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by tisme 14y ago
I've dated someone studying Biology/Biochemistry for a while. This was interesting because the field itself is interesting so we had a lot to talk about. She was doing a PhD in a subject that was important to me (diabetes) and that I got to
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by tisme 14y ago
That's a tricky one. On the one hand I'd say just a guy with paint on his shirt, but the fact that you know what Cadmium Yellow is definitely qualifies you as a painter!
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by tisme 14y ago
Because once you've won a race there is no point in continuing to run. Access to space never was about access to space to begin with, it was a showdown on the world political stage.
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by tisme 14y ago
Thank you very much for that reply. I have a 590 and I'm pretty happy with it, been eying the 690 but I wasn't able to find any real world non gaming benchmarks.
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by tisme 14y ago
Why would you buy the previous generation GPUs when you can get the current one?
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by tisme 14y ago
> I like to store electrons to conserve keystrokes. But re-posting the same stuff over and over does not conserve page space. Maybe you could link to your older comment instead of re-posting it?
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by tisme 14y ago
If you haven't dealt with an elevated fraud risk yet then you are not yet running a successful business. Dealing with fraud and abuse takes up a good percentage of the time and other resources at any successful online service. If you don't
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by tisme 14y ago
Bezos may be a very smart guy, but I don't see - short of him becoming an expert in quantum physics - how his investing or not investing in this company means anything with respect to them being onto something.
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by tisme 14y ago
One step away from a braintree wallet!
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by tisme 14y ago
Don't grow up ;)!
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by tisme 14y ago
I'm imagining a swarm of these running in to stuff, hot exhausts + gas = the occasional crash. Suddenly you have a bunch of fires to contend with instead of just one! Better use electrically powered ones (though the range may be prohibitive
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by tisme 14y ago
Three years late to the party (because I couldn't afford a CD player) one customer instead of defaulting on a payment offered me his CD player instead. It came with this CD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_in_Arms_%28Dire_Strait...
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by tisme 14y ago
Another reason was so they wouldn't be stolen so often!
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by tisme 14y ago
I think you will only be able to say how long it went when it expires.
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by tisme 14y ago
Gas powered water bucket carrying quadrotors are probably better at setting fires than putting them out.
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by tisme 14y ago
It's only illegal if you get convicted seems to be the current thinking. As far as using that data is concerned, that's not a god given right, you could easily write terms-of-service that allow just that. See Gmail.
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by tisme 14y ago
It's simply a factor of how many people use a given medium. As soon as a large fraction of the population uses it then legislators will start to care about it. The only way to bring back the internet of the 90's is to start a new one. And o
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by tisme 14y ago
The biggest single factor that makes biking safe is a legislative one. If you adopt the model where hitting a bike with a car automatically puts the car in the wrong you can lose the helmet.
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by tisme 14y ago
Do you have an amazon credit card? As far as I know they use GE as the issuing bank, they may have other deals in place. As far as I know - but this may very well be wrong or at least out of date - amazon does not have a banking license and
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by tisme 14y ago
There is a huge difference between a card present, authorized charge and a card-not-present unauthorized rebill.
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by tisme 14y ago
One day you'll grow up.
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by tisme 14y ago
> I'm kind of surprised no one has started a service for merchants to warn them of chargeback prone customers (there are people who go straight for the chargeback without even trying for a refund first). There are plenty of such service
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by tisme 14y ago
Well, it's sad in a way but there are consumers that use it exactly like that. They order stuff and then charge back the money in the hope that the merchant won't care enough to fight the chargeback, which can cost a multiple of the origina
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by tisme 14y ago
39K worth of Forth is a very large program. Most forth code never grows beyond a couple of screens. That doesn't mean there isn't a lot of functionality, it just means that forth is unusually dense.
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by tisme 14y ago
I have a 2 foot tall stack of Java manuals here that beg to differ :) Java is big, the java ecosystem is huge . Sure, it does more than turbo pascal, but if you're able to go from 0 to learning the entire language in a few months of work t
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by tisme 14y ago
And even then that's not the whole chain. After all, a GE capital card is backed by another card company: http://www.gemoney.com.au/en/credit_cards/index.html Piss off VISA/MC/JCB/AMEX and you're in trouble.
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by tisme 14y ago
That's pretty accurate. As far as the verdicts are concerned, yes, they can take a while to process but if a company gets a negative reputation the process tends to be expedited considerably.
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by tisme 14y ago
That is true in theory, but in practice, especially in situations like this that does not happen. For that there would have to be a much more transparent sign up process and actual delivery. Non-performance is not a good basis to start a la
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by tisme 14y ago
4T is a pretty large amount of data though. I think what will happen is that more and more funds will move to SSD research and improvements, pretty much the same way it happened around the time that the GMR was discovered and first marketed
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by tisme 14y ago
Theory doesn't matter much here. Especially not with automated debiting of checking accounts to pay the balance or some amount of interest or a combination of those. As a customer of the card company you have the right to dispute charges as

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