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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Well, they added the nice "feature" of bugging you sign up for partner offers, whether loans, credit cards, or whatever. That was the whole business model that Mint was based upon. They'd give you the service for free
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> Another piece of the puzzle is that a single new bank isn't going to have it a whole lot better when it comes to interbank stuff (probably they have it worse, having to build useful relationships). Interbank transfers -- wire an
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Well, it's pretty common for municipal power companies to return a profit to the city, which is then used to offset property taxes. In fact, a number of successful muni fiber projects have been managed by the municipal power company,
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Large capital expenditures undertaken by municipalities are usually funded by bonds. A municipality would issue bonds to fund the replacement of their water mains, which are breaking and pouring water into the streets every winter. It wo
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Yeah, Mark Cuban actually managed to turn his bubble shares of YHOO into cold, hard cash. How much cash did Steve Case manage to withdraw from the stock market piggy bank?
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by tanzam75 13y ago
And AOL Time Warner just about ruined the chances of that sort of thing happening again. If any Board of Directors tried to pull off that kind of stock-based deal today, they're going to have a proxy fight on their hands. These days,
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by tanzam75 13y ago
All companies in the US are required to report GAAP numbers according to the rules. Some companies choose not to follow the rules. But this is risky, because eventually someone with an accounting background will detect the discrepancies,
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Verizon had started selling off it's Fiber installs before 2009 (which I still scratch my head at). Well, it's not like they were trying to get rid of fiber. Verizon sold off all its wireline operations in rural and no
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Venture as an asset class has underperformed the S&P over the last 10 years[1], so you probably aren't missing out on much. And that's actually biasing the comparison in VC's favor. The S&P 500 is a large-cap i
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Suppose Microsoft does this with Windows X -- releases a version of Windows with an top-notch UNIX subsystem and excellent tooling. All the geeks tell their families to buy Windows PCs, because it "has UNIX underpinnings!" Micros
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> One thing I like about Apple developer docs (on developer.apple.com) that MSDN doesn't have (at least didn't last time I looked) is the ability to get a PDF covering specific topics. These are useful when I would rather have
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Visual Studio's Python and Ruby plugins seem quite decent and free if you're on VS Pro and up. They're free, period. You don't need Visual Studio Pro -- you just need to install the isolated shell.
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> The memory model is, IMHO, where Microsoft is pushing the limits of the existing C# language. What has Microsoft changed in the .NET memory model that makes you think they're pushing the limits? From what I can tell, the .NET me
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Hold a compass straight in front of you. Now walk due east without re-orienting yourself. That is in essence what you are doing if you use the N star as a guide, but insist on orienting the map with east on top. Take out the compass
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> You want to see where a hand compass is pointing, you turn until the needle points ahead or 'up'; then you read off the heading (or the other way around). Not too far from that, to writing it on paper that way. No, that&#x2
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> As said earlier in the thread: Because of the North Star. But that doesn't explain why north points up. It only explains why the compass rose points north. As the article says: "These maps had no real up or down — pictures
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by tanzam75 13y ago
That's true, but that doesn't explain why North is at the top. For example, the Chinese also live in the Northern hemisphere. But as the Al Jazeera article points out, the Chinese put south at the top. The Chinese discovered the
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> From my understanding a Bird Strike during launch would only occur very early in the flight, where the shuttle was still traveling at a relatively low speed. There are a number of birds that can fly up to 10,000 feet. At 10,000 feet
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by tanzam75 13y ago
The engineers knew why there was blow-by on the O-ring -- joint rotation. The obvious solution was to redesign the field joint to resist this rotation, so that the O-ring would never be exposed to hot gases. All they needed was time and
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Yes, the Buran had tiles. However, it was not vulnerable to falling foam, because the Soviets put the insulation on the inside of the Energia: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20664-cosmonaut-soviet... That having
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by tanzam75 13y ago
See Columbia Accident Investigation Board report, page 127. Hoot Gibson's comments are on p. 31 of the second PDF: http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/caib/PDFS/VOL1/PART02.PDF Most of the testimony given
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Not true, there would've been options available. After the loss of Columbia , engineers came up with two ways to save the crew: a rescue mission, and an emergency repair EVA. The rescue mission would've been hazardous, but the e
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> It really astounded me when I learned no shuttle was inspected for damage while in orbit until after the loss of the Columbia. Atlantis was hit by tank insulation during launch of STS-27 (1988). While in space, the astronauts insp
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Not only did Gregg Easterbrook's article describe the dangers that would eventually lead to the demise of the Challenger and the Columbia , but he also mentions a third failure mode: the Space Shuttle Main Engines. Could easily have
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> (Yes, I know there are no frozen lakes in Sochi, it's an example) I'm sure he can find a frozen lake in Moscow to jump on. After all, the reporter was in Moscow -- not Sochi -- for the hacking story.
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Right, programming is just very, very hard to teach. From the paper: > And even in the most encouraging of our results, we ﬁnd a 50% success rate in those who don’t score C0 or CM2.
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> Thanks for the pointer to handle! You're welcome, it's a useful tool when you just can't seem to delete a file. Although you're right -- it's called handle (singular), not handles (plural). Actually, I
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> (Aaahhhhhh! Cognos! Aaahhhhhhh!) Aha! Now we know where NASA's IT budget went -- to IBM. IBM specializes in making sure that you spend your full IT budget each year, so that upper management isn't tempted to cut it next ye
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> Putting it on the top of the stack would prevent the first stage engines from being reused. That's true, but reusability was the wrong goal. It forced a bad design to be adopted. It also led directly to the wishful thinking (5
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Earth Science is only 10% of NASA's budget. From NASA's 2014 budget request (in millions of dollars): http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/750614main_NASA_FY_2014_Budget_Estim... Science 5,017.8 Aero

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