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by jvm 14y ago
I'm actually somewhat grateful that we don't live in a world where scientists dig up balrogs and Elder Things. > The Dwarves dug too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum...
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> Aren't we all doing the same mistake when we refer to them? All we know is that the attacks came from China, so we safely assume it came from the Government? I think the reason they see all of our institutions as one head of the same
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DJIA and S&P500 are highly correlated (intentionally so), also I'd recommend diversifying internationally.
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Yeah I was checking them out when I was getting my RAM, I'm just on the fence on how long I want to keep this computer.
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Sorry I am obviously new here.
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Sheesh okay I'm sorry! I thought it was funny, never do it again, etc...
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The initial version of ML was terrible on my 2008 MBP but they made performance enhancements and now 10.8.2 works fine. Spending $50 for gb/RAM didn't hurt of course (best investment of my life btw).
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THE SO-CALLED “VISUAL” EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!! http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
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There is actually tons of demand in silicon valley but development there is mostly illegal. Mountain View recently rejected Google's request for mixed use zoning in the Googleplex which IMO is just gratuitous nimbyism (it's not even in anyo
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by jvm 14y ago
I guess I can take other people's word on this argument, I live in New York (where AirBNB is illegal) and there's plenty of odd loud people running around my building any given day. Inside a building is different but I have no problem with
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by jvm 14y ago
This is the freedom from risk argument for regulation? There are plenty of horrible legal hotels in the world. I personally think cheap hotels are an important part of the ecosystem. > The whole point of hotel regulations is to protect
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> This is how we evolved, after all: to wake with the sun. Is there any actual evidence of this? what about all the non- morning-people who seem to like to wake at noon?
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This argument seems to beg the question (in the actual meaning of that phrase), at least w.r.t Uber and AirBNB. All the problems they've had have come from the regulatory authorities, except for those one or two bad incidents on AirBNB wh
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They seriously need to implement go ogle <packagename>
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The study didn't find that this was true in every case. It found that it was more often true than false in the task that they chose. I'm not totally up on this literature but I'm fairly sure that it's been replicated repeatedly in a variety
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Looks like they are implicitly permitting google via robots.txt: http://www.victoriassecret.com/robots.txt User-agent: ia_archiver Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /commerce/application?namespace=shopping
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> As long as everyone knows what to expect, plans can be made reliably. Expectations are the flaw with CPI targeting. Toy example: imagine NGDP is $100 and the CPI is 100. Fed guidance says 0% CPI growth. I have income $10 (note that NG
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The advantages of monetary stability come with a stable growth rate, because contracts are bets on the future growth rate of money and stability means those bets can be made reliably. You have proposed a stable CPI growth rate of 0%. There
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I protest that my comment was not "disingenuous." You raise valid points about being in the same building with airbnb guests. Your original comment was about zoning, which implied to me that you were against being in the same neighborhoo
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Nice to meet someone with my exact policy views! :-) There's another huge problem that it solves besides just administrative costs. Currently marginal tax rates near the poverty line are very high due to loss of access to need-based program
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It's good in that it's efficient (consumption = income-savings so it is good that it does not tax savings), but it's bad in that it's regressive. The easiest way to make it progressive is by offering a rebate check to residents for poverty-
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Sorry I'm having trouble following this argument, what is the risk? A couple guesses I had: -Do you think they'll start a fire and burn the neighborhood down? I think I can safely say that that virtually never happens in the contemporary US
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If not upgrading the kernel every week or two is a security hole, most people are pretty screwed. I personally do not like to restart that often. Turning off automatic updates just gives you control of when to upgrade.
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HSPA+ is actually quite fast though; in my experience it's comparable to WiFi.
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Buy it from Google, get a TMo SIM, and sign up for this plan: http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
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> Uber is using unapproved and therefore possibly fraudulent measuring devices Just wanted to jump on this. Black cars in NYC are not metered, they literally make up random prices. Protip to visitors: negotiate before the trip, not afte
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They're just not targeting savvy people, which of course drives all us savvy mac fans up the wall. But then what's the alternative, run Windows? I'd run linux but unfortunately I need Adobe CS and MS Office.
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#1, #3 are all different ways of saying that the housing supply in SF is very tight. That's a situation where creating more supply by renting out your room when you go on trips can be really helpful. Supply goes up, demand stays the same, r
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That was very much not the idea. People renting their apartments were in charging.
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I actually want to apologize. I misread your comment as contradicting the article: Saying basically that there is no gender disparity, or if there is it's women's intrinsic shortcomings, so I apologize about that. I still think it sort of r

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