odorousrex

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by odorousrex 8y ago
The smallest unit of time the FAA uses in their requirement documents is "one man-hour". It could take 5 minutes or less to boot, but the FAA will still say it takes an hour.
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by odorousrex 8y ago
The basic gist is that net neutrality wouldn't be necessary if ISPs weren't defacto monopolies. Because there is such limited competition in the broadband ISP space (most people only have one choice!) the free market can't wo
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by odorousrex 8y ago
Any publicity is good publicity!
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by odorousrex 8y ago
My parents are in this boat. I feel like a clean repeal of Prop 13, while it would be good for California overall, just isn't possible. What I would like to see is: -Prop 13 applies applies to only your lived in primary residence.
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by odorousrex 8y ago
> It's a robust market with quite a few major competitors. 4. There are FOUR major competitors (AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon) and this is soon to be 3, assuming the Sprint - T-mobile merger goes through. (Which it most li
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by odorousrex 8y ago
>Isn't the whole point of encryption that no-one can decrypt it unless they have the necessary keys? But if the person who knows the relevant keys willingly hands over appropriate passwords/etc. for a more lenient sentence then
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by odorousrex 8y ago
That is actually rather clever, and will probably work for many smaller US manufacturers but it will still cause them to have to raise their prices slightly, as there is now another middle man they have to pay. However enterprises like Appl
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by odorousrex 8y ago
How does that dodge the tariffs? (Legally) Let's say I'm Apple. I make MacPro's in Ft. Worth, Texas. The parts come from China. I now have to pay 25% more on those parts. However, since I'm Apple, I have manufactures mak
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by odorousrex 8y ago
I used to think I was unlucky to have an extremely common name. (First and Last) Now I consider myself lucky. I cannot be found on Google or Facebook simply due to the massive signal-to-noise ratio. The fact that a minor celebrity and a min
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by odorousrex 9y ago
E-mail has been going pretty strong for 20+ years now and it is still very decentralized (Even with big players like Gmail in the game).
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by odorousrex 9y ago
I think you mean "Users" instead of "Customers". If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
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by odorousrex 9y ago
So Hypothetical then: 1) Using QuickBooks I can keep 1 clients books in an hour. I charge the client $100/hr 2) Using a Competitors software I can shave 10 minutes off that. Assuming I work an 8 hour day, I'd be making $120 more a
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by odorousrex 9y ago
Possible business opportunity here? I think $10 for a windows/mac/linux desktop app, $5 for a android/Ios version. (Maybe get all versions for $20) You drop in an S3 or Azure storage key, it lists the files, create containers
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by odorousrex 9y ago
Right out of a Vernor Vinge novel.
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by odorousrex 9y ago
Money Laundering? You have $1M in dirty money. Wire it to Tether for some Tethers. Go on Bitfinex and buy lots of bitcoin. Transfer the bitcoin to a legitimate exchange. Sell for clean USD. This could be a very valuable (and lucrative) serv
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by odorousrex 9y ago
It simply comes down to money. Damore was fired because he was bad for business. Not because he's white, male, conservative, or the contents of his memo. Had the memo not been leaked publicly, I have no doubt he'd still be working
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by odorousrex 9y ago
>A major internet site had a URL that went something like somedomain/group?id=xxxxx. It turns out that a simple scraper, that called id=1, id=2, id=3, ect, ect, caused a major problem! This is a failure on the part of the developers