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This is pretty much how it works in my country (Australia). Those earning under 55k are not required to make repayments, and those who never earn that salary do not repay a cent. T…

I'd like something that deletes everything I post to those services after, say, 90 days. Allow an exception for photos.

There is no solution to the Byzantine Generals problem. If you control more than one third of the nodes, you can wreak havoc, and likely do what you please with the network. You kn…

Real World Haskell is the go-to resource for beginners http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/ By well known Haskellers bos, dons, goerzen. Free online. Once LYAH whets your appetit…

Given they mostly have business / law / academic backgrounds, I am not sure that anybody has ever put the case for fibre speeds to the Libs in terms other than 'this is what people…

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sergey/langsec/occupy/

I run it under Xen with a GPU passed through using VT-d. There are dozens of guides for running it in Xen and also many guides for passing GPUs through to Xen guests. No problems t…

A constructive proof would satisfy!

I'm gonna go with US $120-305 per piece. http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/311870898/T_feet_electric_... Probably best to leave out the garish tabletop and find your own, though.

regexr is another of these - better, arguably

White on blue is contrast enough, surely? You could also invert for black on orange, get your HN on.

Spelling is a factor in the board's decision

'Sunk cost' implies an irreversible transaction. Bitcoins are highly liquid. Nothing fallacious about this logic.

MixMax, as in the cakes? You wonderful human being. Those cakes rock my world.

same logic as hello.com

Given that Mac OS straddles these two worlds perfectly well and you're a working professional, why not claim a mac as a tax deduction? (If your jurisdiction allows for that) As for…

The Duke Nukem Forever of window management, released at last.

I was commenting on this sentence, in particular: >Once this notice is completed we are left with an impossible task of policing our indexing bots. Even then it won't stop there, t…

I'll not jump ship until my downloads are frequently disrupted at the block level, across multiple providers. Pretty difficult to achieve, given the architecture. Indices come and …

Despite being 99% illicit content, could somebody explain why this is not a case for Safe Harbour? Is this principle enshrined in any law at all, or is it just some neutrality idyl…

I haven't experienced any missing binaries or bad NZBs recently, neither from NZBMatrix nor Astraweb. Can anyone corroborate this?

A great initiative. I hope you manage to finish it. I hope people extend the same treatment to non-lisp canonical texts.

I have been waiting for a good Pixel Qi device (in any form factor, really, although a 13" ultrabook or 7" tablet or 4" phone is ideal) to emerge for several years, as it seems a g…