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Technical excellence is usually secondary to anyone except technicians and a few power users. It was the same with VHS/Betamax. The network effect and the set-up cost are much more important for the majority of users than technical excellence.

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It depends on the value of "You". Even if we are talking only of USA and not any other country, you don't have the same probability of being killed by a police officer if you are a white person living in a rich area than if you are a black drug dealer in downtown Detroit. And although terrorist might be more "random" in selecting their victims, you probably are more prone to being killed by a terrorist if you live in a big city than if you are in a small village.

So my point is this comparison, stated like this, is useful only to those that want to confirm their beliefs on "police brutality".

I didn't know what a DPF was, nor what an injector was. This January, a 4000+ euros repair bill educated me. This is a seven years old car and taking this bill and the higher car price in consideration, I would have been better buying a regular fuel car.

How exactly would you achieve that balance? Rejecting good male candidates in favor or worse female ones? Creating make-believe positions for women?

If the percentage of females working in IT reflects the percentage of females with IT studies or interested in IT, I don't see a problem. Or at least I don't see a problem in the workspace. Maybe it's a problem of education, but I'm not sure even if this is the case or just a simple matter of different preferences between men and woman.

Yes, you can, both EU residents and out of EU residents.

But you need an official address in UK (registered address) for your company, where Government can send you official mail. There are companies that give you this service, so it's not a big problem.

I do. Maybe I'm just one and every other person on Earth thinks otherwise, but I just can't see the "catastrophic" unless it is stated in relation to how radical this climate change is and in what direction.

Many more people die now from cold weather than from warm weather. So maybe a little rise in temperature is a good thing. And historic evidence shows that warmer climate meant more productive crops in the middle ages and in the roman empire.

Maybe I am wrong, but I would need more solid evidence of the catastrophic consequences of climate change before sentencing millions of people to death because we choose to spend money fighting climate change instead of fighting malaria or improving access to clean water.

Central planning in the USSR and China led to huge famines with millions of deaths.

And you should check what happened in Germany after the WWII: one country, split in two, one with central planning, other with mostly free market. Guess what was the result 40 years later? Same thing for Korea: one country, split in two, one with central planning, other with free market. The free market country gets western standard of living, central planning gets poverty, stagnation and famine.

I don't have medical experience, but I had a heart attack a year ago. This is what I felt:

- Feeling diffusely sick, no specific pain, but a feeling that something was wrong.

- Oppression in the chest.

- Mild pain in the left arm

- Cold sweat.

I tried to drink some water, open a window to have fresh air, sit and relax, but after a couple of minutes nothing improved. I was at the office (alone) so I googled the symptoms of a heart attack and next thing I was calling 112 (Spain's equivalent to 911).

It was a mild heart attack, I got a procedure in the ambulance that stopped the attack, and a barely had heart damage. I had a triple bypass surgery a week after the attack, because the three main arteries were clogged. So it went well, because with those arteries I could have had a more serious attack at any moment.

My advice would be, if you are not feeling right and you never before had those symptoms, call 911 (or whatever the number is in your country). The people that picks up the phone are trained to assess the calls, and anyway it's better to raise a false alarm than to die.

Thanks. Maybe it's not climate scientist then, but the version of climate science that we get through the media which runs as "science is settled, scientist already know what will be the mean temperature on Earth in 2100".

OK, it was a figure of speech. They are not saying that. They are acting like that. The climate scientist who are trying to find the "missing heat" instead of reconsidering their models and revising their predictions of warming.

That blog post is from 2009. Five years later, there has been no temperature spike. In fact, there has been no increment.

But what is interesting is not anyones definition of pause or hiatus or whatever. It's the comparison between predictions of climate models and real temperatures. And the models are really, really bad at predicting reality:

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/02/95-of-climate-models-agr...

If this trend continues, real temperatures will fall below the error range of all models.

Measures are not falsified. Hypothesis are (or should be). When you have a hypothesis, or a theory, that can't be deemed false by new data or new experiments, you don't have science.

And this is the problem with those "a posteriori" explanations of the hiatus. They are saying that the models that predict a global warming catastrophe can't be wrong, instead of recognizing that the models lack predictive power and they must be adjusted. But if the models can't be wrong they are not science.

This and also Windows made more important the office suit.

Before Windows, integration between apps like WordPerfect, Lotus 123 or dBase wasn't so important, so you could buy each piece of software from a different vendor. Solid copy and paste between spreadsheet, word processor and presentation software was the killer feature of MS Office.

