jpollock

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by jpollock 8y ago
I don't know. Why did the aggressor nations invade (since 2000): Afghanistan Anjouan Crimea Gambia Georgia Iraq Lebanon Somalia Syria
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by jpollock 8y ago
My first thought was about Drake Landing in Alberta. They use heat pumps and store excess summer heat in the ground for use during the winter[1]. Nifty that this is a new molecule for long-term rather than seasonal storage. [1] https:&#x2F
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by jpollock 8y ago
"Imperfect Produce claims it’s saving the world by reducing food waste—and helping farmers by buying surplus 'ugly' produce that would have been thrown out. Sounds great. The reality is that this produce would have otherwise
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by jpollock 8y ago
Since these are round and they're going for jagged sand, probably not?
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by jpollock 8y ago
I'm not allowed to participate in government. :)
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by jpollock 8y ago
A better startup idea would be some way for people in a neighborhood to act collectively to improve the local school. How can someone who isn't a parent improve the quality of their local school? A point is worth _a lot_ around here. I
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by jpollock 8y ago
When I bought, I noticed that every 10mins closer (rush hour driving) to Google was worth US$100k, and every point on the school rating was worth another US$100k. This led to an interesting gradient between downtown San Jose (bad schools) a
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by jpollock 8y ago
The financial crisis had a broader reach around the world than 9/11 did. 9/11 made it harder for me to fly, but the financial crisis cost friends jobs.
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by jpollock 8y ago
Another extremely large eruption from a more recent time. As for whether or not it's larger, Wikipedia seems to indicate it would win in a trump card contest? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatepe_eruption
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by jpollock 8y ago
http://taxpolicy.ird.govt.nz/news/2018-03-29-issues-paper-lo... Not yet, but soon. They did tighten up the rules around businesses that _never_ make a profit a while ago (I seem to remember). CONSULT YOUR ACCOUNTANT.
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by jpollock 8y ago
No, they do not, they only cover a portion. As the owner of a New Zealand investment property... In NZ, ROI on property is targeted to be around 8% [3]. The owner will take that ROI either in capital increase or in rent. [2] If the property
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by jpollock 8y ago
The problem with bombing a forest fire is that not all bombs that are dropped explode. So, instead of a fire that will eventually stop being a fire, you've got a fire and an unexploded bomb.
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by jpollock 8y ago
This is a standard risk with any attempt to remain anonymous with a supplier. The supplier, since they don't know you, and therefore can't trust you, will not offer much credit. Cards get skimmed all the time. When a card gets sk
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by jpollock 8y ago
I'm sorry, I went for brevity because someone was asking for possible impacts. If I were using 1.1.1.1 as a DNS server and saw this news story, I would change to a different DNS server until the problem was resolved. My goal was to pro
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by jpollock 8y ago
If true it means that Cloudflare's DNS server can't be trusted.
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by jpollock 8y ago
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/results-of-heat-shield-test... "The structure was originally tested in 2008 and was one of two heat shields manufactured in support of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, whi
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by jpollock 8y ago
Blame doesn't matter. All that matters for money is "who accepted the risk". In a lot of contracts, the buyer lists the tests the object needs to pass prior to acceptance. Then there will be a chunk of money attached to passi
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by jpollock 8y ago
I read this as "We can't compete where we're not protected by the chicken tax[1]. See you later." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax
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by jpollock 8y ago
Yes, there are likely to be contract terms requiring anything with a connection to support RCS. This will be driven by carriers turning off legacy SMS and MMS servers the same way they turned off 2G GSM.
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by jpollock 9y ago
Simulation showing an actual building failure from the NZ Christchurch earthquake [1]. It collapsed in the Feb 2011 Christchurch earthquake, magnitude 6.2[2]. Once the building's supports fail, it drops rather than topples. [1] https:
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by jpollock 9y ago
Stealth planes aren't invisible. They are still visible to radar, infrared and mark-1 eyeball. The difference is that they attempt to make themselves look very small in the types of radar used to aim missiles. If the error bars on the
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by jpollock 9y ago
1% of wealth is USD770k in net assets. However, don't forget to include any defined benefit pension (state provided or otherwise) to the list of assets. A pension paying USD$30k/yr (20yr length, 4% growth) costs USD$425k[1]. Add
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by jpollock 9y ago
In 2016, the count of >= 8 was 70. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity_data_series
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by jpollock 9y ago
The check is a positive one for presence. Items which aren't tagged are untrusted. If they throw out a signature they don't like, the system works perfectly fine - it's treated like any other untrusted product. No one should
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by jpollock 9y ago
No comment, just googling. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/12/comcast-s... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/how-a-banner-ad-...
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by jpollock 9y ago
More details as an explanation. Facebook was providing: Cardholder Name First 6 Last 4 Expiry Date Billing Address. The only bits missing were CVV and the middle 6. Yes, first 6 and last 4 are not considered sensitive for PCI
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by jpollock 9y ago
They were publishing the expiry date too.
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by jpollock 9y ago
That's because you should never have first 6 and last 4 in the same place at the same time, particularly to someone who is not the owner of the card! That leaves only 6 digits to guess to obtain a valid card, and you're given the
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by jpollock 9y ago
Doesn't all this presuppose the population continues to trust the currency to be accepted for anything _other_ than debts to government? You know, like foreign interest and imports? I would expect Brazil, Zimbabwe, Venezuela and pre-WW
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by jpollock 9y ago
The salt will act as a nucleation site, pulling all the CO2 out of the water before it dissolves.

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