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by patrickgzill 14y ago
IT is a good point, but HP does not have the Fed to backstop their losses, nor to loan them money at almost no cost.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Things similar to lambda calculus, look like lambda calculus?
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Even that is not accurate... on an OpenVZ instance set for 2 cores, this command gives me the specs on the CPU, an E5405, twice. Of course, this chip actually has 4 cores, so to show only 2 is not really accurate. On a nearly-identical Xen
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
I fondly remember being able to go many places in Manila, Philippines, in the downtown shopping/restaurant core, using only my feet - they had elevated walkways to take you over the busy traffic and the malls were inter-connected. You could
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Assuming they are willing to keep up with all needed paperwork, credit checks, repair expenses, etc.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
I am not using an "appeal to authority" argument, but I figure the HN readership would have pointed out my errors. (It's certainly happened before :-) ) We do not understand even the basics. For instance, we do not fully understand how th
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Not two weeks ago I posted this: === We were told back in the late 1980s and early 1990s that huge computer models were written, that ran on supercomputers, to model and predict climate change. The fastest Cray in 1990 could do (I think) 60
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Deloitte (large accounting firm) signed off on the independant auditor's report... summary here: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-11-20/deloittes-2011-auto... Is it just me, or does this kind of stuff scream "the system itself, allows
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
I didn't realize we had to engage in nose-counting when evaluating the value of a conference on a technical topic.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
The AAPL-watchers at ZeroHedge.com take the view that hedge funds are heavily invested in AAPL and that if they leave the stock price will go down due to heavy selling. Further an avalanche of selling could be set in motion if 1 hedge fund
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
There are at least 40 million people who either have green cards or have become citizens, who were not born in the USA. Plus all the illegals who are not supposed to vote (but it is reasonable to assume that some small percentage of them do
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Or drives it to black market. Canada implemented a VAT-like GST - in a country of 30 million, the first year it was implemented an estimated $1 billion underground (non-GST-paying) economy was formed.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Sorry, a carbon tax will do absolutely nothing for the environment - the money will just go into the general fund, that is, the same slush fund that politicians already use for buying votes and paying off contributors to their re-election f
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
President Bush may or may not have been an idiot, but his speechwriter coined a useful phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations".
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
If for some reason, coal to oil (synfuel or syncrude) were to be ramped up, it could be quite astounding. There are only trial runs at this point, however. Germany during the WWII era was able to produce 75% of their oil needs due to synfu
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Too late to edit my post - but I would like to say I do not claim credit for it, it would be silly of me to do so. Now I have to go rent The Island :-)
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Telco's log everything! So it would not have been difficult, if you could connect the phone number to him, to track everything else.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
I am a little proud to say, I suggested this in 2005: "There has to be at least one unique feature. I suggest some sort of projection display that allows you to project (for maybe 5 seconds at a time) what is on your screen to any reasonabl
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
That is not what I said... key sentence is "That critical Libertarian slice or whatever you want to call it, of the traditional Republican base, was demoralized over Ron Paul and that resulted in an Obama victory." Meaning the libertarian s
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
He has limited his data to the USA; but should we not also see increases in Europe and UK as well, given the similar shifts in society and the manner in which people choose their spouses? If there were other factors that were found in the U
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
The RNC establishment absolutely HATES Ron Paul's guts. Given the slap in the face to all the RP volunteers, a large percentage of them voted for the Libertarian candidate in protest, voted for Obama as a protest, or did not even vote. If
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Most ketchup these days is made with HFCS and is loaded with sugary non-goodness. My solution is a lot simpler: I cut ketchup out of my diet.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
What if the person contests the debt in some way, but OWS buys it and forgives it anyway? Would the IRS agree that contested debt should be treated differently come tax time?
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
We were told back in the late 1980s and early 1990s that huge computer models were written, that ran on supercomputers, to model and predict climate change. The fastest Cray in 1990 could do (I think) 60 GFlops when loaded with 32 processor
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Summary: a lot of black people voted for Obama, giving him the edge in certain states.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
And if it just happens to benefit major contributors and bundlers to the party of the President that is in power, well, that is entirely a coincidence!
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Compare the hyperbole in the article, breathlessly talking about the geniuses on the campaign - then compare with the hard numbers compiled in the link I posted.
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
LOLWUT
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Not the only purpose to be sure, however it was explicitly mentioned as a rationale for staying out of the European theater completely. The idea was to allow Germany and Russia to slug it out, completely exhausting both countries. See for e
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by patrickgzill 14y ago
Look at who the owners of breweries and distilleries were pre-Prohibition, and after. Before - small businesses, essentially micro-brewers, spread out across the country. After - Anheuser-Busch and a few others. QED.

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