patrickg_zill

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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
The Chinese military used a similar method to find US spy planes - they used background signals from e.g. cell phone towers and looked for the area where there was a "blank spot" - which was the spy plane's absorption of the
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
What are the transfer costs for storage and retrieval?
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
Please cite some of the sources of the information that you claim is massively out there...
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by patrickg_zill 7y ago
The out of Africa theory has been overblown for a long time. See as just one example, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-the-out-of-afr...
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
They had $750 million worth in inventory before they were able to build and ship their first system. Afterwards they were hiring something like 1000 new people per month...
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
I grew up in Canada so I totally understand why people are against universal health care... Check out the wait times for MRI scans that are published by the various Canadian provinces. 90 days' wait is not uncommon. Meanwhile in the US
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
The reality is that about 50% or maybe as high as 80% of men are not attractive as sex partners to women who are able to have many choices. And young women are attractive to men of all ages... That is, the top 20% of men are the ones that a
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
I believe the saying is "FAA regulations are written in blood" in that new regulation is written after people die from a design defect or other discovered problem in the wake of a crash. Thus there is a discrepancy between your pe
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
A "fully loaded and maxed out" NeXTStation Turbo was: 68040 at 33MHz 128MB RAM 4096 color, 1152x832 (or similar) display that could do Display PostScript and had a relatively complete Unix subsystem under the covers. The Turbo Cub
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
The ability to pull out your smartcard, have the desktop go away, then plug your smartcard in somewhere else and have your desktop come back was pretty impressive.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Oh, so you are basically just a troll, then. plonk
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
I just want a better life, too. Can I have your stuff? Why not? "Illegal alien" is a precise legal term which is used to accurately define a legal status. It's like saying that "convicted murderer" is dehumanizing
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
If you believe that illegal aliens are coming to the US for the express purpose of civil disobedience (I think that is a fair summary of what Rosa Parks was doing), please show evidence of this.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
There is a greater mathematical correlation between Latino surnames and illegal aliens who are staying in Motel 6's than there is between say, Japanese surnames and illegal aliens staying in Motel 6's. Do you deny this?
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
The person who should ultimately be blamed is the person who is illegally in the US. Why blame the cops for the arrest of a criminal?
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Following up on my own post: as usual, anything that goes against the HN hive mind gets down voted. Even if obviously correct... see : https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/nys-leaky-gas-taxe...
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Congestion pricing is an admission that the fuel taxes are being used for other purposes than roads.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Nvme is an interesting development in storage. It does away with layers of abstraction and gives you 4x pcie lanes pretty much straight to the device.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
They are different! They are from another country and bring with them their own views, traditions and culture... They don't get mind-wiped when they land on US soil.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
If you say "the State is electing itself a new people" then the demographic shift is more obviously anti-democratic, which it is. The people who voted are having their votes diluted...
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
I don't know for sure what the ratio is, but I think that you are mostly correct. There are some YouTube videos that show lawyers discussing how to rig the process. I hesitate to rely on my anecdotal experience but my opinion is that u
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Just the front end in general and JS. I have code I wrote in TCL in 2001 that still works and runs in production today.
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Thanks for that information... Very interesting!
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
I do wonder if the Anasazi didn't have some form of written communication. It hardly makes sense that they could run a large enterprise without writing; and how did they manage to communicate and coordinate everything without it? Just
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
I picked up his book and in 45 seconds figured out he was wrong...by looking at the index. He has an entire collection of stats and measurements, but, no where in the index is the gold standard mentioned. Changing from a silver and/or
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
should be... "One of Wall Street's Dirty Little Secrets" note: title was changed from its original posting of "ETF Tax Dodge is Wall Street's Dirty Little Secret"
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
I always have the "mouse utopia" experiment in the back of my mind when I read this kind of story...
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
Does something like dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=16 | hexdump Give you something that you can use?
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
So basically deleting the file as the last step before a shut down or reboot will work, is that correct?
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by patrickg_zill 8y ago
If you have to retrieve all of it, what is the cost?

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