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by iwr 16y ago
What is a scenario where business would be disrupted in this manner? After all, even with the bailouts, credit is as hard to obtain.
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by iwr 16y ago
I have in fact sent both e-mail, fax and snail-mail (with delivery confirmation) to a number of customers. Even though it's possible and legal to sign a contract by completely electronic means, snail-mailing a hardcopy is still the norm.
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by iwr 16y ago
There could be a cat/mouse game going on between law enforcement and criminals running UAVs (eg. to run drugs). Miniature dogfights?
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by iwr 16y ago
Not everyone needs public-facing IP addresses. It's also possible to write network/web applications that work through NAT, or that don't need routable clients. Considering the transition to IPv6 will take at least a decade, do your apps nee
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by iwr 16y ago
It would have been far cheaper just to rescue the FDIC and preserve the money held in savings/checking accounts.
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by iwr 16y ago
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Wall_Street
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by iwr 16y ago
Wall Street organizations, in their present form, are functionally bankrupt. Having been bailed out, the clearing of bad debt never happened. This effectively trapped a large amount of capital in their vaults. In addition, the government is
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by iwr 16y ago
"In the year 2010, a large payload was launched into LEO, ostensibly as a classified spy satellite. No one would have believed that behind this event lay not a human, but an innocuous computer intelligence secretly living in one of the NSA'
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by iwr 16y ago
You can use Google Calendar's SMS notification. In Europe it's free to receive messages and calls, so it costs nothing.
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by iwr 16y ago
Still, it's unfriendly to newbies. You need to learn console commands. Also, the registration process does not allow webmail addresses. On places like chess.com or chesscube, you can pretty much start right away. That said, I still prefer F
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by iwr 16y ago
I improved my English spelling and punctuation by doing CastingWords transcripts a few years ago. Perhaps the main motivation for some people is the actual money. Though I'm curious how they got people from India onto the site. After all, y
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by iwr 16y ago
Did someone document their progress, or overview the development of a medium-sized app (~10K LoC) on GAE?
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by iwr 16y ago
I fail to understand why pdf is not a purely representational document format (i.e. without scripting and executable content).
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by iwr 16y ago
Copying is not theft because there are no such things as property rights in the value of things. Value is the valuation of others, it exists in the minds of other people. You do not have a property right to the value of your house, for in
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by iwr 16y ago
We can assume literacy on these boards :)
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by iwr 16y ago
Nuclear weapons are just invasion insurance policy. Also, useful bargaining chips in exchange for foreign aid. The solution would be just to halt all foreign aid and sign a peace treaty, or remove all options, including the nuclear one, fro
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by iwr 16y ago
Watching that made me think the first Von Neumann Universal Constructor would be built by a carpenter.
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Multi-monitors and fullscreen Flash video
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by iwr 16y ago
If you opt out of the nude.js, the pat-down bot gets to fondle your dangling pointers.
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by iwr 16y ago
Reading is 2-3 times faster than listening.
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by iwr 16y ago
The cheaters(?) would be visible if they do significantly worse in the second test, compared to the first.
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by iwr 16y ago
Our ability to measure cosmological distances (past 100M ly) is very limited. Past 1bn ly we are basically talking about the Hubble law, which has to be infered from other distance measurements. The Hubble law means very little as a distanc
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by iwr 16y ago
One day, aliens will use our oceans as heat sinks for their great galactic computer. And even then, ZFS will serve them well.
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by iwr 16y ago
There is actually no other word in literary language that conveys the full meanings of lol. It is here to stay!
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by iwr 16y ago
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by iwr 16y ago
Lights by their design will stop traffic and reduce road capacity (they are ostensibly for safety rather than road use). The point about a roundabout was to keep traffic moving, not stop it. If there are lights, there is no difference betwe
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by iwr 16y ago
Don't underestimate the idiocy of traffic planners. In my town we have roundabouts and stoplights on the roads leading in.
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by iwr 16y ago
By the time the debt collectors are called in (3 or more months overdue), the chances are already more that the money would never be paid. These people have a bad reputation, but debtors too are reneging on a contract. It's terrible to be a
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by iwr 16y ago
Would this system block websites at the IP level or at the DNS level? Doing it at the DNS level would mean you could roll your own DNS or use a non-US DNS provider. Doing it at the IP level would mean banned IPs and reverse-lookups of IPs b
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by iwr 16y ago
And at the end of it all, a student will come out of a business school sporting a shiny degree, but not much else. If he didn't cheat on his tests, he would be surely cheated out of an education. This professor places more emphasis on a tes

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