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by waqf 13y ago
Next time you are unfairly double taxed, try telling that to your local tax agency.
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by waqf 13y ago
Yeah, well, if the CBP opened a dialogue about their side of the story I'm sure we would listen to them. A big part of the problem is that the authorities do not talk honestly about their view of the proceedings. The TSA at least m
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by waqf 13y ago
Mark more scale points: I suggest {1,2,4,6,8}x10^n for each n. That way the visual texture of the scale lines will immediately suggest "log scale".
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by waqf 13y ago
What do brands have to do with copyright law? Or are you also advocating for changes to trademark law?
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by waqf 13y ago
The problem was that following it would be a violation of the privacy of Edward Snowden (well, of the user whom we presume to be Snowden) and of the trust which he had placed in Lavabit.
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by waqf 13y ago
Sure we do, it's just that we only need them once every decade or three, when the government needs a new external enemy to invoke because the people have stopped taking the old one seriously for some reason.
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by waqf 13y ago
The entire budget of the EFF is only $3.8m at last count ( http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary... ). I bet we could double that just among the people reading this page.
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by waqf 13y ago
Google and Facebook are in principle accountable to the government (the FTC, for example) for their safeguarding of users' privacy. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by waqf 13y ago
You live in a "democracy". George Orwell predicted Newspeak.
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by waqf 13y ago
Maybe people really hated his/her link to a Google-bashing MSDN article? Can you get an automatic hellban for sufficiently many downvotes?
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by waqf 13y ago
> Rhumb lines, aka loxodromes, which mean that someone started walking in a direction and kept going. To be clear, they mean that you keep going in the same compass direction . If you kept going in the direction which seemed straight
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by waqf 13y ago
Yes, "twenty-eight" is the preferred form in the UK.
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by waqf 13y ago
Minors can de facto have arbitrarily large incomes from investments, although typically the investments are structured as trusts and are not legally the property of the minor. Besides, child movie stars.
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by waqf 13y ago
Your examples of blurring childhood and adulthood are mostly answerable (however poorly) by saying "well, these things may be increasingly happening, but they Shouldn't Happen and we should work on fixing that". Here's a
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by waqf 13y ago
Aspirin does cause ulcers. If you have references showing that ibuprofen is more dangerous (or even differently dangerous) than aspirin I would be interested to see them.
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by waqf 13y ago
I can't think of any times when people have had their lifespans shortened for fear they would become the elite , and the shorteners were on the right side of history. That sounds more like The Crucible .
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by waqf 13y ago
And also sec, cosec, cot. But notice they are at least not polynomial in cos and sin, whereas the functions introduced in this article are. To be erudite about it, there are essentially no other trig functions than cos and sin, in the sen
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by waqf 13y ago
This restauranteur thinks that tipping makes it harder to reward staff fairly, and that this is a direct cause of acrimony in the kitchen. Some of his arguments are dependent on CA state law, though: (part 1) http://jayporter.co
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by waqf 13y ago
So will tapeworms. Be careful what you wish for.
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by waqf 13y ago
Even if, as I presume, you are trying to spell in Australian/Commonwealth English, it should be "practi c e" here because it's a noun. Only the verb is "practi s e".
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by waqf 13y ago
You could apply the same criticism to Jellybean. Or, for that matter, Ice Cream Sandwich. (Ice cream is a dessert, but ICS can only be interpreted as cheap prepackaged food.)
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by waqf 13y ago
That won't happen, because Americans basically don't know what marzipan is.
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by waqf 13y ago
This site went out of its way to give me a bad experience on mobile (bad enough that I didn't finish reading the article): the page I received on Android/Chrome was so narrow that I couldn't unzoom enough to fit what I consi
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by waqf 13y ago
Привед, а как пишется "код"? (Spoiler: "код" (code) is pronounced the same as "кот" (cat) but spelled differently.)
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by waqf 13y ago
Agreed. It protects from strategic voting (or incompetence or malice) of a small number of participants, because it's a robust statistic : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust_statistics#Examples .
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by waqf 13y ago
me too. I can also be fast asleep and I'll wake right up if people speak to me.
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by waqf 13y ago
Interesting comments, thanks. In fact this article seems to speak to NPVIC and the compacts clause: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/jlsp/pdf/Summer2009/02Pincus.42.4...
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by waqf 13y ago
Exactly. So you have to go back yet another step and look at who has power to change the electoral system. You might think the only answer is a constitutional amendment, which requires a supermajority of Congress, but in fact there's
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by waqf 13y ago
> (In both cases, due a heart medication that apparently triggers false positives). Presuming that this was nitroglycerin, then in some sense it's not a false positive at all. It's a dessert wax and a floor topping! ht
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by waqf 13y ago
If America were capable of doing that in the common-sense manner you imply, it wouldn't need a written constitution.

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