Rod

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The erosion of America's middle class(spiegel.de)
1 points by Rod 16y ago|1 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Helium_Reserve
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by Rod 16y ago
I expect content. Do note that the acs.org link is an article too, not a thesis, so you have no point.
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by Rod 16y ago
As expected from a New Scientist article, this is not very informative. If you wanna learn more, you might wanna take a look at these: http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/ci/31/i06/html/06chem.... http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8
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by Rod 16y ago
Interestingly I could not find this patent application at http://www.google.com/patents
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A Practical Guide to Geostatistical Mapping (ebook)(spatial-analyst.net)
1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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Kangaroo physics engine (for Grasshopper / Rhino) (groups.google.co.uk)
1 points by Rod 16y ago|0 comments
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MIT: A defense research giant, with a long tradition of defiance(boston.com)
3 points by Rod 16y ago|2 comments
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Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images(news.cnet.com)
145 points by Rod 16y ago|109 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by Rod 16y ago
re: (2) I suggest that congressmen start checking the executive branch, which is their duty. Failing to do so, they committ a soft form of treason. We expect the guys in uniform to sacrifice their lives, but the congressmen are not even exp
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by Rod 16y ago
Fortunately for the political class, malice can easily be disguised as incompetence. Plausible deniability makes it hard to attribute culpability. If a mafia top dog sends his goons to invade private property, his goons get shot at and retu
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by Rod 16y ago
That will never happen. Unfortunately, the political decision-makers are above the law. We all know that. Does anyone remember LBJ & McNamara being prosecuted for the deaths of 58,000 Americans and over 2,000,000 Vietnamese?
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by Rod 16y ago
All that is obvious. One does not need to come from a military family to understand that. Common sense should suffice. The interesting questions are: 1) if the WikiLeaks war logs contain "nothing new" (according to the White House), then wh
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by Rod 16y ago
"I do a little introspection and realized that I'm not all that outraged about the actions of the American government with respect to Afghanistan and Iraq." If you don't live in Russia nor China, what makes you think that the U.S. won't c
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by Rod 16y ago
Either you're too naive or not cynical enough. Assange is on a power trip, but WL is necessary and has been useful so far, so I forgive him. He has a large ego and wants to deliver impact. Exposing informants is peanuts. Why would he do it
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by Rod 16y ago
I never claimed that they are incompatible. I merely claimed that those who invade a sovereign country that posed no threat, leading to 100,000s of deaths (5,000 of which U.S. soldiers) have no moral authority and cannot claim that their ir
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by Rod 16y ago
Your argument is absolutely ridiculous. This has nothing to do with republicans vs democrats. As far as I know, LBJ and McNamara were democrats. And so are Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, who voted for the war in order to avoid jeopardizing
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by Rod 16y ago
Who has the moral authority to hold Jake accountable? He exposed the truth. By contrast, Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld gave us Gulf of Tonkin II, the meretricious congressmen gave the executive branch all the power it wanted, we know that we
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Jacob Appelbaum detained at U.S. border, questioned about Wikileaks(news.cnet.com)
74 points by Rod 16y ago|54 comments
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by Rod 16y ago
You mean software as service kind of stuff? Would you care to provide some examples?
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by Rod 16y ago
The webapp market is limited by people's leisure time. There can't be 10 Facebooks, because if the average person spends 30 min per day on Facebook, then it would have to spend 4h30min on the other 9 webapps. Nobody has that much time. The
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by Rod 16y ago
The burden of proof lies on the accuser's shoulders. How do you know it's not disinformation? From now on, the Pentagon will blame WikiLeaks for every civilian death. WikiLeaks had no incentive to put innocents at risk, but the Pentagon has
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by Rod 16y ago
Agreed. But please do note that the Taliban didn't fly any aircraft into buildings. The ones who did were Saudis. The Taliban want to kick the invader out, just like the Vietcong 40 years ago. If you think the war in Afghanistan is motivate
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by Rod 16y ago
I am not after financial independence the easy way. I could never work for an investment bank. It's boring. And even if you're paid $200K a year at a bank, you're still a pawn. Nothing more than a mere cog in a big machine, unable to decide
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by Rod 16y ago
I only know half a dozen software empires. I know a lot more hardware empires. And I am not talking about semiconductors only.
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by Rod 16y ago
Investment banking only requires you to go to the right schools and to be able to tolerate excruciatingly boring work for 16 hours a day. I know people who amassed a nice loot that way. By contrast, I don't know anyone who amassed the same
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by Rod 16y ago
Sure. Different people have different motivations. Nothing wrong with that. But, to be honest, if your goal is financial independence, go work in investment banking until you are 35, retire, go see the world, live frugally, learn quantum me
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by Rod 16y ago
Frankly, when compared to Intel, Reddit surely looks like something that was just "cobbled together". Intel has hundreds of physics, chemistry, engineering PhD's building circuits with billions of transistors with dimensions one order of ma
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by Rod 16y ago
"It all depends on your initial goals. If your goal is to create a company that is going to be around in its original form and that will 'change the world' then by all means, stick around. But if you create 'web-apps' for an emerging field

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