YokoZar

52 ms·

571.
by YokoZar 13y ago
There's one problem here: by storing passwords in a series of flat files, you give away that a password to a given site or location exists. That alone can be data that a user doesn't want to share. I use a similar (and old) solut
572.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Yes, economists will argue that gasoline taxes are a more efficient and effective way of getting what we want (an efficient amount of gasoline consumption that accounts for its external costs). Politicians will counter that gas taxes are un
573.
by YokoZar 13y ago
I'm not sure an iPad would have enough computing power to run VM + QEMU + Wine + Office.
574.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Weight is also an overwhelming factor in the OTHER person's survival in an accident. We do not make the general public safer by encouraging an arms race of heavier and heavier vehicles.
575.
by YokoZar 13y ago
I'm not sure I buy this argument. Short-term shareholders and long-term shareholders both benefit from enhancing the long-term "permanent" value of a company, as you can always just sell some of the stock to realize those ga
576.
by YokoZar 13y ago
There are exogenous factors too. North Dakota will be rich due to oil even with incredibly corrupt and inefficient local governments.
577.
by YokoZar 13y ago
You can get 90% of the way there if you turn off gmail notifications on your phone.
578.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Of course people use hangouts for purely text chat -- it's Google Talk!
579.
by YokoZar 13y ago
You could go half-way and leak a very biased sample of data. Some people are terrified that there might come a day where our health insurers monitor the junk food we buy via our credit card purchases. But why not just buy junk food with c
580.
by YokoZar 13y ago
I once (sarcastically) argued in a student newspaper that attractive people should be favored in college admissions, since students would much rather share a campus with more attractive people. To me it made more sense in terms of promotin
581.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Don't be so sure. Some porn stars are brands unto themselves, and go on stripping tours not dissimilar from musician's concerts. Perhaps it's only a matter of time till we see pornography crowdfunding.
582.
by YokoZar 13y ago
The fine isn't for entry, it's for some infraction upon entry (such as being drunk in public). You get in, then they fine you. That said, American border guards have been known to turn back drunks coming in from Tijuana, but most
583.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Right, it basically becomes a form of "I'll give you 2 wheat and one other card if you immediately port the 2 wheat for the one thing I want and give it back". It's not strictly a discrete trade, as there are two steps f
584.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Catan got really popular when I was in college, and I noticed a distinctly different playstyle among the "normal" groups of friends I had and the ones that came from the Economics department. A lot of people never think to do thin
585.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Yes, as a US citizen, your right to enter the United States is "absolute, unconditional, and irrevocable." That said, we do reserve the right to arrest or fine you immediately upon entry.
586.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Police officers and prosecutors are immune from personal liability in a suit (the liability instead shifts onto the government). It is very often the case that gross misconduct that costs the government millions in damages will not result
587.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Yes, and when you're a child your caloric intake and your yearly increase in height are very tightly correlated too. Lots of society is built around this growth, such as the expectation of having to buy bigger clothes every year. But
588.
by YokoZar 13y ago
It is a tiny bit unreasonable to project continuous exponential growth in human energy usage on such a ridiculously long timescale. It's like arguing that Moore's law will continue for another 200 years.
589.
by YokoZar 13y ago
I just keep a pair of waterproof headphones permanently attached to my swim goggles and keep it in my gym stuff. It's not nearly as big a hassle as you think - just wrap it up tightly once and you have no cords dangling or anything wh
590.
by YokoZar 13y ago
I'm not too convinced this is due to short term thinking: if you're a short-term investor you still benefit from a company using a long term strategy because you can just sell the stock.
591.
by YokoZar 13y ago
More realistically, through an arbitrary emotional choice. There's a reason stories of housing discrimination generally center around communities employing rent control. When faced with more tenants than they know what to do with, lan
592.
by YokoZar 13y ago
There are reasonable and unreasonable definitions of "fair" and "better". Some voting systems have to have very very unreasonable (to a normal human) definitions of "fair" to be considered superior by any sort
593.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Arrow's Theorem has to be one of the most over-celebrated yet uninteresting bits of math out there. I myself even thought it was a cool way of challenging alternative voting systems when I first started studying them. But, as you say,
594.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Because range voting embraces the property of valuing votes differently per voter. Implicitly, range voting gives more weight to voters who are aware of the top two candidates and can strategically rate one much lower than the other, even
595.
by YokoZar 13y ago
Including a proper wine theme (and matching it to the system themes) is something that's been on my todo list for the greater part of 5 years now. Hah.
596.
by YokoZar 13y ago
As a member of Ubuntu's Community Council governance board, I have weekly conversations with Mark.
597.
by YokoZar 13y ago
You are more or less describing the exact niche the Crossover product from Codeweavers fills (originally called Crossover Office because Office was the main supported application). I'd give the free trial a try. You're paying fo
598.
by YokoZar 13y ago
If it worked in a 1.5.x version of Wine, it's probable that it works in the stable 1.6 version of Wine. Most Wine releases (like the one in the article link) are basically snapshots of the beta tree, and while we do have extensive tes
599.
by YokoZar 13y ago
I've heard this claim a lot. The reason I think it's hogwash is that, application compatibility being equal, people would actually prefer to run Linux over Windows. That absolutely wasn't the case with OS2 and Blackberry. L
600.
by YokoZar 13y ago
I would really like it if Wine steam and Linux steam played better together. At the moment you have to log out of Linux steam, open Wine steam, and then launch a Windows game. It would be much more straightforward to just have the Linux s

More ›