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by wooster 16y ago
A subscription to the New York Times costs $769.60 per year. A good chunk of that is printing and delivery costs for something I don't want anyway: a giant stack of physical paper. On top of the odd environmental disconnect of shipping a wh
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by wooster 16y ago
Yeah, essentially. Or she took advantage of an economic inefficiency by acting outside expected or normal behavior.
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by wooster 16y ago
I once saw a woman buy a full cart worth of groceries for $0.87 at a Vons in Claremont, CA. She had to use a huge pile of coupons to do it, but it both amazing and impressive that she was able to do it at all.
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by wooster 16y ago
The femtocell range is extremely short. It wouldn't do your neighbors any good. (I have one.)
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by wooster 16y ago
Everybody says that the big draw to San Francisco is the weather. True, it can be pretty nice at times. But it can also be pretty miserable. I tuned out a bit after reading this. San Francisco has terrible weather compared to
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by wooster 16y ago
Salinas isn't in Silicon Valley, it's in the Salinas Valley. It's mostly an agricultural area, and incomes are much lower.
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by wooster 16y ago
He should send a cease and desist letter to AT&T telling them not to have their Executive Response Team call him again. He did specifically tell them not to call him.
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by wooster 16y ago
This is amazing. I hope they start doing this for some of the other enormous government data sets out there (like some of the mapping and satellite imagery datasets).
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by wooster 16y ago
With Windows 7, we added improvements to BitLocker for disc encryption (we also introduced BitLocker-to-Go for external USB devices), and added enhancements to the built in Windows Firewall for better protection. OS X equiva
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by wooster 16y ago
I don't have a horse in this race, but the Nature article has some spin to it: A fair reading of the e-mails reveals nothing to support the denialists' conspiracy theories. In one of the more controversial exchanges, UEA scientist
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by wooster 16y ago
On the flip side, painting critics with the "denialists" label is an easy way to deflect valid criticism. In the H1N1 case, there are a lot of critics claiming: * Press about H1N1 caused a shortage of seasonal flu vaccines. [0] * H1N1 vacci
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by wooster 16y ago
A further refinement would be to take into account unsafe neighborhoods, the time of day, lighting, and crime rates along the path.
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by wooster 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Ivankov I come from an area which has a much worse crime (organized and otherwise) problem than Brighton Beach has ever had. I still see a lot of locals who refuse to acknowledge the problem. Not kn
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by wooster 16y ago
Being coerced (psychologically, physically, or otherwise) into sleeping with someone who "pays for everything" or into stripping for money is sex trafficking.
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by wooster 16y ago
Thanks for the fantastic book. :-)
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by wooster 16y ago
Looks good. The favicons increase page load times without adding a whole lot. I'd delay their loads via Javascript, if possible. Edit: Getting a fairly consistent crash in Safari after trying to enable resource tracking in web inspector:
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by wooster 16y ago
I've read 11 books so far on my iPad. So, as a reading device, I'm very satisfied with it.
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by wooster 16y ago
I love old issues of National Geographic. I used to read these in the library in high school, and actually remember this issue because of the picture on page 134 (of the Cupo tree, which is pretty distinctive). There's something about explo
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by wooster 16y ago
Greece public debt: 122.6% of GDP England public debt: 59.9% of GDP New Zealand public debt: 29.3% of GDP United States public debt: 86.3% of GDP
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by wooster 16y ago
Really? It's fairly rare that I'm able to find anything I'm looking for at Fry's (in Palo Alto). I've had better luck at Jameco. Better yet? Online (if I'm not in a hurry).
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by wooster 16y ago
By skipped 1/4 of the way, I take it to mean he skidded 1/4 of the way across the intersection (or, alternatively, 1/4 of his car was in the intersection). If your pads are worn through you can wear grooves into your rotor surface. Grooves
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by wooster 16y ago
Minor nit: the Office of Strategic Services was the precursor to the CIA. The Office of War Information was a wartime propaganda agency rather than an intelligence/operations agency.
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by wooster 16y ago
So, if I'm reading between the lines correctly: * working in finance is bad * working in corporate law is bad * working in consulting is bad * working at a startup is bad * working as a college professor is bad * working a "public interest"
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by wooster 16y ago
Imagine if WalMart required vegetable growers to use WalMart brand fertilizer if they wanted their vegetables sold at WalMart. That seems a bit more like the current situation with Apple. It's not at all apparent that there was a quality is
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by wooster 16y ago
Did anyone else here read this and immediately install VigLink on a site?
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by wooster 16y ago
"for paying slave children build the phones in the first place" Your posts would be a lot more convincing without the unsubstantiated defamation thrown in.
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by wooster 16y ago
I'd just like to point out that Harvey Mudd College is a liberal arts college. As is Pomona College, where I got my (BA) degree in Computer Science. So, yeah, the post is funny, but some of us have both a liberal arts degree and an ability
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by wooster 17y ago
Novels once rated the same consideration by critics. "Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art." http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7197.html Moby Dick, written in 1851, wasn't
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by wooster 17y ago
Apple operates in dozens of countries. In some of these, the laws around competition are extremely counter-intuitive to American observers.
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by wooster 17y ago
Assembly and graphics shaders are used extensively, to name two that external developers are prohibited from programming in.

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