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by jstalin 14y ago
A negative review would get a lot more attention than a positive one.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Outside the NE corridor, any significant amount of rail is a pipe dream. Why spent trillions to provide service that planes are already providing more than enough service to? At least I can take a plane from here to wherever I want in the
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by jstalin 14y ago
Awesome on chrome on Ubuntu 64-bit, buggy and slow on Firefox.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Nothing has inherent value. All value is relative. The difference between fiat (paper) currencies and currencies that are composed of a physical good, like gold, is solely the ability to control quantity. Fiat currency can be (and often is)
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by jstalin 14y ago
Many people think that limiting "competition" and forcing people to use their preferred method of public transit is a legitimate public policy goal. The intent is not to provide efficient transit that works well for those who need it, the
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by jstalin 14y ago
Public transit, even in the densest of American cities, is a money loser and often pollutes more than if the riders were taking cars. It's badly in need of innovation and revolution. Fixed-route transit is a mess. That's why I can't wait
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by jstalin 14y ago
If public transport were a better option, the google bus wouldn't be needed.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Not unless Congress gave you permission to, which they haven't.
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by jstalin 14y ago
It's a bit of a tradeoff. If the FAA fails at some regulatory function, you can't sue the government. If Boeing fails, at least you can sue them.
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by jstalin 14y ago
End the government-mandated monopoly on mail -- let the market take care of the issue. Probably 50% of the mail I get is stuff I don't even want in the first place. In fact, it's a criminal act to deliver mail without paying the USPS: http
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Yale Suing Former Students Shows Crisis in Loans to Poor(bloomberg.com)
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by jstalin 14y ago
Did you actually look at the pictures?
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Argentina freezes prices to break inflation spiral(myfoxny.com)
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by jstalin 14y ago
I did the same. I spent 3 years at a local CC and then one year at a state university to get my BS. Total cost was about $9k. I worked while I went to school and have no student loans. EDIT: I should also add that I didn't do so well during
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by jstalin 14y ago
Well, it's encrypted, so that seems like a reasonable alternative to the potential of being spied upon when using Skype.
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by jstalin 14y ago
LOL... why would it say "DANGER" in English?
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by jstalin 14y ago
Where can one get a 5K MA?
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by jstalin 14y ago
My IT shop tried working from home for a couple of years and the team fragmented, we lost a sense of teamwork, and we started wondering what each other are doing. A new CIO mandated working from the office and it has made for a much better
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by jstalin 14y ago
I'd rather trust the javascript code that I can review than believe that whatever is happening on the service side can be trusted.
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by jstalin 14y ago
I also like Zerobin, which encrypts in the browser so no cleartext is saved on the server: http://sebsauvage.net/paste/ Of course, it's not SSL, but the source is available online and you could create your own implementation using SSL (as
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by jstalin 14y ago
Are there any encrypted alternatives to Skype?
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by jstalin 14y ago
A friend who has risen to the top of his area of expertise in the world, and who does it on the side, recently told me, "there's nothing like doing what you love and not having to rely on it for a pay check."
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by jstalin 14y ago
How accurate is the seasonality of the earth's tilt?
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by jstalin 14y ago
Our system is strictly based on confidence at this point. Fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, massive leverage, and more systemic debt than the world has ever seen all rely on the fact that big banks are essentially untouchable. We'l
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by jstalin 14y ago
No one seems to be bothered by the call for dictators. I'm shaking my head. Perhaps it's a problem with city governments trying to do everything under the moon. Cities that keep to the basics are usually well run and effective.
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by jstalin 14y ago
Helpful comparison of open source licenses, for those interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so... I personally prefer the UNLICENSE: http://unlicense.org/
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Don't forget: Transfer your domain for $3.99 and support EFF today(namecheap.com)
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by jstalin 14y ago
As a user of PACER, it's very frustrating. $0.10 per "page" is total BS, since most federal filings are done electronically anyways. There is very little marginal cost for me to download a PDF from their servers. I wouldn't mind paying a fl
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by jstalin 14y ago
Not sure if Zuckerberg's is fake or if he is that much of an arrogant prick...
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by jstalin 14y ago
I genuinely wonder how much of these sorts of behavior problems can be traced to external factors such as too much sugar in the diet, lack of exercise, and the over-stimulation (or under, depending how you look at it) of watching hours and

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