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SamReidHughes

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About SamReidHughes

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http://samuelhughes.com/

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    Long term, buybacks aren't about supply/demand -- they increase a share's percentage ownership of the business.

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    Comment #38980869

    Philly cheesesteak sellers in other locations often advertise they use real Amoroso rolls shipped from Philadelphia.

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    Comment #38678673

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    Comment #38300294

    They seem to mean talent density in the sense of the amount of talent per person.

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    Comment #38147046

    Singapore obviously had a lot of differences, particularly the PM's past close relationship with the unions, and the early stage of development making it more rational for workers …

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    Comment #38146883

    From his memoirs "The Singapore Story", Chapter 6, "Winning Over the Unions", on the ports: > Recounting Britain's prodigal years of crippling dock strikes which led to the devalua…

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    Comment #38146709

    Channel their inner LKY and deal with it the way he did.

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    Comment #38122356

    For computers, it's surely that common office keyboards have changed from awful squishy keys to units that are more chiclet-like, or even if not, still have a better key action for…

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    Comment #38063259

    The thing is, by the time you get to this book, most students have probably taken DiffEq or multivariable calculus, and had exposure to linear algebra there. (If not in high school…

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    Comment #37835373

    They want eBay to enforce the law on merchants.

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    Comment #37835158

    They want to further outsource law enforcement to a due-process-free zone.

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    Comment #37825947

    Everything you're talking about has nothing to do with federal taxation.

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    Comment #37807120

    No. Their presumed nukes are more useful as a deterrent against more capable enemies that might develop their own nukes. And they'd immediately become an absolute pariah state. Tha…

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    Comment #37489041

    So, actually, 47% of them by dollar amount, according to the report you quoted. Selectively quoted. Why do you behave this way? Here's a question for you to think about: Why do the…

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    Comment #37488957

    I'm not an author or artist or creator of any kind, but if some guy made a bunch of "plot summary" videos of my work, I'd want him hunted down and sentenced to hard labor.

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    Comment #37487409

    Transactions where you got scammed aren't the same thing as unauthorized transactions.

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    Comment #37473521

    He undid all the hard work that the visual novel creators put in and undermined the creative industry.

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    Comment #37451009

    > Truthfully I don't think this is an issue the federal government is in a position to solve any time soon. The long and short is that our population has grown faster than our supp…

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    Comment #37429743

    An enterprise that "strains the grid" still has to pay for that electricity, so it's not some perverse incentive at all.

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    Comment #37202198

    I've seen this sort of pointer (assuming the author means it's nullable) be called "clone_ptr " but it called T's clone() method. Because T might be a base class, invoking the poin…

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    Comment #37030026

    It's not prosecuted murders. The baseline stats aren't built on that number, they're built on the race of the perp when known.

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