PorterDuff

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by PorterDuff 5y ago
It's probably best to view government as simply the largest corporation, and a monopoly at that.
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by PorterDuff 5y ago
I'm sitting at the ER right now wondering what sort of ads I'll get. Truth is you can't count on government to restrict itself so you have to buy your own privacy.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I take it that scarcely anyone here has written software for video switchers, routers, DVEs, linear editors, audio mixers, glue products, master control systems, character generators, etc. etc. Missing a RT schedule rarely results in death
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I admit that the correlations appear pretty vague: https://asset.barrons.com/public/resources/images/ON-BS188_C...
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
""soft" real-time (e.g. games, or audio/video) " Hah. Who sez that audio and video products have 'soft' real time? Go on now.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"I'm more curious about the state of that yurt in 5, 10, 15 years." It's a good question and I've always wanted to see postmortems on alternative building methods generally. I suppose that we could always take on t
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I'm always in favor of homebuilt OS projects, I've worked on several in-house OSs and they seem to have good ideas salted around them. If it were me, I'd write an open source RTOS (yet another one) and cast around for clever
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
So who decides what the DJIA and S&P 500 stocks actually are? A random number generator?
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
lol. Good point. I would like to see everyone's list on what a 'skill' really means. It would make a good basis for a discussion. a quick edit: It's a question that really began gnawing at my mind over the last few m
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Perhaps the general hope is that we can replace all wealth due to manufacturing, resource extraction, food production, with that produced via internet advertising.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Both? My guess is that the dividing line between 'Red' and 'Blue' is being renegotiated as we speak. The post-WWI political arguments, largely about economics, are being replaced by something new. Trump obviously has a
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
At least in the case of California, the web abounds with statistics showing net domestic outflow. My guess is that any population increase in CA is due to foreign nationals.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
" indexing outperforms actively managed funds" Most index funds are actively managed.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"huge marketing campaign advertising a car that doesn't exist" Perhaps they are trying to gauge the likely success of the car before some final production decisions are made. You do have to wonder how Tesla is going to surviv
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Trump's account is a beautiful example of how useless Twitter is. Typically it goes... Trump: CONGRATULATIONS ON FIREFIGHTERS FOR MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. THIS ADMINISTRATION IS FOR FIREFIGHTERS! Followed by 1k responses of YAY TRU
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"I remember seeing a program that claimed this is because soldiers today are trained to kill against their natural instinct. So traditionally only 20% of soldiers could actually kill, which would explain the low casualty rates in older
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
The result is pretty simple. The intelligence agencies become a fourth branch of government and likely the dominant one. It would be interesting to better understand the dynamics between the military and the NSA/CIA/FBI/etc.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
French was spoken by the educated classes in much of the Western world for some time, had a largish colonial empire. Holy Roman Empire (neither Roman or Holy or an Empire) had German as a primary language.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I'm waiting for the 3270 version.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Hasn't there been a large increase in non-tenured faculty, teaching assistants, etc?
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Is there some reason for all neutron stars to have the same physical make-up and internal behavior? or could they fall into types?
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I would think that primaries would vastly favor incumbents, to a greater degree than a general.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Very cool, I'm impressed. This guy knows how to do all the stuff I don't know how to do and it actually works well.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
Just to play grumpy old guy for a sec., I can't say that I've ever seen this in action. In my experience. . Line managers rarely make the leap, if anything they jump laterally or go into 'new opportunities'. . Actually
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I think that the EFI argument is something of a red herring, no one is suggesting a return to the Quadrajet. OTOH, EFI can be done as a modular (and replaceable) product rather than as part of monolithic whole-vehicle design, but that last
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"where a single chip can cost 300$ and has to be shipped from mainland America..." that assumes that the failed part is even available. I'd sure be irritated to have the controller board for a Cadillac XLR convertible top fai
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"Vehicle manufacturers are just giving customers what they want." ...and they're giving it to them good and hard.
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
All of the ones around here do. Used DVD racks still exist. Soft drink vending machines. Seasonal items. Newspaper racks. In the case of items actually run through the register, I'm not sure how that's dealt with from an accou
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
I would argue that a grocery store is a combination store and marketplace in that case. Stores have plenty of in-house brands, they also have racks of goods that are stocked and sold by third parties wherein they get a cut. To be fair, I t
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by PorterDuff 7y ago
"Isn't conservatism basically forcing people to not progress? Some might see that as a nearly violent act against their freedom. But really, what else is there to conservatism than "do not change"?" To some degree I

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