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by sc68cal 14y ago
I'm a motorcycle enthusiast, and I remember this getting some attention in the motorcycle industry. Ducati is involved in a lawsuit because the plastic that they use for the gas tank, some believe that the ethanol that is being mixed in eat
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by sc68cal 14y ago
I've done the same - I have a Java program that I did for a university course in 2008. It's probably the ugliest thing ever, but it has sentimental value. https://github.com/sc68cal/Java-Distributed-Hash-Cracker
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by sc68cal 14y ago
It's a question of exposure. When the material is encased in solid rock hundreds, if not thousands of feet blow, the exposure risk is very low. Once you pull it out of the ground - exposure becomes a real problem. They mention that some of
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by sc68cal 14y ago
> But Malaysia gave them a 12 month tax break, and was already cheaper than Australia, so environmental laws don't appear to be the main motivator I don't believe that the government offering tax breaks to entice a company to relocate t
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by sc68cal 14y ago
> Rare earths always occur alongside the radioactive elements thorium and uranium, and safely separating them is a complex process. http://www.motherjones.com/documents/463290-ntn-lynas-report
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Your Smartphone's Dirty, Radioactive Secret(motherjones.com)
136 points by sc68cal 14y ago|72 comments
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by sc68cal 14y ago
I believe that the vast majority of student debt is not people going to an Ivy institution. The major concentration of serious debt issues has been in the private-education-as-big-business sector from companies like University of Phoneix an
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by sc68cal 14y ago
That's why we have bankruptcy laws. Yes - bankruptcy laws that were passed in 2005 which made it significantly harder to get debt forgiven in bankruptcy, and also removed some forms of debt from being able to be discharged in bank
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Is Silicon Valley Voting Itself Out Of Business?(motherjones.com)
7 points by sc68cal 14y ago|3 comments
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by sc68cal 14y ago
Github is not like that. The github engineers quite clearly see github as a product built on git (the technology) rather than a product operating within git (the protocol). They do not improve or contribute to git itself GitHub has a numb
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by sc68cal 14y ago
TPM has a good article on some of the loopholes that could have been exploited, and also links to a more technical discussion of some possibilities, revolving around the UBIT (Unrelated Business Income Tax) on pages 40-48. http://tpmdc.tal
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by sc68cal 14y ago
Keller has a history of writing lazy and out-of-touch columns. Salon put him at #11 on their Hack List. http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/11_bill_keller/ He’s got a bland style coupled with a smug voice, and absolutely no original thoughts
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The Hypocrisy of Curt Schilling(salon.com)
2 points by sc68cal 14y ago|2 comments
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The Internet Actually Is A Series of Tubes(salon.com)
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Facebook: Private Equity's evil twin(salon.com)
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Don’t mention income inequality please, we’re entrepreneurs(salon.com)
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TED: Even more elitist than we thought(salon.com)
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by sc68cal 14y ago
>And it'd take millions of dollars, and have no conventional ROI, so no one's going to do it. Your pessimism is unwarranted. There is already one user on GitHub that scrapes the US Code and mirrors it. He even tags the changes so you ca
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by sc68cal 15y ago
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! - Upton Sinclair
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Goldman Sachs - for starters. They set up the deal - and let their "muppet" clients get their eyes ripped out. Business as usual for them. This is not surprising to me - I did say that they were going to "ladder" the price and pocket a huge
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Intel and ARM Head for a Bloody Chip Collision (slate.com)
1 points by sc68cal 15y ago|0 comments
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by sc68cal 15y ago
Indeed. In the meantime, check out Git-Tfs ( http://git-tfs.com )
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by sc68cal 15y ago
The USPS may not be an ideal case study, since it is the only entity that is required to pre-fund 75 years worth of health benefits to employees. http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2011/pr11_102.h... "Without enactment of legisl
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The Longform Guide to Early Computing(slate.com)
1 points by sc68cal 15y ago|0 comments
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by sc68cal 15y ago
This is great! I just downloaded the mp3, converted it to WAV and now use it as the sound played when CCTray (for CC.NET) reports a broken build.
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Tracking Developers in TFS vs. GitHub(coreitpro.com)
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by sc68cal 15y ago
>What could be releasing objects automatically? ARC – that’s its job. From ARC’s point of view, the UIColor created with -colorWithRed:... was used to access the CGColor, and then is no longer needed. So why not use the following? (My O
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by sc68cal 15y ago
That was a fantastic link. I love the kernelnewbies site.
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Use Git, no matter what(seanmcollins.com)
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by sc68cal 15y ago
I think he means the expression "Don't write a book" - meaning keep it short and to the point.

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