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   by tezza 14y ago

   This is straight out of "Idiocracy" ! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/quotes Narrator: The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution,
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   by tezza 14y ago

   For the command line inclined, I stumbled upon a gem the other day http://superuser.com/a/483464 describes a function sleep_until , which will wait until a certain time to execute following commands. It's great for ad-hoc delayed execut
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   by tezza 14y ago

   I hear you. But Glass is just the current one amongst many future devices. What are we gonna do when we cannot even perceive the recording equipment ? Spies do this, and journalists are quite happy to use these techniques. Someone with a 36
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   by tezza 14y ago

   If you go out of business, do my guided-tours go as well ? Or perhaps you generate a tour that I can host myself ?
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   by tezza 14y ago

   I agree very much ! But I would say that then the statement becomes 'general-good-advice' rather than 'suicide agent'
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   by tezza 14y ago

   Good article. It adds something valuable to the (anti/)cheerleading body of evidence that a lot of aspiring startup folk base their should-or-shouldn't-I decisions on. I would add that I know several people who committed suicide, and these
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   by tezza 14y ago

   I do not agree. Any gluten at all gives my wife stomach problems. This happens whether she knows it has gluten or not. -- My wife tried what the parent poster said in a similar way No stomach problems ==> Not eating gluten Surely
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   by tezza 14y ago

   Capital gains is a tough one because the "gain" could just move to a foreign asset CrunchFund could start being denominated in Pesetas, Roubles, Euro or Sterling. The interest deduction makes the effective rate of circa 15% internationally
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   by tezza 14y ago

   I’m going to try to pass off L1 support to a VA in 2013 Can I ask what a VA is in this context?
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    by tezza 14y ago

    I agree. Sometimes it is clear-cut like you describe. Often, though, it is a judgement call between one's gut feeling and the science facts mentioned by advisors. There are limits to what people can communicate, and I think that an expert o
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    by tezza 14y ago

    ? At some stage the science must be condensed into someones head and becomes opinion. Even if that opinion is 'What is the current scientific view of this?', it is still an opinion of a flawed human being. So Politicians must get as good as
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Quelle Surprise, a Journalist paints the picture that a local decision is wrong and englightened foreigners got it right. This is linkbait, pure and simple. --- What worked for Iceland... less people, first to go, not in EU, few options, hi
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    by tezza 14y ago

    I do it deliberately, as I have very poor vision and find it impossible to read block text these days. Please excuse my preference for commenting this way.
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    by tezza 14y ago

    I think they're both right: because there is more than one problem facing us. The press like to focus on one issue at a time. Europe last week, US elections yesterday, fiscal cliff today and China tomorrow. The reality is that there are man
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Lol. I wasn't saying goats are the only methods! Merely a cheap passive solution. Dedicated and skilled engineers best of course.
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Israel uses goats to clear Syrian mines in the Golan Heights That would seem cheaper here too, and the still-alive goats can make milk.
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    by tezza 14y ago

    I want to put a reminder that Windows itself provides a lot of background command scripting via WHost http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/... Things like accessing namespace folders, creating shortcuts, etc are eas
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Nice! My wife and I have been looking in North London lately. A huge problem is that properties that have sold are still listed a long time afterwards. We've had to stop using online search helpers because of all of the false positives. Wil
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Looks like The Register[1] has picked up your clarifications straight from HN and your blog. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/22/3d_simulation_babbag...
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    by tezza 14y ago

    I figured I'll wait until the competition is over. When I see the announcement of the winner, it may be better than my implementation and I will congratulate them. If not, then I'll post mine and see.
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    by tezza 14y ago

    There's a mix. The previous meetup was down the pub.
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Help me out here as a UK person: What sort of Robocalls are there ? Here in the UK there are variants. 1) Pause to hear you pickup, then they connect to a human salesperson 2) Full blown automated call 3) Human on the other end bu
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Worth re-stating that they still had a severe outage due to other speculative corrective measures they took. http://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-what-todays-network-o... Yesterday I posted a post mortem on an outage we had Saturd
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    by tezza 14y ago

    This looks incredibly useful, thanks. I'd been kinda using two methods to do this already * OpenVPN plus tun firewalling * stunnel Your solution is just so much a better fit for small-scale ( socket level protection ), it hurts. Ho
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Yeah, running an .exe ? Why would I do that ? "Your hosts file has been updated. Thank you for your automatic donation to our fund from your bitcoin wallet"
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Matrilineality is mostly from the Talmud , a collection of Rabbinic opinion. The Old Testament / Bible allows both parents to determine Judaism in the child. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrilineality_in_Judaism http://en.wikipedia.org/
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Typically they are tiered. There'll be a near-line HDD array. This is for the recent content and content they profile as being common-access. Then there'll be a robotic tape library. Any restore request will go in a queue annd when an arm-t
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Microsoft Sidewinder X6 gets my vote. Removable numpad, banks of accelerator keys and volume spinners top off excellent key action.
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    by tezza 14y ago

    London 22:53h took 50s to respond with an error page: This website is offline No cached version is available
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    by tezza 14y ago

    Hmm, I must have a differing understanding of 'support' Global user stats*:Support: 52.22% Yet no version of IE supports it, that ranks support close to 0% IMO. I'm no IE lover, but lots of users still have it as their main browser.