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by pinko 16y ago
This seems like a great opportunity for Mint.com. Just flag any known fraudulent companies in everyone's personal report.
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by pinko 16y ago
I remember when these were deployed in Terminal G at O'Hare a few years back, with lots of signage hoopla in the bathroom about it. Then they disappeared with no public explanation. Interesting to hear the reason was pipe clogs. Given tha
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by pinko 16y ago
Reminds of this great graphic ("The AOL- Bebo Value transfer equation"): http://www.broadstuff.com/archives/790-The-AOL-Bebo-Value-tr...
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by pinko 16y ago
Yes, but they're both in trouble. From the above article: "Musk’s willingness to funnel his own cash into Tesla has for years sustained the faith of fellow investors and reassured would-be car buyers in 2008 when the company’s finances wer
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by pinko 16y ago
I can't speak for them, but in our case we had major users who required open-source (mostly European govt. projects). All our developers wanted to just post the source online and be done with it, but our boss had security concerns he wanted
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by pinko 16y ago
This is a bookmarklet rather than a plugin, but just as good: http://mattbusse.com/bypass-the-wall-street-journal-paywall-... Or, if you don't mind losing the layout, this bookmarklet will get you directly to the "mobile" version of the a
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by pinko 16y ago
Ack! Reading Hacker News might be at the top of mine.
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by pinko 16y ago
FWIW, Tesla Motors is out of cash and may fold or be sold: http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/27/elon-musk-personal-finance...
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by pinko 16y ago
Much of the bad nutrition advice of the past few generations (e.g., the food pyramid, "good" vs. "bad" fats, etc.) was regularly propagated by family physicians. That is the very definition of most people's interaction with the medical wor
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by pinko 16y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332954
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by pinko 16y ago
I'll reprise my comment from the last time a new and better cron was posted here[1]: While cron is clearly pushed way past its capabilities by many people (without always realizing it), this strikes me as a reinvention of something that's b
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by pinko 16y ago
Upvote for this. The reason people are so quick to distrust real life-saving medical advice (e.g., about vaccinations) is because the medical world spouts with implied certainty so much garbage that later turns out to be false--nutritional
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by pinko 16y ago
Exactly. The Condor Project did this for many years and, miraculously, every one of the hundreds of users to whom we gave the source respected the request and the source never leaked. (It is now fully open.)
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by pinko 16y ago
This is really quite well-conceived and executed. I just sent in my donation. Thanks so much.
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by pinko 16y ago
Why only 90%? I would naively expect that you'd either be able to get in and recover them all, or not.
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by pinko 16y ago
Love the idea! Love the simple and appealing site design. Don't over-polish it! Wish you nothing but the best. If I can get a raised bed set up in time, I'll be a customer in a few weeks.
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by pinko 16y ago
Remember, deactivate != delete.
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by pinko 16y ago
I mostly agree, but would say, "Assuming the seller isn't stupid or you have information they do not ...", which is sometimes the case. E.g., you know you'll be subjecting the device to conditions that contribute to failure but don't void
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by pinko 17y ago
Yes, an acoustic switch. Google for "Leaking Oil Well Lacked Safeguard Device" for a good WSJ article on it.
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by pinko 17y ago
Actual comment from a fan on Palin's Facebook page: Beth Hartman: From what I hear the earth takes care of it's own natural substances and oil is from the earth. The chemicals to clean up are more harmful. Ecology takes care of itself. An
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by pinko 17y ago
"[E]ver since Google said they would 'Do no evil', people have been calling any company that does anything they don't like evil." You haven't been on the Internet long, have you?
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by pinko 17y ago
Yes, yequalsx, I agree with you completely! Check the thread lineage -- I was responding to bokonist's comment, not yours. (Admittedly snarkily, but that kind of revisionist crap annoys me.)
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by pinko 17y ago
You're missing the point. Tuition increases have outpaced inflation. The portion of college tuition that is privately funded vs. publicly funded has increased considerably. The author of the paper you link acknowledges this but justifies
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by pinko 17y ago
The comment addressing him directly is from 2010.
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by pinko 17y ago
It's not clear enough that this is not meant to be comprehensive (lacking Amazon as htsh points out, and noted at the bottom of the graphic) but rather an somewhat arbitrary selection of companies for comparison. (I also personally know of
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by pinko 17y ago
As far as I can tell, this article doesn't mention the most frequent problem people have comprehending high load averages on Linux: the inclusion of processes in uninterruptible sleep. This can result in a system with virtually no CPU load
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by pinko 17y ago
Too long.
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by pinko 17y ago
I have a B.A. from a good school (and some graduate school work at a great school) but never made it past the ninth grade in high school, nor did I ever get any kind of high-school equivalency. So you can't assume these are always cumulati
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by pinko 17y ago
While cron is clearly pushed way past its capabilities by many people (without always realizing it), this strikes me as a reinvention of something that's been around forever: the batch system. If the goals are improved reliability, manageme
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by pinko 17y ago
Noooooooooooo.

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