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by Empact 15y ago
Yep, and the new strong_parameters library from core team supports this and is a taste of things to come: moving towards consistently controller-based access-control. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/3/21/strong-parameters/
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On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/TORTILLA/241551749274217
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The Organization for Robotic Taco Innovation, Liberation, Libations, and America
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Don't blame Texas - the Department of Homeland Security and border control checkpoints are all D.C.
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This is a also applicable to residential architecture - I lived in several large student houses in Austin, and the houses whose floorplans required new arrivals to pass through common spaces (living room, kitchen) on the way to their privat
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by Empact 15y ago
In his reddit IAMA he says the plan has always been for the 3rd-generation (post-S) car to be a high-volume, low-price car. Based on the time between the Roadster and S releases, it will probably be a few years before they get around to tha
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My suggestion: don't bother cleaning it up, just publish it. If the two realistic options are your code dropping off the face of the earth because it's never published, or it being put in a place where someone might find it useful and run w
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by Empact 15y ago
As far as the nature vs. nurture division, there's a good amount of new evidence from twin studies and adoption studies which back up Elon's conclusion about the heritability of traits. Bryan Caplan covers some of this in his new book "Self
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The same subsidies which "keep the country folks connected" act to systematically encourage people to be wasteful and pollutive in their lifestyles and habits. http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/37986?in=28:46&out=30:1... If we did ask
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> Can you name an industry that's been disrupted by Git? Well, it's certainly decreased the significance of commercial and closed-source development tools & support. It's also made the market for programer talent more transparent an
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> work parties in SV suck, if you're a straight guy, because there are not very many girls. These same parties can be fun if you accept that you're not going to meet a romantic partner at a work party. There are a thousand other great s
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by Empact 15y ago
The trouble is one can lose their trademark protection if the trademark comes into common use as a generic term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genericized_trademark
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Would definitely like to know the nature of the crime for each in the "correct/incorrect" view. E.g. for this guy: http://violentornot.com/inmate/44200/ The data would be: [1]:MURDER 1ST DEGREE [2]:SOLICITATION [3]:DANGER/ REPETIT/ ENHANC
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It's a classic problem of disruptive technologies covered in "The Innovator's Dilemma." The author's advice is for companies to create independent subsidiaries to take on the new technology, so that "competing with themselves" is internally
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by Empact 16y ago
NASA's budget has been pretty steady at about half its boom-time moon-landing 60's budget for several decades. http://jeffreyellis.org/images/NASA_budget_history_2.png That's $15 Billion a year - not a ton of money when the shuttle costs
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Barring mutually consensual exchanges?
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Show HN: speak up via Twitter re. Who should be interim Mayor of San Francisco?(sfmayorvote.com)
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Incidentally, the incoming governor of Florida is talking about putting in a full voucher program in the form of broader "education savings accounts" which also work for college savings and such. The response from the education establishmen
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I assume these are both result from the fact that "The U.S. Dietary Reference Intake Tolerable Upper Intake Level (upper limit) of vitamin D for children and adults is set at 50 micrograms/day (2,000 IU)," the U.S. Dietary Reference being a
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by Empact 16y ago
I'd say you're painting with a rather broad brush there - decrying pop music says nothing about the value of music in general.
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Actually I just gave a short nerdnite talk pointing out the shift from "branding" to "individual judgments," noting its pending arrival in education & politics, and originally calling it "the age of individuality." http://www.youtube.c
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I saw Wu's talk at TEDxEast and came away unimpressed. Yes, you can compare some aspects of Google and Facebook to Standard Oil (e.g. network effects, economies of scale). But when he makes this connection, he leaves me wondering: if the
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by Empact 16y ago
> Now before all you Republicans and Libertarians get all smart-ass, I should add that it happens plenty often in the military-industrial complex too with the contractors who do the majority of the real work. Funny that you mention Libe
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If you take the secondary effects of California legalization seriously - e.g. of policy changes in other sympathetic states, then it's a 20%+ cut in drug cartel revenue. How is that not a big piece of the puzzle? And say it's just the 4% c
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I think it's a really interesting way to challenge established social structures. Schooling into the 20s is a pretty recent invention, and one which is more and more lucrative for the providers of eduction. Opening up new alternatives coul
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Other points aside, the last point this article makes is a good one: a carbon tax would be a far more effective way to create a more efficient transportation system (and broader economy), than attempting to pick the winner from the start. I
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I'd argue, in an individual case: yes, in aggregate, you're subject to the common thought and culture of the group, which is open to change over time as outcomes present themselves.
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Well, switching our schools to a model of choice, where parents choose where to send their kids, really is a meta-solution beyond test scores. Test scores are used to exemplify kids' behavior because it's easy, it's concrete (in the "what
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If you're switching to an HSA and anticipate good health in the near term, you could benefit from switching early and saving the unused portion of Microsoft's contribution to the HSA in your account, or otherwise contributing and allowing i
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Alright, a few of the top comments point out the good of the Foursquares and Facebooks of the world. Except, that's not the point - on anything beyond the personal scale the question is not, "which of these two do we want?" but "how much of

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