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by jbuzbee 12y ago
"How do you imagine you're going to be able to even as a likely relatively well-paid individual, if tuition rates keep climbing?" (proud) Parent here - We just put two kids through top-tier state schools paying almost all exp
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
There are interesting (aka crazy) copyright issues surrounding these recordings. Lomax had copyrights on songs he only recorded? And modern artists need to license them if they are sampled? http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Start your own company, and you're free to try that out. Trying to force your own will on someone else's company and business plan is an economic road-to-ruin for everybody. Just ask the US Auto-makers.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
"Having some say in the direction that the company is moving towards seems like a reasonable thing to ask for" Reading comments like this make me think of the old "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" saying. Where t
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
"we all know memory is a funny thing." - Yeah, tell that to Brian Williams - rim-shot :-)
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
My daughter and both have the Nexus 4 and I don't recall ever having this problem. Suppose its a carrier issue? We're on TMobile.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Yeah the spammers call themselves geniuses and justify themselves as well. I for one, avoid ever clicking on those links that say something like "You won't believe what this guy's girlfriend did" or similar. Fool me once
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Sorry - I wasn't targeting your specific sketch. I was just trying to refute the basic idea that lots of people make when they state that we'll pay for the Basic Income program by re-allocating all the funding that is currently us
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
No. Some folks or kids will still need help after the basic income is spent on booze or gambled away. And some people will choose to live on the streets. Society won't just let them starve in the gutter.
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"If we subtract £222 billion for Social Protection (we're replacing all of it with our BI)" I think that's a fallacy with all these calculations. You can't just disband Social Services/Protection. You'll s
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
"A founder invests his savings, but that might be less than the total salary difference for employees and the market rate [...] There needs to be some balance" Irrelevant. The employer made an offer of employment. The employee wei
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Possibly. But that's a different issue. The owners of the company, unlike the employees, have invested their personal hard-earned savings in the venture. It's their responsibility to be monitoring management to make sure that fund
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
"when I [sic] startup company I was at years ago started failing and laying people off, someone proposed unionizing to prevent it." Attitudes like this is why I feel unions are harmful. The company is failing, but people want a un
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
It's already been done for dogs: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/llog/FarsideDogTranslat...
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
No surprise to me that these guys win some and lose some. All they are doing is trying to predict the future of a stock with absolutely no knowledge other than a graph of price movement. If it's going down, it will continue to go down.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Those were the days! I was the first to hack in to get root on that little box but others took it much further than me! http://batbox.org/nslu2-linux.html I still have a couple around, but rarely turn them on.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
No. That's not a view that I've heard over the years. We hear that Reagan's policies led to severe economic pressure on the USSR which in turn led them to have a more hands-off position with the Eastern-Bloc countries.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Your description of Namibia hits home. My family and I had the same sort of experience when we got stuck in the sand in very, very remote Saudi Arabia far from any paved roads or assistance. We were hopelessly stuck as the sun was setting a
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Actually it could have been a 2400 - It's hard to remember the timing of upgrading from 1200, to 2400, to 33.6K to a blazingly fast 56K where I recall stalling for years until broadband finally came into our neighborhood. But regardles
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I know those lawsuits made a difference to me. I recall back in '92 getting a 386sx 20Mhz PC with Windows 3.0 on it and being severely disappointed with its limited functionality. While looking for alternatives, I remember seeing that
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Drive the dogs crazy? i.e. Dogs and other animals can hear some level of ultrasound: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound#Animals
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I recall working with a very detailed map of Germany a long time ago and seeing two nearby towns named something like "Herman" and "Munsterville". Years later I tried to find them again on a different map and failed. I o
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
I wonder how far one could go with this. I'm currently playing around with Meteor which requires MongoDB. I wonder if a MongoDB API on top of PostresSQL would be a path to start bringing in relational DB capabilities to Meteor? But per
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
That globe was a great way to visualize why the sun never sets in the summer above the arctic circle. It would be a great teaching resource especially with some way to adjust the dates.
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
The administration only responds to trivial petitions or petitions that already side with their policy. Typical. Obama claims that his is the "Most transparent administration ever" http://thehill.com/blogs/blo
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
From my own experience, expectations have a whole lot to do with where your life goes. In my house, there was never any question that my siblings and I would go to college as certainly as we went from 1st to 2nd grade. There was never any d
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
Wait, I saw this movie called "Gravity" where the heroine used a fire extinguisher to propel herself through space and went all over the place. It was easy. Maybe the ISS folks should try that to get the the satellites! ;-)
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield ki
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by jbuzbee 12y ago
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... Call me Ishmael. Anybody have any more?
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Paul Allen. Huh. So what is it about these pathetic Microsoft guys? http://www.wired.com/2010/08/paul-allen-patent-lawsuit/

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