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by tanzam75 13y ago
The Huffington Post does not have pension obligations, and it doesn't pay its reporters six-figure salaries and benefits. (Well, not most of them, anyway.)
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If you've got 6000% the required energy, then 35% efficiency is not of major concern. Three orders of magnitude makes a world of difference.
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I think you're off by a factor of 1000. I get 980 terawatt -hours of energy. If, as you say, 971 GWh is equivalent to 6% of total energy usage, then 980 TWh is 6000% total energy usage. Of course, you don't get 100% efficiency
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You haven't demontrated anything that makes software patents different from other patents. Everything you wrote applies to non-software patents as well, with appropriate adjustments of the remaining wording. ("software developers
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A million here, a million there, pretty soon you're talking about real money. As for your personal attacks upon me, I think it evident that you just want to pick a fight. Four sentences in your post, and all four contain more insult t
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> That's not how it works, VCs are like record publishers, doesn't matter if most of your companies suck as long as one is a hit. I know how venture capital is supposed to work. The problem is that it hasn't been workin
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> You don't really lose anything for other peoples failures (unless you're investing money you're not willing to lose) A number of pension funds are invested in venture capital. Thus, a lot of people are unknowingly losi
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> Even if it were to increase it's earnings, just a quick glance at Google Finance shows it's P/E 2,231. Google Finance has not recalculated the ratios yet. At present, Facebook is trading around 100x earnings.
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Meetings with the other managers. I knew someone who was put into a partial-managerial role, i.e., still did real work, but counted as only half an FTE for the purposes of project planning. The management role was to oversee two people. So
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I worked with someone who got fired for hosting MP3s on a surplus corporate machine. At least, that was the excuse they used when they fired him. I think the actual reason was that he was hard to get along with. However, it's difficu
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> They didn't provide a compiler - hell, they changed you for it - until the MSDN happened around 2000, development material was sparse and expensive (compared to man pages existing for 30 years before that). It looks like you&#x2
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Hezbollah is in conflict with Israel. Carlos Ghosn's background is Maronite Christian.
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Microsoft had net income of $5 billion last quarter. $100 million isn't "getting rich," but it is 2% of net income. Granted, it's a smaller percentage of net revenues than of net income. But patent licenses are essenti
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> They also use dynamic breaking resistors to the convert kinetic energy of the trains into heat energy. Fans then blow across the resistors to cool them. On subways, the electricity generated by dynamic braking is sent back into the t
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> Can someone actually explain to me what Cygwin does internally? Doesn't Windows already implement POSIX? . Used to. Subsystem for UNIX Applications is now deprecated. Cygwin runs on top of Win32, and its library functions call
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Fidelity is mostly actively-managed, as is T. Rowe Price. They may still be owned by small investors, but they are not index funds. Rather, they're "mutual" funds. State Street and BGI are 100% indexed, and Vanguard is 90%
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Those are "institutional investors," not "market makers." Market makers try their best to hold 0 shares. Note that some of Fidelity's shares, about 90% of Vanguard's shares, and 100% of BlackRock's [1] sh
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Suffice it to say, I do understand a bit about markets > so I'm assuming this is 'market makers' that are selling off shares and pushing the price down. No. That is not what a "market maker" does. A mar
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Services for UNIX has been deprecated. It is no longer being kept up-to-date with new Windows versions. That's because the primary purpose of these tools was not to provide a UNIX environment for users. Rather, it was to provide a
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Google Ireland is an Irish corporation. It has US owners, but so do many Irish corps. Yes, and Google was very much involved in the recent controversy in Britain over taxation of multinationals. The British are very much aware that t
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> In other news, Guinness also does not pay taxes to the US for beer sold in Ireland. It only pays taxes on profits made from beer sales in the US. Those green fiends! Diageo, which owns Guinness, is a British corporation. Thus, it is
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If you were being paid more money to grow beets on land that could support soybeans, why wouldn't you grow beets? It's economically rational to the farmer who's getting subsidies -- even though it's economically irratio
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From 2008-2011: - Average price of raw sugar, world market: $492.8 per tonne - Average price of HFCS-55, US market: $528.1 per tonne (HFCS-55 has equivalent sweetness to sucrose.) Sugar vs. HFCS is a natural experiment. Americans are the e
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The previous three comments, from three different people, all seem to think that we're stuck with corn syrup because we can't grow enough sugarcane in the US. But sugarcane is not the only way to produce sucrose! Sugar beets curre
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European designers seem to enjoy tweaking the noses of font snobs. IKEA and Verdana being the classic example.
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China does not have to win for the United States to lose. The talented person might go to Europe, or to Canada. Or he might stay home and contribute towards the economy of his native land.
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Well, that's why he flew to Hong Kong originally, and why he's currently transiting through a Moscow airport. The trouble for Snowden is: neither the Chinese nor the Russians want to keep him.
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You don't even have to go to a civil law jurisdiction like Germany. Loser-pays is also how the British legal system works. I have a better one. A losing plaintiff should pay some small percentage, say 2%, of the damages that they sou
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Willful patent infringement may lead to triple damages. (In legal terminology, called "treble" damages.) However, if you've never even looked at the patent, then by definition you cannot be infringing willfully. The payout
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by tanzam75 13y ago
The link for the IE Developer Toolbar in the original article carries a date of September 19, 2005 in the URL. Which makes sense, because it was demonstrated at PDC 2005, which was the previous week. Link: http://betanews.com&

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