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If you believe that they are attempting to investigate you, and you intend to lead them on a wild goose chase, then it would be obstruction of justice. The word mincing that you're trying to do here is like trying to claim that murde
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An ex-co-worker went to work at JanRain with Haskell: http://www.janrain.com/blog/haskell-janrain/
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> Then again, I'm also strongly for renaming 3D Printers to facsimile machines because the word fax is too useful to lose to ancient toner-based modem printers. Then maybe we really will be able to "receive a fax at the beach
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Age Sex Park affiliation Activity Distance from bison Encounter type Injuries 16 Female Visitor Photography; turned back to bison 3–6 ft
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There are also golden beets: http://imavex.vo.llnwd.net/o18/clients/urbanfarm/images/Beet...
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9y ago
Smoothies and juice are different. If you are juicing something, you are straining out all of pulp and just ending up with a liquid. For a smoothie, the pulp is still in the drink, just pulverized.
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The government can exempt themselves from IP laws. For example, the government has exempted itself and defence contractors for violating patents (to build top secret devices) in the past.
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> I photocopied Didn't you read the PDF!? > Photocopying of Assignments from someone else’s text is a violation of copyright laws, so please purchase your own text. You could have been sued!
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> (The reason is that they simply do not go into sufficient depth for you to learn much about the application of economics; and, of course, they suggest that you are searching for articles rather than reading the good financial press on
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9y ago
Ah, but Uber can afford a legal time that could make some case law surrounding the CFAA that the DoJ doesn't want to me made.
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Direct Link: https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=530
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If you take out a loan from a loan shark, you should probably know what to expect. That doesn't mean that the loan shark isn't breaking the law when you get roughed up for non-payment.
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9y ago
[[ ]] works in bash, zsh, and (iirc) ksh. Saying it's "bash-specific" isn't accurate.
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Better make sure those shell scripts all run in csh/tcsh too. Never know when you'll be running on MacOS 10.1!
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I'm pretty sure you're wrong about this one: > Steve Jobs in particular is a company
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10y ago
Anyone else getting this[1] vibrating text effect on the site? [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/fqupnni4jtjnraj/Vibrating%20Text.m...
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10y ago
In other words, the "Greendale Human Being"[1][2] effect. [1] http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/Greendale_Human_Being [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr-F40mnul8
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> But veggie bacon is bad One thing to keep in mind is that many vegan substitutes can vary greatly in quality / flavour. For example, discounting all vegan cheeses because you tried one doesn't really work because they are a
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I remember when AOL kept trying to lock 3rd-party clients out of their Oscar protocol (for AOL IM). They resorted to requesting random chunks of the official AOL IM binary to verify that it was an official client. To keep up with this, 3rd
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10y ago
I had a teacher in highschool that put it this way (paraphrasing): "After a certain level of wealth, it just becomes a game and money is just points to keep score."
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I was looking at the source, and came across this URL: https://gmpg.org/xfn/11 the HTTPS cert isn't signed correctly, and if you accept it, you just get a 404. I decided to see what https://gmpg.or
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> Do you think people went to Walmart "just because"? They avoided all those amazing local shops to go to Walmart because it was worse? There's no need to take this sort of tone. Asking how is a valid question, and the mos
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10y ago
I don't think that this was being alluded to, just a question of how this is supposedly legal, since lots of people are stating that it is without anything to back it up.
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> then are shocked to discover than when push comes to shove, strings are attached (such as lowest priority on rebooking). ...except in this case, United was in the wrong and hoping that no one would notice. There were no "strings&q
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> Now I'm rocking a webOS phone Which phones are webOS? I thought that it was essentially dead.
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I know that one of the reasons that Apple went with XML for launchd was that you can define an XML schema for the files and validate them against that schema. IIRC, this claim was made in a HN (or Slashdot) discussion maybe 5 or 6 years ago
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My biggest issue with the macOS way is that there are edge causes when using Spaces. The biggest being "stand-alone" Chrome apps like Signal Desktop are still tied to Chrome, even though they get their own icon and a separate pl
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Because your phone will never have the raw power that you can pack into a larger form factor? Granted, after a certain point this may only be relevant for specific tasks.
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Which dream is not dead? Wayland? It's definitely not dead, as Wayland has both GNOME and Red Hat behind it. Ubuntu decided to roll their own (Mir) instead of also going with Wayland.
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10y ago
Being "developer-friendly" can be a big draw. Take Stripe for example. It's an HTTP API with bindings in a number of languages. Previously I worked with a payment processor that required we run some sort of Java application e
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