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by nrb 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644954
452.
by nrb 14y ago
With European roulette, you'll win 47.30% of the time. With American roulette, you'll win 44.74% of the time. The same odds as always choosing black or red.
453.
by nrb 14y ago
It's possible to completely bypass banks, yes. It would involve a physical cash to bitcoin exchange where you hand someone the money and they deposit the bitcoins at the address you specify. Nothing stops shops from refusing bitcoin, but th
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by nrb 15y ago
No... comparing "gaming PCs" by their internal components is like comparing automobiles by their engines and handling. Which is to say, perfect apt.
455.
by nrb 15y ago
Number 7 is a great enforcement of 6. Standing for less than 5 minutes shouldn't be a problem for anyone without a medical issue, which would surely not fall under this "rule"
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by nrb 16y ago
It's a win-win for Goldman and Facebook. Facebook gets a sky-high $50 billion valuation, and Goldman gets dibs on underwriting a potential Facebook IPO.
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by nrb 16y ago
I remember reading somewhere about a company that actually preferred people who wanted to work at the company as their last job before founding a startup. IIRC their reasoning was that the employee would give it their all, as a "last hurrah
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by nrb 16y ago
I agree, if you center the container it looks really off-center once you get past those top-right blocks. Left aligned looks great.
459.
by nrb 16y ago
Surely that's so they can release the iTV 2.0 w/ 1080p in a few months for a few hundred more bucks?
460.
by nrb 16y ago
Speaking of IE9, the fourth platform preview runs the demo beautifully.
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by nrb 16y ago
It seems that the criticisms keep switching between ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC interchangeably. If you are primarily speaking about MVC, I think there is definitely some misinformation here. 1. The key term here is "defaults". This behavior is