captainobvious

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by captainobvious 18y ago
But how about an excellent mobile browser that actually works?
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Reminds me of some thoughts I had on how Bill Gates is the richest man in the world, and yet you or I can use an iPhone, while he, despite his wealth, is stuck with clunky Windows Mobile.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Weird, surely you noticed the TAs during undergrad? Did you think they were grading papers for fun? =P
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Some burger joints do the same, but I think I'll stick to not starting my own burger joint.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
No wing-tip vortices.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
An RFC isn't an international standard, and this particular RFC was drafted by MS Research.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Also, it is important to mention that RCF3484 was drafted by MS Research.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
>We've de-emphasized the history part though have kept it in the product I would default it to off, otherwise, pretty evil.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Externalities ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality ), positive or negative, don't seem to get much consideration throughout.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Sorry, but sending men to the Moon to drive around in a little car is a better example of wasteful entertainment than any of the three web companies you named.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Since under his utopia those session players will be basically out of work, they would be a lot cheaper and you could still make your album.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Arrington hired him and could fire him.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
>People seem perfectly happy to make these compromises to install OS X, but they will whine and whine if it's Linux. What's the difference? Lets see some evidence for this. There are many more Linux users than Hackintosh users, so (usi
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Is the parent post supposed to be self-referential?
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by captainobvious 18y ago
If you google "coffee tea bag" the first link explains why not: "Unlike tea leaves, coffee grains release little flavor unless they come into contact with water that is not only hot but also agitated. The water may simply flow through a soc
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by captainobvious 18y ago
If anyone wants great instant coffee try cold-brew, you can buy it in refrigerated condensed liquid form, just search Amazon for N.O. Brew, I used to swear by this stuff. It was also great for making cold coffee drinks.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Those same racketeering statutes also do things like say prevent unions from making secondary-strikes, which is why unions in americahave been all but completely neutered for the last 100+ years.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
> I'm just wondering if they lost a few who could be Nobels along the way. I don't think studying for an olympiad impedes this. Terrence Tao (Australian, to be clear), dominated math olympiads, went on to make fundamental contributions
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by captainobvious 18y ago
>who won? China, as usual. I'll need to hear more details than that; China is the largest country in the world.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Can anyone explain the relationship between 4:3 and 16:9? I know 16:9 is each number in 4:3 squared, but is there a geometric reason/interpretation for this choice?
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by captainobvious 18y ago
For its time, sure, but the problem is the hype hasn't stopped. It is great if you are a film buff, but not so great if you just like films.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
The 500k limit is only on executives of banks that receive future extraordinary assistance from the government--the execs are free to find jobs elsewhere if they don't want the restrictions. The banks are free to not take the assistance if
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by captainobvious 18y ago
I thought the link would point here: http://huddlechat.appspot.com/ With the implied answer to the headline being: because we'll bust your knees if you even think about trying it.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
The grievances were: * Experimenting with eliminating grades. This was the issue at hand anyway. * Altering a course curriculum with student input. Every teacher does this to some extent; there aren't enough details to judge (i.e. did he ma
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by captainobvious 18y ago
That's going to take a change to the way the whole mutual fund system works. People that buy into mutual funds (typically because it is their only choice in their work 401k's) don't vote. Fund managers do. There is a whole good 'ol boys
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Shrink your browser window, or increase the font size.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
>A law program loses accreditation if less than 50% of its students fail the bar exam. Guess a crummy school where more than 50% fail the bar wouldn't have any problems then.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
I think you may have missed the point. Playing a wedding or bar mitzvah is custom work on contract with a single client who to some extent directly dictates your set list, etc. Playing a giant stadium concert is you putting out your produ
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by captainobvious 18y ago
Looking back? GM made a bad bet in the 70's/80's. Many annuity companies made the same mistake. That doesn't mean that current workers are making 100K. All of these articles about paying current workers 100K are totally disingenuous.
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by captainobvious 18y ago
The average auto worker doesn't make 100k. Including health care costs and future pension benefits, they make 42k. That 100k number was thrown about and included pensions being paid to retired workers, but distributed that cost only to cur

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