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by zecho 15y ago
Fitzgerald: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." Hitchens: “Some people say it’s a sign of intelligence to be able to keep two c
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by zecho 15y ago
Try selling or buying things often on CL for a week. You'll find most people are ludicrous to begin with.
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by zecho 15y ago
I got a few where people were mad that I simply re-listed their item at a higher price than they sold it for. I'm sure they felt duped for undervaluing their product in the first place. As binarysolo pointed out in this thread, some sellers
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by zecho 15y ago
If you want to get more precise, the benefit of simultaneous or near simultaneous transactions is reduced risk that prices will fluctuate. Arb is just an exploitation of different prices in different markets.
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by zecho 15y ago
Exactly. It's a hobby, but while scaling it up is hard to do, it is not impossible. Two stories. I wrote a program awhile back that would look for iPod Touches on my local Craigslist and would analyze the price for many different versions.
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by zecho 15y ago
Yeah, I think a lot of people miss the anti-counterfeiting part of this bill in the noise about the dumber parts of it. Petzl, the climbing gear manufacturer, showed up on the lists and released a statement clarifying their support. http:/
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by zecho 15y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...
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by zecho 15y ago
The other day I walked past a female colleague's desk. She had a bunch of powdered donut holes sitting there and I had a ridiculous urge to say "balls" like she was a college roommate or something. Now, I obviously didn't say that. I wouldn
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by zecho 15y ago
There's also a good chance that after the lawyer was first stonewalled, he saw a bigger lawsuit opportunity down the road if it persisted. And it did. I still expect civil action against the government to be on the way.
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by zecho 15y ago
Took a moment for it to pop up for me with Firefox.
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by zecho 15y ago
jQuery is modular. You can minify the plugins. For the sake of maintenance, clarity and speed of your documents, I think it's best to use plugins only as needed.
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by zecho 15y ago
If negative marketing didn't work, we wouldn't have negative campaigning. The point of it isn't to boost your brand so much as it is to suppress your opponent's. However, it alienates the undecided. Mudslinging works best when targeted to b
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by zecho 15y ago
Why sell candy on the subway, when you can literally pan for gold in NYC? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxG8HBy3hpk
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by zecho 15y ago
That's exactly what I'm saying. The point of essay writing, or doing quadratics or reading about the Civil War isn't about getting a good grade, it's about learning something new, retaining that new information and applying it to future lea
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by zecho 15y ago
>He’s right in the sense that real essays don’t have to take a position and defend it, but teachers insist on thesis statements for the same reason bikes for three-year olds have training wheels: otherwise the student-writer will fall o
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by zecho 15y ago
You can use an alternate number to have a text message sent to you and there are printable one-time pads. The one-time pads have come in handy for me, because I always let the battery on my phone die.
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by zecho 15y ago
The errors aren't acceptable, but the inaccuracies are almost always because reporters try to dumb down a concept so much, that the concept loses all nuance. It's basically if Simple English Wikipedia were the norm.
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by zecho 15y ago
To be fair, newspapers aren't written for experts. That doesn't excuse a lot of crap from newspapers, but they're writing for an audience that isn't necessarily well-versed in all the subjects, for better or worse.
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by zecho 15y ago
The best IT staff don't spend their time bitching about idiot operators in their companies. They give them the tools to empower them to do their jobs. This comes down to management. If your management sees IT as merely a cost center, then y
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by zecho 15y ago
Speaking only from experience in cities like Minneapolis, Milwaukee, St. Louis, etc., people are likely to "ignore" their surroundings but will wake from that state when, say, I look them in the eye. I might get a smile, I may only get ackn
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by zecho 15y ago
We had a front desk that would take calls and pass info along to the appropriate staff (on a different, largely segregated network). We don't want people emailing CC numbers or any customer data, really, internally, so it would be passed al
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by zecho 15y ago
> In a piece directly about government, to use the word anarchy is this fashion is dishonest and in poor taste. That's a fair assessment, I think. Good point.
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by zecho 15y ago
Exactly. When we last went through our PCI compliance rigamarole, they told us if anyone ever told us their CC number over the phone we were to open a text editor on our machines, type it without saving and then close it without saving when
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by zecho 15y ago
I don't think this is what was meant by the phrase. Fame and infamy are two very different things.
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by zecho 15y ago
I don't think it's privacy that's the issue here, rather the degree of privacy. By live blogging the ordeal, it unwittingly went from an argument in a Burger King in front of a few people to an argument broadcast on the Internet to thousand
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by zecho 15y ago
There's a thing in the Midwest known as minding your own business. There's also a whole cultural phenomena in large cities where people crammed together respect space by avoiding eye contact with one another. (Which, oddly, many Midwesterne
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by zecho 15y ago
It's "ignorant" only if one narrowly defines (or conveniently ignores common definitions of) anarchy. Anarchy can be a state of political confusion or disorder and/or defined as an absence of authority. Both are common usages. Chaos is conf
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by zecho 15y ago
What?! I totally want to know what's up with Charmin, my favorite brand of toilet tissue.
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by zecho 15y ago
I would assume that as soon as the trial nears its end, some contact will be made with a sales rep. I can't imagine prices aren't negotiable in cases like these. If they aren't it'd be the first time I've seen it. I've ever paid anything cl
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by zecho 15y ago
They're all brief. I imagine she flew through them.

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