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by watchandwait 15y ago
Postmortem? This damn thing isn't over. A client's RDS database is still not completely accessible, we can't make or restore backups and are waiting for the AWS clean-up crew to get to us and hopefully repair the damage.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Or, we could take the cost of one day of our Libyan Kinetic Military Action ($100 million) and fund this program for a generation.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
The list in the article is terrible. Mostly evolution or biosphere mumbo-jumbo that says more about our time today than helping humanity start over. I'd pass along the idea of the scientific method, that through observation, hypothesis, an
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by watchandwait 15y ago
This piece misses a major part of the story-- the courts may be on the verge of declaring that copyright was never actually transferred to Righthaven, and that they have no right to sue in any of these cases. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po
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by watchandwait 15y ago
More broadly, dealing with HTML5, how do you protect your source code/ intellectual property? Seems like it is all there in the javascript. I know flash can be cracked but it does seem like there is a defense layer.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Both systems have a constant: massive government subsidies that distort the true supply, demand, and economic ROI for the good. There could not have been a housing bubble without Fannie and Freddie, the FHA, and the protected-by-regulation
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by watchandwait 15y ago
I am a victim of Hacker News. I need to quit reading and commenting on banal blog posts and get back to work!!
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by watchandwait 15y ago
Interesting point. Also the economic surplus is much greater today-- far fewer people in the past had the luxury time to pursue the artistic.
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by watchandwait 15y ago
The reason there's no photography permitted in the first item: "In the past St Paul's has, as an experiment, relaxed the photography rule. However, the combination of camera flashes and groups queuing up to pose for photographs under the do
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by watchandwait 15y ago
The issue behind the scene here is that AOL is creating significant financial liability under U.S. labor law when it tries to shift paid workers to "free" unpaid workers. I'm sure that's why AOL fired the editor, it had nothing to do with
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by watchandwait 15y ago
And on top of that the state income taxes in most states, and sales taxes that usually approach 8 or 9%, and property taxes on real estate (and autos where I live). Also if you manage to save anything after all that, you can look forward t
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by watchandwait 15y ago
NASA has carried up at least a dozen foreign citizens over the years on various shuttle missions.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
I've heard from folks in retail finance that large segments of American society do not understand the concept of an interest rate. Everything is just "what is my monthly payment?"
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by watchandwait 16y ago
The 1099 provision passed as a revenue-generating part of Obamacare. So there's now a financing shortfall.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
The Freemont plant is part of the crony deal they struck with then Speaker-Pelosi and the unions in exchange for their massive government subsidy.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
Normally Tesla's lawyers are busy in Washington, D.C., fleecing U.S. taxpayers for handouts. The company is one of the biggest welfare queens in America, they have almost no revenue and yet the government has given them hundreds of million
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by watchandwait 16y ago
More evidence that every Motherfucking Programmer needs a G-Damned Designer.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
I don't think that's fair. Sure, the Constitution is in tatters but without the Bill of Rights I think we'd have lost even more freedom. At least folks have rallied around and protected some elements (guns, religious freedom, free speech
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by watchandwait 16y ago
Yeah but even with https login, if a site also serves regular http pages, cookies with session credentials are still visible (on open networks) and the session can be hijacked.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
My experience with the AWS RDS database product has been excellent.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
This comment does not seem legitimate. There's nothing in it that would imply special knowledge of AWS or EBS.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
I think Secret Questions are even worse that described in the post. It creates a situation where one hacked web site can reveal critical personal information, such as mom's maiden name, that can be used across a range of sites and offline
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by watchandwait 16y ago
Yet American government is wasting billions on TSA chasing imaginary bombs on grandmas flying to Peoria. We should be pouring everything into cancer research. Imagine the economic boom from a cure (or series of cures), let alone the benef
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by watchandwait 16y ago
The real theft is that the federal, state, and local governments take about 40 percent of your earnings in an array of taxes.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
Slavery didn't export or transmit Roman culture as much as Roman citizens and traders settling conquered lands, and mixing with local elites, who adopted Roman traditions, economics, and lifestyles. My reading of the history is that the lit
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by watchandwait 16y ago
Actually if you study the history of LBJ's "Great Society" expansion of the U.S. welfare state, a major argument was that we had to spend more on food, housing, and health care for the aged and poor in order to win the PR war against commun
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by watchandwait 16y ago
Actually, I think his point is that the U.S. legal system is a lot different now. You can't apply technology that quickly today-- there was no FDA in the 1950s, and no runaway trial bar.
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by watchandwait 16y ago
The vast majority of Roman slaves were miserable, illiterate war captives, and generations of their offspring, working large scale farms in Italy. The instability from Roman slavery actually came from the masses of displaced Roman yeoman f
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by watchandwait 16y ago
Slavery was present in every ancient society. The Roman empire was successful because of superior military tactics and world class fortification and infrastructure engineering-- especially roads and agriculture. Additionally, the Romans ha
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by watchandwait 16y ago
This pattern is more common than you realize. Anytime the government introduces a subsidy, from farm bills to mortgage deductions to limits on the number of doctors, it hugely benefits those with an existing stake in that market. The valu

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