IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
From Jason Scott's twitter, I take it the ArchiveTeam efforts to back up all the data will resume. On this note, you can help: you can download the ArchiveTeam Warrior virtual machine, which is both easy to run and helpful to the Archi
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This is interesting, but in my experience, you can't use this data to usefully extrapolate anything. Slightly different hardware, topology, OSes, drivers, system load, network "weather conditions", etc, can radically change
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See the email from Jordan on August 27, 2014--he claims "average income is ~$2300/month". Given the source that's probably a best case scenario.
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Note that the weekend frontpage tends to be less tech related than the weekday frontpage--both because I think the actual news sources aren't publishing as much, and because of a general "it's the weekend and we're kicki
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> The pay-per-laugh system was adopted to fight fledgling audience numbers Offtopic, but is "fledgling" the right word here?
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"Ah, it's just the flu and I can't afford to spend any time in quarantine"
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> Paul Krugman [...] can't get past the idea that a currency needs to be backed by a state to be a real currency. I've not read everything he's said on bitcoin, but I've never seen him explicitly make that argument.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
You may be interested in Borges's short story The Library of Babel. http://hyperdiscordia.crywalt.com/library_of_babel.html ""The Library of Babel" (Spanish: La biblioteca de Babel) is a short story by A
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I'm reminded of the UCLA lab death in 2008. http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/03/30/a_young_lab_wor... I believe UCLA is taking safety more seriously now, although I've heard some gru
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Reading about the Pork Marketing Board, I can't help but be reminded of the Celery sketch on Portlandia, where the Produce Sales Board tracks the marketing of various produces. Bacon plays a key role. [10:49 video] https://
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This article, which may be the original source, makes it clear that we're talking LPDDR3 (aka "mobile DRAM") only. http://press.trendforce.com/node/view/1658.html
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Tell that to 9223372036854775808.
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> The admin team has shown again and again that they're willing to tolerate anything until there's bad PR. They frame it quite differently--they broadly want to support legal free speech, even ugly free speech. They do so up u
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When you've got that many people in charge of security, nobody's in charge of security. In the end, who is responsible for this bug being out in the wild?
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> the solution is to put energy and resources into auditing and improving Sadly but not surprisingly, when your labor pool consists of volunteers, few of them sign up for this thankless task. I don't know how to solve this problem
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> You have to pay hospital out of your pocket? Surgery for cardiac arrest is far more expensive than $5000. The cost of such a surgery (without insurance) is easily over $100K and if you said "it was $1M" people would be like
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This was the main message of American Psycho.
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"Our Malibu Beaches" app for Android and iOS: http://escapeapps.com/malibuapp The shenanigans that Malibu residents do to keep outsiders away is astounding. David Geffen has his entire street side of his Malibu h
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by IvyMike 12y ago
In my experience, Facets specializes in "cinephile" movies and is the place to go for the long tail. And they do in fact have Sweet Sweetback's Baadass Song available for rental: http://www.facetsmovies.com/us
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> consider the objective: getting qualified candidates to apply. I don't think this is always the case--there are hiring practices (visas, company policies, etc) that mean the listing is often for show. In these cases the job post
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I think "times have changed" can be generalized into "times will change". My experience has been that any rule about "brand X is the best" or "brand Y is the worst" only lasts for a short time--each
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> Using the sensors on a recipient’s phone, icons tell you whether that person is on the move (walking or driving), how the person is connected to the network, and even what time zone she’s in. Seems like an awful lot of privacy to give
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> knowing so helps I understand that some people can't help but listen to the voice, but for me, it is difficult for me to hear details and it quickly turns into background noise.
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> Ive frequently wanted to be able to take pictures of concert posters and have my phone prompt me to add it to my calendar; or just buy tickets I bet you've already done something like this with QR Code enabled posters.
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I remembered Eric Raymond answering this. (Confession: I remember it because his response struck me as very odd.) But I don't see his answer on the site any more. The answer is still on Raymond's site, though. http:/&#x2F
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> make sure I have something to show [...] even if it's just one level,with bad AI and bad controls. Kickstarter funders did in fact get a downloadable demo/prototype. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV39GiK4Hw0
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I guess there's two theories why the alternative stores to Target and Home Depot were not hacked: A) Skill B) Luck I'm a cynic so I'm going with B. (Actually, I may go with "C" which is "there are probably brea
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Still pretty popular in newspaper land. Despite your protestations, both the NYT and the WSJ websites still use title case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Headings_and_publi... http://www.nytimes
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My take: because of the ambiguities in the language and difficulty in enforcement, this law accomplishes very little except to make car v. cycle resentment that much stronger.
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Holy crap: correct me if I'm wrong, but 6000 nationwide patent cases in one year, and one judge had 900 cases in his court, meaning that one judge was responsible for 15 percent of this entire country's patent cases. I hope I scre

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