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TFA: This book is written for successful, intelligent, and motivated people who happen to be overweight
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The default settings on most bittorrent clients will cause you to seed the file you're downloading, so you're distributing unlicensed copies to people in USA or other places where the content is licensed and where piracy is agains
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>No, I'm saying that there is no example possible that will negate the point. Because the point is true. You can't dismiss evidence ahead of time because you're convinced your theory is true. this isn't a cheap opport
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>There are no specific examples that will get you out of this. So you're saying that no amount of evidence to the contrary will change your mind?
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You can try turning 100k into 150k: https://www.eff.org/awards/coop
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Are you having a stroke, or am I?
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>Likewise, how many will suffer today in the crossfire between criminal gangs, extremist organisations and legitimate governments? How many would suffer if legitimate governments didn't fight? About as many, or even less. Government
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https://github.com/facebook/PathPicker/blob/master/README.md...
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Rise of the machines(economist.com)
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Who says that? Who are 'many people'? How do they substantiate that assumption?
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A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. programmer was convicted in a split verdict of stealing the bank’s “secret sauce” high-frequency trading code, ending a tumultuous trial but leaving open the chance the yearslong saga could continue. A New
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In a free market you rarely have to justify rent seeking. If Bethesda are 'rational' then they estimated how much they'd make at various royalties and decided that they make the most when they take ~45%, so 'deserves&#x2
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emodendroket: 'Too tough', as I've heard it, almost always means 'failing average' or 'failing median', but we can only trade anecdotes around that.
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There have been a lot more Bloomberg articles submitted to HN lately.
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> I wonder what Thomas would do without being able to blindly concur with everything Scalia says? Are SCJs allowed to call a friend during deliberations?
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>This is more freedom and more transparency. What is wrong with that? People have an inherent right to privacy, and they don't (generally) forfeit that right when they decide to coordinate their actions with other people (within or
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Reuters offers a terminal with similar capabilities.
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Isn't promoting your own crap just dogfooding paid inclusions?
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relevant paper: http://mrkulk.github.io/www_cvpr15/1999.pdf
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I don't want to get into a political argument - but I will say that helping Gazans by directly improving their quality of life (like the OP proposed) is neither mutually exclusive with, nor dependent on, helping Gazans by promoting the
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It's illegal for Israeli citizens to enter zone A of the West Bank, which is a set of noncontiguous land masses within the West Bank. ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bank_Areas_in_the_Oslo_II_...
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Near instant is a bit (a lot?) misleading, it takes on average about 10 minutes to have a transaction confirmed, sometimes much more.
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The speed is definitely not independent of the size since you still have to write a string of size O(n).
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Either hire or avoid hiring 'culture fits' or do some amount of hiring 'culture fits' and some amount of avoiding them.
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>A Prussian spy later sent to keep tabs on him reported with a mixture of awe and anxiety: “His hair and beard are quite black. The latter he does not shave.” How does the statement convey either awe or anxiety? How else would you descri
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How are you going to exploit the fact that these pizza orders aren't encrypted to achieve either of those things?
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Imagine giving the ATM a high-five.
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Incorrect data that you think is correct is obviously worse than no data: a) You're likely to stop looking for better data once you have it. b) You're more likely to act on it than acting on no data, and the work you do based on y
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This is about as far from the point as you can get. What I'm saying is that you can have different goals at different parts of your life, and those goals rarely match up perfectly with what will actually make you happy. Being young i
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Why does it matter what he wanted to do growing up? Since when do we value the judgement of children? People can be passionate about work that seems menial or degrading, he might not have dreamed of being a taxi driver as a child but he&#x2

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