le_clochard

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by le_clochard 8y ago
Assuming that Unions can't be corrupted by Big Money.
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by le_clochard 8y ago
If anything, the current government has restricted the use of this law to a handful of agencies. One bureaucrat I know of -- in the Postal Department -- had been abusing this for a few years.
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by le_clochard 8y ago
>It had none of the great social commentary that you often get in sci-fi, I found it great for this reason. For once I was absorbed in the fiction and not put off by excess sermonizing or social commentary.
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by le_clochard 8y ago
$85,000 on Facebook ads. Surprisingly small amount, that. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/10/w...
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by le_clochard 8y ago
In the contrary, being a business journal, BBL must remain accurate in reporting and analysis of business. Biased business reporting will directly impact reader trust, this revenues.
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by le_clochard 8y ago
This is not the first time. Huawei was banned from supplying for India's National Broadband Network in 2012, and has again been banned from supplying for India's 5G revamp. Not all employees would be in on the espionage attempts e
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by le_clochard 8y ago
It requires spy agencies to crack espionage.
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by le_clochard 11y ago
P(my business becoming a billion dollar business) (~0.0005%) * (1-P(me saying "no" to letting my business become a billion dollar business) (~0.0005%)) is still 0.00000499997. Nothing to worry about, Budman. OR Has Budman just wri
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by le_clochard 11y ago
It's anything but "capitalism at work" if "capitalism" has anything to with "free markets". The Chinese Government has been graying out, if not altogether fudging, their economic indicators and propping up
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by le_clochard 11y ago
These recurring events (of auto makers exposed for not owning up to faults) reminds me of is the Fight Club description of the recall formula.
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by le_clochard 11y ago
If you could add the trendlines of conventional power sources (thermal, hydel, nuclear) it would give a better idea of when we can expect solar to emerge from the competition.
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by le_clochard 11y ago
Because red is the color of blood.
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by le_clochard 11y ago
There was Resolver One, which apparently got acquired by PythonAnywhere, which allowed Python scripted spreadsheets. It was AWESOME when I tried it, but tad too slow and no takers in the office because spreadsheets get passed around and nee
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Mathematics of paper folding(en.wikipedia.org)
9 points by le_clochard 11y ago|0 comments