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by qdog 13y ago
Yep, love Costco. Also love twist-off wine bottle tops, so much better than the cork.
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by qdog 13y ago
I am(maybe was Haven't worked on it in a bit) working a wine-tasting app, because paper and pencil can get a bit tedious to look up previous tastes. I use a 3 star method, 1 star= Don't like, 2 star = Will drink/buy if nothi
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by qdog 13y ago
Manning is in the military, so his case exists in a totally different legal system (which I personally don't think is a good idea, ie: separate system for military justice). Revealing the spying system gathering US Citizen data is prob
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by qdog 13y ago
Pretty funny, although still crazy. McAfee bought Dr. Solomon's AV in 1997. If you don't want to have issues with AV, just don't use any and don't click on anything and sit behind a firewalled router. If you have MFE ins
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by qdog 13y ago
I think they made it 'special' to try and get it passed. The car dealers would probably commit every single cent they had to stop such a law if it allowed all dealers to sell direct. Tesla would probably be fine with allowing everyone dire
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by qdog 13y ago
I've seen some proposals of building a train in the median of the interestate, a raised track. However, even the interstate isn't straight enough for hypersonic travel in most places, so dunno. I think 'bullet' train speeds in the 200mph
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by qdog 13y ago
Wow, I wasn't aware of this at all. Luckily I don't happen to have any student loans, as I was lucky to have parents who could afford my tuition and did some part time work. Of course, I went to a state school and my maximum tuition cost
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by qdog 13y ago
This is a pretty fluffy article. It says she borrowed $26k/year during law school, even though she was on a scholarship with tuition paid, and took out another $20k in private loans. Hard to judge anything just based on this article, but I
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by qdog 13y ago
Oh, one other thing, is my son. He's eager to download anything resembling a game, but I've managed to get it across to him that he can't just download random 'games' and not expect bad things to happen. I expect a little better vetting fr
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by qdog 13y ago
If you can get Steam working, pretty much any Steam game should play. You can play them outside of steam, but the headache is sometimes there. Not sure how steam is going to stop you from playing your games normally, and if it did, you ca
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by qdog 13y ago
About 7% is the market average I often hear quoted, but I use the number 4% for guaranteed income. I know you can buy insurance annuities that guarantee about 3% and average 4%. So, I would calculate 200k on 5Million. Planning to actually
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by qdog 13y ago
Currency trading laws and regulations seem to pretty clearly state what they were doing wrong. This seems to be a shortcoming of MTGOX itself, not a direct attack on bitcoin. MTGOX's claims of compliance in the US seem to be hogwash at th
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by qdog 13y ago
Interesting, I'm just guessing. Since Dwolla operates in the US, from the recent regulatory announcement targeted at bitcoin(or any online currency), I'm just thinking that Mtg.OX not registering itself in the US, it won't be able to do bu
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by qdog 13y ago
Seems likely this has to do with money laundering. Even if bitcoins themselves aren't regulated, the exchange of them for illicit goods is. While the Silk Road or whatever to buy drugs is something I can see being frowned upon, profits fr
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by qdog 13y ago
Hmm, once having worked on a USB device that had encryption on it, it required an ARM chip and a circuit board running a custom software stack. Even if the creator thought they were going to create one of these, for their original target o
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by qdog 13y ago
Perhaps I mangled that a bit, instead of frost line I should have just said the seemingly most popular theory of how the solar system formed. From the article the bit that caught my eye: Mike Brown, an astronomer at Caltech, wrote me that
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by qdog 13y ago
I think everyone here concentrating on sampling bias is missing the point. The evidence in solar systems so far does NOT fit the theory involving a frost line, and giants like Jupiter are unexpectedly observed tightly orbiting suns. Whethe
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by qdog 13y ago
I know some people that go into programming without a CS degree, but there don't seem to be that many motivated people that learn enough if they don't go through school. There are tons of people who can program a little in visual basic or
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by qdog 13y ago
Probably the GTX650 and HD 7750 would be better to look at, which are now under $100 and don't pull that much power. Whenever I look at them and they don't have enough discrete memory, I just wonder if they can really run fast enough due to
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by qdog 13y ago
It could be true, it's just poor writing. LG had declining profits, Apple is still buying screens in some quantity. The first article on mentions tablet screens, the second article groups both ipad and iphone screens. This supplier might
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by qdog 13y ago
I'm sure if you read my previous comments, it's obvious I'm not an economist, but here goes: All money has only the intrinsic value of your labor. That's it. Gold, Silver, U.S. Dollars, wooden coffee tokens, they all represent a claim on
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by qdog 14y ago
It's only pulling 2W, so it really depends on the performance per W. Maybe that'll be my first project...
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by qdog 14y ago
They seem to actually have support from some of the hardware manufacturers. From Update #31 "Much gratitude goes out to the component manufacturers who really “got it” (Xilinx, Analog Devices, Intersil, Micron, Microchip, Samtec all deserv
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by qdog 14y ago
Greenarrays eval board is $450, though. Parallella is $99 with everything. Parrallella's original intent was to fit in an Altoid tin, but it turns out rounded corners are expensive ;). Would have been a nice case, though. And yes, I gave
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by qdog 14y ago
Avalon didn't take 12 months to ship, and I know someone who claims to have one of them making money, so they appear to work. Why butterfly labs is so late, I dunno. If someone with money wanted to build asics for a 51% attack, it's possib
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by qdog 14y ago
The bank runs and depressions were quite common in the 1800's and before, because of no effort to control inflation or deflation. Once, there was a huge investment in, get this, Wooden Roads. Everyone knows wood rots, but somehow these woo
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by qdog 14y ago
Yes, there were a bunch, but the bomber one was most popular and my favorite, I probably saw all of them, growing up there.
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by qdog 14y ago
Even the article states they changed their names because the members felt it was seen as offensive. I only spent about 30 years in Texas, so maybe I didn't absorb the culture as much as you. I can assure you I know many people that attende
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by qdog 14y ago
Texas had a bunch of restrictive laws about Sunday called blue laws, the last one left is for liquor sales. Used to be you couldn't sell cars at all on Sunday, but they added this "either or" clause a few years ago for some reason. Dealers
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by qdog 14y ago
Indeed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlFD0Zyl_f0 For reference, the Confederate Air Force (now Commemorative Air Force) is the "Official Air Force of Texas". Perhaps Elon just need to sell a Dixie Flag commemorative model to get to be

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