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   Automatically generate a really good (or really bad) TED talk(get-tedpad.com)

   2 points by RK 16y ago|0 comments
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   by RK 16y ago

   My only friend who became a lawyer who didn't "sell out" is the one who never planned to become a lawyer. He was an electrical engineer who was hired as a technical expert at a big IP law firm. They eventually offered to pay for him to go t
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   by RK 16y ago

   I also went to college in the late 90's. Where I went to school was not in the northeast, but had a significant overlap with Harvard applicants (or so I'm told). Interestingly, I never heard of anyone talking about going into investment ban
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   by RK 16y ago

   The only problem I'm having so far with the Android app (on 2.1/Nexus One) is that whenever you view a picture in the Dropbox app it gets added to your Android gallery. The other way around would be OK, but this way just clutters up the pho
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   by RK 16y ago

   Well, most things will have some non-zero magnetic susceptibility that will affect an ambient magnetic field. Ferromagnetic materials will have a larger effect. I just loaded "Metal Detector" on my Nexus One and played around with it. It se
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   by RK 16y ago

   The internal magnetometer can measure local magnetic field changes due to ferrous metals.
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   by RK 16y ago

   Or have a keyboard that places them "correctly".
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   by RK 16y ago

   I hang out a couple times a year in Europe with a group of primarily Irish, Germans, and Danes and the Danes are the only ones I ever see drinking at breakfast. They're also the only ones who've ever commented on the fact that I wasn't havi
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   by RK 16y ago

   Houston has many pluses. Relatively cheap living is just one of them. On the other hand, NYC is not for everyone and cost is only one reason.
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    by RK 16y ago

    I've been thinking about moving to Houston. Imaging the difference if you had been in NYC: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=relocating+from+new+yor...
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    by RK 16y ago

    There's a difference between not caring about privacy and not understanding privacy issues. I would imagine most users are in the latter category.
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    by RK 16y ago

    What's the advantage of chip + PIN over stripe + PIN?
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    by RK 16y ago

    I use IM (Gtalk/xmpp) for this function. Works on every phone or computer. For people who insist on SMS I have Google Voice with free SMS.
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    by RK 16y ago

    I read on my Nexus One with dimmed white on black text. I use the Aldiko e-book app.
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    by RK 16y ago

    "$117,951 average debt" includes home mortgage. The poster states 95k of this is in mortgage and 2.2k in credit cards, but not where the other 20k is located. Cars?
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    Cloud's New Language Set to Bloom(hpcinthecloud.com)

    5 points by RK 16y ago|0 comments
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    by RK 16y ago

    Having participated on the researcher end of fMRI stuff, I am impressed if they can get a lot of women to actually climax in there. You really need to be focused on what you're doing, because there are a multitude of distractions. fMRI is s
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    by RK 16y ago

    I've used Fastmail since 2001. Free or relatively cheap and IMAP was a winning combination. I admit that once Gmail started offering IMAP support I started migrating over to Gmail, but I still use my fastmail accounts for other purposes.
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    by RK 16y ago

    I watch Worldfocus sometimes on PBS and they run Al Jazeera English reports all of the time. Edit: Looks like Worldfocus stopped airing as of April 2, 2010.
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    by RK 16y ago

    Not significantly different, but interesting.
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    by RK 16y ago

    Anyone know if the MD5 hashes are available for the 10.04 ISO's to check them?
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    by RK 16y ago

    Please get James Randi's people involved.
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    by RK 16y ago

    Hijab may be be a requirement, but hijab doesn't necessarily = head scarves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijab
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    by RK 16y ago

    Depends on the school. I went to one of the smallest schools with a D1 football team and it is my understanding that the football team there only survives due to funds alloted by the conference, which are collected as dues from the other un
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    Tor on Android(torproject.org)

    2 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments
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    by RK 17y ago

    I only recognized Mint and Xobni, also products I've never used.
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    by RK 17y ago

    I think these are aimed at people not old enough to get into bars.
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    by RK 17y ago

    The Shaun White part of this article is the kind of thing I imagine is said at a third rate business conference. That being said, I have my own observation about Shaun White and business. Shaun White is the most popular snowboarder right no
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    by RK 17y ago

    Which city?
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    I have seen the future, and it is GNOME 3(blogs.techrepublic.com.com)

    1 points by RK 17y ago|0 comments