noilly

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by noilly 11y ago
I've always liked this layman's animated FAQ: http://www.vinylrecorder.com/faq.html
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by noilly 14y ago
Save on fuel weight, but is rather large, and wonder how it fares in harsher weather conditions
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by noilly 14y ago
Agreed. In its current incarnation, social is merely a utility. Network effect inertia ~ Natural monopoly
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by noilly 14y ago
They would still be constrained to degrees by their marginal costs (the price floor) v what the market will bear. Who knows what the actual costs will be the day they have a giant rock in orbit, although I expect they will fall rapidly with
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by noilly 15y ago
By default, yes. Only whitelist sites that I support and aren't abusive with ads/tracking
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by noilly 15y ago
Exactly... the political and economic institutions of Russia have not progressed and have likely regressed in the last 10 years. Who led Russia in 2002? Putin. Who is leading Russia in 2011/12? Still Putin and United Russia. The Litvinenko
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by noilly 15y ago
Thanks for the FLAC support, with 24/192 and 24/96 working!
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by noilly 15y ago
The proposal mentions that the NYC campus will largely serve graduate students and graduate school programming. Stanford already has a satellite campus in Monterrey, CA for marine biology and oceanography students where students split time
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by noilly 15y ago
afaik, it's android's lack of GPU acceleration for the UI
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by noilly 15y ago
I also assumed that the storage/bandwidth/computational costs of particle accelerator data sets would make open access practically useless
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by noilly 15y ago
The proposed site is on Roosevelt Island
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by noilly 15y ago
It was also one of the most important cultural capitals of the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Detroit (i.e. Motown to techno was based in Detroit)
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by noilly 16y ago
33,808 deaths in 2009 from traffic fatalities http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx
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by noilly 16y ago
Actually my experience growing up in NYC (and this may be an outlier, but I see it elsewhere) is that immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurial because traditional employment is off limits due to language, cultural, and educationa
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by noilly 16y ago
At the same time, Hong Kong served as a model for China to emulate when it gradually liberalized its economy, beginning with the SEZs in coastal southern China in the 1980s. I think charter cities could be a novel way of easing people who h
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by noilly 16y ago
I wouldn't be so hopeful. One of my professors who works in Antarctica and drills lots of ice cores was bemoaning the Russian mismanagement of the Vostok drilling project.
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by noilly 16y ago
This kind of testing is already done in certain contexts. I am thinking specifically of air quality and automobile efficiency standards which are "tested" in California before being rolled out to the nation. However, this is only allowed be
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by noilly 16y ago
granted, feral cattle can be quite nasty (wouldn't want to meet one in the wild)
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by noilly 16y ago
There are many works that fit into this format, e.g. Joyce's Ulysses, the classics, etc.
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by noilly 16y ago
from Verizon (CDMA coverage) * Bermuda * Canada * Dominican Republic * Guam * Israel * Mexico * Northern Mariana Islands * South Korea http://support.vzw.com/faqs/International%20Services%20and%2...
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by noilly 16y ago
It boggles the mind how much economic rent and inefficiency is gotten through pointlessly proprietary formats.
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by noilly 16y ago
Exactly. An old, old technique. Do people still study rhetoric in school, grumble grumble?
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by noilly 16y ago
perhaps why a bottle of vodka is 3 dollars *also fun fact: doshirak is a Korean brand
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by noilly 16y ago
it's happening ;)
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by noilly 16y ago
Also, the Gates building (and others) at Stanford has bits of computer history including a plaque to Vint Cerf and one of Google's lego servers
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by noilly 16y ago
-critical music listening (some decent hi-fi speakers/headphones required) -meditating/deliberate breathing -static/dynamic apnea free diving (need access to body of water)
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by noilly 16y ago
Isn't this basically an attempt at Hong Kong/SEZ/Charter City type development. Not necessarily doomed to failure?
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by noilly 16y ago
IMO the cost analysis of college (beside personal preference) is largely a function of parent income. In the US, if your family is poor to "middle income" your decision tree is 1. get into a top 5/10 (at least by endowment) school 2. get in
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by noilly 16y ago
or the really really nasty kind http://www.theawl.com/2010/05/ciudad-juarez-rumors-and-excha...
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by noilly 16y ago
it comes in handy when studying abroad (free international calls if you use with gizmo)

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