mynameishere

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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   Look, you share an appallingly common ignorance of American history and law. Okay, fine. By why in the name of all that defies ignorance and stupidity would you equate life and liberty with Bandwidth for god's sake? Seriously. Bandwidt
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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   What tools do you use? IBM or Microsoft or Java Can you see the attraction to one-size-fits-all solutions as opposed to the bewildering panoply witnessed above?
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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   Umm, yeah. Just to save people some time, he sums up by saying that doctors don't solve problems but football players do. So, you know. Bullshit. I mean, his central thesis is: MY job requires problem solving, whereas everybody else's jo
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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   You could let in 10 times as many people every year and nobody would even notice. Since people notice the smaller number, they would presumably notice the much larger number. I know, I know: When you are on your knees worshiping politica
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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   My god, imagine if Bill Gates gave money to an organization that would aid his specific ethnic group.
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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   How do I get Wolfram Alpha to plot these things http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Newtons.h... http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7Ba+y%5E2+%3D+x+%28x%5...
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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   The cheapest Dell with Windows 7 is 300 dollars. Everything other than Windows 7 is a ripoff.
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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   Just a meta-question here: Is pointing out the date of something worth 25 upmods? I mean, when so-and-so got to the forum and saw that... Probably worth pointing out that this article is from 2002. ...was only upmodded 24 times, did he s
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   by mynameishere 17y ago

   What does it mean then? One example: Energy Efficiency. I draw attention to this because: Energy efficiency has ALWAYS been a concern of industry. And James Watt has done more for industrial efficiency than the entire state of CA will ev
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    using the principles of sports in the classroom Right. Having kids who are inherently qualified for such-and-such activities.
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    microchips, freeways, blue jeans, tax revolts, extreme sports, energy efficiency, health clubs, Google searches, Craigslist, iPhones and the Hollywood vision of success So much bullshit, any intelligent person will have stopped reading im
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    Which is to say, those who don't get the vaccine will die in proportion to their natural weakness to a particular disease. The survivors will have the strongest resistance out of the entire population.
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    Yeah, yeah. The headline is: It's crazy to drive away talented young scholars. Presumably, an equivalent headline would be, It's crazy to invite illiterate crime-prone peasants. Yet, no major newspaper has that vastly more pertinent
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    When it takes the form of hoarding, the link between saving and promoting economic activity is broken, or at least frayed. Hate to comment on something submitted so many times, but the above use of "hoarding" no longer applies. There was
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    Your comment is unrelated to mine. I am speaking in the context of home viewership. This is frankly quite obvious, but whatever.
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    I find DVDs incredibly annoying, and never could use them. Mainly because I was so used to the ability to remove VHS tapes, put them aside, and re-play them from the exact position with zero wait time. That's fixable on DVDs (I imagine) b
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    You make less than 25 dollars an hour? ED: Five downmods? Okay. If so-and-so wants a product that costs 50 dollars, and his time is worth 30/dollars an hour, then it doesn't make sense for him to spend 2 hours remaking it. If his time i
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    The banks are borrowing short and lending long. There is a significant principle risk. If treasury yields spike up, the banks will take a bath.
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RavioliCode
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    Why does it matter who the developers are? The source is available. Build it and compare it with the binaries. http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads2
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    That was one painful mixed metaphor. .... Response to dschobel above. Nytimes stats: http://publishing2.com/2007/07/17/newspaper-online-vs-print-... * Online unique users (12 month average): 13,372,000 * Print circulation – we
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    Pretty thin gruel if you ask me.
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    I don't have any favorites, but the books I've read the most are "Notes from the Underground" and Walden. The last time I read Walden I didn't enjoy it much, so maybe I shouldn't mention it... The first should be read by everyone though h
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    This was written by one of Brin's staff (probably), and I have to wonder why a semi-reputable institution like the nytimes would publish a public relations piece like this as an op-ed. Anyway, if google released all of these books in the wi
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    There’s no denying it is hands down the best porn search engine on the planet Wrong. http://www.monzy.org/unsafesearch/images/
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    The second sentence is a straw man. Skimming the text, I see that's much the case throughout. Gladwell, if you look past his charming style, is extremely sloppy. Everybody who has researched IQ has come across the twin studies which ampl
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    Can't blame him for not googling it himself.
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    If I could figure out how to short sell these beasts Go to a farmer, say, "Let me rent your Alpaca for 100 dollars per year", then sell it on the open market for (whatever) 1000 dollars. Then, wait for the prices to crash, buy them back
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    by mynameishere 17y ago

    We have these things called "credit cards" where you are protected from fraud, typically get a certain percentage award through a marketing tie-in, and get to earn interest on the monthly float.