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by shirederby 13y ago
I was offered this option in June or July.
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by shirederby 13y ago
I don't know how to evaluate its trustworthiness, but I use PIA too and like it. Quite fast, servers in many countries, and support for L2TP (so you can use it in Android without a client -- though they provide one).
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by shirederby 13y ago
There is an updated version: http://torrentfreak.com/vpn-services-that-take-your-anonymit...
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by shirederby 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29
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by shirederby 13y ago
> It is understood that you don't talk about how the government takes the risk out of business by funding R&D efforts through taxpayer-funded grant allocations to research institutions, subsidies to business, generous patent mon
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by shirederby 13y ago
> Walmart is in business relationships with more poor people than just its employees "more" here refers to "a greater number than", not "poorer than"
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by shirederby 13y ago
Was he "wrong" or was he lying? It's possible that he was misinformed by his advisers and indeed did not actually know. But I am not optimistic about that notion.
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by shirederby 13y ago
> 3. It's compatible with Libertarian/Tea Party beliefs, as military spending tends to get a free pass from the balanced budget brigade. Tea Party, maybe, but not libertarian. Reason, Cato, and the like are highly critical of m
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by shirederby 13y ago
It depends on the store. I've had Fry's match a Newegg price before.
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by shirederby 13y ago
> Over the past several days, commentators have burst forth with a cacophony of competing ideas for your revival. The following list contains some potentially promising options for you to consider:
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by shirederby 13y ago
> Port Agenda Wizard from Java to python. Removed 11 files, 5345 lines of java code (Xisco Faulí) > Port Web Wizard from Java to python. 140 files changed, 5076 (+), 11416 (-). Removed 55 files, 10426 lines of java code (Javier Fernan
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by shirederby 13y ago
Line 11 is "Added simplified password hashing API"
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by shirederby 13y ago
The flip-side of relying on smaller companies, of course, is they may not have the cash available to challenge specious searches that a company like Google does -- assuming it wants to challenge requests, of course. Then again, from what we
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by shirederby 13y ago
Android doesn't require a Google Account to operate. You just won't be able to use Google services or third-party apps that use them.
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by shirederby 13y ago
>If you can't fully fund science out of philanthropy, then it will be behind a paywall. Who'd have thought you need to pay for some of the most valuable information on the Earth? Wow. >People will pay for a half-assed book on PHP, b
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by shirederby 13y ago
The "Salmon study" was an illustration of the necessity of correcting for multiple comparisons in voxel-wise testing. The problem it's addressing isn't itself data dredging, based on the definition linked above on Wikipedia. Uncorrected mul
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by shirederby 13y ago
His issue seems to be a fear that Parse will be "integrated" into Facebook and its walled-garden-philosophy, rather than presented as a serious B2B offering. That wouldn't be as much as a problem with Microsoft.
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by shirederby 13y ago
It isn't, and I don't know why you're being downvoted for asking.
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by shirederby 13y ago
>Whether it’s transparent batteries, flexible displays, nano bots, affordable and effective VR headsets, highly-accurate and highly-portable motion sensors, self-driving cars, doors that unlock when you walk up to them, swallowable comp
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by shirederby 14y ago
Cool, when did that happen?
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by shirederby 14y ago
The Independent Lens blog mentions some (IMO) key points that are left out of the Ars piece: 1. "In 2011, the Texas Legislature shifted authority to order textbooks from the state to individual school districts with Senate Bill 6. The law d
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by shirederby 14y ago
From the linked article: "Dunbar claims she's a "big fan" of Thomas Jefferson, but thinks a "secular humanistic ideology" has clouded current interpretations of his work. So she cuts him out of the standards on the Enlightenment and its inf
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by shirederby 14y ago
Wrote this before I saw InclinedPlane's comment.
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by shirederby 14y ago
> yet only in the US do kids shoot other kids with automatic weapons. I'm getting very tired of this. If you want to have an informed discussion about gun violence you need to acquire at least a modicum of information about firearms, es
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by shirederby 14y ago
Would you mind expanding on this? The genealogical data is one of the main things I'm looking for; 23AndMe has been "OK" and AncestryDNA has just been a waste. I'm wondering if it would be worthwhile to pay for a data import onto FTDNA.
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by shirederby 14y ago
Headline is literally true but misleading. Only a Senate committee passed it.
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by shirederby 14y ago
If you don't want to subsidize health, go live in Somolia. Opposition to government-subsidized healthcare is not anarchism. So yes, it is silly, to put it nicely.
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by shirederby 14y ago
You seem to have missed "See how silly that is?"
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by shirederby 14y ago
This is a good editorial on the subject: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-23/why-businesses-can-...
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by shirederby 14y ago
It makes plenty of sense if your religion opposes both.

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