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by thematt 15y ago
They did. Some of the supposed pictures of Osama are from in the hanger at the Afghanistan airfield.
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by thematt 15y ago
Occam's razor, him being dead is probably true. However, I thought about that scenario too. Make his followers think he's dead so he loses his figurehead status, then spend the subsequent years interrogating him. As for embarrassment, who s
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by thematt 15y ago
There's no way Netflix could afford to do that. Most of their cash will need to go to licensing deals just to stay ahead of the competition. As streaming video becomes ubiquitous, content will be the differentiating factor.
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by thematt 15y ago
That is way more populated than where I was expecting we would find him. Speculation had been going on for years that he was in a cave in the mountains of Pakistan or some remote village. I see a college, drugstores and even a movie theater
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by thematt 15y ago
Awesome, congrats on the bootstrapping! Yeah, I agree, many investors have a higher tolerance for risk than someone who's putting the livelihood of their family at stake.
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Why use credit when you have cash?(blog.investy.com)
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by thematt 15y ago
Normally, yeah, it would be semantics. Except in this case Buffett gave the appearance of being soft on the situation up until the audit committee at Berkshire released the damning report against Sokol. I believe this article is drawing the
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by thematt 15y ago
He wasn't fired, he resigned.
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by thematt 15y ago
That's one overly dramatic title. Buffett has navigated far worse situations in his business career. Look at what he went through with Solomon. That situation actually had the potential to sink his entire company. Buffett may have lost a su
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by thematt 15y ago
Why was it an overreaction? This guy was a contract worker who decided to pursue his own investigation during work hours, taking advantage of the privileges granted to him by Google. They're well within their rights to request his terminati
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by thematt 15y ago
They also need developers creating content for the platform, which isn't happening either. Chicken and an egg there, though.
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by thematt 15y ago
If MIT will have no voting authority under this new arrangement then I wonder what the value of actually giving the shares is. Couldn't Bose just donate all their earnings to MIT every fiscal year instead, earn a tax deduction and avoid the
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by thematt 15y ago
I don't think quality and safety are concerns unique to Cydia. Why does it scare you to use it? Do you really have any way of knowing what "genuine" apps downloaded from the appstore are doing? http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/10/04/iphone
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by thematt 15y ago
You can. I share an account with other family members, we all stream and we all live at different addresses.
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by thematt 15y ago
I disagree, they have some great stuff and it's getting better all the time as they sign new contracts. In terms of discovering content, this is a great site for anyone who uses Netflix streaming regularly: http://instantwatcher.com/
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by thematt 16y ago
I believe this was already explained, but I can't remember where. Siemens had been working with the Idaho National Laboratory to identify vulnerabilities in the PCS systems, which were then used in the exploits that Stuxnet leveraged. The U
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by thematt 16y ago
Public education isn't free either. You just pay for it every April instead of every semester.
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by thematt 16y ago
It's not that simple. They signed a treaty agreeing to back those accounts (like the FDIC does) in exchange for having access to EU markets, even though they aren't in the EU. It seems they're breaking the terms of that treaty.
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by thematt 16y ago
You're not the only one. There's a sizable underground economy in this country that feels the same way about traceability. Organized crime, drug transactions, and black market goods represent an enormous amount of currency exchange. Even no
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by thematt 16y ago
No advertising is a given. In their defense, I think we have the PC manufacturers to blame for this one. I do agree that Microsoft should push hard to minimize that stuff though.
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by thematt 16y ago
Link: http://www.bing.com/maps/explore/#/c7pvw1whdkp6ggvw
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by thematt 16y ago
I'd be curious to know what Facebook's stats are, because they're WAY larger than any of the other photo sharing sites.
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by thematt 16y ago
Yes, it's all combined. You need a US corporation to signup I believe.
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by thematt 16y ago
The situation where somebody is being forced to pay a bribe is already illegal. Why do I actually have to pay it in order for the authorities to do something about it? This seems erroneously predicated on the assumption that the briber is d
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by thematt 16y ago
Braintree: http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/
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by thematt 16y ago
Concerned? Yes. Panicked? Probably not. I think the media's presentation of the situation is more the latter.
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by thematt 16y ago
Twitter had scalability problems and they were on RoR, but it got solved. Scaling to those levels is always going to uncover problems in your architecture. What mattered was the way MySpace chose to execute, not the technology they did it w
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by thematt 16y ago
You're right, but that's not all the funding they get. The member stations also get tax deductions, grants from federal/state/local government as well as grants from government funded universities. This is from a (clearly) slanted source, b
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by thematt 16y ago
Most times the police won't pursue crimes this small, it's just not worth their time. He might have better luck with campus security.
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by thematt 16y ago
This is the perfect situation where Prey (open source), would have come in handy: http://preyproject.com/

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