WiseWeasel

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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   It really does look a lot more like Facebook than MySpace. You basically have a Facebook wall of all the people you follow, not some kind of customized site you can design from scratch, like the mess that was MySpace.
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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   The main use case is that you've been trapped in an insane asylum, for various reasons we won't get into, with nothing but an iPhone and access to the Autocad iPhone app, and you really want to impress the administrators with your pitch for
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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   So you're saying the idea is nothing but the deranged rantings of a sociopath? That's an ad hominem logical fallacy, and doesn't refute the actual value of the concept.
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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   You can always rent the house to pay the mortgage, and cancel the insurance, as it probably doesn't cover you overseas.
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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   If that's truly the case, then it feels like it would be rewarding the lurkers and penalizing the loyal readers, as the lurkers would get a much faster effective response rate. But by far the worst offense to me is that it kills the communi
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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   I'd wager school districts are wary of hiring administrators responsible for a fiasco like this. At least they're likely to be out of a job.
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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   Meh, 24 hours is too long to wait. By that time, I likely no longer care to read any comments on the subject, so they all go unread. I mean who is going to return to a blog post a day later just so they can read comments? Might as well just
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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   Bring on the civil suits. Looking forward to this school district being sued into the ground.
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   by WiseWeasel 16y ago

   I'm saying that you see when a couple friends check into a social meeting location, and say, hey, that location is near me, and seems like a good time, I think I'll check it out... Or maybe you ask yourself where everyone is on this Saturda
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    I personally don't use it, as none of my friends use it. But my point is that since you don't really use it either, except to keep a record of the places you've gone to, instead of its common usage of meeting up with friends, you may not be
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Scott Adams, 2012! For a better America.
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    My guess is they miss the old rivalry, back when things were simple, good vs. bad, white & black. The tech industry today is too morally ambiguous, with Apple sometimes playing the part of evil villain against Google, Adobe and others,
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Here's my possibly slightly less ridiculous proclamation as to what RIM should do: RIM should set up shop in a warmer climate, maybe the California Bay Area, so that they can attract more software design talent hesitant to live in cold, win
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    You mean because you're not really interested in using Foursquare, and you have no apparent business using the service in the first place, since none of your friends in the area use it? Is that the point you were trying to make?
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Nice try, iPhone-lover! You just want to get RIM out of the picture for good, probably so your beloved platform can have the enterprise market all to itself or something... And what better way than with RIM switching their "fan base" over t
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Isn't that what we used to call a web browser plugin?
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    True, but at least the framework would be there, and it could gradually be made more difficult to circumvent without significant effort, potentially making a good dent in the problem.
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    How about the cost per domain increases the more you own. For example, the first one costs $7/yr, the second, $10.50, the third, $14, $17.50, etc. in a gradual linear curve, (or maybe $7, $10.50, $15.75, $23.63, etc. for an exponentially in
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    That would be likely to exacerbate the problem, further marginalizing young adults from their community. Also, the thought of raising the age of consent in this society progressing towards sexual and moral liberalization is laughable. As fo
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    Entrepreneurs Turn Carbon Sequestration Into A Source Of Revenue(nytimes.com)

    1 points by WiseWeasel 16y ago|0 comments
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Seems like a strange criterion. Would programmers hired to do HR be fulfilled in their jobs? Would they last very long? How does that even work? Do you slip a javascript requirement in the HR position posting? It just seems like you might b
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Because they were unfortunately quite common, and not propping them up would put a large portion of the population out on the street, and cause a further surplus of homes on the market, driving values down further in a vicious cycle. The po
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Deflation also pushes people with large home mortgages closer to the brink, as their debt increases in value, and their banks feel pressure to lower their risk exposure by refusing to refinance or renew loans and pushing loan holders to pay
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    By that time, Verizon may support 4G LTE, at least in major metropolitan areas, which does support simultaneous voice/data usage.
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    The answer is simple ergonomics. If you have any notion of staying free of back, neck, arm and wrist pain for the rest of your life, you'll want to get comfortable to type for extended periods, along with any other repetitive tasks you perf
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    For that, you simply hold the tablet with one arm, and peck-type with the other hand; works fine for short text entry. You're not going to write an essay without sitting at a desk first. I don't see any good usage cases for the MS tech bein
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    This looks like an awful kludge. The thought of typing for extended periods while holding my arms up at that angle, plus supporting the weight of the iPad seems like an ergonomic nightmare. If you need to do some serious typing with a table
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Representatives, on the other hand, are easily swayed by campaign fund contributions, tipping the balance of power away from public interest altogether. The initiative process is certainly a sword that cuts both ways, but I'm glad to have i
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    I'm quite a fan of the initiative process in California. I mean, sure, it's been abused by short-sighted people, leading to things like three-strikes legislation overcrowding our prisons, but it has also brought us important social progress
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    by WiseWeasel 16y ago

    Translation: damn kids, get off my lawn!