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by luser001 14y ago
I actually support "vicious" speedbumps. People regularly drive 40 mph on my road which has official speed limit of 25 mph. Instead of spending money policing main streets, I support draconian camera-driven enforcement on side streets. Make
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by luser001 14y ago
I would definitely exclude administrators, janitors etc (because these jobs exist in companies that are "in STEM" such as a Microsoft). I would include medical staff like nurses, doctors, pharmacists, psychiatrists, physiotherapists (not fi
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by luser001 14y ago
Yep, that's what I'm saying. I'm too lazy to look into this, but intuitively it makes sense to me. Healthcare is basically an "exception handler" (default state of humans is to be health), whereas STEM is the "real code". I would expect mor
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by luser001 14y ago
I've encountered this sort of response citing the high pay in healthcare before. So I wanted to throw a thought out there for feedback. A relevant point is the "carrying capacity" for healthcare professionals. The USA can probably double th
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by luser001 14y ago
Maybe you can start digging from here: See here: https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/newsgraphics/2011/0119... And here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State... $25 billion received via gas taxes at the federal
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by luser001 14y ago
Ok, thx. I think I understand now.
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by luser001 14y ago
I don't think I quite followed the step where he/she writes "i^4 = 1", where they are relating rotation and the natural numbers. The RHS is theoretically the concept "identity under rotation". Why should it be be the same as the natural num
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by luser001 14y ago
OK, I guess I should salute for doing the ultimate in defensive programming. But I come from a system software background and definitely expect that age=0 means age=0. If '0' is allowed for age, then I expect Apple to handle that case accor
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by luser001 14y ago
> Really why should you wear a suit? Or why should you wear a watch? Or why should you dine a good restaurant? Many people are questioning the first two. :) "good restaurant" is not quite precise: if you meant "popular", "chic", people
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by luser001 14y ago
Not sure if the "gold is made of stars, diamonds are from coal" line will convince her. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=739720... I give major props to my now wife being OK with the gold engagement ring I bought out
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by luser001 14y ago
I noticed that in the "computation" comparison, Vbox was tied with the others. That's what I care about. So it seems like Vbox isn't as good at I/O and graphics. Like you said, vbox installs easily and works well. I don't plan on switching
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by luser001 14y ago
Sorry to hear about your experience. Kinda like a dumb tech support q.: you're cleaning out the lint filter before each use, right? :) Second: are you sure it's your dryer? Maybe the washer isn't spinning them as dry as they need to be. Try
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by luser001 14y ago
Yes, Energy Star rated. I literally got money from the water and power company for buying it.
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by luser001 14y ago
What clothes washer are you talking about? Do you have a top-load washer? Those are notorious water wasters that probably can't wash well without huge amounts of water. As a counter point, I have a front-load 2011 Samsung washer and dryer.
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by luser001 14y ago
I don't think original parent did away with the hardware components. X10, Insteon etc also sell software to manage their devices. That is not cheap. That s/w is probably what he replaced. I did a small bit of home automation myself. I went
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by luser001 14y ago
Did you look into Microsoft? I know we're supposed to think they're uncool, but being less hipster they might find your background interesting. Ditto Nokia (yeah, they're supposed to die Real Soon (which I don't believe), but does that real
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by luser001 14y ago
"has not turned Pakistan into a pro-Indian country": I would caution against extrapolating the attitude of ordinary folks from the public stand of the govt. Also, Pakistan is not a homogeneous country. It's got multiple ethnic groups. I'm a
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by luser001 14y ago
According to the comments on the original article, that location is /var/tmp. Apparently it's some sort of convention/standard. First time I've heard about /var/tmp.
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by luser001 14y ago
Pretty interesting idea! Serious question by a non-skateboarer: Unlike the Segway this doesn't provide any stability assistance, right? How safe would it be for a newbie to start using this? I'd be worried about falling off this thing. AFAI
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by luser001 14y ago
In my own case, I found the idea of locking in my monthly rent for 30 years to be an attractive proposition. Why is why I "settled" for a house whose monthly payment (after my downpayment, which I realize I am handwaving away) was very clos
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by luser001 14y ago
Just trying to be succinct: what I meant is the "render on the server" concept, which the thing that differentiates Silk from every other browser.
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by luser001 14y ago
Does Silk also kick in for SSL websites (the previous version did, iirc)? I hope they had the decency to disable it for SSL connections.
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by luser001 14y ago
IMHO, you and the parent are probably both missing the point of the submitted article. The points being that (1) contrary to what people are saying, this is not a triumph of the "free markets", and (2) more importantly, fiber in general m
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by luser001 14y ago
This comment is quite late. Hopefully somebody at Microsoft will see this. I used Bing for several months. I actually found it indistinguishable from Google except for linux howto questions (Google seems to understand forum websites better)
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by luser001 14y ago
AFAIK the root cause of the iPhone 4 problem is due to closing the loop of the antenna using your finger to complete the loop (converting the metal from a line into a circle, thereby degrading its antenna characteristics). You should be abl
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by luser001 14y ago
So you shut down your computer (as opposed to suspending it) every time you transport your computer from home to office and vice versa etc?
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by luser001 14y ago
Just to clarify: Barbara also wrote about others she met living in motels because of lack of money for a deposit. She wasn't the only one doing so. Again, an explanation that made sense to me. At the extreme low end (using the analogy of qu
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by luser001 14y ago
Please see my reply to Jach.
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by luser001 14y ago
> is it really that difficult to make a small volume, where you put important things, waterproof? Obviously, they would started doing so after the rains started. The point of the story is not to say that the poor are too stupid/poor/hel
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by luser001 14y ago
Adam was a SINGLE , male, white, young, healthy, 25-yr old who worked mostly in construction during a construction boom (iirc). FYI: I have not read this book, but have read reviews of it. Anyway, the main point here is that lots of poor p

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