kenj0418

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by kenj0418 11y ago
I agree with the difference between land-line and mobile providers. If a provider has the benefit of monopoly control of a wire into my house (or some other government-enforced monopoly), then net-neutrality should be part of the price the
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by kenj0418 11y ago
Assuming that you want to allow poor people to live in an area that they couldn't otherwise afford, why are price controls used instead of directly subsidizing housing costs for those with lower income. It seems like the direct subsidy
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by kenj0418 11y ago
He would almost certainly be put in jail as soon as he stepped foot on American Soil. In most circumstances someone could make bail awaiting trial, but considering that he'd been hiding in another country (and the government would arg
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by kenj0418 11y ago
I wouldn't think those would be noticeable unless you were already closely observing the earth. I'm not a physicist, but I assume there isn't any detectable, unique signature of an explosion that can be detected from space.
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by kenj0418 11y ago
18 years ago, and I just now realized the title was chosen because they are all DNA letters.
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by kenj0418 11y ago
> You know who never goes to jail? Regulators. Nor should they unless they were colluding with him or accepting bribes. The punishment for just being bad at your job should be getting fired, not jail. Of course, I doubt many lost their
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by kenj0418 11y ago
> design a library providing arbitrary precision "computable numbers" I believe they call those "programming languages"
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by kenj0418 11y ago
Simple: Just invent a rocket that runs on nuclear waste. Then you have all the fuel you need to get the rocket there. (joking)
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by kenj0418 11y ago
What I expected: if ( isEmployeeWatchingNetflixAtWorkAllDay() ) { employeeIsAboutToLeave(); }
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by kenj0418 11y ago
Watch out, there's also an unwritten rule that forbids commenting on the unwritten rules. Wait... Uh Oh, now I've broken it too.
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by kenj0418 11y ago
> Instead of smelling danger, the rats smell love. The story of my life.
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by kenj0418 12y ago
Kurt and Jessica just had a lot of time on their hands.
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by kenj0418 12y ago
- Option 1: Avoid getting into debt - Option 2: Pay your bills on time - Option 3: File Bankruptcy If you haven't taken option 1 or option 2 and you start getting court notices - then it's time to start talking to someone about op
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by kenj0418 12y ago
So about $600.99 then? What a bargain. The $449 price is cheaper than that. (Assuming you are on AT&Ts more recent plans where they charge you $25 more for having a subsidized, on-contract phone.)
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by kenj0418 12y ago
Can anyone in the banking industry explain why there is no security on ACH similar to how there is for credit cards? 20 years ago when I first wrote a program to generate ACH files it struck me as crazy that all that was needed to take mone
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by kenj0418 13y ago
TrueCrypt offers a volume-within-a-volume option. The free space of a volume normally contains random data, and the hidden volume is presumably headerless. The idea is then to put something that you might want to hide in the outer volume
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by kenj0418 13y ago
"full of people" being the operative phrase here. People with power tend to abuse that power. This is human nature, and this is where distrust of government comes from. People work in their own interest (however they may define
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by kenj0418 13y ago
Well, I thank my mother all the time for moving north several years before I was born. But I'm pretty sure the comment was referring to "Children in homes containing books display intelligence at elevated rates" not the overa
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by kenj0418 13y ago
My cosmetologist told me I was gaining mass too. She recommended a diet though - not further research.
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by kenj0418 13y ago
Assuming they are reading it from the floor of the House (or Senate), it does protect them from being prosecuted: "and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place." They would be subj
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by kenj0418 14y ago
Maybe I'm not understanding your question, but adding intermediate satellites/probes wouldn't improve the speed of communications. The limiting factor is the speed of light. Adding additional hops in between would just add a slight process
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by kenj0418 14y ago
I'm reminded of the book title "The difference between God and Larry Ellison". (God doesn't think he is Larry Ellison.)
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by kenj0418 14y ago
Great - now we only need a 'Why To Accept Bitcoin On Your Website' article.
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by kenj0418 14y ago
The British are using something the size of a phone box to explore the universe. -- Haven't they been doing that since 1963?
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by kenj0418 14y ago
AT&T: Tethering is included (no additional cost, using your existing data pool) with the new shared data plans.
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by kenj0418 14y ago
And we (US) were the colony of religious nuts. Look who has recovered first. :-(
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by kenj0418 14y ago
Or in plain "Engrish" they all say: "All your bit are belong to us."
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by kenj0418 14y ago
I would think the automobile is the primary factor in why it isn't lower. (Looking at wikipedia, traffic accidents account for 2.09% of deaths, the next accident category, falls, is 0.69% http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_causes_of_dea
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by kenj0418 14y ago
Congress could definately make this law, but they also delegate many policy details to the executive branch - so this is likely something that could be done by either branch right now. Regarding the 'petitions'. The 'petitions' in question
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by kenj0418 14y ago
70% accuracy is pretty weak. I can predict whether a given passenger will attempt to commit a terrorist act with greater than 99.99% accuracy. Here is my code: boolean isTerrorist(Passenger p) { return false; }

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