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by iwwr 15y ago
For its part, Amazon supports the Streamlined Sales Tax project, which aims to harmonize and clarify states sales tax laws across the country. and “The sales tax collection is very complicated. The right place to fix this is with federal
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by iwwr 15y ago
What is stopping companies from maintaining fixed numbers of shareholders, perhaps with interceding intermediary entities. Example: Company A owns 1% of Facebook and the only purpose of Company A is to be a vehicle for Facebook ownership. T
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by iwwr 15y ago
Moreover, Amazon is trying to avoid a circumstance where every state and county has different and potentially complex sales tax laws. Say, County X could have 100 different little tax levels depending on the type of product, time of day, ph
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by iwwr 15y ago
Any idea on what the noise is really like? Compared to something like natural thunder.
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by iwwr 15y ago
The FCC delayed cell phone technology by at least 2 decades. AT&T delayed computer networks (pre-internet) by insisting on owning every device that connects to it, so modems had to use slow acoustic couplers.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Back of a piece of paper calculation and a hand calculator: beta = 131376/19147 gamma = - 485151/95735 phi = 271932/95735 mu = 617333/95735 omega = anything, it's zero everywhere (?)
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by iwwr 15y ago
It's not so clearcut as this. Projects like these give the US government knowledge in how to disturb or thwart those that try to circumvent US-imposed restrictions.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Can you post a recording to your interpretation of that? Press the red "record button" and you will get a link like this: http://goo.gl/doodle/F4ih8
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Lulzsec releases passwords for porn site users and admins(lulzsecurity.com)
11 points by iwwr 15y ago|11 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
What is the particularly damning thing about this guy, moreso than a typical politician?
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by iwwr 15y ago
That scenario is impossible in an expanding universe. Regions of space eventually become disconnected from each other. There wouldn't be one computational entity overall, although there may be little dominant AIs inside these disconnected s
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by iwwr 15y ago
Desperate times may require desperate measures. Robotic parents won't have to be close to human parents, just good enough to teach language and reading. The result may be psychologically unstable or mentally deficient children, but that may
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by iwwr 15y ago
Is magnetic reconnection an established phenomenon, i.e. verified in a lab or at least strongly theoretically founded?
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by iwwr 15y ago
You can no longer rely on NAT to provide a default firewall, can you?
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by iwwr 15y ago
Can you be more specific?
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by iwwr 15y ago
I don't understand why people visiting google.com from a kz ISP could not receive country-specific or other customized search results.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Uh oh, Mr. Khan is not reactionary enough for the tastes of someone like Clemens: Here Mr. Khan stands exposed as possessing a historical perspective steeped in academia’s standard issue, postmodern, left-leaning narrative of cultural rela
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Richard Dreyfuss' dramatic reading of the iTunes EULA(cnet.com)
217 points by iwwr 15y ago|53 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
Procurement is also a factor in standardization. If you're not Microsoft or Oracle, your best bet is a standards-compliant product.
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by iwwr 15y ago
That's very interesting, thank you!
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by iwwr 15y ago
Try IAX/IAX2, a NAT-transparent VoIP protocol.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Not only that, they have employed a security-by-obscurity strategy: RSA Security Chairman Art Coviello said that the reason RSA had not disclosed the full extent of the vulnerability because doing so would have revealed to the hackers how
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by iwwr 15y ago
There's no way to contain it without big, heavy equipment.
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MongoDB is web scale(mongodb-is-web-scale.com)
3 points by iwwr 15y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
So what part of that analysis applies to Bitcoin?
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by iwwr 15y ago
Perhaps trade is the carrot humans needed to go 'have sex' on a social level.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Google News links back to the original source and only duplicates the title, subtitle and a few words of the first paragraph.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Not only malice, but a kindergarten level of maturity. Overall, it's stupidity (on FJ) because their attitude is hurting them in particular.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Better start uploading this to torrents if its legit. Skype will issue takedowns any moment.
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by iwwr 15y ago
There is no way other than a gray market mechanism. To extract cash from Mtgox, you can move it through Liberty Reserve and try to get it into a bank (it may not work). Alternatively, you may be able to find someone willing to trade larger

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