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by streety 17y ago
I agree entirely about the importance of backups being simple and automatic. Where I disagree is with the idea that remote backups are more difficult than local backups. Even ignoring all the people with only one computer at home, for whom
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by streety 17y ago
I hope I'm wrong but it sounds suspiciously like all your backups are in one physical location. You may well be protected against an individual drive failing but what about a more calamitous event such as a fire or flooding?
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by streety 17y ago
There are two houses of Parliament in the UK - the Lords and the Commons. Only the Commons is made up of our elected representatives. The country is broken down into 646 constituencies and each elects their own member of parliament (MP).
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by streety 17y ago
Do you have a link to weave? My google-fu seems weak this morning.
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by streety 17y ago
I recall that one of the reasons frequently given for returning to the moon is that it is "rich" in Helium-3 (the commonest isotope is Helium-4) and it can be used in nuclear fusion[1]. If wikipedia is to be believed "rich" is relative here
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by streety 17y ago
25? Is that a typo or have I missed something? Anyway, what's wrong with using numbers? Upper and lowercase? Unicode?
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by streety 17y ago
I find it interesting that so many of the comments here are pro April Fools stories and yet on the site as a whole April Fools stories seem to be quickly flagged and killed.
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by streety 17y ago
That's a nice find. Looks like the concept is similar to cloudkick but for human workers. They also list their "worker channels" should you want to go straight to the source.
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by streety 17y ago
Would it not be more correct to say they are paying the publisher to tell us about this?
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by streety 17y ago
I've never used it but http://elgg.org/ might be an option.
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by streety 17y ago
Actually it's not. At least not directly. I think this is the post you're referring to: http://blog.cubeofm.com/how-to-become-rich-even-if-nobody-is...
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by streety 17y ago
I can certainly agree with that. Not understanding that a choice can turn out well despite being made for bad reasons and vice versa is a frequent source of annoyance for me in others and, if I'm honest, myself. Thanks for the follow up.
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by streety 17y ago
My comment was in response to having read the linked post. Having just finished reading it for a second time I'm still not clear. Eliezer does say, "Nobody believes the market is really "efficient" [...] but still, the market does not leav
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by streety 17y ago
Wouldn't this only hold true in perfectly efficient markets? It also seems to assume that every market participant is under the same influences. I don't care how well my holdings are doing at the end of an accounting year but a fund manag
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by streety 17y ago
At least with one centralised system there will be a definitive log of who has accessed what and when they accessed it. Hopefully it will add some accountability. It sure beats post-it notes.
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by streety 17y ago
I can understand the use of a rat and worms as they're traditional experimental models but why use turtles?
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by streety 17y ago
I wouldn't consider my safety razor, or a cut-throat, as disposable though.
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by streety 17y ago
Text link ads might be one way to go. Perfectly legal but if google detects it then it's goodbye pagerank. Same for sponsored blog posts. Even if you do take on paid for links and google doesn't realise I doubt you're going to make very m
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by streety 17y ago
Although I agree with you on the SEO some of the suggestions are good ideas in terms of user experience, i.e. information rich title tags.
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by streety 17y ago
There is a saying that, "you can travel across the land or live off the land but not both." You may be able to improve your chances over the short term by concentrating on finding food but if you want to survive long term your best chance m
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by streety 17y ago
IANAL but I don't think that applies here. He links to what is essentially a spam submission in the first paragraph so it seems reasonable to expect the other submissions will also be available.
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Setting up backups with tarsnap(jonathanstreet.com)
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by streety 17y ago
Agreed on sys_getloadavg(), by the time you get to PHP much of the overhead of serving the connection has already been incurred.
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by streety 17y ago
Without knowing who this other group is the fact that they started the process in 2008 and still hasn't finished does not mean that Virgin would be unable to complete it in 6 months. I got my figures from http://www.fool.co.uk/news/investi
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by streety 17y ago
I don't know how true this is (I suspect at least part of that will be money you need to have on hand rather than spend as such) but I do know that Virgin have just bought an existing bank because it was quicker and easier than starting fro
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by streety 17y ago
I retrieved the comment histories of the top 10 users without a single glitch. I don't follow any particular users so don't view the comments pages all that often so can only comment on this occasion but no problems encountered this time.
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by streety 17y ago
Thanks for the follow up. I do remember seeing these. They're more expensive but do look really quite polished. Certainly more attractive to look at than the tangle of wires I have hooked up to an arduino at home.
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by streety 17y ago
I'm familiar with the Arduino and Beagleboard but haven't come across Bugboard before. Do you have a link?
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by streety 17y ago
You can shut it down and start it up whenever you like. Billing is by the hour so it is perfectly possible to just have it running when you need it and have it shut down for the rest of the time.
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by streety 17y ago
I also do this whenever possible. I've been told by the person handling checking in that I may face an enhanced screen or words to that effect but have always breezed through without any issue. Edit: My experience is travelling from the U

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