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New comment by patrickgzill in "Fifth Amendment shields child porn suspect from decrypting hard drives"

patrickgzill — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:36:07 +0000

Apparently some think that the root password to the US Constitution is "4daChildr3n"

New comment by patrickgzill in "Stop complaining about the lack of women in tech"

patrickgzill — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:38:15 +0000

What sane woman would get into tech, when being a lawyer or MBA is so much more lucrative?

New comment by patrickgzill in "My Time at Lehman"

patrickgzill — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:46:07 +0000

When Michael Lewis wrote Liar's Poker he was shocked over the number of people who contacted him, asking for advice on how to get into investment banking.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Ambrosia Software employees report layoffs, but company says it's in business"

patrickgzill — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:18:24 +0000

I am embarassed to say I spent many hours with Pop-Pop when I should have been doing something else! http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/pop-pop/

New comment by patrickgzill in "The Tyranny of Taxi Medallions"

patrickgzill — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:05:29 +0000

You are aware, that the first slave owner in Virginia, who went to court over his slave, was a black man, right?

New comment by patrickgzill in "The Tyranny of Taxi Medallions"

patrickgzill — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:03:50 +0000

Immediate compensation could be to allow "face value plus 5%" of the medallion to be used to pay any local/city taxes, with say 7 or 10 years given to use the credit.

The IRS rules http://www.irs.gov/publications/p535/ch08.html state you have to amortize/depreciate the license over 15 years (180 months). So, any licenses that are 16 or more years old, have already been written off in full, so, a lesser amount would be needed to compensate the owners.

New comment by patrickgzill in "IRS considers taxing perks at Google, other tech firms"

patrickgzill — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 22:53:59 +0000

Bureaucracy's main purpose is to create more bureaucracy.

As a side effect, they collect taxes or issue you your driver's license, it is just a means to the end of self-perpetuation.

Eliminating the income tax and going to a much more transparent method like higher fuel taxes (everyone pays them because everyone uses transportation) or some other broadly based consumption tax, would be excellent.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Regulators eye tech companies’ free food options"

patrickgzill — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:13:21 +0000

Be quiet... don't give them any ideas. Next I will have to declare "Nerf Gun Friday afternoon" benefits on my tax return ...

New comment by patrickgzill in "Wikileaks release "PlusD": Database of 1.7 million diplomatic cables"

patrickgzill — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:10:17 +0000

Weird prediction: some 22 year old is reading a bunch of these now. He/she will enter the foreign service of his/her respective country and become a great career diplomat as a result.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Docker, the Linux container runtime: now open-source"

patrickgzill — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:59:37 +0000

OpenVZ gives you a container as they call it, which looks like its very own Linux OS. You can login to it, install packages with the package manager, etc. All processes you run, e.g. Apache/PHP, plus MySQL , run in this VM. PHP and MySQL would communicate over a Unix local socket, same as on non-virtualized Linux OS.

Docker appears to run each process, in isolation. So you would have 2 isolated processes (Apache/PHP, plus MySQL) which can only talk to each other over a local network pipe (which should be quite fast with minimal overhead).

(this is my understanding).

New comment by patrickgzill in "Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost"

patrickgzill — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:13:01 +0000

ForkingDongleClub.com is available for purchase as a domain name, at the time of this writing.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Analyzing my DNA"

patrickgzill — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:48:41 +0000

I bought the deal when it was on sale for $49 and I remember it being faster than that, however.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)"

patrickgzill — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:02:14 +0000

If you are referring to the Kin-Slaying as the Noldor left the lands of the Valar, yes, that is precisely what he would have been trying to avoid.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)"

patrickgzill — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 23:31:00 +0000

Some of what you say certainly fits with what Russians I have spoken with have told me. That EVERYONE was treated like crap, it wasn't limited to Jews.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Soviet College Admission — My Dad's Story (1970)"

patrickgzill — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:57:52 +0000

"It was understood that since Jews represented a minority percentage of the overall population, the university would only accept that percentage into the student body. This was in line with the Soviet Union’s unofficial policy of anti-semitism in the post-Stalin era."

So, quotas... are there quotas, official or unofficial, in the USA university system?

New comment by patrickgzill in "Could the eagles have flown Frodo into Mordor? (2000)"

patrickgzill — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:51:07 +0000

It was his blood relative, for one. Two, they did not necessarily know the full power of the Ring. Third, Elves don't go around killing people without cause.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Beware of Ballers on a Budget"

patrickgzill — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 20:50:18 +0000

You can write off leases as a business expense. You have to track depreciation and many other things, if you buy it outright. Leases go right into monthly expenses and reduce your taxes immediately.

New comment by patrickgzill in "E-Mails Imply JPMorgan Knew Some Mortgage Deals Were Bad"

patrickgzill — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:10:00 +0000

VERY old news. Read this info on zerohedge.com in like 2009.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Herd Immunity Demonstration"

patrickgzill — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 12:14:28 +0000

Do remember that the current flu vaccine (as an example) has an efficacy rate of less than 65%. So even if 100% of the population were vaccinated, herd immunity would not be possible.

Herd immunity requires about 75% + efficacy of the vaccines (and assuming 100% of the target population is vaccinated), from what I can understand (it varies based on how the disease being vaccinated against, is spread).

There are vaccines being sold and marketed, that have efficacy rates as low as 35%.

New comment by patrickgzill in "Richard III dig: DNA confirms bones are king's"

patrickgzill — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:12:47 +0000

However, given Britain's often lousy climate, the royals probably pay for themselves in the value of the additional tourism dollars generated alone.

If there was nobody living at Buckingham Palace, far fewer people would go see it.