Herring

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811.
by Herring 16y ago
Well you already know it won't be instantaneous, & there's only a few ways it can fail. What do you think will happen?
812.
by Herring 16y ago
The opposition between education & spirituality is also well known, as we see in the story of the garden of eden (genesis 1-3). Or in the lower levels of belief among college graduates.
813.
by Herring 16y ago
But the author wasn't arguing religiosity makes the country worse. More the other way around, actually.
814.
by Herring 16y ago
bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
815.
by Herring 16y ago
http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
816.
by Herring 16y ago
>hassle of BitTorrent What do you mean? I hadn't noticed.
817.
by Herring 16y ago
The way it works, ideally, is there's competition & people vote with their dollars according to how they like the benefits & the prices.
818.
by Herring 16y ago
>I would argue that the people who take the most physical and mental risks for the benefit of society should get the most pay. That seems perfectly reasonable and moral to me. It shouldn't. Society should reward benefits, not costs.
819.
by Herring 16y ago
>the air of superiority that Reddit users have over religion Arguing that it should be taken seriously without evidence really doesn't help your case.
820.
by Herring 16y ago
> even though Google's core assets - search, ads - aren't open-source Thats probably another example of cargo cult openness. I can't see how anyone is better served by opening google's client-server stuff.
821.
by Herring 16y ago
Im not sure "mechanism" is the best approach here. If you start at special relativity (c is constant), you can use the equivalence principle to show that time runs differently in gravitational fields. Then its only a small step to light ben
822.
by Herring 16y ago
Everything curves space-time. Even the gravitational field itself curves space-time.
823.
by Herring 16y ago
I think I read somewhere in the book that concentration isn't all that important (& in fact you don't want to develop it too far). You're mostly trying to observe yourself lightly, & to catch yourself.
824.
by Herring 16y ago
http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html That's what works for me. It's not at all involved, just concentrate on breathing. When the mind wanders, just pause & (non-judgmentally) go back to observing the breath. Of course YMMV, bu
825.
by Herring 16y ago
Talk to your congressman.
826.
by Herring 16y ago
> Recall, for example, this comment of Schmidt’s from 2009, regarding Google and privacy: "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place." It's ironic that Schmidt's quote
827.
by Herring 16y ago
Blame RMS for not knowing the first thing about branding. It's really no wonder we call it linux.
828.
by Herring 16y ago
The tech echo chamber is getting worse. If people don't trust their sources, that leads to increasingly polarized opinions.
829.
by Herring 16y ago
http://www.apple.com/why-mac/ I don't know about the technical details, but comparing it with the Apple website makes one thing clear: Microsoft has no design sense.
830.
by Herring 16y ago
The article is a bit too well written, if theres such a thing. I got about halfway without pausing.
831.
by Herring 16y ago
Full of porn?
832.
by Herring 16y ago
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/01/16/faceboo... >Privacy isn't a technological binary that you turn off and on. Privacy is about having control of a situation. It's about controlling what information flows where and ad
833.
by Herring 16y ago
>RIM makes a big deal about how secure its users' data is, but I don't know how much of that to believe: It sounds like RIM is describing normal public key encryption. I'm not sure why Schneier thinks they have the plaintext, though a
834.
by Herring 16y ago
You shouldn't buy that premise, because that's not what the article claimed was unreasonable.
835.
by Herring 16y ago
Ipods & iphones share the same apps. Windows' greatest strength is its software. If you prove that it's easy to leave, nobody knows where the customers will jump next.
836.
by Herring 16y ago
They're probably getting way too much money to risk killing windows. The last thing they want is a viable alternative.
837.
by Herring 16y ago
Yeah, it should be emphasized that it matters what you're reading. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/07/26/ipad.universit... >Students at Reed College complained of the slow refresh rate of e-Ink displays, problematic input, in
838.
by Herring 16y ago
Well he didn't say anything I disagreed with. If you want my opinion, take a look at this article http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/07/26/ipad.universit... >Students at Reed College complained of the slow refresh rate of e-Ink
839.
by Herring 16y ago
Check your auto-lock in General settings.
840.
by Herring 16y ago
>smudges Just use a shirt to wipe it down. Works for me.

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