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by oostevo 13y ago
The military isn't as conservative as many people think -- it's actually a pretty good representation of the voting preferences of the public at large. "It is true that the upper echelons of the military tilt right," but
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by oostevo 13y ago
They're under an affiliate rather than franchise model. I don't know enough about the differences to describe the differences other than to say that it seems to make Headquarters think they're unable to enforce standards once
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by oostevo 13y ago
Not ensuring affiliate quality isn't really a dirty secret. They're pretty open about it. From conversations I've had with higher-ups at Crossfit Headquarters, they're _terrified_ of a court finding them to have a franch
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by oostevo 13y ago
I get your larger point about reducing dependence on foreign oil, but ... We actually get more oil from Canada than from the Middle East[1]. We do import the most from all of OPEC combined, but OPEC includes places like Venezuela, from wher
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by oostevo 13y ago
If you're willing to spend $14 for a more detailed tutorial, I'd strongly recommend _ tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development_ from The Pragmatic Bookshelf. It goes through common use cases, common customizations, and pair program
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by oostevo 13y ago
Likewise, many -- if not the vast majority of -- airline mile optimization blogs are basically credit card affiliate machines now. (See pretty much all of boardingarea.com) They provide a useful service for some (here's how to use your
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Near-exhaustive Precomputation of Secondary Cloth Effects(graphics.berkeley.edu)
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by oostevo 13y ago
My Arabic is pretty terrible, so the third part didn't make much sense at all, but I copied it as: بكم فتح الله و بكم يختم و بكم ينزل الغيث و بكم يمسك السماء ان تقع على الارض الا باذنه و بكم ينفس الهم و يكشف الضر Maybe someone else wh
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by oostevo 13y ago
It's worth noting that Startup Engineering is basing its payment platform on Bitcoin whereas this Mozilla article covers Balanced Payments. I also get the impression from the lectures so far that Startup Engineering isn't covering
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by oostevo 13y ago
I had a small injury -- just a broken bone in my hand -- on a cruise ship about ten years ago. There was a doctor and two nurses on duty at the time. The doctor had to be quite resourceful: he checked my vitals, took, developed, and interpr
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by oostevo 13y ago
The canonical formula for bodybuilders and strength athletes is 1g per pound of lean bodyweight. [cue jokes about mixing systems of measurement]
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by oostevo 13y ago
I'm nothing close to a lawyer, but I bet the people you linked to would indeed get in trouble if they started shipping their parts overseas. The law (ITAR[1] and the Arms Control Export Act[2]) wasn't designed to keep home-milled ArmaLite p
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by oostevo 14y ago
The privacy policy implies that there might be a way to turn it off ("...If you use..."): "If you use Crash Alert, in the event you are in a crash, we may share your location and personally identifiable information with emergency responders
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by oostevo 14y ago
I get that our propensity for wishful thinking made it easy to underestimate the post-revolution popularity of Islamists, but their rise shouldn't have been that much of a surprise. In Egypt at least, the Muslim Brotherhood had a number of
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by oostevo 14y ago
Some hotels do something similar -- chains sell the mattresses that they use in their hotels to consumers.[1] [1] http://www.whotelsthestore.com/item.asp?curr_item_id=5
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by oostevo 14y ago
Not really, per Bruce Hoffman (a Georgetown University professor that's an authority on the subject) "Terrorism is ... violence - or, equally important, the threat of violence - used and directed in pursuit of, or in service of, a political
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by oostevo 14y ago
"Not only is the US infrastructure not ready, but it looks like no one is actively trying to change that." Really? I know it's controversial, but that's pretty much what CISPA is supposed to help with. [edit: Unclear language.]
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by oostevo 15y ago
There are some places where ITAR makes sense, even if it does overreach in areas like encryption or model rocketry. For example, I'd argue that it's a positive thing that Lockheed couldn't sell F-22s to [insert violent autocrat of the month
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by oostevo 15y ago
Private intelligence?[1] They tend to put a much larger emphasis on delivering good information over writing an engaging story. They do focus almost entirely on geopolitical news, though. Stratfor and KGS both offer free access to a limited
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by oostevo 15y ago
Yes: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/m9z03/one_of_the_cool...
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by oostevo 15y ago
I've only seen a few models of surveying tripods, but the ones that I did see didn't have locking legs. Their stability comes from points on the bottom of the tripod legs which you drive into the ground when setting up the tripod. I'd imagi
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by oostevo 15y ago
You might find this Google talk useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfg_e6YG37U
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by oostevo 15y ago
Would you mind giving a rough translation of that? Google Translate is doing a terrible job, and I speak absolutely no Japanese.
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by oostevo 15y ago
"...because the US government is believed to be highly unlikely to default." And that belief stems largely from the status of the US as the sole superpower (at least for now). That's the point I was trying to make. I just didn't do a very g
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by oostevo 15y ago
Well, I was thinking of relatively expensive on the scale required for country-scale commodity purchasing, but that may not be right either. Since I gather you probably know more about monetary policy than I do, how's this logic for an expl
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by oostevo 15y ago
There are _huge_ economic, cultural, and military benefits to being the sole superpower that don't exist for country number two. These benefits are, in essence, virtuous cycles that give the superpower a advantages on the world stage just b
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by oostevo 16y ago
I'll second the call to hear who the designer is, if you don't mind sharing. Actually... could you outline your process of finding the designer? What was the workflow like? Did you send him your .nib files and let him go to town, or did you
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by oostevo 16y ago
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can remember from when I was doing ICPC, I wasn't allowed to bring in anything in electronic format. I could, however, bring in printed materials. Have the rules changed? Or are these librar
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by oostevo 16y ago
I don't think the two are _necessarily_ contradictory. The article says, essentially, that a basic strength and conditioning program is the way to go. The GP says that picking a sport that makes you fit is the way. To add another opinion, t
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by oostevo 16y ago
That's really surprising on the health care front. I think many westerners (myself included) think of Japan as a paragon of efficiency and effectiveness in nearly everything. Can you elaborate on what's wrong with the system?

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