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901.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
The headline could plausibly, and amusingly, be: "Apple Disappoints With 52% Year Over Year Profit Growth"
902.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Isn't that true for just about all demographic groups?
903.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Hat tip to Ian Griffiths who points out that the BBC Weather Service beat all of us to the iCloud icon, kind of...over 30 years ago. ;) Except that BBC cloud icon looks nothing like the iCloud icon.
904.
"I'm coming to Paros."(hollywoodreporter.com)
2 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|0 comments
905.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
10 points to anyone who can reliably identify when the market is at rock bottom.
906.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
I once somehow butt-dialed 911 on my old dumbphone, which was embarrassing and terrifying. I awkwardly apologized and hung up, and there were no repercussions. I once was showing a baby how to push the buttons on a fax machine. I pushed
907.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Being paid to be rude doesn't make it not rude.
908.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Yeah, unfortunately those institutions tend to be for people who want academic "appetizers", or a degree. They're not for serious intellectual pursuit.
909.
Think Different (1997)(youtube.com)
11 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|1 comments
910.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
I've sometimes toyed with the idea of starting a university which gives no degree, in fact won't even confirm or deny a person's past attendance to any other institutions, in order to weed out those who are there for the degree.
911.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Whatever the initial motivations, the system only persists due to the continued support of the masses, who genuinely (and misguidedly) believe it to be the best thing for children. It's a tragedy, not a conspiracy.
912.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
We've tried to domesticate genius, and lost it: “It has been pointed out that we no longer have infant and child prodigies, or that at least they are now much rarer than before. … We sacrificed genius for our present interest in homogeneity
913.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Danish citizens born abroad have 4 years, between the age of 18 and 22, to elect to keep the Danish citizenship, which requires renouncing any other citizenships they might possess at that time (no dual citizenship). If they don't wish to
914.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
It's for performing any function on the data. A search is a function which takes the data as input and returns the search results as output.
915.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Just because they demoed it that way doesn't mean they'll ship it that way.
916.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Don't forget: 0. Repeal the First Amendment.
917.
"Stellarator" fusion reactor designs making a comeback(economist.com)
2 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|0 comments
918.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
Or it's a sign that you love your job.
919.
How the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition(arstechnica.com)
1 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|0 comments
920.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
In this case, they did successful in vivo tests on mice with H1N1.
921.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
It's no more "useless busywork" than security guards protecting banks from theft. In this case, the proof-of-work protects the network from double-spending. Do you have a concrete suggestion for how the proof-of-work could be dual-purposed
922.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
We just don't want it to turn into reddit.
923.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
This may be an incredibly naive question, but is there any reason wireless communication isn't directional, to mitigate some of these interference and square of distance problems? You'd obviously need some lower-bandwidth isotropic mechanis
924.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
At the moment even no-fee transactions usually make it onto the block chain as quickly as possible. The ~1 hour (6 block) confirmation time is due to the recipient being cautious that the sender won't try to double-spend the money by rewrit
925.
What is happening in the debt crisis(reuters.com)
1 points by DavidSJ 15y ago|0 comments
926.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
And how does your ISP know whether you're using wifi?
927.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
That's because 8 out of 10 cars in San Francisco are Priuses.
928.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
People keep saying that the Supreme Court ruled, in the Citizens United case, that corporations are people. No one has ever actually produced a quote from the court's opinion suggesting so. In fact, the ruling was precisely that corporat
929.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
how would you say that you want to plus me? "I want to circle you."
930.
by DavidSJ 15y ago
US v Hubbell makes clear that the government cannot compel production of documents (except under immunity to prosecution) which it does not know, ahead of time, to exist.

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