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by wesleyd 10y ago
The idea of an always-on grid sized for peak demand is going to seem hopelessly anachronistic in just a few years. Third world power grids - frequent outages, sized for average load, cheap in every sense, barely regulated - are the future
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by wesleyd 11y ago
- Have you been served an NSL? - No, I have not. - Have you been served an NSL? - No, I have not. - Have you been served an NSL? - On the advice of counsel, I decline to answer.
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by wesleyd 11y ago
American Economic Orthodoxy insists that rent control can never work, and that price controls are only for home owners , not renters. (Government-supplied, fixed-price mortgages, California's Prop13, etc etc.)
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by wesleyd 11y ago
"All professions are conspiracies against the laity" -- GBS
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by wesleyd 12y ago
In California, zoning specifies minimum numbers of parking spaces. In UK/Ireland, zoning specifies maximum number of spaces.
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by wesleyd 13y ago
I believe this result has important applications in cylindrical stack encryption; it's very difficult to produce a solution, but very easy to verify a given solution.
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by wesleyd 13y ago
I'm sure the Watergate burglars had low morale too after they got caught.
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by wesleyd 13y ago
Gee, we didn't see that coming.
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by wesleyd 13y ago
The common factor in all your dysfunctional relationships is: you.
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by wesleyd 13y ago
Next time I do gonzo PR, I shall pick a powerful enemy, create an astroturf campaign, and make it look like my enemy did it.
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by wesleyd 13y ago
The US predilection for writing a sender's details on the outside of mail has always struck me as poor civic hygiene.
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by wesleyd 13y ago
I use putty and cygwin openssh on windows. (In fact, I use putty as my terminal on windows.) Having to have two separate ssh-agents annoyed me, so I hacked together something that let me use just pageant: https://github.com&#x2
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by wesleyd 13y ago
I believe the requirement to maximize profit is a requirement of the stock exchanges, not a requirement of being a company. A company can be created for many different purposes.
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by wesleyd 14y ago
This reminds me of an old dilbert cartoon in which they play the game "Trust". You fall backwards, into your teammates' arms. You can imagine how it goes, but the key lesson learnt is, essentially: Don't trust anybody.
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by wesleyd 14y ago
> Why would I buy a Lenovo T-series? It looks virtually indistinguishable from any laptop made in the late 1990s That's the point! Thinkpad T series laptops are what apple laptops can only dream of being.
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by wesleyd 14y ago
It takes two people to lie, Marge - one to lie, and one to be lied to. -- Homer Simpson
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by wesleyd 15y ago
The filibuster: it's a feature, not a bug.
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by wesleyd 15y ago
I returned mine too. It's not safe to let the kids use it. Amazon insist you have one-click purchase set up even to watch free prime content, and they don't let you set up a pin or a password just for the pay-for stuff. So it's trivial for
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by wesleyd 15y ago
Kudos on being able to shut down cleanly. The world has lots of stories on starting up, but way too few on shutting down. If you can bear to, please write about your experiences!
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by wesleyd 15y ago
RIM ... didn't they used to make pagers or something?
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by wesleyd 16y ago
"What you make it" - by Michael Marshall Smith Collection of exquisite short stories. Unputdownable.
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by wesleyd 16y ago
That's what a Monty Python sketch of a phone screen would be like.
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IOS Coding Summer Camp for first yr undergrads in Belfast(appcamp.co.uk)
1 points by wesleyd 16y ago|0 comments
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No sidewalks please(online.wsj.com)
1 points by wesleyd 16y ago|0 comments
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by wesleyd 16y ago
Is it ok to collude with your competitors?
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by wesleyd 16y ago
If you draw over the permanent marker with normal whiteboard marker, they usually both wipe off...
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Rats on vacation(jasonmendelson.com)
2 points by wesleyd 16y ago|1 comments
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Apple announcements through the ages(maclife.com)
1 points by wesleyd 16y ago|0 comments
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Letter to a young pl enthusiast(axisofeval.blogspot.com)
1 points by wesleyd 16y ago|0 comments
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How not to build a postcode system(xtranormal.com)
2 points by wesleyd 16y ago|0 comments

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