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by shawn-butler 14y ago
I brought this up in a thread on election day. Unless I'm very misinformed there is no requirements in federal or state law of which I am aware that requires a secret ballot. It is more important to have a verifiable result than an anonymo
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
My initial response was that I would use it but I'm price sensitive thanks to 500px accounts ($20 & $50 yr). Flickr also includes video so that might be something to iterate. Maybe you could offer subdomain for that price? Excellent des
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
I can recommend reading this paper[0] It discusses the history of the relationship between the auto manufacturers and their dealers and the reason why franchise laws now exist in every state. Concludes that state regulation is necessary to
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
These laws came into existence to protect dealers from predatory actions taken by manufacturers against the public interest. They have their roots in the Great Depression era when Henry Ford dumped inventory on dealers with "offers they co
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
Oh, just like the US auto manufacturers should have just gone out of business instead of being bailed out?
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
While technically correct I assume the parent was referring to hstore [0] which has both GIST and GIN indexes as well as btree and hash for equality. With some simple formatting functions (its just json after all) it's sixes to me. [0] htt
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
Can I provide an intelligent sharding algorithm in place of a naive partition by primary key? I always get into trouble encoding things into primary keys eventually.
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
Unsubstantiated rumors of vote tampering via technological means on election night is the ultimate link-bait? Seems pretty clear why it is worth so many points :) If only the specifications of the hardware and source for the software for t
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
All this talk of electronic voting and one-way hash, etc confuses me. I know of no aspect of the US Constitution or federal law nor the constitution of any state in which I have resided which mandates a secret ballot. It might be a tradit
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
Probably wants to get back to poker.
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
Why not mandatory govt service then? Similar to how mandatory jury duty helps accomplish the aims of the judiciary and actual or the threat of mandatory military service used to make the citizenry keenly aware of foreign policy of administ
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
I think you are correct. Many people seem to not be bothering what he wrote. That being said, I don't really understand this post at all. He recognizes and dislikes the game mechanics involved in political brinkmanship, and then thinks s
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
I would add 3) commander of the armed forces. Also because of the laws passed under 1) in perhaps the most important duty, the President, according to the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, must submit a budget to Congress each year. IMHO,
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
It's been my experience that activist mayors that do so (flaunt regulations & selectively adhere to the law) really are more interested in seeking higher office. Best mayors are ones that realize their job is to keep the streets safe,
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
Isn't this a good thing since it is actually representative of the divided electorate? Most polling data seems to indicate a genuinely divided nation on key legislative issues. Filibuster reform is not a constitutional crisis. If Senate D
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
I think you actually have to only believe you're more qualified than one other person whom you generally demonify and caricature and maybe 2 or 3 other candidates you can safely ignore and refuse to engage. You can rely on your party to "c
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
"On the day we reserve to tell ourselves America is great - July 4 - Europe reminds us that we suck at science #HiggsBoson" -- tweeted by Neil deGrasse Tyson [0] Please do not simply project your assumptions of cynicism onto me as it is unw
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
His ego.
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
> Why on earth should multiple logins on smartphones be considered patentable? The actual patent linked [0] makes several claims and it simply isn't just "multiple logins" whatever that means as you don't login to any phone from any ven
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by shawn-butler 14y ago
Steers, per se, lack the (ahem, equipment) capacity to impregnate cows. I think you mean your bull jumps my fence. Also I believe it could be argued that a specially engineered bull would rise to the level of a "dangerous animal" (such as
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by shawn-butler 15y ago
Seems to me that most finished academic papers including dissertations, etc in the field of computer science also lack source code. Alot of institutions even discourage by policy the submitting of source to examiners unless it is illustrat
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by shawn-butler 15y ago
I'm curious about how exactly the people who are complaining about the potential discriminatory hiring of female staff for this event and the sexist way it was described feel about several (most of the successful?) sxswi parties promoted an
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by shawn-butler 15y ago
http://helpcenter.ingdirect.com/ingd/Topic.aspx?category=C3B... This was true sometime ago. Now, the recipient only needs to supply the sender with the last 4 digits. They then verify their own information to complete the transaction.
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by shawn-butler 15y ago
I doubt this will change process model or application lifecycle already present in the major smartphone OS. In the "always" on services, long-running background tasks arena the precious commodity is not cpu usually, it's memory. There is
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by shawn-butler 15y ago
This is where I find this train of thought becomes so unenlightened and bogs down in hedonism. There is no such thing as "your life" seperate or distinct from the lives of other people and certainly not something over which you can claim a
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by shawn-butler 15y ago
No, it is the same thing. Data is encoded into a static image format only in order to be transported by mms. The difference being that my system and hp's system packaged up a static route through the site so a large amount of ondemand pro
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by shawn-butler 15y ago
It is the same thing. I created a similar tool for use on s60 (symbian) on several carriers in africa. Sitonmobile "packages" up the interactions with a web server into a series of compressed images and delivers it via mms where it can be