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by hristov 13y ago
Sometimes you can learn a lot from carefully worded denials. They thoroughly denied that their Prism software is related to the Prism program but they did not deny that they sell information gathering software to the government. They most l
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by hristov 13y ago
Why do you think the growth rate will get lower? If we do not have a change in our carbon footprints, it will not get lower, and there will be a catastrophe. Perhaps the catastrophe will be several years after predicted, but it will come.
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by hristov 13y ago
I am going to quote the end of the article in order to make valiant attempt to prevent a budding flame war: ----------- "Is there any succour in these findings for climate sceptics who say the slowdown over the past 14 years means the globa
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by hristov 13y ago
When I moved to the states at age 15, I came from a very prestigious English language school from my native country. As a result my written English was excellent, but nobody could understand my accent and I could not understand the American
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by hristov 13y ago
Well, it is not a difficult question. There already are existing laws and regulations that spell out what you have to do. The thing is that whatever exchange follows MtGox in the us, they should follow those rules and not pretend that becau
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by hristov 13y ago
It depends what the procedural background is. For example, if there is a motion for a preliminary injunction, then the judge has to decide whether one side has a high chance of winning the case.
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by hristov 13y ago
If that happens, everyone will choose personal offices. That's because they are associated with status, and everyone will go for the thing that communicates status regardless of whether it makes them uncomfortable.
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by hristov 13y ago
I apologize ahead of time for going off topic but I have to argue against the bashing of Keynesianism that is getting so popular lately. Keynesian economics works, and it is responsible for the longest and largest sustaining economic growth
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by hristov 13y ago
I think it is not ok, and I think that the deflationary nature of Bitcoin is a wonderful practical example of the problem with deflation. To the best of my knowledge bitcoin does not seem to be used as currency that much. It's explosion in
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by hristov 13y ago
It is a necessary engineering fix. Any new design they introduce will have to go through extensive testing and verification that will take months. The goal here is to be able to assure the authorities and the public of absolute safety as qu
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by hristov 13y ago
This does not necessarily mean that wages are falling. It could be that a lot of the new jobs created are "beginner" jobs with lower wages that pull the average down, but the existing jobs still pay what they used to or more.
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by hristov 13y ago
You have to keep in mind that the EFF get into some very important political battles and earn some very fearsome enemies. In DC politics your enemies will not kill you but they will sue you, or they can do even worse -- they can ask their f
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by hristov 13y ago
This is very relevant now because rumors are that Yahoo is about to buy Tumblr for over a billion dollars. If they only took care of Geocities they would not have to buy it all over again in Tumblr form.
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by hristov 13y ago
Unless of course the interference comes when the plane is already in flight, at which point your notice that your phone causes interference may come when you catch on fire.
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by hristov 13y ago
"99.99% is good enough for me" Really? Let's follow your logic. There were 639 000 000 passengers last year. Lets say one tenth follow your thinking. Multiply that by .0001 you get 6390 potentially deadly events of interference. Would that
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by hristov 13y ago
I guess I have to keep pointing out the obvious, but for airline safety a miniscule probability is often too high. I do not want a minuscule probability of death just so some moron cannot handle 5 min with a turned off cell-phone.
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by hristov 13y ago
That is correct.
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by hristov 13y ago
There is a huge difference between energy production at an internal combustion engine and that at a power plant. Power plants are far far more efficient. Even if they do use fossil fuels. An ice wastes most of the fuel energy into heat. At
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by hristov 14y ago
Since you asked about an explanation: I downvoted you because your post makes no sense whatsoever.
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by hristov 14y ago
Your study only shows that ecigs are safer than cigarettes. That is probably true and nobody here is disputing that. However, this is not sufficient reason to exempt ecigs from smoking bans. Smoking bans are about protecting the health of n
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by hristov 14y ago
You pointed towards a study commissioned by an e-cigarette users group in order to lobby their government. They use a completely arbitrary threshold of what is considered to not have considerable health risks. The study is only being publis
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by hristov 14y ago
You can look at the wikipedia article for nicotine. Apparently it promotes cancer.
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by hristov 14y ago
How do you know that it is not about safety or health? Do you have any study that says they are safe? It is amazing how many delusions a little marketing can create.
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by hristov 14y ago
a- e-cigarettes do smell. The fact that you have had few complaints may reflect the fact that people are courteous and do not like to get into arguments. I have very much liked to complain several times about e-cigarettes myself. b- they al
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by hristov 14y ago
E-cigarettes are nicotine delivery devices and nicotine promotes cancer growth. And yes there is secondary inhalation with e-cigarettes. You probably would not call it secondary smoke, but whatever is being vaporized by the e-cigarette gets
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by hristov 14y ago
This article is full of inaccuracies and has several very dubious conspiracy theories reported as facts. The quality of the Atlantic continues to decline. This article basically has the accuracy of an anonymous internet forum rant. However,
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by hristov 14y ago
I think the issue is that the city paid a bunch of money to build the system but still cannot run it for a profit. So the city has to keep paying ongoing losses for the system in order to run it. They can shut it down of course, but that wo
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by hristov 14y ago
He can't. It has to pass for him to be a able to veto it. Currently it has only passed the house. It has to pass the Senate. Then it will come up on his desk for his signature, and then he can veto it by refusing to sign it. Him saying he w
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by hristov 14y ago
Also, this is why the New York Post sucks. I understand a bunch of internet teenagers with too much time on their hands spreading this story, but an actual newspaper with professional journalists? And on the front page too. The New York Pos
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by hristov 14y ago
The strange three minth period they used (dec to feb) greatly favors windows phone at the expense of blackberry. The period starts right after the new nokias came out but much before the new blackberries did.

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