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by sxcurry 13y ago
Oregonian here. Although the incidence of meth labs here in Southern Oregon has certainly dropped, which is a good thing, I doubt the number of meth users has changed much if at all. The meth is now coming from Mexico, much higher quality,
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Agreed, especially the part where he describes how he called up Boeing and asked how to buy a 747. Great book.
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Are you using Chrome? I believe this is a known bug. I just hit back repeatedly until I'm free to go.
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Can you supply more details - maybe I am missing something. My EC2 instance has been up for 249 days now and my node.js webserver instance seems very responsive. I still think it's a reasonable trade-off in terms of cost. My time is ex
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Sorry, I was trying to be cute. Major Fail me.
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Right, 9 million is pretty unimpressive, especially when you consider that Blackberry managed to sell over 3 million last quarter. Major Fail Apple.
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by sxcurry 13y ago
I'm running a small project on a fixed server 24/7 and AWS makes sense for me. Why? I'm a one man team supporting a research project. I have no ability to self host. I have no time to look around at a lot of options and tryin
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Crap? Really? I upgraded yesterday and think it's amazingly good, in spite of a few minor issues. Do you have any concept of what it took to imagine, develop, implement, test, and distribute something like this to 100 million devices?
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by sxcurry 13y ago
I've read literature and New Republic this isn't literature!
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by sxcurry 13y ago
I tried to read the article while eating lunch, and had to stop (reading and eating). Does the word "florid" apply here?
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Sorry, you are wrong. In a truly dark site with well adapted eyes the Milky Way looks very much like this. I just got back from an observatory in the Oregon high desert, and the views were staggering. The dust lanes and many other details w
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by sxcurry 13y ago
I thought this was the case, and bought an electronic subscription a year or so ago. As you say, good International coverage, but the writing was shockingly bad in many cases - technically incorrect and sloppy. I cancelled.
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by sxcurry 13y ago
OK, I'll be more specific. The CPI is determined by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a group of professional career civil servants. The article makes the vague claim that the "government" is incentivized to report as low as rate as possible.
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Not just you, there's so much wrong about this article that I don't know where to begin. My father is a retired Statistician, and I know that the computation of inflation is a seriously considered matter by a lot of smart people. The statem
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by sxcurry 13y ago
Another option is to make the content more compelling. Let's face it - even the NYTimes (which I pay for) has a lot of really poorly written articles, especially in the Tech and Business arenas. It takes a lot of my time to sort through the
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by sxcurry 14y ago
Exactly - the human body is well designed to eat and enjoy a wide variety of foods. Many (most?) of us enjoy eating - when I travel that's one of my main goals - to eat as much different and interesting food as possible. Why do you think we
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All Krugman All the Time(krugmantimes.com)
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by sxcurry 14y ago
This is an important and interesting discussion, and I appreciate your viewpoint from the "inside" as it were. Let me try to explain my civilian perspective. As one of the (unwilling) funders of the Afghan war, I believe it's in my best int
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by sxcurry 14y ago
How do you figure that? He gave us access to information that we have a right to, so that we can make our own informed decisions. Do you remember the Pentagon Papers and the effect they had on the Vietnam War? In my mind he's a true patriot
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by sxcurry 14y ago
I believe you are correct - most of the bailout money has been repaid: As of December 31, 2012, the Treasury had received over $405 billion in total cash back on TARP investments, equaling nearly 97 percent of the $418 billion disbursed und
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by sxcurry 14y ago
"not authorized under the constitution" Can you give some specifics about why this is so?
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by sxcurry 14y ago
Your analysis seems to ignore a fundamental number - the Price/Earnings ratio. Looking at a forward PE, which is a number that help drive stock prices, Apple is around 10 and Amazon over 100. No matter what you thing about Apple vs Android,
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by sxcurry 14y ago
Consider the source. This does not correspond at all to my experience teaching part time at a local liberal arts college. My students have been smart, hard-working, and very realistic about their abilities and the real world. They are so fa
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by sxcurry 14y ago
Thanks for the idea - just added here as well.
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by sxcurry 14y ago
tl;dnr It's so crowded, nobody goes there anymore (after Yogi Berra)
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by sxcurry 14y ago
I agree - I find the clean crisp look of the new iOS GMail App to be very pleasing. On the small iPhone screen, it improves readability and functionality. Ditto for the new Maps App. Compared to where Google iOS apps were a year or two ago,
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by sxcurry 14y ago
Agree - this type of parable may be suitable for small children, but if you think about it, it has zero information content, and no applicability to the real world. I'd much rather read a real story about a real bridge or two - that's what
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by sxcurry 14y ago
Sorry, but I completely disagree. Did you read any of the extremely critical articles over the last few years, even in the mainstream so-called "liberal" press. Obama was strongly criticized over his policies and actions. One example - the
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by sxcurry 14y ago
Important take-away - don't ever start compromising on your hourly or weekly rate. Patio is correct - it's very difficult to recover from that. Plus, in my experience, clients who want to bargain on your compensation are already devaluing w
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by sxcurry 14y ago
Totally agree - my new Sony Blu-ray player may be electronically OK, but boy the software/firmware is awful. Horrible interface, slow startup, crummy remote, and an obtrusive software update notice that pops up a few minutes into a DVD. My

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