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by Crito 12y ago
> "1.by Picasa you mean google-picasa?" Yes, that Picasa.
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by Crito 12y ago
In my neighborhood, Yik Yak is nothing but a bunch of proclamations about social justice related topics, and people humble-bragging about their sex lives. Yik Yak is only as good as your neighborhood. I wonder, do you oppose the funding of
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by Crito 12y ago
The Coen Brothers' Burn After Reading and Fargo . Also I'd argue MASH , which was massively successful, though that might be stretching dark comedy. Depends on the episode I guess.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Manuel Salazar, janitor. With three friends (also janitors), got extremely drunk on muscatel wine mixed with ethylene glycol (antifreeze). Died from ethylene glycol poisoning on January 29, 1945. Because deaths were not result o
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by Crito 12y ago
If mixed drink sales are poor (for instance, because many consumers cannot justify the price), then there isn't much motivation for the bar to hire professional bartenders rather than college kids, or even create a proper cocktail menu
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by Crito 12y ago
It seems like cost should at least be mentioned. It may not be the sort of thing your average SF tech worker can relate to, but for many Americans the choice between a $10-$20 mixed drink and a $2 double shot of a well liquor (with more eth
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by Crito 12y ago
If facebook becomes aware that John Crito is not my real name, they would ban me or make me change it. They would only "tolerate" that fake name for as long as they did not know it was fake. They ban names like Laughing Critter,
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by Crito 12y ago
Marketing spam that is using a name that the recipient invented for use on facebook will immediately be discarded, since using the pseudonym outs it as not legitimate. It is in the interest of spammers to use the most official name for a pe
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by Crito 12y ago
They are less concerned with fake accounts with fake names than they are with real accounts with fake names. Real accounts with fake names are potentially good data that they can sell, but with reduced quality because of the fake name. The
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by Crito 12y ago
He's referring to several cases where they "foreclose" on the incorrect home. They break into homes, take everything in them, and auction it off and throw away anything they can't sell. While malicious intent may be a
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by Crito 12y ago
> "I'm saying that ultimately if you put things online for free, your motivation is probably that you want people to see them." Consider how many people can't even be arsed to write a README for projects that they t
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by Crito 12y ago
As I understand it, Rear Window Captioning Systems specifically don't modify the actual film of the movie. That's their advantage over baked-in captions.
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by Crito 12y ago
Wikipedia suggests that it costs more like $40 per minute . For movies anyway. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window_Captioning_System I have no idea why it would be "even less if you do it yourself" ,
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by Crito 12y ago
Hardware support specifically is often cited as one of the ways that "desktop linux" would benefit from joe-sixpack users. That is what has always been lacking from "desktop linux". Hardware support in official ROMs fro
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by Crito 12y ago
This is why I have stopped believing that "The Year of the Linux Desktop" would even be a good thing. Android has "regular old joe sixpack" users by the millions, but has the Android community actually benefited from
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by Crito 12y ago
The article debunks the idea that there was some sort of blanket fear of water. It makes it pretty clear that when clean water was available and recognized as clean, that people had no problem drinking it. But I've never heard the myt
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by Crito 12y ago
There is also the possibility that such reactions might actually offend some people, who might interpret it as an attempt by the robot's creators to "play god". To technically inclined people like us, the whole thing is pret
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by Crito 12y ago
If you can find a copy, you might like the book Ignition! by John Clark (some libraries have it, and there is a scanned PDF floating around online). It is about the early development of rocket propellants (which as you might imagine cove
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by Crito 12y ago
I'm sure the Navy is really enjoying their new toy and will have lots of fun playing with it, but I honestly don't think it will change politics much. For most countries in the world, there is little practical difference between a
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by Crito 12y ago
This is correct. And the power needed for larger rockets is well beyond what we currently generate with traditional power plants on earth. For instance, the space shuttle with SRBs and SSME's firing would require more than five Ho
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by Crito 12y ago
Perhaps the difference is that tech is perceived by the general public as well paying, but the trades are perceived by the general public as crappy jobs for people who don't get accepted by college. Mike Rowe (who has agendas of his
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by Crito 12y ago
Yeah, that is my experience with dealing with them as well. They actually have very good "customer service" if they don't believe you are deliberately keeping money from them. They want their money, and if you want to giv
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by Crito 12y ago
> "using a dinosaur scanner (which someone will need to invent)." I'm not sure I understand you fully. What is this portion of your comment analogous to?
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by Crito 12y ago
I'm pretty sure it was sarcasm. IBM is infamous for their massive patent portfolio. Just about anybody who knows about patents knows that IBM has a metric ton of them.
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by Crito 12y ago
Are there any open source examples of beautiful C++? I don't doubt that it can exist, but I've never seen any. Maybe "beautiful for C++", but not "beautiful". For that matter, ditto for Java. Ideal Java code
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Swap in any number that you think is reasonable. The reasoning and conclusion is the same.
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by Crito 12y ago
People making house-calls selling knives is also still a thing, but I wouldn't recommend getting into that business. The business existing doesn't mean it is a smart business to get into. The high-availability-doctor/one-sto
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by Crito 12y ago
These sort of "house call" or "doctor-on-location" weed businesses rely on people trying to get high that day. I find it incredibly hard to believe that they could be sustained by people who want to remain legal while o
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by Crito 12y ago
Actual legalization would kill this industry. In Washington and Colorado (states which have actually legalized, not merely implemented a medical system or decriminalized) there is no need to see a doctor first. You just walk into the st
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by Crito 12y ago
Being a computer surgeon rarely involves much physical dexterity and typically lacks the urgency/pressure that being a brain surgeon regularly entails. Comparing "computer surgeon" to brain surgeon is like comparing sudoku

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