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A timeline of recent ethanol events(apnews.myway.com)
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> Update: Reviewing the comments made elsewhere, I see that this post fell into the Fizzbuzz Trap: By quoting a programming problem—no matter how banal and contrived—the article was bound to provoke a huge amount of dicussion around the
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That happened at a former employer of mine. Parts came in covered in chicken shit and straw. Long story short: our main vendor in China outsourced to a make-shift forging operation set up in a barn.
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How does mortality data account for age? Given heart disease, cancer, and respiratory diseases were the top three causes of death in 2010, if in 2060 the average life span were 10 years longer, isn't it likely that these three things w
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> Given that the entire point of the Federal Reserve is to promote inflation I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, but the Fed has three mandates [1], one of which is to stabilize prices: "maximum employment, stable pri
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That's only the rub if the plaintiff is a producing entity. Some of the patent litigation has been from NPE's, and in others I can't imagine that there is often a tit-for-tat counter suit opportunity. My gut feel is that this
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To bolster @hayksaakian's point (plus I just like the name of the Chair position): "The current state of patents and patent litigation in this country is shameful," said Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks. "Silly pate
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I wasn't aware of that service. So to some extent Amazon is doing to Craigslist and eBay what Craigslist and eBay did to the classifies and Nickel Ads?
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rayiner has the qualifier "So long as Disney keeps making use of Mickey Mouse". I assume that's not the case for the Brothers Grimm. I'm not a fan of Disney's practices, but rayiner makes a good point.
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For me - data entry. Form-based software takes too long to fill out. With a spreadsheet, I can import csv files or copy and paste data easily. Developers often talk about Excel being misused as a database, and I think the root cause is the
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Home building also follows the same analogy. Our house was one of the first completed in our neighborhood, and we moved in before most of the others began construction. The foundation, framing, roofing, and siding all go up pretty quickly.
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A non-economist wants to know: if liquidity is beneficial to our economy and liquidity is a function of time, how how does the time-benefit curve look as t approaches 0? I don't know if you can quantify the benefit and map this curve,
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I have never interpreted multitasking in the workplace to mean doing two or more things at once. I've always interpreted it to mean doing many things over the course of a workday, week, etc. In other words, to me, multitasking means th
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[2] doesn't make sense to me. > "Officials feared that if they called on outsiders to help with the technical details" Aren't the 55 contractors outsiders? This sounds like typical DC finger pointing, blame game, and
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> It should also be noted that not all of this money is coming from taxpayers [...] $450 million in fees will be collected from the insurance companies participating in the exchanges The ACA was upheld in the Supreme Court on the basis t
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The IRS interface is working fine [1]: Sarah Hall Ingram, the director of the IRS's Affordable Care Act office, told a House panel Wednesday that the IRS hasn't experienced similar problems. "The portion of the responsibilit
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I used to work at a company where the IT department would clip the speaker wires on all new systems. It always pays to have good copywriting on your website and text bubbles in the videos, in case potential customers work in a cube farm.
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Saturday night in the US, which brings up the question - does anyone know the visitor stats of HN by country?
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I'm less concerned about the short term scalability issues as I am about the long term security and privacy issues. The code quality doesn't give me a lot of hope.
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I believe the exchanges are run by the states. Since there is overlap - a federal law being implemented at the state level - the procurement process may have had to follow federal guidelines, but I wouldn't be surprised if this were a
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> Other way around. [Slaps forehead.] I got the fire type / particle size reversed. The sad thing is I actually took the fire marshal's exam on the subject. But I guess, like in college, the moment I walked out of the exam room
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The link text says "Smoke Detector", but I only found "Smoke Alarm" on the Nest page. I used to work for a smoke detector manufacturer. It's been over 10+ years, but there was a clear delineation between home "
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I see ingenuity in the creation of the technique, but if it was handed down over generations without the understanding of why it works, then that isn't a display of ingenuity. Contrast that to a typical student in who is given the same
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"Mozilla Appmaker is a pre-alpha concept"
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> They cannot be allowed to do this. Government shut downs are practically the norm since the 70's: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdown_in_the_Unit... The federal government shut down once under Fo
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I'm a one-man shop with no one to bounce problems off of, so I rely on Google and Stack Overflow (or other forums). In the past when I got stuck and posted a question, frequently I'd solve the problem myself almost immediately aft
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We all owe the French a great deal. After all, they voluntarily act as the world's test tube, running bad economic experiments for the edification of the rest of us.
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i thought the same when looking at the US, but then I noticed Los Angeles. L.A. is the 2nd largest city in the US, and the smaller spike, compared to its population, is consistent with what I've heard about the tech scene there.
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I understand what the author is trying to say, and I've been in that situation where I've mixed small tasks with short and long term projects. I've tried a number of things over the years, but a todo list created with pencil
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APC is also a type of colon cancer [1]. So fix a bug, get a free armored personnel carrier sounds a whole lot better than fix a bug, get free ass cancer . [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenomatous_polyposis_coli

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