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by jobu 12y ago
"The committee has been working since 2009 on a comprehensive history of the agency’s antiterror program during the George W. Bush administration" That makes it sound like the investigation is politically motivated, which I find
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by jobu 12y ago
It depends on the area. In the Denver area most plumbers and electricians I've contacted are scheduled out a month or more and some don't even bother returning phone calls. This is a stark comparison to where I used to live in ce
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by jobu 12y ago
Suicidal people by definition have a low regard for their own lives, and are often in search of purpose or meaning. Enlisting to fight a war might be a solution to both. (I'm not an expert though, and the only evidence I have for this
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by jobu 12y ago
"[CIA] officials suspected the intelligence committee had improperly obtained an internal C.I.A. report about the detention program" How is that even an excuse? The Senate Intelligence committee is supposed to oversee the CIA. H
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by jobu 12y ago
That looks pretty interesting, but Holy Options Batman! There are almost 50 filter lists plus a bunch of other settings. Thanks for recommending this - looks a little less shady than some of the AdBlock variants.
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by jobu 12y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. Assuming that wikipedia entry is correct (which is sometimes questionable) then it looks like both AdBlock and AdBlock Plus are being shady as hell with their "strategic partners".
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by jobu 12y ago
That first article is really good (the second reads like the breathless ranting of a conspiracy theorist). If other major companies are doing the same thing as IBM (seems likely), then it's the best explanation I've seen for the s
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by jobu 12y ago
“The big experiments have been funded for decades, so there's little chance they won't meet their milestones,” says John Slough, a plasma physicist at the University of Washington. “If they start funding these alternatives, all t
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by jobu 12y ago
* Ideally it would be integrated within the hospitals EMR (really tough, given the reluctance of EMR's to work with outside solution providers.."* Hospitals and clinics know that they need to open up and share data, but they'
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by jobu 12y ago
"If you quadruple your engineering headcount in a year, you will likely have less absolute throughput than if you doubled headcount. As an added bonus, you will burn way more cash." This is a great point (although I hate the ter
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by jobu 12y ago
It really comes down to how you would answer this question: "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CODER, A HACKER, A PROGRAMMER, A DEVELOPER, AND A COMPUTER SCIENTIST?" ( http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ACoderA
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by jobu 12y ago
"One big reason that mathematics is much more like language than programming, is that doing mathematics involves resolving ambiguities. In programming you have a compiler/interpreter that just dictates how an ambiguity resolves.
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by jobu 12y ago
Amazing how gene sequencing has really started to pay off. A member of my family was recently diagnosed with two mutations of the MTHFR gene. This comes after years of trying different horrible depression medications, thyroid drugs, and h
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by jobu 12y ago
I'm just thankful I don't work at either of those companies. 18,000 is a huge number and a big blow to company morale, but that letter is the icing on the cake. The corporate sleaze speak was extremely thick, and while Nadella did
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by jobu 12y ago
> A stereotype of a father and a son is that they will both suffer through their own problems, individually, in silence. The trick for me has been to find things to do with my son. My daughter's will randomly unleash a torrent of em
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by jobu 12y ago
Looking at the game pictures of people pointing and laughing when the main character falls sent a chill down my spine. Everyone has at least a few horrid memories of school years, so this definitely seems scarier than zombies or aliens tryi
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by jobu 12y ago
That's a great quote from Jon Evans, and it fits well with Steve Yegge's perspective on Jeff Bezos: "I mean, imagine what it would be like to start off as an incredibly smart person, arguably a first-class genius, and then s
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by jobu 12y ago
If you picture Elon Musk as Tony Stark from the Iron Man movies then that quote fits a little better. (Supposedly Robert Downey Jr even modeled his character after Musk).
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by jobu 12y ago
I wonder if this sort of plane would open the door for private contractors to provide air support.
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by jobu 12y ago
Most of the other comments are political in nature, so I thought my comment fit better with the one comment about editing.
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by jobu 12y ago
In a letter like this is it typical to state credentials before stating the intention of the letter? I'm not an expert in persuasive writing, but the form I learned was something like this: 1. question, concern or objection 2.
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by jobu 12y ago
Obscurity is a far more common problem than plagiarism. The best solution for this is to put a signature in the image. Most people aren't trying to steal an image without attribution, they just want to share something they liked.
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by jobu 12y ago
Last time I looked into this I decided I wouldn't want to try it even if it did work. ADH2 works by converting alcohol into acetaldehyde, which is not something you want absorbed in your bloodstream (instant hangover): http:/&#x2
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by jobu 12y ago
It depends on what you consider groceries I suppose. Are you only counting food and drink? Where do you put toiletries, cleaning and general household supplies? $1k/mo does seem a bit high, but not unreasonable. We do a lot of budget
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by jobu 12y ago
"Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox" is also available here thanks to Bill Gates and Alex and Carolyn Brooks: http://www.gatesnotes.com/media/features/books/Bill_Gates_Jo... Only about halfway through that, a
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by jobu 12y ago
20 years ago I was a huge fan of Sony, but that was when the Sony brand meant high quality instead of just a high price. Right now I like Apple devices for many of the same reasons I used to like Sony (great quality, easy to use, and their
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Microsoft Needs a Real Plan, Not a Memo(wired.com)
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by jobu 12y ago
It's hard to believe that heavy (daily) users would be purchasing that much marijuana since it's legal for an adult to own up to six plants at a time (or twelve per household). It seems unlikely to count all of their usage as part
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by jobu 12y ago
My guess is that a majority of visitors consume what they buy within Colorado. There are pot-tourism operations springing up, such as ski shuttles from Denver Airport that provide marijuana for the ride to the resort.
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by jobu 12y ago
I remember tons of people getting arrested for underage drinking in college - much more so than in high school where getting caught by parents was a bigger concern than cops.

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