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by litoE 6y ago
Isn't Miami mostly swamp land? How do you tunnel a swamp?
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by litoE 6y ago
No mention of the Guinea (21 shillings) that was the unit used to quote professional fees (lawyers, doctors) and exclusive stuff such as custom clothing. I think race horses are still sold in Guineas, which are now 1.05 pounds.
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Spamcop anti-spam service suffers an outage after its domain expired(bleepingcomputer.com)
1 points by litoE 6y ago|0 comments
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by litoE 6y ago
Does it pass the smell test?
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by litoE 6y ago
I don't think this passes the smell test.
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by litoE 6y ago
Thank G*d it's not 5G. Just think what the conspiracy theorist would make of THAT!
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by litoE 6y ago
I've been using dirvish for back ups of multiple linux and Windows machine. I wonder why it's not mentioned.
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by litoE 6y ago
I've heard the argument that God did create everything about 6,000 years ago in HIS reference frame but that due to relativistic time dilation/contraction its been 13+ billion years in OUR reference frame.
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by litoE 7y ago
A couple of months ago my wife fell for a similar scam. Caller on her cell phone said he was from our cellular carrier. She was sent a text message with a code, which she read back to him. Caller proceeded to access our on-line account at t
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by litoE 7y ago
> Preclinical data have indicated that microorganisms associated with periodontal disease may contribute to the pathology of Alzheimer's disease. That shouldn't be too hard to test: is the proportion of dentists and dental hygi
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by litoE 7y ago
The author is talking about the difficulty of typesetting mathematics, and refers to TEX as an approach to solve this problem. eqn and troff preceded TEX. Heck, even Microsoft's and Open Office's approach to typing in equations ar
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by litoE 7y ago
I'm surprised there's no mention of eqn and troff.
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by litoE 7y ago
This is not quite accurate. The first few columns were reserved for an optional numeric statement label that could then be used as a target for an IF or GOTO statement (and we used lots of those!) Labels did not have to be in numerically in
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by litoE 7y ago
Has anybody noticed that, starting tomorrow, the current day of the week, day of the month and month will be highlighted, with the highlighting changing correctly every day?
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by litoE 7y ago
I think Karl Popper ("The Open Society and its Enemies") puts it best: a democracy is not defined by how the governed elect our leaders, but how they get rid of them. Popper came to this idea when looking at Hitler's Germany
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by litoE 7y ago
One reason that steel and concrete work so well together, with concrete handling the compression loads and steel handling the traction loads, is that they have a very similar thermal expansion coefficient. Thus, when the temperature changes
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by litoE 7y ago
Add to the problem the complication that you need a replacement for the captcha that is usable by users with disabilities.
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by litoE 7y ago
The "original product" is OpenCart. As the name implies, its open source. If it's defective, who are you going to sue?
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by litoE 7y ago
I know the owner of a small brick and mortar store in California. She decided to create a web site to sell her products on line. She got a domain name and a hosting account and installed a canned platform (OpenCart) which allowed her to cre