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by gnoway 13y ago
Other than a basic understanding of what it is, I don't know anything about XMPP. What's wrong with it? Or, more specifically, what does it do poorly that other things have eclipsed?
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by gnoway 13y ago
An old thread now, but I thought this article was pretty topical, re: one of the highest-paid coaches in college football: http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2013/05/13/the-magic...
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by gnoway 13y ago
This is disappointing but not at all unexpected. Monsanto is sitting on a 'terminator' capability that allows them to make second-generations seeds sterile. They don't use it, obviously, but wouldn't it be better for consumers if they did?
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by gnoway 13y ago
I agree. Prefacing with 'current economic theory' was a poor choice on my part. A few of my friends are heavily left-leaning, and anytime the topic of flat taxation or 'the fair tax' comes up they start foaming at the mouth about how it's r
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by gnoway 13y ago
A few thoughts: 1. If you accept current economic theory, a flat tax actually hurts poor people more because it's regressive. It's regressive because each percentage point of tax means more to the poor person than it does to the rich. 15% o
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by gnoway 13y ago
Finding a job in the US would be more difficult, presumably.
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by gnoway 13y ago
Likewise, just because some people (a lot of people?) like dropbox et al., that doesn't mean it's revolutionary or killer or whatever. It just means a lot of people like it. I have a basic understanding of what dropbox is. I've never used i
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by gnoway 13y ago
I haven't read the post, just these comments. Easily the strangest comments I've seen in the past 4-6 months.
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by gnoway 14y ago
Well, I think this is shortsighted. H1-B is 'bad' because it's increasing the number of workers competing for the same pool of STEM jobs. Steering your kids towards accounting increases the number of workers competing for the same pool of a
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by gnoway 14y ago
kneejerk reaction: like what? I haven't thought a lot about this, but I tend to equate STEM with 'profitable future'. What other industries/disciplines are you thinking of?
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by gnoway 14y ago
The link will not load. This article is about the same thing, presumably: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6911/intels-return-to-the-dram...
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by gnoway 14y ago
It depends on the type of work you're doing. Most jobs in the US fall under the 'Fair Labor Standards Act' and are classified as 'exempt' or 'non-exempt'. 'Exempt' jobs do not require payment for overtime work. The classification of a job a
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by gnoway 14y ago
Maybe not on the desktop, but there are plenty of people using it as a media center OS. Enough that someone went to the trouble of rolling a custom Wine distribution to get Silverlight + Firefox accessing Netflix. At this point it's just ki
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by gnoway 14y ago
Yes, except there's still usually just one cable company in an area. The real effect of this is that a municipality unhappy with service now has no opportunity to oust a provider when the term of their franchise agreement is up.
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by gnoway 14y ago
Something no one has pointed out yet: http://www.lead.org.au/fs/fst27.html The data is about 18 months old. I was only surprised that it was so few countries, I expected most of Africa to be represented.