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by kahirsch 10y ago
Maybe you're thinking of this crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_965
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by kahirsch 10y ago
> We pay almost 50% in taxes which I think is close to what you guys pay in Europe. Total tax burden in the US is about 30%, slightly higher for the top half of the income scale. http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2015/0
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by kahirsch 10y ago
What would you expect the output to be when the input is: nôn nôn Sending that through rev (with a UTF-8 locale), I get n̂on nôn By the way, did you know the perl -l flag removes newlines on input and adds them fo
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by kahirsch 10y ago
(2013)
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by kahirsch 10y ago
As you say, the low-level operations in banking do provide atomicity, which are often lacking in distributed databases. Also, the banking system does have the system of compensating transactions (e.g. returned checks) when constraints are
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by kahirsch 10y ago
But there was no problem in inserting graphics and, with offset printing, photos into the page decades before charts became common. Here's a page from 1933: http://imgur.com/Mkzihb6 But, before computers, the charts ha
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by kahirsch 10y ago
Note that there is a reply to that letter: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198336/
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by kahirsch 10y ago
> If two relations have identical designs, the difference can only be encoded in the relation (and possibly attribute) names , in violation of the IP [information principle]. As such, it is inaccessible to the DBMS, which cannot rely on
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by kahirsch 10y ago
How about "OpenOffice, known as LibreOffice west of the Rockies"?
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by kahirsch 10y ago
Wilder also came up with the idea for the movie and wrote the first draft of the screenplay: http://www.screenplay.com/downloads/scripts/youngfrankenstei...
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by kahirsch 10y ago
The Federal Reserve Banks are sort-of private, but making a profit is not their goal and almost all of the profit goes to the federal government. Most important policy decisions are made by the Board of Governors or the Federal Open Market
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by kahirsch 10y ago
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8927720/ns/us_news-life/t/giant-wa...
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by kahirsch 11y ago
> Iraq was one of U.S.'s staunches That's quite an exaggeration. Iraq and the United States didn't even have diplomatic relations from 1967 to 1983. The U.S. did help Iraq when it looked like it was going to lose the war i
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by kahirsch 11y ago
> the NSL comes with a gag order which prevents even the council of the recipient from knowing about the issue. That was changed with the USA PATRIOT Reauthorization Act of 2005.
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by kahirsch 11y ago
"The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on
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by kahirsch 11y ago
Picture here: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2014/oct/07/stem-ce...
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by kahirsch 11y ago
"You just ask them?" was in Albuquerque during a summer after he was at Cornell, so 1946 at the earliest.[1] [1] http://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/71262/34/Feynman_-_Sur...
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by kahirsch 11y ago
> Just a reminder: the TPP, like most trade deals, is negotiated in secret, but ratified in public. The final version of the deal will be published in 30 days, and then Congress gets 90 days to consider before an up-or-down vote. It&#x27
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by kahirsch 11y ago
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/86.1803-01 Defeat device means an auxiliary emission control device (AECD) that reduces the effectiveness of the emission control system under conditions which may re
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by kahirsch 11y ago
Oh, I thought that was something unrelated because of the "related" links that Quora put after the first answer. It would have been nice if they had the small intestine, too.
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by kahirsch 11y ago
The answer on Quora doesn't give any sources.
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by kahirsch 11y ago
My main complaint is the search interface. When they first put the Deja News archive online, the search function was very good. It even improved over the first few years. One great thing is that USENET posts were dated, so you could look fo
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by kahirsch 11y ago
> In fact, if you are convinced that is IS a wrongful arrest, you may legally resist arrest As of 2001, it was illegal to resist unlawful arrests in 39 states.[1] > and he is supposed to let you present evidence of your innocence. Whe
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by kahirsch 11y ago
What we really need is a revision to the copyright statutes. Is anybody working on that?
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by kahirsch 11y ago
> It is important to note here that Einstein was not being translated from German properly into English. 'Spuk' has a meaning akin to spook in the sense of a remote observer; Rather than 'spooky', which is an adjectiv
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by kahirsch 11y ago
No, it was not a rip-off. There are hardly any similarities between the two films. Steamboat Bill, Jr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjl2Fj-_Hg0 Steamboat Willie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBgghnQF6E4
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by kahirsch 11y ago
It may be helpful to think about this as a table. 9 functions from 2 to 3 - How many 2 digit numbers in base 3? Each row represents a function from {True,False} to {A,B,C}. False True ----- ----- A A Function 1
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by kahirsch 11y ago
“We’ve been looking through the old Pathfinder software. We got duplicate computers up and running for testing. Same computers they used to find a problem that almost killed the original mission. Real interesting story, actually; turns out
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by kahirsch 11y ago
1823 Travels Through Sweden, Norway ... https://books.google.com/books?id=qrNfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA152&dq=l... 1836 The Mirror of Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=amBEAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA21&am
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by kahirsch 11y ago
London has been doing it since 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_congestion_charge

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