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by imajes 17y ago
One falls every week. Just ask the FDIC. But i am sure the us is encumbered by states vs national complications, as well as the need to route through larger banks.
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by imajes 17y ago
that's incredibly naïve. Plenty of organizations would find that information useful.
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by imajes 17y ago
because a license might cost $1m, but going to court to fight it might cost $100m or more. It's a no-brainer whatever size you look at it. The win-lose equation here is about risk management: it's too risky for Microsoft, with an 'endless b
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by imajes 17y ago
@jgc: assuming you have this book, does it cover more than just the Make kit? I'm more interested in arduino than make stuff. thanks!
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by imajes 17y ago
wrong; i have a mac mini in a data center that boots just fine w/o a monitor attached.
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Ask HN: Please write the year or 'old' in non recent submissions
8 points by imajes 17y ago|2 comments
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by imajes 17y ago
Lots of those acronyms and abbreviations are microsoft internal, i think. They're not generic marketing. I also think they disclose a lot about the nature of internal senior management structure- who reports to who. An example: "KT and Stev
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by imajes 17y ago
looks like an internal job ad (to me) that got disclosed incorrectly.
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by imajes 17y ago
The don't need to be on a plane bit- if you end up leaving the plane once you've boarded, the plane isn't going to pull away from the gate till you're either back on the plane or everything you took onboard with you is deplaned. Now, that d
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by imajes 17y ago
Right, one large argument against the 'sterile area' joke is that it's very easy to acquire weapons - anything from workmen's tools to steak knives are easily accessible.
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by imajes 17y ago
The uk experimented with metal detector type screening at train stations after our bombings on the 7th july. It doesn't work with you have thousands of people streaming in and out of the gates- all you do is end up practically shutting down
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by imajes 17y ago
One thing to bear in mind- mass transit terror attacks over the past ten years have probably killed more people directly in attacks on trains (and subways/tube) than plane attacks. Bombs in london and madrid caused hundreds of lives lost or
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by imajes 17y ago
It doesn't have to be. Flying for me is fairly painless, but i've been doing it enough so i can optimize the process out. It doesn't take long (or much effort) to make flying equivalent to train travel, for instance (and it's much faster al
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by imajes 17y ago
The regulation isn't applicable to the entire flight; it's perfectly ok to pull your blind down midway over the atlantic on a red-eye, for example.
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by imajes 17y ago
Note that WakeMate (YC 09) is making use of this.... sorta. :D
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by imajes 17y ago
I wonder how long / how hard it'd take to implement a shadow exchange to test new algos and systems... Like, perhaps new code needs to be certified in a full test environment before being deployed to the live market? Seems like something al
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by imajes 17y ago
Actually, I think this argument (posed by the journalist) was woolly. Given that the high speed trading firms seem to stay market neutral (each trade is adequately hedged) and unwind their trades within hours or days, their inherent risk is
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by imajes 17y ago
We don't bother with the fedexing in the uk :) couriers are expensive. Seriously though, wire transfers have become very efficient, simple and effective, and- i predict by 2018 - free. the FPS (faster payments service) can make transfers b
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"The plural of anecdote is data" - worth reading, linguistic fun but good point(listserv.linguistlist.org)
2 points by imajes 17y ago|0 comments
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Living in a van - an inspirational story of frugality and achievement(salon.com)
112 points by imajes 17y ago|53 comments
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by imajes 17y ago
My favorite: D, 4.12: Class counsel have never received any payment for prosecuting this case on behalf of representative Plaintiffs and Members of the Class, nor have they been reimbursed for their out-of-pocket-expenses. On or before the
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by imajes 17y ago
@kurtosis: You should rephrase your question as, "why haven't cells evolved to be more heat insensitive". One thing the article did get me wondering, and if any hacker here has gone through this and be willing to admit it, i'd love to know:
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by imajes 17y ago
sciam blogs tend to be a little less than awesome... one of the problems i have with this piece: " If it were true, we would expect to see scrotal testicles becoming increasingly elaborate and dangly over the course of evolution, not to men
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by imajes 17y ago
a lexer/tokenizer in js. hmm. i love how we've got new fast JS engines, but really? this fast?
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by imajes 17y ago
Don't think the real worry is rogue leaders, but instead: what happens when someone has a blow out?
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by imajes 17y ago
It still costs you £120 though.
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by imajes 17y ago
Nice, except google hasn't learnt how to do internationalization yet.
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by imajes 17y ago
Actually, the right to privacy isn't entirely guaranteed (nor is it a law; it is however, generally guaranteed by law). Your right to privacy can easily be suspended if there is reasonable suspicion that you committed a crime, for example,
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by imajes 17y ago
So, you made all kinds of awesome points that I went thru before i switched to random passwords... a. (on not having access to your passwords). iPhone with them helps. (yes, i have to unlock that db with my hashing password). But in reality
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by imajes 17y ago
fairly certain you weren't trying to reply to me?

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