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by tiatia 13y ago
"I've read The Economist for 20 years. Despite understanding the financial markets better than most..." outch.. "For example, you can think of the market as a random walk with an upward bias." outch again. If you th
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by tiatia 13y ago
"Your weight is determined" No. If at all, they are only a part of the problem and you have the chicken - egg problem. Do you have different bacteria because you are fat or are you fat because you have different bacteria? Causes a
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by tiatia 13y ago
I think the demo is the pro version already. They have a decent forum: http://www.afterlogic.com/forum I installed it on a hosting account and it works well. But I still fighting to get a tiny VPS running to host my email.
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by tiatia 13y ago
No, there is Horde and Squirrel mail. I myself prefer webmail.afterlogic.com It has a free light version.
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by tiatia 13y ago
Afterlogic has a free lite version I like it compared to other scripts like SquirrelMail or Horde. webmail.afterlogic.com
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by tiatia 13y ago
Yes, it is. (Beijing)
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by tiatia 13y ago
One question: Is Tor now totally blocked in China? Tor does not work here for me, even with bridges. Any words of wisdom? Otherwise: A lot of useful comments here already. - what is blocked today, maybe blocked or not blocked tomorrow. E.g.
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by tiatia 13y ago
OK, asshole here: "Then, there are the guests. As soon as someone stays at a hotel, they think they're entitled to act like an asshole." You know, you may have a tremendously challenging job, are jet-lagged and still have to
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by tiatia 13y ago
"It's a visualisation of the phenomenon, it's not a proof," Genovese says of the experiment. Wow. They now have "proof" in Science. Genovese has brought the scientific method to a complete new level.
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by tiatia 13y ago
Always funny http://www.schneierfacts.com/facts/top
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by tiatia 13y ago
Well, I have a US passport (naturalized). Yes, I want to live in China and I am actually going to.
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by tiatia 13y ago
You can test for a computer simulation: http://www.simulation-argument.com/
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by tiatia 13y ago
Yeah, sure. On a 4pt font. With none of the pattern in a dictionary....
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by tiatia 13y ago
OCR? Nearly impossible. OCR only works decent in combination with a dictionary.
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by tiatia 13y ago
http://people.umass.edu/gbecker/BeckerChes13.pdf http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...
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by tiatia 13y ago
You know what? I wrote borrow but changed it to lend. I guess I will never learn (memorize) it. Something like the difference between schwul und schwül (gay vs. humid). My English girl friend could never tell which is which and some days, t
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by tiatia 13y ago
Random numbers and the NSA http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma...
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by tiatia 13y ago
I am nearly done building my own. Had a couple of boards etched for me (16 Euro incl. shipping for 4 boards with holes pre drilled) I will lend the soldering gun from my brother today and build it. Unfortunately I realized I am short 1 4.kO
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by tiatia 13y ago
"For those wanting a cheap HWRNG, a growing number of CPUs include them now." Sure they do. I just read a paper how you could make a bias to this hwrng. I think it was even here on HN.
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by tiatia 13y ago
"but let's be clear: these "review" sites are shady operations that extort retailers by aggregating negative reviews and charging to hide them." Sounds like a perfect business for you to invest in. Lots of synergies
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by tiatia 13y ago
They would never get away with the style of their English site in Germany. Honestly, I doubt they will get away in the US in the long run.
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by tiatia 13y ago
Would be nice, if the dick had a name....
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by tiatia 13y ago
Yes, great Business. Great ROI if your are into it ;-)
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by tiatia 13y ago
But I am. It is illegal, to automatically opt-in for such a service during check-out.
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by tiatia 13y ago
"if we assume the investors in this business do perform due diligence, is there another possible explanation? " Wrong. Investors decided that they can make money with a business with an obvious predatory business model. It might
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by tiatia 13y ago
Dude, I am looking too. Try this: http://www.edis.at/en/server/linux-vserver/iceland/vrs-micro... Austrian company but they offer hosting in Iceland. I once tried Malaysia. Bad idead, lot's of spam
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by tiatia 13y ago
"So long as governments allow adequate competition the markets will meet customer demands." Yeah, especially in the "market for lemons"....
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by tiatia 13y ago
"If customers were being tricked into paying roaming charges in nefarious ways;" Like, living on the border and your phone checks into the wrong side of the border and you get billed 1000nds? Tricked like that?
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by tiatia 13y ago
Emacs is one of the most powerful and impressive programs I have ever seen. It just lacks a decent editor.
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by tiatia 13y ago
I am libertarian and pro market. I like the idea of BI. The problem with our modern "capitalist" society is that you are forced to play the game with no exit options. Earlier it was possible to "just move West" and start

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