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It does not tell you how to calculate the interchange, but it does explain what interchange is and describes the variables that go into the equation.

Interestingly relevant to BSD-style vs. GPL-style licensing: > The vision of freedom that most of the big corporate interests had was the ability to make their platform sticky: to …

#!/usr/bin/env ruby # you insensitive clod!

> The argument for evented concurrency assumes threads work. Async design isn't a reaction to MRI's crappy green threads. Truly? To my understanding, event loops require inversion …

Too bad they don't dogfood it (source: Default.aspx): ... ... ... etc. Also, the classic (header, 3-col, footer) layout is missing. e.g. HEADER ------ C|C |C C|C |C C|C |C C|C |C C…

> Can you explain that further? Here's a stab: The culture here is such that comments are for the sake of the readers and not the writer. Some amount of self-promotion is fine, but…

Sounds like Jamie Dimon, of JP Morgan Chase. He ended a multi-billion IT outsourcing deal with IBM in 2004: http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/outsourcing/s...

> Many Microsoft decisions since the mid-90s (when I first started holding MSFT) have made life overall worse for me That has nothing to do with your being a shareholder.

> Big corporations tend to operate in their stock's best interest, and this can still cause serious problems for their shareholders. Erm, what? This seems contradictory on its face…

The punchline is at the end: > Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the whit…

> don't the US corn subsidies for ethanol actually make corn more expensive? My understanding is that the subsidies are there to incentivize corn production . The video says that t…

> These are obviously mutually exclusive definitions! Not at all. He is saying racism is a subset of tribalism, as is being an OS fanboy. Tribalism the the umbrella term.

> However, the other counter argument against HFT is that it actually doesn't really provide liquidity to the market, as evident by the June flash-crash. As far as I can tell, this…

> the researchers hypothesized that, given some premises about evolution, poor women would have more kids earlier. Um, isn't this already well known? Did they not craft the hypothe…

What exactly do you mean by replication with devices?

The "trouble" is only when you want a single process to monopolize the entirety of CPU resources. In today's (and even yesterday's?) processing environment, there are often tens if…

Erm, so the trouble with meritocracy is that higher education is bad? And we don't want to subject underprivileged demographics to the intellectually conformist ... education conve…

I came across it in James Clavell's 1981 novel, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_House

> partly because I'm paranoid about getting sued by the RIAA. No need to be paranoid, here. They only go after big distributors , not downloaders (aka leeches).

> the reuters/AP of ... Unintentional irony? Both of those organizations' reputations have become quite tarnished. They are certainly not contemporary bastions of fair-handed trans…

> Option – Open Source the Product > No, Not really an option at all. Who would work on it? Sure lots of people love to consume open source projects, but very few people contribute…

Given that the story is a defense of people who generate wealth, I am not surprised that he did not focus on people who do not generate wealth. I am not sure it is a failing, eithe…

> it totally failed to address the question of wealth received through means other than entrepreneurship These people receive wealth. They do not necessarily generate it. Athletes …

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