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by zmb_ 11y ago
It's not the regulators, it's the prosecutors in New York, who have jurisdiction over the European banks since USD transactions are cleared there. The problem is that banks absolutely cannot afford to risk going to court, since lo
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by zmb_ 11y ago
Not for "anticipatory obstruction of justice". It doesn't matter whether what you destroyed is important to a case or not. There does not even need to be a case at all. You can still be charged if you deleted something, and m
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by zmb_ 11y ago
> I personally respect freedom of speech, except hate. The problem is that as soon as you draw such a line, you need to appoint a censor to determine what qualifies as "hate". As Christopher Hitchens asked: "To whom would
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by zmb_ 11y ago
>My own view is that the rest of Europe is acting to protect those who made the risky loans to Greece The loans haven't been held by private banks since the bailout started (who took a 50% write down in the process). The debt is now
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by zmb_ 11y ago
Rents tend to be inflation adjusted. Mine adjusts automatically every year based on the inflation figures. So while your pension remains the same, your rent will jump and you suddenly cannot afford it. The end result is the same: You'l
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by zmb_ 11y ago
Ed Catmull, Co-Founder of Pixar, wrote a great book about building and running creative businesses in general, and Pixar in particular[1]. Well worth a read. [1] http://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Inc-Overcoming-Unseen-Inspi...
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by zmb_ 11y ago
Updating my iMac to Yosemite fried the graphics card. It seems Apple is putting form way ahead of function, and as a result stuffing too hot components into too small space (the same iMac has previously fried the screen and the HDD to death
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by zmb_ 12y ago
I've actually been relying entirely on The Economist for my news for over a year now. I used to spend a lot of time reading various news sources, but then at some point started asking myself for each story I read: "Does having thi
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by zmb_ 12y ago
>-simple and extendable It's the first time I hear anyone describe SIP as "simple". If you printed out all the SIP specs, you'd probably have a pile close to a meter high. Among the protocol crowd (including IETFers)
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by zmb_ 12y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the difficulty and cost of finding accommodation in Stockholm. It's the number one complaint and problem of my expat (IT) friends/colleagues. Stockholm's population expansion is the fastest in Eu
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by zmb_ 12y ago
Like you say, the main benefit of OOP is that it matches the way we perceive reality. That can make it intuitive to design software. However, this often comes at the expense of performance since the hardware that executes your system bears
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by zmb_ 12y ago
Your tax dollars are used to fund many, many things you can't access. Nor would your average tax payer get any value out of being able to access the research papers. This is not to say that the academic publishing isn't a complete
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by zmb_ 12y ago
I just updated my Nexus 5 to KitKat. The update forced me to use GMail instead of the Email app, and almost 24h later GMail is still "Getting your messages". None of my email accounts work. Never mind changing the UI, they should
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by zmb_ 12y ago
For me, Linux on the desktop is not yet close to OS X in terms of usability and application support (especially MS Office). I'm currently thinking about a hackintosh, simply because Apple does not build good hardware for desktop. The t
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by zmb_ 12y ago
There is a big downside to pencils (and ballpoint pens), which is that you need to push down on the paper. I write a lot and for years I would be limited by my hand getting sore (having to take breaks, simply not being able to keep writing)
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by zmb_ 13y ago
TCP absolutely needs a heartbeat/keepalive to tell if the connection went down. There is no way to distinguish between no traffic being sent and session going down uncleanly. It's very common that some NAT drops the binding of an
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by zmb_ 13y ago
How is it easier to go around hitting 20 people on the back the the head and then figuring out how to drive them to North Korea at the back of a van without being detected? If your goal is to get a large team of semiconductor engineers agai
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by zmb_ 13y ago
Maybe they didn't want the plane, but someone on the plane. For example, those 20 Freescale Semiconductor employees. North Korea has a history of abducting foreigners, including a South Korean movie director kidnapped by Kim Jong-il to
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by zmb_ 13y ago
No, pretty much the exact opposite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito%E2%80%93Stalin_split
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by zmb_ 13y ago
You don't even have to fight them on a transaction to lose access to your library. My Steam client (on Mac) is hanging on startup every time and as a result I can't play the games I've bought and paid for. And of course Valve
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by zmb_ 13y ago
I find Little Snitch absolutely essential. I've been using it for years and can't recommend it enough. http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
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by zmb_ 13y ago
I suppose that depends on the program. At my department Ph.D. candidates are researchers (it's the official title). Their job is not to learn how to produce original research, it is to actually produce original research. Professors
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by zmb_ 13y ago
RMS's rationale is to protect the freedoms of the end users of the software: The freedom to run the software however you want, the freedom to modify the software however you want and the freedom to distribute your modifications of the
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by zmb_ 13y ago
> The GPL was designed on the premise that it would be necessary to legally force people to contribute changes back This is the rationale Linus gives for using GPL: Wanting to let people use your stuff while requiring them to give you ac
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by zmb_ 13y ago
I'd be much happier with a requirement to the industrial design department: -- There shall be a way for the user to physically obstruct the camera lens. Apple used to have this in their standalone camera back in the day.
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by zmb_ 13y ago
I had a similar issue, except it was with their Steam client (on Mac). It started hanging and crashing on every launch. I sent them crash traces and tried to get help figuring out what was wrong. However, their customer support is one of th
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by zmb_ 13y ago
You are funding one of the oldest scams in the book. This has been done for ages in various forms with various products as door-to-door and direct phone marketing. Currently where I live they are doing it with socks and underwear. You are l
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by zmb_ 13y ago
Yes they both broke the laws and/or contracts. However, they did it only to expose alleged misconduct or illegal activities of their employers. Therefore whistleblower protections should apply, and they cannot be convicted of those act
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by zmb_ 13y ago
The same reason why a VC fund will invest in 10 startups knowing that 9 will have to be closed down as failures. 20% time meant that Google was continually making those bets in various areas, knowing that most will fail but that a few will
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by zmb_ 13y ago
It's the same picture, but the Guardian one is compressed horizontally to fit, the Post one is not. It's obvious that whoever made that slide used a larger image but positioned it so that only part of it was shown. Post opened it

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