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Why are utility company websites always this bad?(dennis.posterous.com)
1 points by d2viant 16y ago|0 comments
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by d2viant 16y ago
You're right in your point about backups. These cloud services present quite a problem in the sense that they're structured to accommodate massive amounts of data. Often times this data is generated within the service itself with no means p
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by d2viant 16y ago
"The Cove" ( http://www.thecovemovie.com ) I had no idea what it was about when I flipped it on, but it's a great hacker movie. The guy who trained Flipper is trying to save some dolphins from being killed in Japan, so he teams up with some
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by d2viant 16y ago
In a sense, yes, but that's mainly on the books and it depends on which interest rate you're referring to. You're right, much of the bailout money was used to cushion the capital accounts of these institutions. However, banks are businesses
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by d2viant 16y ago
If I got an extra $100 or so on my paycheck, it would have very little economic utility. It would just be added to my pile of savings. Nonsense. That's great that you'd save the $100, but even if you do that it still has economic utility,
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by d2viant 16y ago
It probably had more to do with the lessons learned from the Tunisia situation.
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by d2viant 16y ago
What happens if you get acquired by Google? Do they still make you go through the interview process?
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by d2viant 16y ago
Where else would you like them to send it?
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by d2viant 16y ago
Yes, that's what the "Scrum of Scrums" idea is meant to solve, in exactly that way: http://www.xqa.com.ar/visualmanagement/2009/08/scrum-of-scru...
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by d2viant 16y ago
I hear about this happening all the time, but what amazes me is that people actually get caught. Days and weeks after the incident. If you're thousands of feet in the air, sure you can get a generally vicinity of where it's coming from on t
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by d2viant 16y ago
That's essentially what bootstrapping is. How do you define it?
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by d2viant 16y ago
I made the lucky mistake with Pluggio of not charging from day one. Not because I didn’t want to – but because I didn’t have the payment stuff setup and I was too lazy to do it before launch. Sorry, but laziness isn't a compelling enough
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by d2viant 16y ago
No joke. As far as I can tell there really is no reward. You get "invited" to D.C. to attend a reception where you have to present your app to a commission. Your app then gets featured on the FCC website. You have to pay your own way there
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by d2viant 16y ago
Completely agree, but my point is that even if you score it from a trusted dealer -- the so-called "pure" ecstasy you're getting is still dangerous to your body and mental state, even in the absence of additives.
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by d2viant 16y ago
It's a good point you make about alcohol, but I think the difference is that the "pure/regulated" alcoholic being sold can be consumed in a safe manner without any physical harm. I don't think a "pure" version of hardcore drugs are safe und
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by d2viant 16y ago
That would get them an extra inch of real estate on the iPhone screen. That's significant.
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by d2viant 16y ago
As an alternative to waiting for this official release, jailbroken iPhones have been able to do this for a while now, with no tethering fees from your carrier.
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by d2viant 16y ago
I don't own one, so I'm not sure -- but couldn't you just reflash it with the downloadable Android?
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by d2viant 16y ago
Maybe, but probably not comfortably. After taxes, that 172K will be about 120K. Even if you were to somehow make 8% interest on your money for the rest of your life, that's still only $800 a month.
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by d2viant 16y ago
Of getting stolen? What are basing that on? If you look at Google or Amazon, for example, they have teams of people who's only job it is to secure said data. I don't think the average office can say the same.
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by d2viant 16y ago
I had a professor that told me it's actually a good strategy to make wild predictions far in the future. If you're right, you look like an oracle. If you're wrong, nobody remembers to go back and dig up "he predicted this on this date", pri
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by d2viant 16y ago
I'm not sure that article convinces me yet. Here is the experience of my employer, which offered 3 different healthcare plans for employees. Healthcare plan costs skyrocketed this year, to the tune of 30%-50% (not necessarily due to the hea
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Things Babies Born in 2011 Will Never Know(finance.yahoo.com)
1 points by d2viant 16y ago|0 comments
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by d2viant 16y ago
The source article is formatted much better: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/06/business/smallbusiness/06s...
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by d2viant 16y ago
I'd venture to guess that nearly all LinkedIn users are on Facebook, but I don't think the opposite is true. Along with that the information recorded under both sites overlaps quite a bit. At that point it's just a matter of how and to who
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by d2viant 16y ago
Do you really think LinkedIn is a chink in Facebook's armor? I question how many people regularly use LinkedIn as opposed to those who just update when their job title changes. All Facebook needs is for an intern of theirs to add a couple m
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by d2viant 16y ago
I'm not sure I understand the pay cut part. Why not start it up on the side and keep your regular job until it grows big enough to replace your existing salary? If it fails then you can just keep doing what you were doing before. Seems less
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by d2viant 16y ago
I think people are missing an angle in this story. I don't think the interesting part is the $450 million they invested or the vehicle they're setting up for investors. It's Facebook's future IPO and Goldman likely just bought themselves th
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by d2viant 16y ago
The solution, Mr. Ozmint and others say, is to simply jam cellphone signals in prisons. That may solve that one problem, however the article glosses over a much larger problem -- the inmate bought his phone from a prison guard. There is e
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by d2viant 16y ago
Thanks, I appreciate that. I wasn't trying to troll at all. It's simply a reality that it takes a certain amount of resources to keep Wikipedia running. If a large donation is more favorable than purchasing them -- then by all means that's

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