Kadin

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by Kadin 17y ago
I don't think that "The Roaring 2000s" is really inapt. I suspect that when people look back on the decade from 50 years hence, they will see it as a boom time that ran out of steam pretty spectacularly towards the end. The events of the f
902.
by Kadin 17y ago
I agree that people should not talk about "money" disappearing. But liquidity definitely has disappeared; a lot of people who thought they had liquidity turned out to not have it, and have curtailed purchases as a result. That has real eco
903.
by Kadin 17y ago
I've found that it matters pretty quickly. I've seen the Python conversion error alluded to in the article quite frequently, and if you search for it you'll find no shortage of people asking about it. Most programs have to deal with non-AS
904.
by Kadin 17y ago
That doesn't really sound like an argument against skilled labor to me. Somebody needs to maintain those machines. Someone needs to set them up, plug them in, calibrate them, feed them raw materials, and generally keep them working. As te
905.
by Kadin 17y ago
> Ecology aside, that's a very selfish way to think. Saying "ecology aside" brushes off a lot of stuff, and not just the sort of hippy-dippy environmentalist shit that corporate types and pro-growth economists scoff at. It basically as
906.
by Kadin 17y ago
> Some sort of centralised system for verified identities online with a simple API that people could plug into their forums/comment systems on blogs. This would not even be particularly hard; the infrastructure already exists in the for
907.
by Kadin 17y ago
Given Twitter's quality of service (which is admittedly getting better, but still pretty bad), I can't see how using it for anything but purely informational messages would be a good idea. It frankly seems downright dangerous for people to
908.
by Kadin 17y ago
I'm betting that "two out of three" figure includes pass-through entities like partnerships and S-corps, and corporations that don't have any profits because everything is re-invested in the company (as would be the case in some startups an
909.
by Kadin 17y ago
I don't really buy his argument. At first he says that most online purchases are too big to really be considered "micropayments." Well, duh -- there's no micropayment infrastructure, so no true micropayments. The business models that exi
910.
by Kadin 17y ago
In the case of a fixed amount of currency in an expanding economy, or if the economy expands at a rate greater than the amount of currency expands, you simply have deflation. I'm not convinced this is nearly as bad a thing as some growth-ub
911.
by Kadin 17y ago
This is true, but gold at least has a several-thousand-year history of use as a currency, and as a stable source of value. The US dollar that we use today has a history going back to exactly 1971 and the end of Bretton Woods. I think people
912.
by Kadin 17y ago
I wondered that too. Certainly seems like fixing qmail to make it a little less rabidly user-unfriendly would be better than completely reinventing the wheel. But kudos to them for going out and doing it anyway. I don't know if the world
913.
by Kadin 17y ago
Steady, predictable employment is the opiate of the masses in a way that religion will never be. That's why there's so much political will to keep those big companies going: they keep, or kept, a lot of people steadily employed, and those
914.
by Kadin 17y ago
> Edit: Or a battery pack like described in the article. Why would you want to pay extra to get 8 cells bundled together in a pack when you could just get 8 cells individually? Not only are you getting closer to the commodity part rathe
915.
by Kadin 17y ago
Why wouldn't you? Most laptop batteries -- with the exception of some of the most recent ones that use LiPo packs, or some very rare designs using prismatic cells -- are just plastic cases built around commodity cylindrical cells. Here's a
916.
by Kadin 17y ago
I don't even think the Minutemen types (and I know a few) really oppose this sort of immigration. This is exactly the sort of thing we should be encouraging; highly skilled individuals should be encouraged to come to the U.S. and work. It'
917.
by Kadin 17y ago
Seems like it's applicable to parts of the WWW, but not all of it certainly. Most pages are updated far less frequently. I can only assume/hope that Google tries to take into account how frequently a page is modified in scheduling future c
918.
by Kadin 17y ago
I don't think disabling JS by default is equivalent to going back to BBSes. IMO it's how JS and other client-side scripting technologies should have been implemented from the very beginning, on an opt-in basis with the onus on the site dev
919.
by Kadin 17y ago
Those are fine and exceptionally useful skills in combination with others, but on their own do not offer many opportunities. Someone whose only skill is fluency in a foreign language is limited to working as a translator; someone whose onl
920.
by Kadin 17y ago
I wonder what they did that makes it suddenly require 10.5. That's a deal-breaker, at least for me.
921.
by Kadin 17y ago
s/beaurocrasy/bureaucracy/g I know it's nitpicky but it struck me as a really odd oversight in an otherwise very strong piece of writing.
922.
by Kadin 17y ago
I have heard -- but don't have a source to cite -- that there are very few uranium mines currently in operation, because there was too much ore mined back in the 70s and 80s. The mining companies (principally in Canada and Australia) vastl
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by Kadin 17y ago
A lot of people, myself included, kept far away from the iTMS for this very reason until recently. Ironically it was Amazon that was providing the alternative to the DRM-laden product in that instance; I wonder who'll figure out a way to be
924.
by Kadin 17y ago
Plus one for the cat, if they make such a thing...
925.
by Kadin 18y ago
Well, there's an argument to be made for them, when including the full URL in a message would cause it to exceed the SMS character limit. However, there's no reason to use one (and lots of reasons not to) when the URL doesn't break the 14
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by Kadin 18y ago
Interesting choice of TLD. I can only assume this means they'll be sure to conform to all relevant Libyan law, since it only takes one court order to pull their domain registration. (Cf. http://nic.ly/regulations.php )
927.
by Kadin 18y ago
Except EasyList wasn't doing anything wrong to begin with. It contained entries that should have blocked the ads, without resorting to domain-specific (obviously individually targeted) rules. It was only due to a flaw in ABP that these
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by Kadin 18y ago
Low-grade waste is problematic, but it's really no worse than lots of chemical and industrial waste that we produce and deal with every day. It's completely within the scope of current technology to dispose of it, since most low-level wast
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by Kadin 18y ago
Yeah that's what I was thinking about as I was reading the article, too. Maybe Spitzer should have spent a little less time with his mistresses and a little more actually understanding the firearms industry in the U.S. First, there are a l
930.
by Kadin 18y ago
> Will a millionaire move from Long Island to Conn. to lower hes taxes? In general no. I'm not sure why you don't think they would. It's not as though lots of people don't already commute from CT and NJ into New York. There's commuter

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