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by rbobby 11y ago
Hmm... what about the damage done to all the folks between when this was first released and now? Or what about the damage done to folks who don't know that their particular ransomware infection is based on this? Oh... and now that he&#
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by rbobby 11y ago
Underwater diamond mining already exists. Mighty Ships did an episode about it: http://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/mighty-ships/peace-i...
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by rbobby 11y ago
Babylonian business cards?
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by rbobby 11y ago
There does appear to be a donate button on the Requests page. It's hidden as a "Buy Requests Pro" which is really just a donate (same code, unclear whether different license).
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by rbobby 11y ago
It's pretty difficult to get software development to qualify for SR&D. The way it was explained to me by a consultant was to qualify there had to be technological risk of failure (i.e. it is unknown whether or not it is possible to
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by rbobby 11y ago
Will smart guns introduce new and unfamiliar failure modes? Absolutely yes. However I think the real question that needs to be examined is whether or not the adoption of smart guns would lead to fewer accidental injuries/fatalities on
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by rbobby 11y ago
The only folks that want to discuss recidivism are folks who don't benefit from the prison system (i.e. prisoners and their advocates). If prisons were publicly measured and criticized based on on recidivism then wardens, parole boards
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by rbobby 11y ago
The problems with prisons cross private and public prisons. Private ones are likely worse, but even public ones are not shining examples of how to treat other humans.
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by rbobby 11y ago
The recidivism metric should be used as part of private prison bid selection and for determining whether the senior mgmt of a prison (warden etc) should be let go. Prisons with a bad metric should get focused attention to correct the proble
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by rbobby 11y ago
Cremation is forbidden according Islamic practice ( http://www.islamopediaonline.org/fatwa/what-islams-viewpoint... ). Burial at sea is explicitly within Islamic practice ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by rbobby 11y ago
The underlying problem is that insurance companies are allowed to segment their customer base by risk. For low risk customers this is great because they get a cheap rate. For the companies it's great because they get to advertise a che
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by rbobby 11y ago
Same in Canada... gotta take the card and then the money comes out. Nice thing is that you never forget your card in a machine :)
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by rbobby 11y ago
Maybe I'm too old. I tend to think of a regex as either matching or not matching. Finding a bit of code that uses a capture to determine whether a match was found seems like it would easily be confusing/inobvious. Some pretty clea
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by rbobby 11y ago
Are you in the Canadian market?
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by rbobby 11y ago
Lego the company was fiercely protective of their IP. They had a patent they regularly enforced. Once the patent expired they took MegaBlocks to court trying to claim the shape of their bricks was trademarked (they lost this... but took it
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by rbobby 11y ago
See: lemmings
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by rbobby 11y ago
Doesn't ask about debt... which is a bit odd.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Pilots are as cheap as economically possible. Some are even on food stamp programs.
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by rbobby 11y ago
I guess the second thing would be the no fly list (and the TSA).
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by rbobby 11y ago
It's a layoff... not even close to a firing for cause.
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by rbobby 11y ago
> gave me a computer (an old one, with keyboard not working properly) What I like most about this is how close to reality their interview model is. Less than stellar equipment, legacy code, and a maintenance task... just a normal Monday.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Just to jump on... houses require maintenance. About 1% of the house value per year (roof needs replacing, hvac needs fixing, etc etc). If you skimp on maintenance the value of the house declines, possibly a lot (a leaking roof or basement
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by rbobby 11y ago
RIM bought QNX a while back... which probably has tossed some spanners in the works in various ways.
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by rbobby 11y ago
Doh. And 16 million tons annually is about 44,000 tons daily.
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by rbobby 11y ago
If Uber was smaller and hadn't pissed off so many taxi companies they could pivot into providing a front/back office system to taxi companies. Taxi companies could then get rid of their own dispatchers (gotta be a significant savi
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by rbobby 11y ago
I think the 44k tons daily is a typo. Earlier in the article it said 16k tons annually (in atmosphere... so maybe the rest is ash).
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by rbobby 11y ago
It would be nice if Google entered this market. Providing free phone calls, free money transfers and even free tablets would be such a boon to prisoners and their families.
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Prisoners Pay Millions to Call Loved Ones Every Year And Company Wants More(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by rbobby 11y ago|2 comments
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by rbobby 11y ago
It might also be a patent play. Create some new patents related to autonomous driving and Uber's bargaining position with other patent holders would be improved... maybe enough for a free/lowcost cross-licensing deal.
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by rbobby 11y ago
> having to serve more than two decades in prison is any kind of justice for any kind of non-violent crime Bernie Madoff got 150 years.

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