smallblacksun

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by smallblacksun 14y ago
I agree that Gandhi didn't mean that it as proof, but many, many people on the internet use it to mean precisely that.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
>It was a man who thought big, who had "one overriding idea": Tesla. >It's not about "one overriding idea", Make up your mind.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/phonefraud/report.shtm...
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
You're right, the author isn't a "reverse" or "backwards" racist. He is just racist, period.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
The time dilation effects don't become large enough to have significant affects on aging until speeds significantly higher than .1C. For example, to age at 1/2 normal rate, you would need to be going ~0.86C. This site has a calculator to
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Americans on reddit were already going to vote for him, and that it will have virtually no impact on anyone who doesn't use reddit.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
The publishers answer to the threat of Amazon.com was (allegedly) illegal price fixing. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/business/media/penguin-and...
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
He did said he would take them to court if they didn't pay the invoice. It was clearly an idle threat, though.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
"The Picture Show" is not a news program either.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
It is similar, at least. Here is another one showing South Korea that is taken using a regular camera from the ISS that shows similar light patterns ( https://plus.google.com/117789022459699674254/posts ). It's hard to see North Korea bec
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
I think that this image ( http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2011/12/19/northkoreamap_62... ) of Korea is the most striking representation of image equality. It is visible from space with the naked eye.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
If he sent that email, he would be admitting to firing someone for reporting labor law violations, which is illegal.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
>Not counting their initial failures, SpaceX has had a 100% success rate. And other than the ones that exploded, NASA never lost a shuttle.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
There can still be issues even with that. I watched an international youth tournament (CONCACAF u20 championships, I think) where the US and Canada? could each guarantee advancement with a tie, but could be eliminated if they lost. The fi
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
We just need to get the NRO to let us borrow one of their satellites :)
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
Before reading the postscript I thought it was an interesting, if not revolutionary, critique of ad services. Then I read the last line and realized the whole "article" was yet another ad for app.net. I felt like I had been tricked into
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
There is also the question of whether the statements from Skype about patents are still true given their purchase by Microsoft.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
No one actually pays use taxes.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
>The high rates that top lawyers get paid are simply market rates Market rates propped up by having the ability to restrict entry into the market controlled by other lawyers.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
The court oversight of Microsoft stemming from the antitrust lawsuit ended in May 2011. I don't think it is a coincidence that Microsoft's initial publicity about the new Metro stuff cam in June 2011.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
The US has a large problem with people entering on limited term visitor or student visas and then never leaving. While most of those people are harmless, others aren't (including a number of the 9/11 hijackers). By taking fingerprints of
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." -Sayre
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
The article has a picture of it with it's landing gear up.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
China is also notorious for "creative interpretations" of contracts that just happen to favor the Chinese company.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
Africa won't become a major manufacturing hub until companies can be relatively confident that violence and political turmoil won't destroy their investments.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
Not 0, but vastly less than the cost of discovering and getting approval for a new drug. The vast majority of medical compounds are not particularly difficult to synthesize, meaning that the value of the process patent is relatively small.
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
They're going to burn in a very special level of hell. http://youtu.be/wNs21BiFA4Y?t=34s
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
The NSA says that about 1/3 of their budget is put towards protecting US government systems and data (though there is no way to verify that). It is extremely difficult for them to even attempt to protect non-governmental systems. The NSA w
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
Does it work in Opera?
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by smallblacksun 14y ago
So... Myspace?

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