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by nextw33k 12y ago
I am fully with you on a capital tax. It would ensure a system of constant high utilisation. Where it gets shouted down is from old people that have lived in their homes for 50 years and seen their property prices rise to make them milliona
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by nextw33k 12y ago
We still have the democratic system, as things get tighter and people poorer they'll start voting for a tax on capitol. In the UK the the proposal of a mansion tax keeps popping up, this is really the future of owning capital, just own
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Human nature is to reject change, we all trend towards the familiar. Those out liners that do reject change are usually hailed or hurt.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Thank you for that, certainly the most interesting is to see the most/least frugal car owners at the bottom of the page. Seeing Lexus and Audi owners in the frugal list is kind of funny.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Whilst the Open Street Map is free its important to note that the Ordinance Survey maps are some of the most detailed in the world. They offer a free access option and a paid option. Whilst the organisation is operated out of public money I
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Initially my reaction was the same as the herd, however on reflection I see that he's trying to address a problem in the mobile space. Really the mobile phone market is currently a duopoly and that's bad for consumers. We are now
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by nextw33k 12y ago
> Can someone suggest when it is actually useful over a properly tuned relational database? In your own question you kind of hint at it. You need a tuned database. NoSQL lowers the barrier to entry for fast persistent data storage with r
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by nextw33k 12y ago
The problem with refactoring is the cost. Its rewriting code to no client perceivable benefit. The retesting, the inevitable new bug introduced during deployment. As developers I think we need to assume the cost of refactoring and factor th
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I am surprised that the developers don't just seek sponsorship from corporate entities, especially with distributions which can get given priority support. Asking the populous to donate seems like a short term fix.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
That is an interesting point of view, the government and the state are two separate things. You cannot overthrow a state (since it is a community) but you can overthrow a hostile government. The American militia were part of the revolution
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Firstly I am surprised the Daily Mail created this piece, their readers care more about spending money on the NHS rather than space. Secondly I was a little puzzled but the statement that Orion could be used to send people to Mars. If that
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Of course a 25% tax on profit leaves them in exactly the same position. The tax scheme is to have no profit by pay it as IP rights to another company in a low tax country. It sounds like they are doing something but in fact they are not. Th
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Given that its built on open source, it would be hard for you to be locked into something. More likely is that they'll offer support contracts, a pay for IDE and build services. Which if you are making money with your Apps then it prov
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I like the idea of 100% up time. It's an engineering problem that is hard and people shy away from. Updating the Linux kernel whilst its running has been in development for a long time, however it really needs to also happen for the wh
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by nextw33k 12y ago
There is a problem with JavaScript in that there is no security mechanism currently in place to ensure the JS file you are running is what you expect to be running. Imagine your on your favourite social network that used a JS based encrypti
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Perhaps you should switch up from cifs to smbfs? I used to use cifs in Maverick but now appear to get slightly better stability and performance using smbfs with my Window 2012 server and 10.10. Jury is still out on 10.10.1.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I've been making comments to that effect for years. The FCC shouldn't be looking at this, the FTC should: "The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Competition enforces the nation's antitrust laws, which form the fo
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Rather than lower the threshold, which is just lowering the bar, how about adding a time parameter to the points? (Older points are worth more, but not visibly so) Someone that has been using the site for a few years but only commented in a
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Nothing particularly unusual about the data, as time goes by delays accumulate. Its the reason you should pick a morning appointment for the doctors or why the Oscars overruns. For an airport operator its best to maximise the utilisation of
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by nextw33k 12y ago
You are not weighing in the cons as well. You could drop dead, you could end up with liver failure causing more costs and pain. Early access only serves the pharmaceuticals to sell more. Medicine is a science which needs to keep its rigour
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Memory management takes the form of optimism, they'll not clear down memory in case the user asks for the same thing again. For people with lots of RAM (8GB+) this is fine. However if you have a 4GB computer and generally single task,
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by nextw33k 12y ago
The important part of the bones link was: The medical examiner claims this is a male skeleton, not less than 45 years of age, probably stocky and a mixed European/pacific heritage.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Obviously this is a little light hearted data analysis. However it could lead to a more detailed correlation analysis. Just for an exercise in data analysis. What I would be more interested in is an analysis of the lyrics used. I get jarred
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I would love to see the comparison between running this and just buying cloud compute time. Given its a constant operation which probably requires high speed interconnects. However it would be interesting to see how close in cost cloud is t
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Getting maths correct is actually a hard problem to solve. Reading the problems that engineers have had over the years with floating point numbers will give you an insight into the situation. http://floating-point-gui.de/xkc
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by nextw33k 12y ago
That's how things were designed back then. Its more of a choose your own adventure layout.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
From the linked page the list of blocked items was: Cablemodem Side - blocked Port 80 inbound (unless customer has Static IP) WWW / HTTP Service Prevents customers from running a WWW server Port 25 outbound (unless destination is smtp.
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by nextw33k 12y ago
I would disagree with you there. Yes there is something to be said for simplicity, however advancement often comes with complexity. I think the engineering model is going to have to take into account the new economics of selling cars. Last
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by nextw33k 12y ago
That observation is based on history. COBOL used to reign where Java sits now. The nature of corporations is changing, for the last nearly 20 years Java has enabled corporates to capitalise on investments in new hardware at a greater pace t
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by nextw33k 12y ago
Sounds like they are build from the same source but with different assets/flags: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ChromiumBrowserVsGoo... This post appears to be about the Debian fork and the stal

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