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by Dove 15y ago
If an email account can be used for password reset, a compromised email account can be used to log in. Since much of the internet already works this way, the proposed system has a neutral effect on security, while making things easier for
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by Dove 15y ago
Many women grow up with a sense of physical vulnerability that's hard for men to appreciate. Our culture's relentless treatment of women as objects teaches them that they are defined by the one thing that men arou
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by Dove 15y ago
In spite of my flippant tone, I had a serious point too: fighting a war may always come with an economic cost, but losing one can come a much higher cost. Hence, fighting a war can be a positive choice even if you lose money doing it.
814.
by Dove 15y ago
Oh, I don't know. I think it can be a positive thing for a nation to not get conquered .
815.
by Dove 15y ago
I disagree. Well written and abstracted code makes mathematical formulas easy to scan and proofread. Your code should look like this: angle = acos( ( a . b ) / (|a|*|b|) ) If it looks like this . . . angle2
816.
by Dove 15y ago
Working with "a subset of Actionscript 2.0" is pretty dang miserable if you're used the cutting edge stuff.
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by Dove 15y ago
This looks to me like Don't Be Evil showing up as a competitive advantage. Facebook seems want my data and my network for its own exploitation; Google seems to actually be thinking about what's best for me.
818.
by Dove 15y ago
Not to be dense, but I think that publication agrees with my point. The abstract advocates the responsible use of media, not its abolition, and about midway through the piece draws this distinction: It is not violence itself but the
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by Dove 15y ago
> video game violence develop a shitty moral compass. You know, I think it depends on the message, not the medium. Books as a whole are an unreliable source of training, but there are some that we take seriously. I think great literat
820.
by Dove 15y ago
Yeah, well. I still want my flying car.
821.
by Dove 15y ago
It turns out you can literally fit an elephant with four parameters if you allow the parameters to be complex numbers. That's cool and all, but it kind of strikes me as cheating, given that complex numbers are vectors. I mean, heck, with
822.
by Dove 15y ago
All measurements in the real world come with error bars. Indeed, at a certain scale the thing you're measuring generally becomes ill-defined. The length of a piece of string to tenths of an inch is pretty easy to define. If you magnify i
823.
by Dove 15y ago
I don't think even the wildest optimist would expect hiding comment scores to tame Zed Shaw.
824.
by Dove 15y ago
My favorite presentation ( http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?QuantumBogoSort ) goes approximately like this: 1. Randomize the list. 2. If the list is not sorted, destroy the universe.
825.
by Dove 15y ago
That's what I thought, too. I think the energy examples were supposed to scare me, and if he'd said something like total output of the sun, ever , they would have. But total power output of current civilization for five days garnered m
826.
by Dove 15y ago
Side note: I've managed to duplicate the flavor of regular lipton by brewing Bai Hao for about an hour and then reheating it in a microwave. Hahaha! That sounds about right. I've had your standard western tea product only a handful of
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by Dove 15y ago
The label applies to both. The white: http://www.teaspring.com/Bai-Hao-Yin-Zhen.asp The oolong: http://www.teaspring.com/Bai-Hao-Oolong.asp I believe , though I don't speak chinese, that Bai Hao refers to the varietal, while the tea cl
828.
by Dove 15y ago
I do agree that the tea comment is silly. Saying you like to drink Lipton tea is like saying your favorite place to eat is Panda Express. To each his own, I suppose, but it sounds awfully silly to praise the imitation when you live in Ch
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by Dove 15y ago
I've concluded they thought it was 'mean spirited.' Actually, I thought you were serious , especially given that you went on to criticize number theory as being impractical. I recommend an application of the ;) next time.
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Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals [Old](sodaware.net)
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by Dove 15y ago
Let me expand my point a little. It is striking to me how often a world renowned expert, really top-notch in his field, can turn around and say something spectacularly dumb in an area that isn't his field. You'd be surprised how often peop
832.
by Dove 15y ago
If I ignored anyone who I thought held a stupid opinion on any topic whatsoever, I'd be ignoring a lot of very smart people.
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by Dove 15y ago
I'm bidding against people who will work for $10/hour or less and do really good work. I rather doubt that. Nobody does really good work at that rate, not in this field. Cheap programmers do legendarily shoddy work on projects of any
834.
by Dove 15y ago
I clicked through hoping for some technical content about how Flash is doing on mobile platforms. I got an analysis of a facial reaction in an interview. That's pretty disappointing. So here I am in the HN comment thread hoping someone wi
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by Dove 15y ago
They're a currency accepted by almost no one as payment Just a point of interest -- the list of sites that accept Bitcoin ( http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade ) is actually pretty long. I read it as a pretty good coverage of everyday commod
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by Dove 15y ago
That's an excessively linkbaitish title. Please use original titles.
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by Dove 15y ago
If children were fully the state's responsibility the way prisoners are, I'm sure they would have those things and more.
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by Dove 15y ago
Bitcoin is deflationary by design. The people who want to use it as an alternative currency like it that way. And it supports microtransactions. The way I've heard it told, you could run an entire world-size economy off of one bitcoin. So
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by Dove 15y ago
I'm not quite this bad, but here's one of the things that happens to me: Very early during the programming process, I'll create a debugging console -- an arbitrary, ugly GUI that lets me control the values in the data structure. For test
840.
by Dove 15y ago
It means precisely that A causes B, B causes A, C causes both A and B, or the correlation is a statistical fluke. It is intellectually important to be aware of all the options. But "correlation does not imply causation" can be too much of

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