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kenrikm
13y ago
No it's never safe to leave your laptop alone. However, SF is not that big. And the security camera got a good look at that girl. I would not be surprised if she is caught pretty soon.
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13y ago
Or just automatically eject floating GPS beacons on impact. You only need one good ping to the satellite to define the crash area. This is not the first time this has happened. After Air France there should have been some added location met
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13y ago
Grocery is really low margin, and hard to make money on when you factor in delivery. Source: I worked for a grocery distributor for six years.
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13y ago
I have a car I need to sell, I'm in the Bay Area. Sadly the car is back in Florida, I need to fly back and take the time to sell it. Major PITA, too bad you don't service South Florida ;)
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13y ago
The vast majority of the population did not know that after the revolution they were getting Communism. As is a common result throughout history after a revolution the people who take power are worse then those before. Batista was a bad guy
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13y ago
Don't take my "anecdotal experiences" go, find the facts with an open mind. Many will not like what they find.
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13y ago
The doctors Cuba sends to other countries, The cuban government gets paid for, it's a business. They keep armed guards on them to keep them from defecting. My father in law was sent by the Cuban government to Libya in the 1980s under t
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13y ago
Yeah they have a great medical system! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD7mLp9j-3k People repeat what they hear without knowing the reality. I'm sure everyone in NK has the same standard of living as Pyongyang too. 
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13y ago
I'm originally from Miami (now in SF) I still have a house in Miami and my Wife is Cuban. What people know about Cuba and the reality of Cuba are two different things. A lot of the time the thing that keeps people from starving there a
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13y ago
Wow, I'm speechless. You really believe that? My wife is Cuban I've spent a lot of time talking with her grandparents, parents, friends etc.. on the subject. Batista was no saint but things got 100X worse after the revolution. You
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13y ago
My wife is from Cuba, you don't know the half of it, what most people hear about Cuba and the reality are two completely different things. Anything that can be done to take down that oppressive totalitarian government should be done. I
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13y ago
"It’s clear there was no data breach because no other user information is provided." That strikes me as an assumption. There's no way for them to know that there was no breach based off of the fact that no other information w
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13y ago
So can hiring extra server admins, There's always a tradeoff.
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13y ago
This was posted before several weeks ago and was debunked by the Maldives authorities IIRC. Not sure why it's getting traction again now.
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13y ago
I like the concept of SpiderOak and have used them before. However, their software was way too buggy and would stop syncing / working randomly for no apparent reason and their support was unable to help.
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13y ago
I'm coming at this from the view of an Objective C programmer, which was heavily influenced by smalltalk. Having written Objective C full-time for 5+ years, it is rare to need to use inheritance in classes that actually implement appli
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13y ago
Not sure, I've seen users kick and scream about change and then after all the fuss dies down they end up loving the product even more then before the change. The trick is knowing when your right. (Example: All smartphones need physical
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13y ago
Old Town Sushi FTW, seriously though San Mateo is a great location I'm right next to downtown, Half Moon Bay is only 15min away. I need to stop, I don't want the secret to get out and my rent to go up. :P
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13y ago
I had a stable job that paid enough to live a decent lifestyle that I could have worked at for who knows? 20 or 30 years, there were employees that had worked there for 50 - 60 years. When faced with the prospect of living the same life doi
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13y ago
I pay $1750 for a 1br in San Mateo, and I feel like I have a great deal, rent is insane out here. let me frame it like this my mortgage, including taxes and insurance for a 4br house near the beach in Florida is $600/mo.
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13y ago
Indeed, even if you're colorblind I would hope they are able to read. As a backup if the first two fail, icons are a fallback - trash can etc..
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13y ago
I'm on 660TIs in SLI which are not the newest horse in the stable and can run just about anything out maxed (16x AA etc.) @ 1080p. You won't need this card unless you're going multi monitor and / or retina level.
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13y ago
Lockitron is almost vaporware at this point. Their site still only shows renderings and I've yet to meet someone who pre-ordered who actually got the product.
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13y ago
My point was actually that Keurig's own cups might fail validation 0.x% of the time causing angry customers.
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13y ago
There are a lot of ways they could do it without using chips. For example they could use a type of of patented ink that reflects under a certain under a certain wavelength, some type of barcode, symbol, patented cup etc. However, I think th
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13y ago
ADDENDUM: made me laugh, gave an up vote for that.
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13y ago
Why not just use a reload-able prepaid debit card if he/she is that bad at managing money? Managing your bank account is not that difficult. I bank with Chase and they warn you if you get under the notification level you set, my phone
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13y ago
Indeed, Steve may have sent him to deliver the message that it needed to "look" like 50%. However, If you read Panic's experience with Steve, you'll see he was generally an asshole when it came to negotiation. Problem is
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13y ago
My issue with it is if you're posting link bait threads all the time you might get hundreds of karma for very little effort. However In my case I have 6XX karma which was earned by people up-voting thoughtful comments over several year
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13y ago
While correct. I for one don't see a reason they could not supplement the highly fault tolerant Cockpit Voice Recorder with a backup system that can record longer periods of time. worst case you only get the two hours.
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