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by rdancer 10y ago
Source?
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by rdancer 10y ago
Let's put it this way: the IT guys set it to be fit for the purpose outlined by the boss. And it was a success.
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by rdancer 10y ago
More like "nagged" than "pushed". The responsibilities of a salesman vs. doctor are clearly delineated. The salesman sells. The doctor must not outsource his decision making to the salesman. What people underappreciate i
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by rdancer 10y ago
The demand seems to be quite inelastic at the current price levels, but the comsat industry has been gearing up for reusability. It is possible that there will be some price elasticity at radically lower prices, and the increased demand mak
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by rdancer 10y ago
> the barge outweighs the rocket by orders of magnitude The energy amount the rocket impacts with is dominated by its speed, not its mass. A small, fast-travelling projectile can make a hole in just about any kind of armour. The terminal
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by rdancer 10y ago
Yes. Please note I borrowed the phrase "only suckers pay retail" from someone much older and wiser than I. It reveals a powerful and profound truth about the relationship between a seller and a buyer in a retail situation. You can
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by rdancer 10y ago
I wonder what else may have been happening circa 1814–1818 that could make people more violent in its aftermath?
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by rdancer 10y ago
The incentives create a market in which the energy consumer and producer can trade in their existing inefficiencies. The market will decide where it is best to make the compromise, whereas before there were just wasteful externalities. If y
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by rdancer 10y ago
Even in modern times, only suckers pay retail. That has ever been true, and ever will. Price in economic terms is whatever is paid . The list has for example different prices for ale, wine, and uni education. The descriptions seem to indic
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by rdancer 10y ago
Or two turns ahead if you're cycling. They don't seem to take speed into account.
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by rdancer 10y ago
Contract termination usually means that parties settle their obligations in a way that terminates the relationship fully. The plaintiffs may not have expected this, but consider the patently unjust situation when customers can cancel the co
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by rdancer 10y ago
GP and I mean the Baltic route; if he went around, sailing would not be quicker than driving.
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by rdancer 10y ago
The drive would take less than three days each way[1]. Spring is upon us, and the temperatures en-route currently straddle the freezing point[2][3]. [1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Moscow,+Russia/Oslo,+N
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by rdancer 10y ago
Companies regard their employees as slaves. It follows that if your property says or does silly or unpopular things, you dispose of it. Shame on me if I ever allow myself to treat people who work for me like that. What people do or say or t
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by rdancer 10y ago
Basically the model of a communal taxi with no set route or scheadule. Common in the third world. This kind of carpooling is not exactly something people haven't written about before; I can even faintly remember it being floated in con
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by rdancer 10y ago
Do they have a no-fly list now as well?
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by rdancer 10y ago
> sea route Through international or territorial waters of third countries? Not unless he's hitching a ride on RFS Bespokoynyy.
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by rdancer 10y ago
It's not that you cannot play for Blackhawks for a few seasons, and then sign up with Rangers. As the revolving door metaphor suggests, the movement is both more frequent and continuous. Glenn Greenwald goes even further in With Liber
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by rdancer 10y ago
The book that superb movie is based on is well written as well.
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by rdancer 10y ago
> Where I can get funding to research short-range telepathy DARPA[0]. This kind of research really has been done to death, and much of the groundbreaking research has been declassified by now. For example the CIA mind control research[1]
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by rdancer 10y ago
Tell us more?
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by rdancer 10y ago
> banning UK nationals from having anything to do with companies in tax havens at all What if I buy a few shares in a publicly traded overseas company, and that company in turn buys a few shares of a company based in a tax haven? Short o
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by rdancer 10y ago
And it's been done[1], successfully — but the signals need to be amplified before the receiving brain can detect them. Parapsychology research was answering a pressing need in the 1950s, and so it was pursued and funded. Now that we ha
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by rdancer 10y ago
An expert is a child wise beyond his years, who sees the state of emperor's clothing for what it is. An "expert" is anyone who can persuade the presumptively adult fools that he knows something they don't. Your argument
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by rdancer 11y ago
This is a recurring theme within the Unix world — amongst others, vulnerable programs have included tar(1), xterm(1), and vim(1), and they always stem from the eagerness of the authors to provide both the ability to run shell commands, and
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by rdancer 11y ago
The changes a package install makes ought to be limited to the source files within its subdirectory (and perhaps some precompiled binaries). I don't quite expect it to be installing rootkits, and the principle of least privilege dictat
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by rdancer 11y ago
You vastly underestimate both how different these old systems are, how many resources it takes to support every additional platform, that the burden increases non-linearly, and what kind of weird release-blocking bugs those extra platforms
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by rdancer 11y ago
I think the difference is that when a C programmer hits an undefined behaviour, they either blames the spec, the compiler, or themselves. A JavaScript programmer doesn't need a prompt to blame the spec proliferation and dilution, the n
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by rdancer 11y ago
A function is dedicated if it is well-suited for a use case. It does not require it to be ill-suited for other use cases. Either you arguing that `left-pad` is not a "dedicated" function for padding by 42 characters, because it
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by rdancer 11y ago
Yes, but you're jumping in the middle of it. A sane package repository won't disappear overnight, or ever. I can still install packages distributed with Debian Potato, the first ever Linux distro I used, which is now 15 years old.

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