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by pzxc 9y ago
It's even worse than that. The earth is 93 million miles from the sun (1 AU), so when Mars is on the opposite side of the sun it's at least 180 million miles away, with the sun in the way. The numbers expressed by GP for how far
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by pzxc 9y ago
> e.g. if a block costs ~70k USD of electricity and you accept a tx for more than 210k USD after 6 conf then if the sender is a purely self interested actor in a perfect market their rational decision would be to spend a bit more than 21
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by pzxc 9y ago
I can't see this without claiming the nerd cred of being the first to identify it as the password Data uses to lock out the computer in the ST:TNG episode "Brothers". For extra credit, I will point out (which you may not know
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by pzxc 9y ago
The lightning network could fix everything, or fail spectacularly. I think an even bigger danger than failing spectacularly is if they take too long to roll it out. Other cryptocurrencies are already gaining some favor because of the situ
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by pzxc 9y ago
From a sales point of view, Nvidia actually doesn't care that much about researchers, they make up a small percentage of sales. They care about gamers (VR has been a big help), and especially cryptocurrency mining where customers will
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How to Hijack Amazon Prime Now for Good(youtube.com)
1 points by pzxc 9y ago|0 comments
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by pzxc 9y ago
This article is blog spam. It was written by someone with only a rudimentary understanding of the topic, which is pretty evident if you read it. The entire purpose of this article being written was to get a good looking (SEO-wise) back lin
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by pzxc 9y ago
I think maybe it was downvoted because it misses the point, just as the article misses the point. Behavior change would be nice but the real benefit here is accountability. So what if there were 1.6% (made up number) rate of reported bad
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by pzxc 9y ago
True, enforcing stored-procedures-only is an antiquated methodology that is frowned upon these days. But not because it doesn't work -- rather because it's a bad idea to put your business logic in the database itself, which is wh
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by pzxc 10y ago
TFA stands for The Featured Article and always has, though I can understand your misapprehension because of RTFM which does use F as you suggest.
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by pzxc 10y ago
Instead of 1, 2, 3, 4, in your head say "left, middle, middle, right." Repeat until natural, then change it to be "this one, this one, this one, this one." Repeat until natural, then repeat some more until you can do i
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by pzxc 10y ago
It was arbitrary for George Washington to decline to run for a third term as President, feeling that two terms ought to be enough for anybody. And it took over a century for that wisdom to be codified into the 22nd Amendment.
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by pzxc 10y ago
Because TimeWarner and Cox are just as bad on customer service, and AT&T/Verizon are losing marketshare fast and may become obsolete. (DSL being behind the curve on bandwidth and fiber not available in 99% of areas) At this point I
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by pzxc 10y ago
It's not just hard to do, it's impossible. For a cloud provider anyway. Given that your software has to be capable of executing Bitcoin transactions itself, and the VM manager sits at a higher level and controls allocation and a
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Best Points from 20 Amicus Brief Filings in Support of Apple Against the FBI(techdirt.com)
1 points by pzxc 11y ago|0 comments
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by pzxc 11y ago
Try selling something on Craigslist without requiring cash-up-front as payment and tell me how safe and secure it is. Fake money orders and cashier's checks are a lot easier to manufacture than fake cash.
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by pzxc 11y ago
I'm going through this right now as well. I ran my own business for 7 years, making content websites monetized through google adsense, building games, and freelancing, among other things. The primary source of revenue was adsense, and
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by pzxc 11y ago
The title should be changed. Elon Musk was not interviewed. A sci-fi author was interviewed about his opinions of Elon Musk re: Mars. Title is very misleading.
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by pzxc 11y ago
Reciprocated playful office banter is fine. It's childish but it's okay to be childish with someone who wants to be childish also. Unreciprocated playful office banter should not exist. Teasing friends is fine and good, all fun an
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by pzxc 11y ago
Security Essentials is bundled starting with Windows 8, but it's been renamed to "Windows Defender". Same thing though.
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by pzxc 11y ago
I don't disagree with anything you said, but I have a question. If liquidation preferences have such little value, why is it so common? Is it because founders for the most part accept whatever the VCs dictate, even things that benefit
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by pzxc 11y ago
I am not the most advanced SQL developer by any means. Why is UPSERT needed/advantageous when you can do this? update [table] set ...; if @@ROWCOUNT = 0 insert into [table] ...
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by pzxc 11y ago
Okay, but the vast majority of roads do not have 4+ lanes in one direction, and the vast majority of roads do not have a sign indicating a different lane designation.
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by pzxc 11y ago
I'm not sure how that disadvantages you. You get paid for the time you work. Seems fair to me. So you have to stay a little extra and be bored if there's not enough work rather than being able to go home early. Boo hoo. For ev
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by pzxc 11y ago
California is the worst about this and if that's where you live may be giving you a false impression of the US as a whole. It's probably because in California, 18-wheelers are required to stick to the right lane and have a lower
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by pzxc 11y ago
If a topic gets 40 comments before it gets 40 votes, it gets auto-penalized even with no flags. (too controversial) There are also other mechanisms, such as vote-ring-detection, that can kill a topic as well. (That is my current understandi
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by pzxc 11y ago
There are a few grammatical errors in these documents as well that do not inspire confidence. Also, you better be damn sure that you can trust the person you give power of attorney to -- the document provided here assigns power of attorney
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by pzxc 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that mode and median are considered averages. Average: "In colloquial language, an average is the sum of a list of numbers divided by the number of numbers in the list. In mathematics and statistics, this would b
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by pzxc 11y ago
If the names are similar and they are in the same industry/sector -- so that the typical consumer might confuse them -- then yes that absolutely can and does get attacked as a trademark infringement. See Facebook versus Teachbook coug
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by pzxc 11y ago
Your understanding of trademark law is not correct. The crucial question is whether consumers will be confused by two different entities using the same or a similar trademark. One of the first things you learn about trademarks is that two

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