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It's funny how quickly that's gone from, "Oooo I can help you!" to "you guys are helpless."

I think the question is: If I have a 1000 packets and I lose 10 is the packet loss spread out of is it clustered? If it's clustered you'll have to retransmit anyway.

When you are trading at a P:E ratio of 50 you are expecting some phenomenal growth and at LinkedIn's size that growth is pretty hard to get. Scaling it back to 25 seems pretty damn…

Eh, it's a different beast. Oliver only has to do one show a week and he has an hour. He doesn't want to just be John Stewart's show but with swearing. Doing this every night would…

I have to give the CS rep some credit as he does seem to be trying to make things better. It's more response than a lot of manufacturers would have given.

> It doesn't fit on a simple chart with simple graphics. Yeah it does just keep zooming in.

I've never understood why you wouldn't proxy the ads through the server providing the content. No more domain black holes.

The panama canal is 50 miles wide and has an elevation change of 85 feet. Construction took 10 years. It would be vastly more efficient to have a pipe line which would still be lud…

I can't imagine the scope of a project that would move water 1500 miles over a mountain range. From the Missouri valley to western Kansas is a 3000 ft elevation change. You are lit…

They should really try to recruit the survivors to do some of this work. They very likely have immunity now.

There are fairly basic steps to prevent HIV or Hep C. The worry has been if Ebola really gets loose and how quickly that could utterly fuck the world up.

More work but they are also in a very high rent area compared to all other steps.

Or if you are on mobile m.xkcd.com/

How does cynicism equal rooting for failure?

I'd guess factory, brand, and patents.

Does anyone know what the size of this hitch was? What I'm picturing isn't all that large.

Your analogy only holds if the fire alarm somehow started the fire.

I think the other side of the problem though is that if you can still get 100X performance from what we have today, but it costs 100X in power, you will still have a problem where …

Whoever gave him the file might also share some of the blame.

Hey quit looking at the clock.

> I'm an idea guy learning how to code and build better products. I'm the co-founder of Virtuous Giant, where we make WordPress plugins like Ignition Deck, and iPhone apps like San…

Don't you see the value that guy brings? He's an "Idea guy." You just need to do all that work stuff. Hell he's thinking ALL DAY.

That's not what the article says. >That's because the terms under which John Henry is buying the paper stick the New York Times Company with the Globe's pension obligations , which…

from http://www.southwest.com/wifi/ > Internet access will be available for $8 all day, per device and will be displayed once you launch your internet browser and connect above 10,…

Psychology can play a component though. If you are tense your muscles start off tighter and are easier to fatigue. You are also more likely to be hunched over your keyboard resulti…