectures. The system doesn't forbid you from breaking the law either, like not paying your state's use taxes on stuff you buy online.
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by genwin 14y ago
The country's taking the opposite path. Kids start their school day with the Pledge of Allegiance to the Wealthy . Ignorance is strength.
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by genwin 14y ago
> What principle lets me differentiate between things that are just "hurdles" that I'm allowed to knock down to be successful, and things that I'm not? Easy: employ your own ethics system built around the Golden Rule, rather than blindl
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by genwin 14y ago
> He made his video specifically to cause maximum insult to a culture. Like Team America , but no cities burned over that one. I'd like to see a continuous stream of such insulting videos, so those offended finally concede to change th
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by genwin 14y ago
That's good to know, thanks. I may want to use Nginx with Go someday, in a stateful way. The built-in web server may not be ready for prime time, I've read.
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by genwin 14y ago
It's okay to sometimes cheat on an exam in the same way it's okay for software developers to ignore the dozens of patents they infringe on, instead of paying the holders. In the same way it's okay to sometimes exceed the speed limit without
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by genwin 14y ago
The retirement plan was almost certainly making less risk-free interest than the interest he'd effectively make (risk-free, hence apples-to-apples comparable) by paying off the student loan. When the difference in interest is great enough i
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by genwin 14y ago
It's a 10% penalty. The rest is presumably taxes that were just deferred anyway. If the guaranteed rate of return for the IRA was 1% and the student loan was 5% interest, he'd easily come out ahead by retirement. Especially since tax rates
868.
by genwin 14y ago
Yes. Node.js supports only a single processor core. I don't know much about Meteor but it doesn't look like it offers concurrency features. The concurrency in Go (and to a lesser extent in Node.js--probably) is amazingly performant. For exa
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by genwin 14y ago
I'm coding a web app in it right now. Go includes a package for its own web server. That's a huge benefit, because it means the app can be state-ful instead of the usual (for Python, PHP etc.) stateless. The former means you can have all th
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by genwin 14y ago
That's a smart professor. My favorite ones also worked outside of academia; they didn't have rose-colored glasses.

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