Nwallins

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by Nwallins 17y ago
> if there is a broad tradition of people saying and writing, "I can do that easy" But is there? It sounds awful to my ears. Does this not just boil down to the distinction between prescriptive vs descriptive camps? I believe there is
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by Nwallins 17y ago
I would say mainly being an author of the XML specs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Bray
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Wow, that's pretty awful. I've only been living in NYC for 2 years, but I've totally absorbed all of these etiquette rules that are fairly well ingrained in the local culture. Still, I find myself gritting my teeth a few times a week when
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Um, sounds like an industry standard HSM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_Security_Module
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by Nwallins 17y ago
This article contains some disturbing appeals to authority: > As the final arbiter, let's go to Ian Stirling, one of the world's foremost experts on polar bears. Lomborg, Stirling says, used "inaccurate and utterly inadequate arguments
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Wow, I used to surf the 'fish a good bit last year. Got hooked up with the Friday Night Rip at Prospect Park with the Earthwing and Bustin crews, bought a Kracked Skulls M1; my roommate bought an Original Apex. It's still a great site wit
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by Nwallins 17y ago
I think this was disabled with the EFI security password.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
I wonder if you could do a quick content check -- something along the lines of: Run the content through the "Readability" filter (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/) Hash the first N paragraphs Compare the hash on a
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by Nwallins 17y ago
OK, so we are down to the crux of the issue. ;) The claim, then, is that the skeptics are not doing science. That is easily refutable, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_McIntyre and http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/13/centre-of
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by Nwallins 17y ago
In my mind, the question is not whether the skeptics have a point -- it's whether they are doing science. We are presuming that the IPCC is doing science and that the skeptics are doing science. The skeptics may be wrong, and they may not
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> The intelligent design movement has made a whole documentary film about their systematic exclusion from the scientific process, for pete's sake! And so on with Astrology, Alchemy, and the Humours theory of medicine. These things are
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> I think that would be a 'usability' nightmare for fans. Now, it is pretty simple. I want to see Olympics, go to NBC. Respectfully, I must disagree. Sure, you can go to NBC to see "the Olympics". That won't change in any case. How
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by Nwallins 17y ago
I would really like to see a free market in Olympics coverage, rather than the monopoly we are stuck with. I don't understand why we don't have as many channels with live coverage as there are simultaneous events. I would think that the O
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> The real question is probably: why not just feed it to pigs or goats, the traditional solution? The fish are hungry, that's why not. Aquaponics takes care of the fish waste and plant food, but there is still the question of fish foo
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by Nwallins 17y ago
My point is that though automation "costs" jobs, it simultaneously reduces the cost of production (e.g. the production of financial transactions, here). Ultimately the benefit from more efficient production is a rising tide that lifts all
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Compare the total number of, say, cashiers to software developers. So, ATMS... would you replace them with human bank tellers? Would that be a net benefit to the economy?
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> The only time I ever use URL shorteners is when I'm trying to Rick-Roll someone. Yes, I hardly ever visit shortened URLs. It seems like a great vector for malware when you have no idea where your click will land you. The domain na
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by Nwallins 17y ago
The point is: you buy more phone numbers at $1/month to increase your capacity.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> Public schools and the belief that education is a fundamental human right are inextricably intertwined. This is not the rational conclusion. It is possible to provide for an education without providing the education. > Wil
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> There are more pineapples than consumers, so people start getting aggressive with their sales. > They start harvesting unripe pineapples and heating them to make them seem ripe quicker. If there is already an oversupply of pin
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by Nwallins 17y ago
FTA: Inline your HTML: That’s right. Just put some HTML into your Haml document. Don’t be afraid, it’ll be just fine.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
> and then the second response comes in. At this point, the user is at an "oh shit" moment, finally comprehending the implications of Google's labeling I am having trouble understanding what the problem is, here. I also suspect this
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by Nwallins 17y ago
1.HTTP uses a TCP connection. For that matter so does SMTP and IMAP and the proposed REMAP. Yes, of course. He is not claiming that TCP is bad, but rather that it is too low-level. i.e. One wants an application protocol (e.g. HTTP, SMTP
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by Nwallins 17y ago
I certainly can't attest to its correctness, but I found it insightful and thought-provoking. As to the misattribution, the paper reads: The best I can offer as an answer to that question is a Zen koan from Douglas Hofstadter
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Wow, fantastic read. From the concluding section: So Mermin was on the right track, but he didn’t get it quite right: not only is the moon is not really there when nobody looks, but it isn't really there even when you do look!
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by Nwallins 17y ago
As to libertarian complaints, really I am articulating the position of the fiscal right , i.e. fiscal conservatives. We are discussing the federal budget, after all. Whether old people and the AARP embrace Medicare in a selfish stab at th
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Well, I am just saying that is the right's position, and I can see that it is at least plausible (i.e. I could imagine such a state of affairs). I am not claiming that it is correct, nor am I trying to convince others.
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by Nwallins 17y ago
How is the revenue from social security different from that of other federal taxes (esp. income)?
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Are you not including Social Security and Medicare in social services ? The complaint from the right is that the federal government confiscates the wealth of its citizens and redistributes it, presumably suboptimally. Leaving aside the ob
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by Nwallins 17y ago
Surely if it makes sense to have manhole shafts be round, and it also makes sense to have manhole covers be, say, square (for whatever reason), then manhole covers would be square, no?

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