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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
It seems to be worthwhile to post it again. Nate Lawson wrote: > I made JS crypto a very minor part of the talk because I thought it would be obvious why it is a bad idea. Apparently, I was wrong to underestimate the grip it seems to ha
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Well if you read a few paragraphs into the article, there are examples like Code for America doing an adopt-a-fire-hydrant app in Boston. Which gets repurposed as an adopt-a-tsunami-siren in budget-strapped Honolulu, at a cost of ~$20/
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Although this is a long article, it's one of the best things I've read about computer literacy, diversity, and being prepared for the future. The main point seems to be that we should teach "computational thinking", firs
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
As to why I submitted that way: I couldn't recall the norms here. I figured a mod could always un-G-rate the title (as they did). Plus, I felt a little uncomfortable because the title "Bullshit" could seem link-baity (althoug
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Bullshit(stoa.org.uk)
49 points by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago|33 comments
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
After reading tourist books about how Japanese people think it's rude to blow your nose in public... it is slightly disconcerting to visit and see a guy hawk up some phlegm and spit it on the street. And/or, you step on a frozen g
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
From the article I understand the suit is by LinkedIn members whose contact book was (in their opinion) abused to send these invitation emails to non-members. On the face of it that's a reasonable claim and seems they should prevail. B
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Speaking of name and shame. People sometimes bring a lot of intensity to bear on a single statement or campaign contribution. It would be great to see similar intensity for acts of omission. If someone leads an organization that hasn't
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
I'd go that far. Making the busses "free" would have a number of benefits: 1. Drivers might be in less of a hurry. MBTA busses frequently run red lights and/or sit in the middle of intersections creating gridlock. [Sourc
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
This gets into the ridiculously strict standard for "obviousness" -- requiring written evidence -- which is relevant to the third claim of the Amazon patent. Discussing a hearing-aid patent that depended on the idea of using a plu
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How Amazon got a patent on white-background photography(arstechnica.com)
8 points by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago|1 comments
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Warning: If you spend any time looking at the The Surf Office site[^1], you're likely to be ruined for normal coworking spaces. The quality of life and affordability... wow. [^1]: http://www.thesurfoffice.com/
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
That's an interesting question. I can imagine this push resulted in some positive refactoring of Google's internal systems, which they would like to retain. However I can also imagine it resulted in some layers of duct tape (very
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
IANAL and I'm not in the deal flow lately, but: There's usually some leeway in the strength of the representations and warrants. As seller you want them as weak as possible. You want minimal grounds for the buyer to come back late
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Although I like using Uber as a customer: > "Uber is creating 20,000 jobs per month, the company said in a blog post." Really? "Jobs" as in W-2 forms and health benefits? Or independent contractors? Not that the latte
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> I don't know anyone who has been requesting a 3D display on their phone. Well, 7 years ago I didn't know anyone who was asking to eliminate physical keyboards from phones. I'm less skeptical of the merit of the idea (wha
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
As just one example, you could live in Rochester MN. Nice 4 BR house <= $150,000 [1]. Medical care: The Mayo Clinic. Schools: AFAIK very good. And more culture and more liberal than you probably imagine. There a dozens of places like thi
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
And, even among those people who do use it, a big percentage of their email will remain unencrypted. Transactional email like flight or hotel booking confirmations sent from the airline or hotel. I have to think that's the valuable s
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Agree that highest priority should go to the "serious" stuff. However the most interesting part of a really old magazine or newspaper, for me, is the advertising. For example an early 80s computer ad, or a 50s railroad or airline
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Maybe I'm contrarian, cynical, and/or old, but I never fully understood the compulsion to advance an alternative mobile ecosystem in the form of iOS and Android -- at least not with the mission of eradicating OSX, Linux, Windows o
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
If I correctly understand you to be saying that record labels and artists have aligned interests? I don't think most artists would agree. Not due to any techie meme. It's a musician "meme", or rather ~50 years of histor
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Agreed, and I don't love that label. In my experience, when someone uses the term "lifestyle company", nearly always that someone is incentivized by funding businesses. Translation: "A company that won't butter my b
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> Improper joinder can be solved by just not joining defendants Isn't joining defendants part of the economy of scale in being a copyright troll? (Not a rhetorical/argumentative question; I'm genuinely curious.)
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
The slide that shows them #1 share in "Cloud"... does anyone know what that actually means?
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
I'm pretty sure it's not a violation of immigration law to visit the US briefly to do some meetings and/or free promotional events. People do this all the time. It's called a "business trip". Just be honest and
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Fortunately overall it worked pretty well for me in Firefox. Very fun! Not to get too far OT, but, I like "Built for Chrome" about as much as I liked "Built for Internet Explorer". This is a very cool app. If it needs to
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
Call me cynical but I can imagine a golf-course deal where Comcast and AT&T agree to this. Theory being, AT&T+DirecTV will seem like a more-meaningful competitor for Comcast+TimeWarner.
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
> In the new draft, Mr. Wheeler is sticking to the same basic approach but will include language that would make clear that the FCC will scrutinize the deals to make sure that the broadband providers don't unfairly put nonpaying co
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
OP says that CC didn't reply. At all. If true, I think it's totally reasonable to complain about that. You donate to an organization because you want to support them. You responsibly report a data breach because you want to suppor
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by 6cxs2hd6 12y ago
That's interesting. I almost always time-shift sports. Stuff like American football is otherwise interminable. Even when I want to get to the finish, live, I just start watching an hour after the recording begins. Fast forward through

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