DmitriRavinoff

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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
Control of borders doesn't imply "everyone keep out." It just means that the government reserves the right to keep people out. Kinda like a trademark, actually. One has to "defend" a trademark in order to keep it,
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
YHBT
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
This was one more benefit to using an HP-48G. No proctors ever knew what one looked like, so they mostly just cared if it had a QWERTY keyboard. Not that I ever used the symbolic manipulation, but the equation library was insanely handy fr
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
The rent control laws were known to the landlord at the time the lease was signed in most cases; the rent control laws in San Francisco haven't changed materially since 1994.
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
It sounds like you don't understand how Lyft and Uber work. You have no control over which driver you get; the driver app lets all the drivers in your area (and an increasing area over time) know that you want a ride. Whoever clicks
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
Unfortunately, the probability that someone is able to understand this logic is lowered considerably once you realize that they're working in a job where they're required to act on such threats. Most people who are capable of suc
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
The only problem with that is you can't think of cold as something you can generate. Cold is the absence of heat, and so the only way to make it in a place where there is already heat is to move the heat somewhere else. If you keep it
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
Raise prices until the tradeoff is worth it or the demand reaches a tolerable level.
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
You...do know that Apollo and Hermes are two entirely different entities, right? Hermes is the counterpart of the Roman Mercury. Apollo has the same names in both pantheons.
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
Assuming you're doing split-horizon DNS, those records should be hidden from the outside. And the only way to detect the CNAMES other than brute force scanning of a DNS zone is to do a zone transfer. And you only have zone transfers
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
Koan. The word you're looking for is koan.
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
An EC2 rep has told me on more than one occasion that they have no plans to support ipv6 because the demand for it simply isn't there.
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
Yes, but if you can't run the chmod binary...
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
To clarify: if they receive a reply from me, even if it's a "no thanks go away," they have to take the time to read it just in case it's a "holy crap here's my resume send it to everyone!"
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
I'm not expecting them to filter me out. I'm just causing them to have to spend a little time on something that won't bear fruit.
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by DmitriRavinoff 12y ago
They don't have to care. If the current spam methods weren't working for them, they'd stop. But someone's replying to those e-mails, and someone's paying their referral fees. Why should they bother filtering when
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by DmitriRavinoff 13y ago
Was it because the author isn't a founder?