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by rue 17y ago
Privacy taxation without representation :)
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by rue 17y ago
I do not particularly like Google; too much power in one unaccountable entity. Fortunately the sentiment has gained popularity of late. Chrome might be a really nice and fast browser, but Firefox is - as yet - fast enough and it provides th
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by rue 17y ago
> My biggest criticism of the barefoot running crowd is that they usually treat it as a way of life. They always run barefoot, when that's not really necessary. Disagreement about the validity of the "lifestyle" argument aside: when i
784.
by rue 17y ago
Feelmax makes shoes that look a bit less odd than Vibrams.
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by rue 17y ago
I did indeed mean the supervisor managing compliance officers, but good info nonetheless!
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by rue 17y ago
Thanks for popping in. Something does not add up at all, and I would be inclined to think at the bank's end. Which type of an account, checking/savings/loan/? Were they closing it, closing a card, freezing it? A bank manager/supervisor shou
787.
by rue 17y ago
Good point about reclassification; actual "objectionable content"* could cause law enforcement to order a hold but those are disclosed to the accountholder. Another issue might be an account opened for a non-profit or some other account typ
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by rue 17y ago
That is certainly true, it just seems very unlikely. Particularly if it is an account hold, not a blocked card or held deposit or something. It is definitely not beyond the realm of possibility that some "morally enraged" or otherwise vin
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by rue 17y ago
No experience with Chase's site, but make sure you are indeed making a transfer and not an "online (bill) payment." The bank is also required to provide you with an availability schedule (and, if I recall correctly, inform you when you make
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by rue 17y ago
Needs much more detail and some type of corroboration. Existing laws, threat of lawsuit and just plain bad PR means this is something a bank would be very unlikely to do.
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by rue 17y ago
Perhaps you should define what you mean by "absolute truth," because to me it seems you are arguing against either universal truths or possibly specifically considering "a truth" to be a statement made by some observer, rather than an act
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by rue 17y ago
I ought have phrased it "why many people who shop at Wal-Mart in the U.S. and other 'first-world' countries where manufacturing and some other sectors have been decimated are poor in the first place." My view on the poverty-reducing effects
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by rue 17y ago
I have always found this subtopic to be interesting. My perhaps optimistic musing has been that a species sufficiently advanced to compare to humans as humans compare to dolphins would also have some way of measuring/estimating/scoring the
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by rue 17y ago
Conversely, this is also why many people are poor in the first place: not Wal-Mart by itself, but the entire credo of producing cheap crap cheaply for better margins. This locust-like scheme is also, obviously, unsustainable even in the ide
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by rue 17y ago
> I think the real point of the article is that almost all > of the technologies at our disposal are good enough. We > spend endless time debating Ruby vs Python, RoR vs Django > and navel gazing about Lisp or Has
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by rue 17y ago
Hm, this is an interesting peek into your world view for me. To me, it does not make sense to describe yourself as a "founder", "startup builder" or even "entrepeneur." That is not what you do . You are a founder of something , and that i
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by rue 17y ago
I can accept that with the stipulations that it is a very suitable material for currency, not necessarily the most suitable one; and that this is only true at certain early or unsophisticated stages of civilisation. However, even then t
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by rue 17y ago
Tallinn is definitely a nice place nowadays! If it does not work out for you, Helsinki is just a short ferry ride away and Stockholm is not too far either...but unfortunately both are quite a bit more expensive :) Edit: That is, it is rela
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by rue 17y ago
Scarcity does not equal value, if value is defined as "something that is useful." Perhaps the language is deficient in not making a distinction between inherent and assigned value. Gold has real value as, for example, a material used in ele
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by rue 17y ago
Hills. But you have those too. :)
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by rue 17y ago
That is not exactly what was said. The idea is that URLs are not the same as resources, and that similar URLs do not necessarily imply a relationship between two resources.
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by rue 17y ago
This reminded me of the pork futures warehouse :)
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by rue 17y ago
I would peg it somewhere in the memory pathways too. Still, generally, when I for example see something for the first time - an ad, say - it feels much longer than it will on any subsequent view. Then there are the dreams: an immense amount
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by rue 17y ago
> Only if you look at the short term outcome. After a while, the economy would be seriously harmed, not just because others would not seek wealth if it could be confiscated like that, ... This line of reasoning only makes sense if your
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by rue 17y ago
Dunno about the U.S., but over here I was able to play a MMORPG over a 3G connection reasonably well while my regular cable connection was being fixed following an electrical fire. The latency was a bit high, but survivable, and in many use
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by rue 17y ago
> I can attest that there is an adjustment period to strengthen your ankles and calf muscles. My recommendation would actually be to start by toe-stepping through your daily activities (whether with barefoot shoes, socks or whatever) tw
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by rue 17y ago
The Vibrams give me the willies, too, so I actually used to order custom moccasins from a local boot factory until Feelmax came out with their shoe (I still wear the moccasins in the winter.) There have been durability issues with them on t
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by rue 17y ago
Not a fan of the head-first approach. Crashes and the aforementioned neck strain. On the other hand, I would imagine it would be possible to construct an L-shape sitting cockpit that could rotate in relation to the engines so that the pilot
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by rue 17y ago
Once again I find myself wishing that less active tone was used of evolution. It is not that more girls are born because they have a better chance of reproducing in a famine or other stressful condition; it is that genomes that exhibit thi
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by rue 17y ago
I think the main part was already covered, but there is one important detail left uncorrected: They are expression modifiers and conditional expressions . Everything in Ruby is an expression, not a statement.

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