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by maratd 12y ago
> There isn't enough grass to 'let the cows eat' while sustaining affordability for lower income people. I'm pretty sure there's no shortage of grass. If we turn some of those corn fields into grazing fields, the
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> You could feed way more people if you ate the corn We're already eating too much corn, no thank you. If you check the label on the packaged goods you buy, corn is pretty much in all of them in one form or another. We should grow l
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by maratd 12y ago
> But it would also almost certainly be considerably lower. No, it wouldn't. It would be exactly the same. Because their employer knows exactly how much they will get in tips and subtracted that same amount from their salary. The
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> they compensate by being able to learn quickly and efficiently for the job at hand. We ALL need to be able to learn quickly or we simply don't last. If you've been doing this for a decade or more, you're guaranteed to ha
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> If the idea doesn't work they pivot and drop it. Which is nice for Google, but screws over the users. If you're a user, you should be well aware that Google's products are unreliable and are there as an experiment.
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And when it does, I can switch. For now, the older version of uTorrent works quite well and is RECOMMENDED by the trackers I use.
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Well, let's refine that analogy a bit. Legacy code being used by BILLIONS of users, where even a single critical error is viciously excised. Non working code = death. So while it isn't clean, it is functional and relatively bug fr
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> It's also a choice, or even an excuse. Alright, get off your high horse. Just because you "excercise" doesn't make you better. There are plenty who don't need to because they work with their hands and plenty mo
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You do if the email is only going to be on the local network. Most email is sent within the organization. It might not even need to leave the email server. My point is that TLS is good enough for most scenarios.
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What would you have them use? Carrier pigeons? E-Mail is universal in both business and government. Using TLS, it is sufficiently secure for most communications. For the rest, I'm sure the CIA and NSA know how to use PGP.
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I'm sorry, but the logo on this blog is so creepy. Seriously.
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> if anything, this is an example of how peace of mind can't be found on either ends of a see-saw Well, there are different personality types out there. This may be "peace of mind" for him. Personally, I split my time betw
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You can go to the UPS store and ship an unmarked package there. So how would they know?
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The UPS guy is saying what UPS should say. Of course, the reality is that UPS has no idea what's inside of all those boxes.
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> Seriously why hasn't someone made a smart phone that "transforms" into a larger screen form factor when connected to a monitor? It has been done repeatedly. Motorola and Ubuntu come to mind. Both were failures. I don&#x2
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by maratd 12y ago
> At $100-$150/hour $20k/month ranges from doable to dependable. Err... math is off. 100 (rate) * 7 (full work day, don't get paid for lunch) * 5 (number of days in a week) * 4.3 (number of weeks in a month) = 15,050 That&
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> not necessarily the seller Usually the seller too. A quick tip for those in the market. If you're trying to beat out cash offers, there's a sweet spot in every market where after a certain price point, the cash buyers drop of
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> Three hours north of NYC, a house costs 60-80% less, and you have the essentially the same access to NYC cool stuff without the hassle of NYC. You really don't need to go that far. In fact, you shouldn't. You'll hit Lake
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> Just make community college + state universities free for everyone to attend, and we should have no more problem with this debt nonsense anymore. Public colleges are already substantially less than private institutions. I doubt subsidi
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> That's why my son is homeschooled. I'm in a position where this is an option, but I'm concerned about social interaction? I think it's important for a child to spend substantial periods of time with his peers. How
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Regardless, I don't see how that conflicts with what the author wrote. > The lack of movement and rigid restrictions associated with modern schooling are killing my son’s soul. I think you can say that regardless of where the same s
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> If you care about filesize I don't care about filesize. I care about code complexity. The more crap you add to a page, the slower it will run. You also get a higher probability of conflicts and problems in the long run. If you nee
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by maratd 12y ago
Right. If on node, you can also use modules via NPM ( https://www.npmjs.com/browse/keyword/lodash-modularized ). But as I said, this is common in many frameworks. Hell, you can even do with JQuery ( http:/&#
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Lodash is also several times larger than Underscore. The point of Underscore is to keep it light. And yes, you can pick and choose what modules you want. But you could do that with Mootools and it was released a decade ago. If you want a he
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by maratd 12y ago
> 70 million people is a lot of people. So one person isn't a lot of people ... are you saying one person is negligible? That one person's life doesn't matter? Two can play this game. 1% is 1%. Every life is important, but
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> The house is still much less ecologically destructive than the vast majority of dwellings worldwide, both in terms of ongoing damage and initial construction. The isn't even close to being true. The majority of dwellings worldwide
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> the state is a technology. It was developed by our ancestors to solve certain problems. More like a compromise between thugs. It solves problems only for those with the leverage to negotiate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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My wife wears a Google Helpouts hoodie and I got a ton of freebies when they launched. It's not like Google wasn't trying ... but it always felt like a half-hearted, let's see if this sticks, kind of attempt ... especially on
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> Actually in China today there is a 70-year land-use right. You can own a piece of land for 70-year... Very few outside of China know about this and it will actually be very interesting in the future. http://en.wikipedia.org&
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I realize it's fashionable to believe all of our ancestors were starving all the time, but there isn't exactly any evidence to back this up. We're a social species with status playing a substantial role. It's far more li

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