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by hannibal5 13y ago
Like the article says, ZFS is pretty damn good. Keystore where the "engine" is ZFS works mighty well and is reliable. There is little need for simple solutions like MongoDB if the filesystem rocks.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
This is not stupid article. The journalist in question used these few people just to add human interest in a story full of statistics. 1. Increasing number of Japanese have just casual sex. 2. Increasing number of Japanese don't have s
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Wrq ZpPnyro with high probability. Look at what he has done, where he lives and how he writes.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
For a more clearer picture, look at this graph: http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg1460zig12-hourztg... Bitcoin is deflationary and has enough actual use to support small trading volume even without speculators
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by hannibal5 13y ago
That would be worse for China because the value of CNY would skyrocket stopping their exports. Value of USD would plummet helping US exports. Besides, China and foreigners are not anywhere near the biggest buyers of US debt. Fed is. Chinese
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by hannibal5 13y ago
If you pay your home in cash that's true. But if you have to borrow money for that 0% rent, it's not that simple.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Some Lisp or Smalltalk guru steps in and says that they already did that in 80's in 7, 6, 5, 4, ...
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Sounds very reasonable assumption. House prices are fundamentally tied to the income of people living in the area. There can be ups and downs but eventually it all comes back to fundamentals. Labor's share of national income has been
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by hannibal5 13y ago
The Guardian is also independent. It is owned by the Scott Trust and has been consistently loss making. The Scott trust turned into The Scott Trust Limited in 2008, but the same independence is maintained. Of course, the problem is that The
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by hannibal5 13y ago
In America, increasing the minimum wage would help the majority of poor who are working poor.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Delayed gratification is the single most important measurable personality trait that determines success later in life. IQ is less important than delayed gratification. High IQ and other traits are just potential for success. Delayed gratifi
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by hannibal5 13y ago
>It is important to realize that there is a heavy strain of racial superiority thinking in the English upper class. As far as I know, there is nothing similar anywhere in Europe today. If we put weight on genetics, English style slow soc
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Single member districts and plurality vote make it very hard. Only if there is huge local support in some areas this could happen. For example Tea Party could break from Republicans and get several representatives.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
There could be also bounty for finding backdoor or weakness in Truecrypt.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
> but this chart and story don't accurately represent the US market for mobile data. It says it's for prepaid in the title. Its not inaccurate just because it does not measure what you want it to measure.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Overall geographic size adds logarithmic cost to the physical network but big networks also gives scale benefits that might be bigger.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
>and to the fact that it costs more to build a network than it does in small, densely populated European countries. No. Finland has population density 16/km^2, United States has 34.2/km^2 It's not ever correct for urban ar
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by hannibal5 13y ago
If we want to limit climate change to +2°C, we must leave 80% of hydrocarbons into the ground. This option is not showing in the prices of energy companies. It's just not going to happen.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Bruce Schneier also changed his PGP key to 4096-bit short time ago when he started to deal with Snowden leaks.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Nirvana fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
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by hannibal5 13y ago
I think expanding the life to 100-130 years might be possible in next 20-30 years for people in private jet category. I don't think we can get to the point where person can live over 90 years old and has his cognitive capabilities inta
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Majority support is not what defines national interest. You are confusing political opinions to the workings of US government.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
If the FBI has been tracking down SilkRoad for years, I find it completely reasonable that they finally find the location of the server just based on traffic analysis. I'm sure that FBI or NSA runs number of exit and intermediate node
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by hannibal5 13y ago
No. This is perfectly ordinary for US. If I had signed anti-apartheid petition, I might have been denied entry in the 80's. >borderline-rogue surveillance agency That's not the opinion of the government. It's the job of
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by hannibal5 13y ago
There is nothing out of proportion here compared to previous decades. There is nothing out of ordinary in denying visa from someone writes and works against the national interest of US. Visas have been denied from communists, peace activis
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by hannibal5 13y ago
There is nothing out of the ordinary here. Prior criminal convictions, affiliation with unsuitable political parties or organizations or poor character are valid justifications for denying entry according to US law. It has been used agains
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by hannibal5 13y ago
assuming that space traveler had the incredible amount of energy to accelerate long periods of time, interstellar medium would be the limiting factor. There would be upper limit (say 90-99% of the speed of the light) and after that particl
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by hannibal5 13y ago
BTC is not currency or security. BTC is treated as any other asset outside currencies and securities. Person must pay taxes for capital gains but they can't do tax deductions from losses. Taxes hit every time BTC is used to buy someth
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by hannibal5 13y ago
In many EU countries insurance companies and banks can't do social network analysis of your public Facebook profile or buy your private data from Facebook. Some countries have laws that limit the use of the information in public record
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Elizabeth Warren has answers: The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class with Elizabeth Warren https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A Everyone should watch the video. She answers for the question of having more cars etc.

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