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by lanaius 11y ago
Given that AT&T hasn't expanded speeds or quality for about three years, investing only in highly competitive gigabit areas, I agree with you. AT&T has absolutely zero interest in investing in a generally better network.
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by lanaius 11y ago
Ads that don't take your time and focus away aren't really worth anything, are they?
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by lanaius 11y ago
In Search of General Tso.
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by lanaius 11y ago
Out of curiosity, how would the students actually go about making their grades private. Free github accounts don't actually get any private repo's, so aren't you effectively requiring a student who wants to maintain some secr
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by lanaius 11y ago
When I was a kid, I bought a box of thumb tacks at the dollar store. When I got home and was using them, I suddenly got very sad: I started thinking about the people who assembled the tacks and put them in the boxes. Being naïve at that age
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by lanaius 11y ago
I read it as a mixed call to boycott (and shaming) together with an appeal to CertSimple's expertise; "I don't see you actually having any startups, and thus your opinion is meaningless. If you do have a startup you certainly
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by lanaius 11y ago
The Meaning of Life was released in 1983.
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by lanaius 11y ago
I selfishly want this reference to always be obscure.
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by lanaius 11y ago
I lived in the Collier Hills area for 6 years and violent crime never impacted my life. Having only ever ridden the Red/Gold lines of MARTA and mostly during day, I only ever felt unsafe when people with obvious mental issues were yell
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by lanaius 12y ago
Lean manufacturing works right up to the point where one of your vendors gives you a bad part. Your choice is to either shut down a line or have excess backup supplies at which point there's no need to have been lean.
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by lanaius 12y ago
Dietary supplements are, if anything, not low profit.
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by lanaius 12y ago
Boy did I ever love Incredible Universe. Must've gone there 20 times as a kid, don't think we ever bought a single item.
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by lanaius 12y ago
To what degree would you say your idea was influenced by Notch's cancelled 0x10C? Not a criticism, it's actually a game I truly want to see made.
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by lanaius 12y ago
Surely that's better than trying to win a grant by proving a known-false hypothesis, which isn't unheard of either.
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by lanaius 12y ago
> rules right now are: 1. No green What's your long term plan if you don't want to make any money?
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by lanaius 12y ago
Would we be better had we never harnessed electricity, built a computer, or designed a camera? If the social conscience of technology depends on whether or not something can be used for bad intentions, why pursue anything? Farming advances
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by lanaius 12y ago
For certain (acceptable) values of perfect. I'm in California but for just a year, so I'm not a citizen or anything. I see 2-3 unskippable 30 second political ads each night and while ads have never driven me away from online stre
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by lanaius 12y ago
It should be a DSLAM (by now) as it was a regular junction that was replaced and added to with one of the larger white DSLAM boxes. I could be mistaken though, so that's a fair thing to point out.
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by lanaius 12y ago
>it describes how the system must allow some non hereditary class movement. If the class system is too rigid, pressure builds up as talented individual press against the ceiling. If some are allowed to progress and there are prominent ex
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by lanaius 12y ago
My parents have been capped at 1.5 mbps (in practice closer to 768 mbps) since around 2003, and they're about 1/3 to 1/2 a mile away from the closest box. Over the years I've made multiple requests that resulted in impro
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by lanaius 12y ago
In a time when mobile phones were scarce, putting them on a local area code ensures that a large portion of their usage (calling to and from landlines within a geographic space that actually IS limited) doesn't require additional long
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by lanaius 12y ago
The first successful MVNO in the US came only 3 years after the first successful MVNO in the UK and mobile number portability was put into law in 2003 for both the US and the UK. The additional benefit is that because mobile numbers and wir
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by lanaius 12y ago
It's not about just the device, it's about the device + provider; see PS3 and Comcast.
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by lanaius 12y ago
I suspect that the spacing is meant to be there, but the TeX badness was huge no matter what, so it tried to do the "least bad" thing. I've run into this so many times when trying to make visually appealing layouts in TeX.
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by lanaius 12y ago
If startups don't work out because of sensitivity in medical data, look at Northrop Grumman. They work with the CDC on big data analysis.
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by lanaius 12y ago
Your credit card billing address has to match your service area.
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by lanaius 12y ago
Although I doubt this story is particularly true, if the reduction in pay is roughly equivalent to the cost of food otherwise, employer-provided food is likely still a net-benefit (if you often bring food from home this decreases for marrie
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by lanaius 13y ago
A previous employer was a pharmaceutical company that performed all document management for audits, quality, and manufacturing within JDE.
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by lanaius 13y ago
When I was a kid someone slashed the tires and cut the brakes of all the school buses. Even if it was to get out of school, that's a very fine line between "just for a giggles" so while the probability may be small it's
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by lanaius 13y ago
In an ideal world, the same way the person you responded to did (hopefully via Nest themselves). "Nest is not aware of any customers affected by this flaw though they stress/admit that this is potentially due to the relative rarit

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