patrickg-zill

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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I would like to point out that they used lead for drinking vessels sometimes...
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I should add, that I think that part of what is going on with the hospitals, is to make cash payments so cumbersome, that people are herded into the arms of the insurance companies.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
It is a good start, but he doesn't have the detail at the local level to see what is going on - the prices are all over the map and there is no way to rationally determine what is expensive. I have a weird plan where I pay a percentage of t
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
As a fan of the TV show "Monk" the first thing I thought of was his catchphrase "Wipe! Wipe! Wipe!" *from the article: "Whenever I do shake a hand I’m completely aware of it, can’t stop thinking about it, until I can wash my hands."
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
He is a huge presence on comp.lang.lisp . Not sure about his prowess as a programmer however.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
That is exactly what 1 client of mine does for Postgres.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Contrarian view: http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data "actual" unemployment if computed the way it was in 1992: 19% for "shadowstats version of U6" versus "official U6"
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Supposedly Fujitsu has one, using their own e-ink like screen (they call it "FLEpia"). It has Wifi, has a web browser, and runs Windows CE. http://activitypress.com/2009/02/22/fujitsu-trials-colour-e-... Supposedly, will be out in 2010.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Why do central banks hold so much of it, then?
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Mekmitasdigoat ? http://www.sigmasoft.com/~openbsd/archives/html/openbsd-misc...
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Isn't there a correlation between number of pirates, and global warming, according to the guy who thought up the Flying Spaghetti Monster? And sure enough, we have more pirates and are seeing a small period of cooling...
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I would say that if they pursue a legal option it will cost them no less than $5-10K. Thus your minimum price should be about $15K. If they cut you off, figure out what competitor they might not want traffic to go to and set a landing page
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
This was tried back in the days of the Clinton administration with Smith and Wesson. http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/20000317_2.html The rest of the gun-buying public declared a "S&W Death Penalty" and stopped buying anything fro
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I was under the impression that the main reason for a startup weekend was to knock the moss off, and encourage people to actually DO something; that is, it is more like practice or a dress rehearsal.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
This has been bogus "research" since the 1960s.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
The real question is, will there be a large amount of variance among populations in different countries? You cannot necessarily extrapolate from Mexico City to other places since climate, diet, and no doubt other factors, all play a role.
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
The clear, unambiguous meaning of the Constitution is that commerce and traffic between states is not to be interfered with or taxed. California tried this a few years ago with cars, imposing an illegal $350 "smog tax" on cars brought in fr
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
From the guidestone text: "Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature" ... OK, there are 6 billion humans on the planet now. What plan do these do-gooders intend for the 5.5 B "surplus population"?
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
I like the walkthrough of the Enomalism UI and find it more useful than the actual install tips. Wonder why KVM was chosen over Xen?
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
There was work done on similar things to this in the 1970s, however it all went classified. The term is "subterrene" - a tunnel boring machine that keeps the drill tip at high temperature, melting the rock and allowing a smooth glassy tunn
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by patrickg-zill 17y ago
Dtrace is useful because you can run it without having to interrupt any processes on the machine, and it is safe (won't cause kernel panics) and lightweight (won't slow the machine down too much) enough to use on a production site. DTrace l
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
There are rare earth metal deposits in the USA, however due to environment regulations it is not even close to cost effective.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
if true, that is pretty bad ... Amazon should have "signed" the cookies with the originating IP and then forced a refresh or a login if it was different.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
I bet farming makes a comeback.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
VirtualBox (free from virtualbox.org) running on top of whatever Windows, Mac-x86 or Linux system you have. Debian or Centos as the operating system that you run as a VM inside VirtualBox. You should be able to easily install Python, Ruby,
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
FWIW there are plenty of well-off people in any number of third-world countries. Consider the Philippines - current population is 90 million; thus top 10% of people (who will have money) is 9 million. Given the wide disparity in income, i
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Canada did/does this sometimes. It is part of the reason that Vancouver is nicknamed "Hongcouver" - lots of rich Hong Kong residents got worried over the handover from the British to China, and bought themselves a guarantee of being able to
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
I like it, however I think you should allow more invoices to be sent at the lower level of the plans. Maybe just focus on the per-user limitations, and make the estimates generation more generous. Also everything should be over SSL - bett
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Um, just for accuracy: the Federal Reserve is most assuredly NOT a government agency. It is as Federal as Federal Express is.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
They should add two white knobs along the bottom ... and an accelerometer that allows you to hold it over your head and shake it to put it into screensaver mode ...

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