typicalrunt

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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I'll bite. You'd be surprised at the expense involved in creating clean water. In NA, we're particularly lucky to have fairly fresh drinking water, but in other parts of the world this isn't the case. However, let's focus on NA for now. N
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Feeding your cattle a mixture of second-hand chocolate, ethanol by-products and minerals doesn't sound very tasty, from this beef consumer's point of view. There is the saying of "you are what you eat" and I wonder if any of those flavours
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Not all piracy ends up to be a lost sale. There are some people out there that pirate, with no intention of purchase. I'm not surprised that Ubi is also finding that F2P users aren't paying either, some people just don't see the value o
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Why don't rating systems just give a simple yes/no question to the reader. In the case of rating a movie, just ask "Would you watch this again?" or in the case of purchasing a product from Amazon, "Would you purchase this item again?" I'd
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Unfortunately it's behind an email form, so I'm not sure if each customer is receiving a different offer, or if it's just a way to track customers.
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Joyent gives their lifetime customers a better offer(joyent.com)
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
There's an element to that article that is complaining about the process that Unix took to get to where it stands now. I feel the author needs to skim some books on evolution to see that there is nothing inherently wrong with this approach
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I hope it's just my wording that is throwing you off. Say, for instance, you need a car. For me, if a car costs more than $10k, I really have to think about how reliable it is, what features it has, and generally if I am getting value for
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
When I'm dining with someone, and I realize that I'm being rude and looking at my phone, I will put the phone on the table -- face down -- as a sign that I am consciously putting the phone away. The other people can see that I'm not able t
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
The article has a lot of good points, I'll give it that. What rubs me the wrong way however, is that the smart person is lowering herself to the level of the people in the room. For me, this is akin to in high school when the English teach
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I agree with you, to a point. I wonder about the mechanical simplicity of having air drive pistons in the engine. It's yet another point of failure and, while similar to combustion engines, is there no other way to have compressed air dri
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I love this idea, especially for short city-style commutes. The price ($10k) is good enough that it's under my impulse buying threshold for cars. My only worry (confusion?) is if I brought this car into a small town and the car runs out of
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Two months ago I bought an .it domain through GoDaddy. No issues at all. Other than an expensive registration fee, the experience was similar to buying a .com/org/net domain.
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
As annoyed as I am with all of it, I'm more interested to know how to move off of their products and services now. My lifetime account is where I have several important email servers, and I don't know how to migrate them. All the email say
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I have a similar backup system as this, but I temper my use of DropBox for super important things because it is a hot storage solution. If I (or someone) happens to delete it from one DropBox location, it's deleted everywhere. For that rea
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
It's a laptop targeted at developers and they give a measly 4GB of RAM? I hope it's upgradeable. I like to run VMs and other developer-ish applications, some of which use up a lot of RAM. But on the top of my priority list is a good batte
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
And for all we know he had a picture of his newborn. Aren't you promoting the same hearsay? you said: I'm suprised how easily people swallow someone else's hearsay and then spray vomit it out as the truth. and then you said: Having foll
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
There must be a way to upvote this comment more than once... :) I always get strange looks from my fellow programmers when I suggest that we just ditch the ORM and use straight SQL. With some complex queries, like generating reports, I had
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
His throughput calculation is a bit off: A 2TB drive contains 2,199,023,255,552 bytes, or 17,592,186,044,416 bits. 17,592,186,044,416 / (60sec x 60min x 6hrs) = 814,453,058 bits/sec, or roughly 814Mbps.
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I liked the article in general, but this got me: I usually eat at the same few restaurants all the time. They’re maybe 10% more expensive, usually locally owned, and the food doesn’t come out of a frozen pre-made bag before being tossed i
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
@dworrad, I'll admit I suffer from the same illness as you. It's good that you wrote it all down, because I couldn't believe how closely our lives match and that tells me something. If you are able to write some that hits close enough to
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
enough savings to last a few months [IF] i sell my motorbike [emphasis mine] This is a scary scenario. If you are starting out with no revenue, a few months can come and go very quickly. I like to set a runway of 1 year of income for my
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Ideas are dime a dozen. Give me some smart friends to brainstorm with and we'll come up with several great ideas today that will be $100M+ businesses in a few years. Those are some big words to swallow. I doubt he could do that but I'd
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
When we talk about a car’s fuel economy, what we want to know is how much fuel does it use, not how far does it go I've never understood this phenomenon. I realize he's talking about car economy here, but for me a car is a vehicle to tak
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I should have explained myself better. I'm assuming he's in the US. The savings rate comes into play when you consider that it is determined by looking at the prime lending rate between banks, which is currently at or near 0% in the US.0
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Over time, this $20,000 stream accumulates and compounds at 5% after inflation, and raises their combined net worth by an additional $1.329 million over the next 30 years. It wasn't mentioned, but I guess the money is being reinvested in
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
The after-hours charts are interesting. The stock price is bouncing around the $38.23 range (+/- $0.03), but even marketwatch.com is showing some jumps up to the $40 range.
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I had to Google the meaning of ROWE. It means Results Oriented Work Environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROWE
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
I upvoted you for your reply. I appreciate that you didn't downvote me for something you read that you don't agree with. I would say that condition is 100% impossible to meet, and would present that as an argument against the death penalt
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by typicalrunt 14y ago
Your opinions on capital punishment don't have to be mutually exclusive. I firmly believe that some people have to pay the ultimate price for their deeds, but I insist that these people should have so much evidence pointing them to having

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