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by tanzam75 13y ago
> As a person who actually used to live in a former Soviet republic > Sure. Poland. Poland is a former Soviet satellite . It can also be described as a former Communist republic. It is not, however, a former Soviet republic, a
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> it's very nice for once to see a small country not immediately bend over and lube up the minute the US asks it to. Ah, but Hong Kong is not like any other small country. It is an autonomous region of China, which just happens t
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> it says lapdog Interestingly, "lapdog" appears to be an Americanism. Going by headlines in British newspapers, the equivalent British expression appears to be "poodle." The Economist: "Tony Blair is not Georg
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Unlikely, as their competitive advantage does not come from IT. For example, a bank competes on the basis of access to capital (i.e., deposits), which depends primarily on size, location, and interest rates. Given the choice between upgrad
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by tanzam75 13y ago
A cruise line is not going to get "outmaneuvered by a startup using technology which less than 10 year old. Nor an insurance company. Nor a bank. Nor large agrobusiness. The tech industry is not the only industry that exists in the wor
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> ... the anti-slavery republican north to prevent the southern democratic slavers ... The party system did not form until George Washington's first term. There were certainly factions, but nothing like the "Republican"
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by tanzam75 13y ago
1.5% coupon for 5 years. Note that these are convertible bonds, not regular bonds. The interest rate is reduced by the implied price of the warrant.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
The article does not have to say it. When a company does a secondary offering, that is a dilution, by definition. Dilution by secondary offering does not require shareholder approval, up to a threshold. On the NASDAQ, the threshold is 20%
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by tanzam75 14y ago
> Banks do not directly loan out money from depositors, they keep that money and print(punch in numbers in a computer) 10x that amount for loaning out. No. Only central banks can create money by printing it. An ordinary bank (commerc
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Last I heard, Elon Musk was very cash-poor after his two divorces. Most of his money is tied up in equity stakes in SpaceX and Tesla. So if Tesla fails, then the "personal guarantee" simply turns into SpaceX shares. And SpaceX is a pre-IP
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Graphics drivers were moved into user mode in Windows Vista. If you've ever seen the screen blink, and a balloon pop up saying that the graphics driver was restarted -- that would've been a bluescreen in XP. I wonder why they didn't move t
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Actually, it's even harder than you state. MIT's quota for international applicants is not 15%, but 8%. Sources: (1) http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/international_men_women... (2) http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/admissions-2011-
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Application fees basically pay for the costs of running the Admissions Office. There are very few economies of a scale in an admissions office. Each additional application takes an extra half hours to read. Thus, a certain number of addit
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Unlikely, given the volumes of applications that they're now dealing with. It's simply much harder to get into two elite universities these days. At single-digit admit rates, we're well past the point of selecting for qualified students.
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by tanzam75 14y ago
I remember the Milky Way looking very ... milky. It's just a dim white haze -- much dimmer than the stars surrounding it. The reason it doesn't really look like the photos is that we don't have CCDs in our eyes. When things get dim enough
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by tanzam75 14y ago
It helps that sodium lights produce more lumens/watt than the alternatives.
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Acadia National Park has a decent night sky. That's because Maine is very sparsely populated -- half of the population lives in the 10% of the land area that's closest to Massachusetts. It gets even better if you go farther. Take I-95 up
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Often, it reflects the age of the town. Grid layouts were very common from the mid-19th century to about World War II. For example, Boston's colonial-era city center is a mess, but Back Bay and Cambridgeport are an orderly grid, and the po
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by tanzam75 14y ago
The DMV in New Jersey is not great. It is, however, better than it was ten years ago. It also depends greatly on which office you go to. Trenton is, unsurprisingly, horrible.
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by tanzam75 14y ago
But her US passport also makes her a bigger target. I would've thought the British passport would've offered the best tradeoff. Large enough to do something, small enough to escape notice.
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by tanzam75 14y ago
> I don't think this will ever get fixed since Americans abroad also don't have any representation in congress. Overseas Americans are theoretically represented in Congress at their last American domicile. In practice, this is diffic
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Many states in the US have strict laws against "unlicensed practice of law" -- which includes giving advice. This is why many American commenters feel the need to add an "I Am Not A Lawyer" disclaimer when commenting on any legal issues. I
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by tanzam75 14y ago
> Didn't they get a phone in return ? They got a $400 Android phone. They could've gotten a $600 iPhone without paying any more money. But T-Mobile is not subsidizing the iPhone. If you want an iPhone, then you have to pay more than
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by tanzam75 14y ago
If T-Mobile is successful, this will have far-reaching effects on the industry. Given the choice between a $20 price drop and a new phone, how many people will insist on that new phone? Given a $40 gap between T-Mobile and ($20 price differ
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by tanzam75 14y ago
It takes them, what, four iPads to equal the profit from a single iPhone? Or, equivalently, how many iPad Minis? If iPhone margins ever fell to what they are on the iPad, they'd be smaller than Microsoft, or IBM, or Google. That's the ope
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by tanzam75 14y ago
Why pay an extra $480 a year for emergency service, when you can get it for $30 a year? $30 is what PagePlus will charge you in a year of prepaid service, using the per-minute pay-as-you-go plan. You get access to the entire Verizon networ
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by tanzam75 14y ago
The article said that the user-agent string was changing -- it said nothing about quirks mode going away. If you have an IE6-only intranet application, then by definition you are not depending on user-agent sniffing. In that case, you depe
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by tanzam75 14y ago
On the ammunition point -- The shells and propellant for the 16" guns are leftovers from World War II. The Navy had been operating a 27-battleship Navy during the War, so they had a huge quantity of supplies remaining after the battlesh
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by tanzam75 14y ago
> I don't relish the idea of being forced to re-write some 50,000+ lines of legacy code. You don't have to. Simply set the DOCTYPE to force IE7 quirks mode. This move is clearly intended to improve compatibility with Internet applica
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by tanzam75 14y ago
That is a very good point. It used to be that you had to keep your computer on to serve as your own cloud. If your electricity prices were high, this didn't make sense. But now, the smartphone is the always-on computer. And it uses m

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