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HelloBeautiful

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    Comment #2531805

    >> ebay never figured out how to monetize it Some ppl in and around ebay monetized the buying and the selling big big time.

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    Comment #2530582

    >> The problem with politicians (in places where they are democratically elected) is that they are concerned only with short term solutions because they are only concerned with get…

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    Comment #2527175

    I wouldn't myself. I usually buy a new laptop every year. While I'm not a fan of big evil corps, the thing is HP and Dell top models are very often offered at 30-40% discount. Plus…

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    Comment #2517520

    Some spam bots use WebDriver and can get around this.

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    Comment #2510064

    Remember 200 years ago when industrial pollution was a solved problem?

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    Comment #2510050

    No, she got the proper punishment for stealing from the corporate masters of US. She'll be trapped by the prison industry for the rest of her life. EDIT: OK, my bad. But Australia …

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    Comment #2508625

    Lows and rules don't apply to mega-corps like Sony, Amazon, Ebay/PayPal, Google, Apple, etc. They all have no problem storing all this together with address, SSN and everything els…

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    Comment #2507908

    >> With 4.0, C# and the platform has really matured from its origins as a Java clone So LINQ, proper generics, indexers, first class properties, delegates, events, using blocks, la…

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    Comment #2506466

    5 SSDs here, got the oldest 2.5 years ago. No failures so far. I've run them as system drives, DB storage and so on. I'd think a reason for quick wear out may be swap memory. I've …

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    Comment #2506441

    >> which are not thought to exist which have been observed a few times in colliders

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    Comment #2504136

    Here's the job description: http://hire.jobvite.com/CompanyJobs/Careers.aspx?c=qw49Vfwo&...

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    Comment #2501786

    How would you react if you find the builder of your home has installed hidden cameras in every single room? If you somehow find about it and call him he'll turn them off. No big de…

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    Comment #2492853

    That is a bad news. If the movie industry succeeds in getting rid of privacy, the prices of Netflix subscriptions, BR disks, movie tickets, etc. will go way way up ... And those mo…

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    Comment #2486200

    Mailing cash is obviously very different from a Bitcoin transfer (speed, security, legal issues).

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    Comment #2484735

    >> Bitcoin doesn't remove banks Yes, it does in this case. One can receive money electronically through Bitcoin, without account with a bank, PayPal or Google.

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    Comment #2484478

    Seth Shostak's podcast - http://radio.seti.org/ . Highly recommended ;-)

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    Comment #2479984

    If you're in a state that allows gay marriage and have a non-married co-founder with citizenship ... I'd just keep talking with immigration layers, until someone gives me a way out…

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    Comment #2478600

    >> Aim for C-style abstractions in Python. Worst programming advice ever IMHO. As Sir Isaac Newton used to say: "If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of g…

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    Comment #2478594

    http://www.zerohedge.com/article/libya-all-about-oil-or-all-...

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    Comment #2478038

    It's real. http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/

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    Comment #2478033

    The root cause seems to be the existence of independent central banks in those countries. That is what allows them to switch the trade to euros and provokes occupation by NATO.

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    Comment #2478023

    Yes, really. There is a huge amount of US dollars circling in the oil trade. If those were instead used to buy non-oil stuff, the price of non-oil things will go way up and so the …