Mostly. In most countries that I know of, either there is a limit under which you don't have to pay taxes or don't have to register a business. Perhaps your country taxes that kind of income as personal income.

And in the worst case you only risk a small fine, as the amount is small.

Much more probable is that you don't sell anything or have only a small amount of sales that no one cares about, so first check that you have a business and not a dream.

Zara started as a pop and mom shop.

Except this only makes information disappear from Google, not from the web. If a news site has an articule about that time you were arrested for drug dealing, it will be there and you have no right to make it disappear.

I'd say it's less rude and distracting than looking at your phone

Disproving climate change is virtually impossible. Every scientist agree that climate changes, it has done so in the past, will do in the future and is doing it in the present.

That is not an interesting question.

The interesting questions are:

- Is climate changing in a different way (faster, for example) than it has done in the past?

- Do humans have anything to do with it? Is it caused by increasing levels of atmospheric CO2?

- Will this change be negative?

- If the change is negative (be it man-made or not), can we stop it?

- If we can stop this climate change, how much will it cost? Will this money better spent stopping climate or is a better strategy to adapt to this change?

- Do we understand climate physics well enough to create models that can predict the climate of the future?

This last question is important, because if we can not produce a model that can predict the future well enough, all the other questions are irrelevant. And it seems that predictions of the models and reality are showing quite significant discrepancies: http://judithcurry.com/2014/01/06/ipcc-ar5-weakens-the-case-...

So it's not black or white, yes or no, good or bad. As usually it is in science. Name-calling, appealing to consensus, arguments of authority… those are never the result of science at work.

It may be that people who drink diet soda consider it a treat, so they doesn't indulge in other fattening treats. The people who drink plain water might succumb more easily to temptation.

But we don't know it this is the case, because the people who did the study probably just run to publish it the minute they got the results.

I don't know about the security part, but to say that "The problem with LAMP is that it doesn't scale" or that "SEO bots take down your blog" is simply wrong.

I host a WordPress blog in a $20 DO box and load time is about a second for a typical post (measured with tools.pingdom.com). This is a blog with more than 50.000 visits / month. NGINX, not Apache, but still.

My first son learnt to swim before he learnt to walk. A cousin fell into a swimming pool when he was two, almost died and has severe brain damage, so we wanted to be sure it couldn't happen to a child of us.

Because a potential intruder is more probable to try "root" than "akerl_35" to get access. It's no big deal to login as any other user and then use sudo (if needed) or even su

The post might not be as shocking as it appears. In most of the EU you seldom can fire an employee without weeks of notice. The way she tells the story, it seems as if the employee was told his contract would terminate, but he was still working for the company when he was needed.

Still, I don't find strange that an employee who knows his days at a company are counted is not willing to respond to an after-hours phone call.

I'll try to explain my rational reason.

State-sanctioned marriage has a meaning if it's purpose is to promote reproduction. Which is what marriage was for up to 50 years ago. It's an institution that has benefits to society, so it makes sense to promote and protect it.

Now if you think of marriage as "any love relationship sanctioned by the government", you of course should include same-sex couples. My objection is that then you have changed the meaning, and now there is no rational reason for not including "a love relationship between a man and his three wives", or "a love relationship between two siblings". Or "a love relationship between four men, two woman and a goat". Or just "a relationship between any number of humans that they choose to call marriage", love (or sex) should be no requirement. As long as all humans involved are adults, and they don't pretend me (via government) to subsidize any of their costs, there is no rational reason to hold onto the term just for couples, same-sex or not.

Read 1984 and you will understand why haircuts are important.

You must hire that employee according to the laws of the country in wich he/she lives. So if that person lives in Portugal, you should make a contract according to portuguese laws, and you must pay for social security in Portugal.

I had a "wordpress as default" blog hosted at DreamHost and it handled up to 1.000 visits a day without crashing. More than that, and DreamHost turned it off to prevent it to impact other users.

Now it lives in a Digital Ocean's $20 VPS, fine tuned to serve WordPress and with W3 Total Cache plugin. Blitz.io tests say it could handle 80 million pages served a day. I know that's not really true, but it handles 60.000-80.000 real visits (more than 100k pages) every month without problems.

Cuba is not well off in (lack of) oppression.

Not at war right now, and not suffering famine, but also right now there isn't war or famine in Iran.

As of today, it is not available in Spain.