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by gozur88 9y ago
That may be part of it. It's also that people like thin phones, and replaceable batteries place mechanical requirements on the phone that make it thicker.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It must be one of those things that's harder than it looks - China had a train crash because they decided to roll their own signals.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Private railway operators in Tokyo aren't subsidized by the state, though I think they get a not-insignificant portion of their income from property rents around stations.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Twitter could have avoided so many problems by sticking to verification as they advertised it - that the blue check mark just meant you were who you said you were and nothing more. It should have provided no benefits other than followers k
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by gozur88 9y ago
>The research community still lacks a reliable, ready to be productized method of producing vascular networks capable of supporting an organ. I got the impression they were getting pretty close.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I believe that. I'll bet mead, beer, and rum were more affordable.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Heh heh. I worked for a company that rebranded itself as "b2b" back when that was the buzzword. We didn't get a 24x pop, but I was amazed at the extent to which our little company was suddenly worth so much more even though
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by gozur88 9y ago
>I’d be more concerned about water TBH. Most of us carry a fair amount of fat, enough to survive several weeks without eating. They used to call it "the law of twos" - you can live two minutes without air, two days without wate
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by gozur88 9y ago
>...and the employee wins because they are paid minimum wage and get their tips tax free. Not tax free. Your employer reports 8% of your total receipts to the IRS as income. It's likely less than you make in tips, but you still pa
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by gozur88 9y ago
The Koch brothers fund libertarian groups, so it shouldn't be surprising to find these groups are against ISPs funded through tax dollars.
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by gozur88 9y ago
The nice thing about SOAP was it had a full-fledged type system built in. REST is certainly easier to debug, but it's also more likely you'll be required to debug it, since many of the problems you'll run into in a REST inte
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by gozur88 9y ago
>I don't know where else to post this question, but why can I not reply to some comments in this thread? For example I can reply to this comment, but I cannot reply to gozur88's comment beneath yours. There's an increasing
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by gozur88 9y ago
... who keep a lid on the street crime. Your calculations shift when you believe mugging someone might get you thrown off a tall building even if the police don't catch you.
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by gozur88 9y ago
"The police said before he was caught he was able to run on top of the walls with ease, rather than in the street." That's... pretty impressive for a guy that old.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Jake Adelstein's book Tokyo Vice was an eye opener in this regard. The amount of effort the cops put into a case has a lot to do with the victim. Non-white foreigners and gangsters aren't worth a lot of trouble, e.g. if they f
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by gozur88 9y ago
If the outcome of the plea bargain is about what the defendant would expect after conviction on reasonable charges, plea bargaining would be fine. But that's fantasyland. The problem is the incentives are set up such that the charge
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by gozur88 9y ago
The problem is the prosecutors have an incentive to rack up as many patently ridiculous charges as possible in an effort to strengthen their position in the plea bargain. Something relatively minor balloons into the possibility you could s
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Free markets would have let the banks fail. Instead we’ve created a world with champions for free markets for trade, free markets for labor, but protected markets for capital. Because the government was afraid failing banks would take e
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by gozur88 9y ago
There's no question the ratings agencies played a huge part in the collapse. Part of the problem, politically, is these agencies were set up by the government.
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by gozur88 9y ago
You can survive on a whole lot less, though. During the last famine in North Korea, the daily ration was 700 calories.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's not that they need less sleep, it's that they don't sleep as well as they did in earlier years.
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by gozur88 9y ago
They haven't started cracking down until recently because they figured there was a good chance cryptocurrrencies (bitcoin in particular) would collapse on their own or remain an insignificant niche. I think this year for the first tim
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's true, but people who have been buying DieHard batteries for forty years are comfortable with the brand.
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by gozur88 9y ago
You take out a fraudulent loan by making misrepresentations of some variety on the loan documents.
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by gozur88 9y ago
In the end, governments can not tolerate widespread use of cryptocurrencies. They benefit too much from the ability to print money in sovereign currencies to lose control. They will use whatever excuse sticks - child porn, money launderin
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by gozur88 9y ago
Credit card companies aren't really paying you to use their cards. You're still paying the fees; it's just that they're being collected by the merchant.
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by gozur88 9y ago
There's a lot of assumptions baked into that cake. The most obvious being what's considered acceptable behavior in a man by his female colleagues. There are a lot of countries where this kind of thing is considered part of the j
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by gozur88 9y ago
There's a limit to the extent to which HR can control basic human urges. This kind of stuff is going to happen no matter what the rules are.
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Also, while it may drive up the price a little, the idea the NSA won't be able to tap into worldwide internet just because the bits don't travel through the US is naive.
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by gozur88 9y ago
CanCon prompted Bob and Doug McKenzie, so it's not all bad.

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