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by joshAg 13y ago
yes. they meet at Fort Meade.
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by joshAg 13y ago
relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
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by joshAg 13y ago
I think the Swiss are thinking about doing something like that right now. Part of the problem with giving a basic income is how much to give people due to variances in the cost of living. Someone in east san jose or oakland will need much m
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by joshAg 13y ago
food stamp eligibility is based on whether you live at or below the poverty line. Minimum wage, while once above the poverty line (assuming a 40 hour work week), has not risen with inflation, so it is now well below the poverty line.
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by joshAg 13y ago
It's not. No, we should go after changing the minimum wage law to somehow relate to the poverty line. No one who works 40 hours/ week or more in the US should be living below the poverty line.
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by joshAg 13y ago
The difference is that the Canadian health system is designed for Canadians to use for long periods of time, whereas the american programs are only intended to be stopgap measures when a family is temporarily unable to provide the things pr
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by joshAg 13y ago
that last bit seems a little extreme without limiting conditions. can you imagine legal civil contracts where the penalty for violating it in some fashion is death?
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by joshAg 13y ago
thinkpad laptops are awesome, especially if you get a dock. they run linux great, if that's what you'd prefer, but they can come with either windows 7 or 8 installed. I'd stick to either the t-series or x-series but don'
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by joshAg 13y ago
sorry, i wasn't sure how detailed to be, but by 'acting stupidly' I meant unintentionally selling shorts they couldn't cover in a way that made the action illegal.
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by joshAg 13y ago
No, the SEC fined them for losing money stupidly. In order to have access to the market like they did, they had to follow certain laws that are enforced by the SEC. When they were losing all that money they weren't following those laws
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by joshAg 13y ago
I wonder if he would have reported to her if they offered him the same stuff they gave him after the negotiation ("a bump to VP, an increase in salary and signing bonus") but required him to report to her.
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by joshAg 13y ago
next time you feel like tequila get a shot of don julio 1942; it might just change your mind about what tequila can be. And hey, if it doesn't it's still a damn good tequila.
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by joshAg 13y ago
Spoiler alert: it does. According to the article, it's another sub-specialty of the PE license. here's the california website for getting a PE license: http://www.bpelsg.ca.gov/
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by joshAg 13y ago
why are TA's so hard to come by this semester? is it due to the size of the 61 series?
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by joshAg 13y ago
this is highly atypical. here are the syllabi for two other similar classes at Cal: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188/sp12/information.html http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee122/fa12/gr
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by joshAg 13y ago
Really? Wow that's rough! L&S CS, EECS, or both? When I graduated the only requirement was enough units and at least one lab class. btw, what's the other class?
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CS 161 – Computer Security – Syllabus and important notes [pdf](people.ischool.berkeley.edu)
61 points by joshAg 13y ago|121 comments
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by joshAg 13y ago
In the US, rail is optimized for freight, not people.
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by joshAg 13y ago
how is that regulatory capture? I can see over regulation, maybe, but what did any of that have to do with the regulating agency doing the bidding of those its regulating instead of acting for the public good?
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Info about the BART strikes from the sf chronicle(sfgate.com)
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by joshAg 13y ago
any high end car dealer will offer something like this, especially if you have one of the nicer models. when hyundai launched the equus, they specifically offered this feature as a selling point to people who couldn't afford a 7 series
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by joshAg 13y ago
if the nsa is part of the us military, are NSA employees and contractors subject to UCMJ?
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by joshAg 13y ago
south bay stops somewhere between mtv and cupertino on the peninsula side.
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by joshAg 13y ago
no the nsa is still cuter, cuddlier, and less deadly than the cia.
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by joshAg 13y ago
Riverbed's doing some cool stuff with wan optimization.
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by joshAg 13y ago
if you have an sla like that, the service provider has to choose between violating the SLA by not telling the customer, or violating the warrant/court order which compels them to not inform you.
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by joshAg 13y ago
If i correctly understood the stock options seminar i recently had to go through, it means two things: 1) if you want to sell your stock to someone else before IPO, the company has to approve the sale. If they don't like who you're selling
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by joshAg 13y ago
i would love to see this, too.
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by joshAg 13y ago
seems you stumbled on the secret of keeping a good online community: don't let a person's contacts exceed the network's dunbar number[1]. non-default subreddits can still be quite good, but many/most/all of the default subreddits are wastel
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by joshAg 13y ago
> the wisdom that "Emacs is a good operating system, it just needs a decent text editor". that's not wisdom; that's a sarcastic quip by the vim side of the emacs-vim/vim-emacs religious war.

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