YokoZar

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by YokoZar 13y ago
Wow, thanks! :)
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Is there a good plugin for wordpress that just deletes any post coming in with URL fields? I don't have interface for the URL field in my blog, so any comment submitting one is always coming from a spam script.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
And this particular anti-aging therapy, if it works, will only treat a subset of those age-related diseases. There are many different mechanisms of aging, and each therapy we develop will only incrementally improve things. In that light, p
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Does AT&T have international business? It seems like a key point of the suit is that the Chinese government cancelled IBM contracts due to these worries, which translates to actual shareholder damages. I don't see any indication
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I'm not sure spammers particularly care if they have a lot of email addresses that people don't really read. Google was already bouncing messages to invalid recipients, so completely nonexistent email addresses were already filte
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Chernobyl is estimated to have a combined death toll of somewhat less than a thousand people over their lifetimes. Coal power plants kill ten times as many people every year when functioning as designed.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It may be naiive optimism, but I hope the RICO suit has some success. A thin veneer of legalism in an obviously bogus patent shouldn't be enough to make one immune entirely from racketeering charges. By way of comparison, if I threate
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by YokoZar 13y ago
There are countless employees/owners of various firms editing their own wikipedia articles on company time. As long as they're providing verifiable, true information and actually making the page better no one really cares. The is
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Unless those people giving you money are employees vesting their stock options. Perhaps I've been misled, but I don't think it's common for employees to be given preferred stock.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I would assert that there has been at least one murder prevented by the law against murder.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
If you're wondering when PC hardware can "catch up" to console hardware, history shows it's simply a matter of waiting a year or two. Rather than the traditional new console generation land grab, Valve is playing a long
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Well-designed backup systems (say, Dropbox) don't actually require any overcoming of laziness.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
I paid 15 dollars retail for a flu shot today. The estimated actuarial price of a human life is approximately 10 million dollars. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life ) So in principle flu shots like mine are &
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It is not "sickening" that I would refuse to have dinner with OJ Simpson even though the courts found him not guilty of murder, because every reasonable person believes he is a murderer. It does not take long extended trials deter
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Short of the actual thief publicly outing himself, I can't really think of any way.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It's not a mistake, and the civil suit filing even includes rape as one of its (many) listed claims.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
If gas prices are expected to be continuously high, you will try to structure your life in a way that can minimize car usage (say, living in an urban area). That can make not even owning a car at all a viable option. If you're such a
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by YokoZar 13y ago
A look at the source shows no blink or marquee tags, unfortunately.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
If labor costs (ie wages) get exceptionally low, it starts making sense to develop more labor-intensive technology. Consider how the industrial revolution started by replacing expensive weavers with cheap migrant workers using power looms.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It's worth pointing out that, while 64-bit Windows has dropped its 16-bit layer, 64-bit Wine has not. You can happily run your original 16-bit version of Chip's Challenge on an out of the box 64-bit Linux/Wine install these
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by YokoZar 13y ago
How about insurance that contractually requires me to never settle and pays for me to fight until the patent is declared invalid? That way I look like the worst possible troll target.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Right, if there's no competitors or neighbouring markets, then you have a monopoly situation, and the sole seller (or cartel) are free to set prices as high as people are able to pay. But just because there is a shortage doesn't
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by YokoZar 13y ago
"Willingness to pay" is different from "ability to pay" -- your willingness to pay will be greatly affected by the price of competitors or neighboring markets, for example.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
What you are saying is that the primary driver of price is ability to pay. This is basically a claim that the market isn't competitive at all. That's a fairly strong thing to say, as even a vastly under-supplied market can be co
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by YokoZar 13y ago
When you commit fraud or print fake dollars, you're interfering with other people's property rights in fairly clear ways. It's an obvious harm. When you sing Happy Birthday to your grandmother, or make a mix tape for your g
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Recognize that copyrights clash with basic property rights. Why can't I use my computer or printer however I wish, even if that means copying existing content? The reason is a fundamental tradeoff -- we've accepted a bargain to d
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Since that article was published significant amounts of spectrum were taken back from the TV industry and auctioned off to the highest bidder (cell phone companies, mostly): that's why everyone needed to switch from analog rabbit ears
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The Social Security Administration considers interest on its special treasury bonds as pure free money ( negative overhead). That's plainly ridiculous, as it's just tax money that came from the general fund.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The main problem area blocking the release is multi-monitor support. A regression there means it will break for some users, even though those who don't use this feature might have a huge improvement (such as mark did).
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Ubuntu 13.10 will have Mir as a preview as well, just not enabled by default on the desktop (but, notably, enabled by default on phones)

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