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VT_Drew

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    Comment #15288610

    This is only true if you use a credit card. A debit card on the otherhand, carries a lot of liability.

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    Comment #15242717

    The "science" on treating Opioid addictions at this point would just be reaffirming what we already know with mountains of "anecdotal" evidence. You want to solve the Opoid problem…

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    Comment #15200043

    >I'm enjoying TDD a lot Meh, test are great in so far as they can help you not break things if you upgrade the framework, or langauge in the future. But other than that I have to a…

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    Comment #15195268

    >the config files were always messy. How? It so much cleaner and simpler than Apache. I don't get this sentiment.

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    Comment #15140205

    >Money as we know it depends on the authority of the state for credibility, with central banks typically managing its price and/or quantity. More accurately stated: Money as we kno…

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    Comment #15118921

    Game Theory would probably be more valuable to understand than graph theory. Just my 2 cents.

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    Comment #15049618

    $21 a month per user.....to host it on my own hardware....no thanks. If I am hosting on my own hardware then you get a one-time-fee, none of this subscription nonsense.

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    Comment #14993986

    >high-frequency radiation Am I the only one concerned with this? I mean it's great that they were able to do this, but I would like some comprehensive studies by various institutio…

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    Comment #14992171

    He basically building off his work at AMD, there was an announcement about a month ago that Telsa will use Zen chips for their self driving cars, surprise surprise. Who would have …

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    Comment #14992112

    And Apple was more than Jobs and Woz, but they get all the credit.

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    Comment #14982570

    >But guess how easily you can get marijuana, even where it's illegal Guess how easily you can get any drug.....even in prisons. If we can't keep drugs out of prison then what chanc…

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    Comment #14894682

    Can we just stop with this nonsense? If you have a byproduct that has be buried in special containers in the desert, and that land can't be used, and there are people actually tryi…

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    Comment #14654675

    MissionU does something very similar (charge nothing up front and take X% of your salary for X years after you graduate) http://www.missionu.com/ It is really a great model, the "s…

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    Comment #14639244

    MIT wasn't running NAT before now? WTF? Talk about a security nightmare.

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    Comment #14568948

    Good old investors, so short sighted, they only care about the next 3 months. Whole Foods probably would have been better off as private company, especially with the culture they w…

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    Comment #14544916

    Hopefully Tesla would never sell to Apple. I think Apple makes some good products, but I hate how closed their ecosystem is. Tesla has open sourced it's patents, which strongly goe…

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    Comment #14403491

    ZZ also works as save and quit.

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    Comment #14359270

    Even in 1964 there was lots of wasteful government spending, it has only got worse over the years.

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    Comment #14256195

    >In most fields there is little incentive to change things when the company itself isn't too affected in case of hack This is correct. As long as the risk isn't too high then compa…

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    Comment #14219251

    >One of the common complaints people have about python and other popular interpreted languages (Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, etc) is that they’re slow. Proceeds to show an animatio…

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    Comment #14206886

    I wouldn't bother on a desktop or laptop. Servers absolutely.

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    Comment #14197821

    Seems very similar to DIGG.com's story.

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    Comment #14187444

    >Don't combine the two >No technical reason these two need to be hosted together Sound advice. To me it sounds like maybe the OP wants both on the same VPS, which is a horrible ide…

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    Comment #14187425

    >You're limiting your options by insisting to have both app and email hosting with the same company. My suggestion is to investigate them separately. Even if you do have them with …