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by pdx 16y ago
http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/27/news/newsmakers/gross_bankin... My Pimco colleague Paul McCulley has labeled it the "shadow banking system" because it has lain hidden for years, untouched by regulation, yet free to magical
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by pdx 16y ago
I propose a test. Set up a fake HN account, and use kickpost to submit stories. With a 20 minute head start, you should be the first poster on many stories. Later, you can reveal the account name for our amazement.
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DreamHost - One Million Domains(blog.dreamhost.com)
1 points by pdx 16y ago|0 comments
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by pdx 16y ago
I married my ex-wife from eharmony. (thanks for the compatibility match guys!) I married my current wife, and the mother of my two children, using yahoo personals. I also dated using match.com In my opinion, dating sites are still extrem
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by pdx 16y ago
one known side effect of stem cell injection is cancer. I found that to be an incredibly interesting sentence, after having previously watched this video. http://www.ted.com/talks/eva_vertes_looks_to_the_future_of_m...
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by pdx 16y ago
Why do you want a million euro? Are you going to spend one million euro on something? I bet the answer is that you aren't going to spend $1M on anything. You intend to put the $1M in some very safe investment and live off the interest, c
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by pdx 16y ago
So the NYSE has been blaming the other exchanges for their behavior, when this was really a NYSE problem. However, it was only a NYSE problem because they were effectively being DOS'd by some of the other exchanges. On the subject of
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by pdx 16y ago
I don't like it. There's no information here. It's like one of those sales brochures that you open up, hoping it's a technical datasheet full of specifications, and close two seconds later, when you see there's no meat in it. Where's the
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by pdx 16y ago
I was on Slicehost, and I really struggled with whether to change to Linode. It's not that I was having any problems with Slicehost. I loved it. I just kept looking at that extra RAM on Linode, and all those data centers. When they got t
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by pdx 16y ago
I use IB, and it's the best I've found so far. My dream, however, is to be able to trade on a headless linux box using REST. Currently, I have to fire up my windows PC every morning before the market opens, connect to IB, and start my algo
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by pdx 16y ago
> Lots of places without any real natural resources seem to do fine Really? Who? Japan that's who ... and everybody marvels about how the heck they managed it. Who else? Not fair saying any country that had colonies once, even if th
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by pdx 16y ago
I'm gradually leaning toward your way of thinking. For a long time, I had the perception, which, I believe, was the correct one, that PayPal == Amateur in the minds of your potential customers. I believe that this is no longer the case. We
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by pdx 16y ago
Regardless of the political motivations that sparked the announcement, I was excited to hear about it. I became interested in Afghanistan in 2001, along with everybody else. Before that, my only exposure to the country was my reading of "T
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by pdx 16y ago
I'm a little confused what you're asking for. Do you want them to run the web store as well, so you really don't have to think (such as yahoo does?), or do you just want somebody to process transactions for you, (such as PayPal, Amazon Pay
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by pdx 16y ago
Wow, I just spent an hour reading the fatfree documentation, after skimming the docs and rejecting the first three you mentioned. I really want to try fatfree now. Thanks for posting those links. Damn debian! Time to compile PHP from sou
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by pdx 16y ago
Next week, on "Cold Case", "Who killed the iceman?"
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by pdx 16y ago
Indeed. Who's to say I won't win the lottery tomorrow? We only have experience and statistics. If you're willing to throw those out and just say "who's to say this can't happen!", than you are not in control of your life, you're just blo
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by pdx 16y ago
As somebody who is attempting to transition from my old industry into web development, I am biased, but I disagree. I was a good ranch hand before I was a good fine dining waiter. I then proceeded to become a good engineer, and now I am pr
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by pdx 16y ago
You were on lifehacker? How did you do that? I've never had any luck getting them to write about anything I did.
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by pdx 16y ago
That was discussed here, probably when you brought it up last time. It's the same reason that gift cards expire and properly written NDA's have time limits. Nobody wants to owe somebody something until the universe dies, especially accoun
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by pdx 16y ago
I was unclear about how they determined that the internal cavities were large. I get the same density if I have a rock with 30% of it's interior carved out by phasers, or if I have volcanic style (porous) rock. Are their instruments sensit
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by pdx 16y ago
If you feel that taxes are a valid way for a government to implement social engineering, encouraging some behaviors and discouraging other behaviors, than you can't ever complain about the complexity of the US tax code. I would wager that a
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by pdx 16y ago
Every since I started using JSMin, I've needed to add semicolons after all my functions, which is something that I can't seem to remember to do as a habit.
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by pdx 16y ago
I agree From the original source code... Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be
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Metafilter And The Russian Sex Slaves That Never Were(miconian.com)
67 points by pdx 16y ago|33 comments
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by pdx 16y ago
I believe your logic is backwards. To be sure, the fact that we are talking about percent changes something, which is what I spent several paragraphs exploring. To say that subtraction of percentages is against the rules, (while perfectly v
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by pdx 16y ago
I agree. When somebody uses this sort of second order percentage, it is confusing. When a car's top speed increases from 105mph to 120mph, after you modified the engine, you say it increased 15mph ... or, perhaps you could say it increased
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by pdx 16y ago
I see, finally, in his original post, he mentions NYC at the very beginning. Quite a coincidence, isn't it? They're in DC, there is a Lux Lounge, and it is on New York Ave., but they're actually supposed to go to a different Lux Lounge, in
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by pdx 16y ago
In any case, it's deplorable to promise two people jobs as lifeguards in Virginia Beach, only to bait-and-switch them into something that was, at best, a job in a disgusting strip club (as the google street view of
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by pdx 16y ago
To be sure, the original metafilter guy didn't like the look of it from the beginning. The young women, however, thought he was full of it, until they found out it was a strip bar, at which point, they were convinced he was right, and had s

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