I would second talking to the DA. The photoshopped Wells Fargo receipt is just too much.
You'll be doing someone downstream a huge service. Someone these guys would end up scamming otherwise.
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You'll be doing someone downstream a huge service. Someone these guys would end up scamming otherwise.
When I first heard about that pyramid, I was a little confused because it took me a while to realize this.
This was Ballmer's response at a conference when he was asked what Microsoft's response would be to the iPhone. Verbatim.
Is Benzocaine usually available (in the USA) without a prescription?
Never was a problem. Probably led to some of the spirituality and mathematics of ancient India.
However, it was the natural variety. Not the genetically optimized powder keg stuff available today.
But from the linked page I couldn't figure out where any of the documentation of this "thing" is, nor how to install it, nor what platforms it's for.
Was it just me?
Your neighbors who took those zero interest rate loans and are living "the life" going on vacations and buying new cars... it's all a big show, and it looks grand from outside, but they're probably experiencing all kinds of stresses that you don't. These are the kinds of people who keep the psycho-pharma complex profitable.
Which is why I said "real unemployment." The official rate may be 6% but the real rate may be 20% (if we were to count the people who have given up and are now on welfare).
Can anyone point me to some well argued work that squares the above 2 sentences? I'm an immigrant to the U.S. myself, so I'm not anti-immigrant per se, it's just that some things have left me scratching my head.
Elon Musk: if you're reading this: if you put a manual window crank option in your cars (especially as a fallback in case the electric window fails), that's what I'll buy.
When for some reason, my bluetooth headphone's connectivity is acting up (happens often), I can take my wired headphone and plug it in without even looking, knowing that it WILL work.
One of my car's electric windows has stopped working. For my next car, I want something where there's a fallback to a mechanical crank (the way car windows used to be).
India is a pervert's paradise. There are 10s of street children on any large street who will let you do anything in exchange for a meal. Sadly, for a short while, I lived at a place near where these kids were regularly dropped off. That's how I learned about it. The police won't talk about it (it'll make them look bad, plus they may actually be facilitating the process). The press won't talk about it I don't know why.
Everything in Slum Dog Millionaire is true. It happens. But before that movie, 50% of India didn't know it (the "better" half).
Women are raped inside police stations every day in India. By policemen. Who often get promotions after the act. There will still be Indians who will claim ignorance.
I was once in a commercial truck, and we were stopped in the middle of the road by the police. All our permits were in order. We still had to pay off the police to be allowed to move on.
The last time I was in India, the day I left the country, 50 people were killed by some group somewhere. In the news headlines, there was a statement from the Chief Minister of that state, from the Home Minister of India, and that's it. The news then moved on to what the Bachchans were up to that day. There were no names of the people killed. No clue who did it. There's no wikipedia page mentioning the massacre. If 10 people are killed in a Western Country, you can bet there's a wiki about it. With their names. And with a lot of closure on the incident.
It'll change. It'll take time. I'm hopeful. The internet will make a difference. Hopefully people will slow down breeding (my grandparents collectively had 20 cildren, I'm childfree for life).
Source: from there originally. Been there once in the last 10 years. Saw little had changed. Vowed never to go back.
Music cos. were supposed to do something similar to iTunes etc. Didn't happen.
> Cars will appear when ordered through the app. They will drive off and disappear when you step out of the car. When running low on fuel, cars will coordinate trips to tucked away re-charging depots to be smartly refilled with electricity.
You mean in about 20 years time?
> Then car manufacturers will drastically start reducing the cost of operating these vehicles.
With magic?
There are so many countries that are not in the EU. Are they all doomed?
Sometimes, the original intent of a research program doesn't come to fruition, but there are a lot of downstream benefits and innovations that can be traced to the so-called "failed" research program. I believe that's exactly what's going to happen with some of these so-called "failures."
Even today, what Elon Musk has already done, is considered impossible for his companies to have done. (The car, and the backwards landing rocket.)
Here's to more moonshots from Google and Facebook! Salute!
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And here's Nassim Taleb on "inverse Turkeys" (i.e., positive Black Swans), from AntiFragile:
> Harvard Business School professor, Gary Pisano, writing about the potential of biotech, made the elementary inverse-turkey mistake, not realizing that in a business with limited losses and unlimited potential (the exact opposite of banking), what you don’t see can be both significant and hidden from the past. He writes: “Despite the commercial success of several companies and the stunning growth in revenues for the industry as a whole, most biotechnology firms earn no profit.” This may be correct, but the inference from it is wrong, possibly backward, on two counts, and it helps to repeat the logic owing to the gravity of the consequences. First, “most companies” in Extremistan make no profit—the rare event dominates, and a small number of companies generate all the shekels. And whatever point he may have, in the presence of the kind of asymmetry and optionality we see in Figure 7, it is inconclusive, so it is better to write about another subject, something less harmful that may interest Harvard students, like how to make a convincing PowerPoint presentation or the difference in managerial cultures between the Japanese and the French. Again, he may be right about the pitiful potential of biotech investments, but not on the basis of the data he showed.
On your point about Military / Govt applications. This Larry biography:
"The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: *God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison"
This book is an insanely amazing read. Apparently, the CIA was one of their first clients, and Oracle was named after a failed CIA project (the book hints that Larry might actually be CIA)
What are some promising open source efforts out there to create such a universal schema?
On a related note: anybody on here want to work on some kind of innovative enterprise database startup? (I don't have any ideas, I just want to work on one because I see a lot of potential).