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by travisp 15y ago
>When the extradition process is started, it is because the relevant authorities have already decided the individual is guilty. So, what is the right approach? Start the extradition process when you don't believe the individual is guilt
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by travisp 15y ago
>This is completely out of hand now. The US is now a country where you are guilty until proven innocent. Am I missing something? Has he been found guilty? Why is an extradition the same thing as being "guilty until proven innocent"? By
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by travisp 15y ago
>Pretty much everyone I hand my Android Tablet to, when they're not used it. Will instantly hit the home or back button by accident after 5 seconds of holding. I've had a Galaxy Nexus for since early January. I like the phone, but I fre
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by travisp 15y ago
Let's suppose the story was bogus and the reporters would look stupid (neither is true). The TSA might still not want the story to be spread widely, because people will remember the original story, but not the corrections hidden in smal
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by travisp 15y ago
Monetarily they were just slapped on the wrist, but operationally they were not. Talk to people who worked or work at Microsoft. They've been restricted from many (arguably good) moves with their software because of the Justice Department's
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by travisp 15y ago
I'm not sure I would describe Compass as a CSS framework. Compass and Bootstrap are not the same thing. Compass is a CSS Authoring Framework, and it can be used with boostrap (although it's not yet at bootstrap verison 2): https://github
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by travisp 15y ago
No, I don't have an employer covering my cost. The full cost for my $5000 high deductible individual plan is $85/month. Perhaps the difference is that my plan was purchased in Illinois (Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois). I know state mand
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by travisp 15y ago
I am 27, so my case might not apply to older people. However, for me in the US, I pay approximately $85/month for a high deductible plan as an individual. I am stuck with the first $5,000/year of medical expenses, of which in most years I o
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by travisp 15y ago
I'm sure it does cause potential complications to an extent. However, I know of at least two comparable situations that occur without medical intervention: 1) Pregnant women -- During pregnancy, and to some extent afterward, the mother's bl
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The Google Anti-SOPA Statement, Corporate Speech, and the 1st Amendment(volokh.com)
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by travisp 15y ago
While true, I'm sure that there are plenty of users who search for information about something they don't think is an emergency, and then find out it is.
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by travisp 15y ago
>Encyclopedias should not just switch off for political reasons. Even if that political reason threatens to shut off the encyclopedia?
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by travisp 15y ago
While they do get "+1" for this, they haven't provided any further details of what exactly they did with the passwords. Did they use a salt? Was the hashing algorithm MD5, bcrypt, or something else? If they used MD5 with no salt, your passw
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by travisp 15y ago
> it is not because the Founders thought it was a fundamental, inalienable right, it is because IP is a pragmatic solution to a practical problem: how do you encourage people to put forth the effort required to invent things and create
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A new court ruling today allows compensation for bone marrow donors(washingtonpost.com)
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How to find a tech co-founder (and what to do if you still can't find one)(travispew.com)
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by travisp 15y ago
>Now please get back to China bashing and don't let the facts get in the way of your political/religious feelings. Remember to include lots anecdotal evidence and use the word red. And as always bring up other countries that seem scary
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by travisp 15y ago
> I'm surprised any of you yanks still have any money left, considering how easy one can take all your money, if one comes into possession of your card. In most cases, at least for Americans, if your credit card gets stolen, you aren't
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by travisp 15y ago
>Google isn't using it to post to a users wall/feed so that advertisers have more keywords to advertise to. Neither is Facebook. Facebook is not using their like buttons for this feature, it is a separate opt-in feature.
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by travisp 15y ago
It's true that Facebook almost certainly tracks users through the like button, but that is different than what is being talked about here. When Facebook tracks that you read a webpage through a like button, they do not display it in your
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by travisp 15y ago
Major cross-licensing is sometimes viewed with caution now as I understand it because of regulatory antitrust issues, but this seems like it would not have been the case around World War I. The same problem occurred during the invention of
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by travisp 15y ago
So sit-stand desks are a bad solution because people don't actually use them? What's wrong with this logic? It's not bad logic if you consider more contexts than just you deciding whether or not to use a sit-stand desk on your own. If mos
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by travisp 15y ago
I could never get in the habit of stopping every 20 minutes and moving around. However, after several months with my sit-stand desk, the Steelcase Series 7 (what they have at 37 signals), I find I stand for around 5-6 hours of each day. I m
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by travisp 15y ago
Likes fine on Chrome for Linux, maybe it's a Windows setting.
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by travisp 15y ago
The entire net worth (not income) of all billionaires in the United States may be about $1.3 trillion[1]. Therefore, if you took all of the money currently held from all U.S. billionaires, you would decrease the national debt by about 10%,
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by travisp 15y ago
These comments are specifically about the "social network stuff" and my point is that Amazon's "social network" is useless to me because my wife and I are required to share the same Amazon account if we don't want to double purchase Kindle
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by travisp 15y ago
The biggest problem with this is that my wife and I share our Amazon account. Although we have our own Kindles, we use the same Amazon account because we're not going to buy two copies of every book that we both want to read. If we had to d
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by travisp 15y ago
Not only does the US tax its citizens who live and work abroad, it will also do so for 10 years after one renounces citizenship.
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by travisp 15y ago
What is the quality of the visits like? When you factor in time on site, pages viewed, bounce rate, etc. is stumbleupon still providing better traffic? It might be, but the answer isn't obvious to me without knowing this type of data.
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by travisp 15y ago
I generally find that being healthy in certain ways makes me enjoy the time I have more. Sugar or refined carbohydrates makes me tired and lethargic -- I never knew how much energy I could have until I gave them up. Standing at my Series 7

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