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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
The recent Honda hybrid battery debacle, and the woman who decided to opt out of the class action, chose small claims instead and kept more small claims winnings than she would have received from the class action, shows that small claims c
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"I converted both my [pdf] book and my [pdf] copy of Objects on Rails to TXT files" We need a terminal that can display graphics in place and still allow all the text tools to work exactly as they do today. I imagined reading a text-ized pd
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
paid, one time transaction to get someone set up with a blog and provider
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Don't write off sbierwagen's comment as flippant. For this kind of thing, this will be more and more the future. I think. I think a site that acts as a reseller/affiliate for pair.com, dropbox and the like, where all you do is set up someon
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Mozilla is still ".org"? That seems odd.(mozilla.org)
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I don't want to install the client on my work computer, so it's nice to have the web site.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
All that's true, but if you can then sell that customer a car every month or a date every month, bonus.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I've always like about:blank. It even comes with a friendly reminder. http://imgur.com/jRmfB
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
The guy was more right than the flat earthers, and his acting trumped any amount of right or wrong.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Size makes it impossible. If you've ever worked at a sizable company then you understand this, if not explicitly. The work of an employee becomes more and more to integrate with the machine, and less and less to think independently and inno
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Any administration faced with the same question would do the same thing. They're the same.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Oh, gawd yes. Part of the fun of the world is that it's huge and surprising. Talk to your friends if you need a recommendation. Talk to a total stranger face to face if you need a recommendation.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Am I the only person ..." The answer to this is always no.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
It's feedback from the community, to help you be more useful to the community. You get more karma when someone upvotes your comments and submissions; you get less karma when someone downvotes you. Downvotes tell you "this comment did not he
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
What's the software service or app or tool that you most want to have, that would make the hair on the back of your neck stand up when you say "I built that?" Build that. Or build a small piece of it. Or build a prototype of a small piece o
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Yup. It's nice to be able to make ideas, instead of just having them.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
I think we make too much of video games and movies. They don't make us violent. We're already violent. That's why we buy them. "We have met the enemy, and he is us."
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Public committing means a high level of responsibility and scrutiny, and it is the best motivator for any task." It's the best motivator for some people for some tasks. People and tasks are infinitely varied. "In our weekly meetings ..
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
A movie at the theater and a movie in your living room are two different products.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
It helps prevent in-breeding of articles.
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Justice Dept. to Congress: Don’t Saddle 4th Amendment on Us http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/04/fourth-amendment-em...
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
"Fix campaign finance rules, elect better congresscritters, and repeal the DMCA." Yeah, except it's Congress that makes those rules. Given that vicious circle, how can that specific problem (campaign finance) realistically be fixed? "Vote t
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
And it's the President's decision to allow or encourage his Justice Department to pursue the idea that email left on a server after six months is considered abandoned and therefore free game for the government to warrantlessly peruse. Like,
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
> Well on the other hand, one could also argue that when you put the trash on curb you give away any rights to it - which means that the trash becomes a public property that Feds have access to. You could make that argument, but I'd dis
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Why? They're not searching it because it's randomly in the street, they're searching it because you are presumably interesting. If you're that interesting then there should be no problem getting a warrant. The privacy issue here is whether
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Almost never. I used to clear history, cookies, everything on browser restart. I've let the water wash over me, and now I like typing things in the address bar and already being there, or being remembered like Norm when I visit a site again
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
We're there now. How many people lay out CPU circuits at Intel any more? Computer (using a CPU) does that. How many people physically make chips at a foundry? "Robots" do that. There are a lot of tasks in designing and building computers th
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Can you produce something similar to what you've done, but new, with little to no referring to references? Are you producing cooler things today than yesterday, according to some definition of cool? Are you still discovering new things abou
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
There's another point in there: just because you have a need for graphics doesn't mean you have a need for a graphics professional. Without Photoshop you needed a graphics professional for anything beyond a cardboard sign. Now you can do ve
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by a_a_r_o_n 15y ago
Until the robots make the robots.

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