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by maratd 12y ago
> (I can telecommute as a programmer, but would still want to live within a few hours of a major city) and > I'd be curious if I could set myself up with a basic home for $40,000 or less As others have mentioned, it's not to
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by maratd 12y ago
> Using SPDY shows huge performance improvements in production. Using SPDY only shows improvement over HTTPS. Over HTTP you get a huge performance hit! The majority of data has no need for encryption. Some of it does. Where it does, SPDY
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> Less demand for resources, and consequently less damage to the environment? While this is intuitive, it is largely incorrect. As our population has increased, we have become more efficient due to network effects. With a decreasing popu
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We're at a point where it's pretty obvious that the principal will never be repaid. The debt will continue to get serviced, which is all anybody really cares about.
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> The worst we have between great powers today are some economic rivalries. After WWII there were only two great powers left. Now there's one. It has nothing to do with appetite. The military budget of the US dwarfs the other countr
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by maratd 12y ago
It's an important distinction. The desire for fidelity is clearly genetic. I agree with you, it probably entered the gene pool because of those reasons. With those reasons now gone, it can and probably will exit the gene pool. This wil
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by maratd 12y ago
> Porn is purely selfish pleasure. Thus, when a person is married, they're used to being selfish about their sexual pleasure, resulting in strife. Are you married? For that matter, have you actually had sex? You and your wife can en
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> There's no easy way for a male to determine the paternity of the child of a female with which he has mated, other than securing an ostensibly exclusive relationship and monitoring the female's fidelity as best as possible. I
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> Is there any scientific evidence for this statement on no harmful chemical transfer below 140F. I didn't make that statement. I simply stated that was my practice. If you have evidence that it is harmful, I would certainly like to
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Most of the time the food came in that very plastic. I mostly sous-vide meat that came frozen and is already vacuum sealed. One less step. You're generally heating it to 140 F or so. I don't know if that's sufficient to trigg
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by maratd 12y ago
> Obviously they're probably spending money on better food than the food stamps would cover The inverse is usually true. Good food doesn't cost much, it's the garbage food that's expensive. You can easily afford fresh
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by maratd 12y ago
> but my guess is that UPS is probably also doing the similar type of things to their customers as well. This isn't possible with UPS. They publish their regular rates. If you're a large enough shipper, you'll have a contr
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by maratd 12y ago
> In fact the ability to research and learn is a skill too. It's the only skill worth having. With it, you can acquire anything you need.
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> Much of what we do every day is motivated by a fear of death. Everything we do is motivated by reproduction. Avoidance of death increases the probability of it.
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This is easily solved if the utilities get properly involved. My utility has been pushing a thermostat that they provide at no cost and will even give you a bit of cash for installing. The reason is that this thermostat is hooked up to the
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by maratd 12y ago
I experienced the exact opposite with PSE&G in NJ. I had both a residence and an office in the same municipality. I was paying a higher rate per kWh at the office. Almost twice as much. When I asked them about it, they said it was becau
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by maratd 12y ago
I'm in NJ and my numbers are the same. I think it's because we use gas for heating/cooking/hot water. If everything was electric, I can imagine things costing almost twice as much, if not more.
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> I think it's very reasonable. It's high. They're not first to the scene. If you look at Elance, it's 8.75% for exactly the same thing including payment processing. On the high end, I've worked with agencies tha
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by maratd 12y ago
> console.log(x.size); This is annoying. Is there some reason x.length wasn't used?
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by maratd 12y ago
I think you mean Manhattan, the other boroughs have a few more options like Waldbaums and Key Food, etc. Manhattan sucks for decent affordable groceries because there's a substantial culture of frequently eating out and those that eat
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How?
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Your compensation isn't determined by nobility or a sense of equity. It's determined by the difficulty of the job. The more difficult the job, the less people are able to do it, the smaller the supply of labor for that position, t
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by maratd 12y ago
> The actual purpose of the law is to prevent export of expertise. You're both right. It can serve dual purposes. To prevent the export of expertise AND give the government a convenient stick to smack anyone not doing what they want
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by maratd 12y ago
> I believe they don't want people to think they can diagnose themselves when it actually takes a doctor. That is not the only reason. Long-term effects of ultrasound are unknown. Short-term effects are increases in temperature of t
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by maratd 12y ago
In what way is China socialist? It's a kleptocracy and an aggressively capitalist one at that.
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I'm saying the US has some of those very same policies in place.
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It's not capitalism that's gone off the rails ... it's socialism. All of the countries with slow growth and growing inequality have heavy-handed socialist policies in place.
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by maratd 12y ago
> Wages rise in bigger cities, too, but not as fast as housing prices. If you want to lower housing prices, get rid of rent control policies and ease up on the zoning. Developers will create more housing units and you'll see a subst
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by maratd 12y ago
> oh my god, not the TV! Dude. I stare at my TV. If it stares back, that's scary! And if it's listening to me!?!? All the time? The messed up part is that ALL of our devices will soon be watching and listening to us. Our thermo
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by maratd 12y ago
Wait wait, what? When you file for a patent, you make your invention known. In detail. With plans. That's public. The idea being that if somebody uses your designs, they pay you a reasonable licensing fee. These are just plans. Even if

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