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by ableal 13y ago
Interesting map; also a site with an extensive collection of old maps: "While there is something endearing about the idea of an Indiana map maker in 1871 [ preparing an atlas http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servl
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Apple needs Time-Warner Cable more than does Comcast(cringely.com)
3 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
I was a bit startled by this snippet: "in Colorado State, for instance, a single zip code can contain five different tax jurisdictions and rates ranging from 2.25 percent to 8 percent" I understand that U.S. sales tax is the res
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by ableal 13y ago
> the manual stadiometers were always giving inaccurate readings An amazing feat, considering that the mechanical ones I've seen consist of a horizontal bracket that slides on the vertical scale attached to a wall (or a stand), and
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Beware: State tax laws could nail your startup(pando.com)
45 points by ableal 13y ago|47 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
Backstory: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/aols-mil...
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by ableal 13y ago
Yes, it also struck me that way. As an offtopic aside, the Mars day/year slide ( http://style.org/visualized/images/weightofrain_34.jpg ) made me think we should really build a "second home" (or vac
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The Next Phase of the Internet: Licensing Content Makers(pcmag.com)
1 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
> Why in the world would bot 2 offer the book for $11? Dan's explanation: "The price-setting robot sets its price far enough above that of the other vendor that if someone buys, the robot-owner can buy the book from the other
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by ableal 13y ago
In comments: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/02/hacking_airli... Good story about buying a suit at 6 am: "Upon exiting customs, I was greeted (by name) by a number of large men holding
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by ableal 13y ago
By John G. Cramer, professor of physics at the University of Washington in Seattle. Found in a comment by http://slashdot.org/~somepunk on http://science.slashdot.org/story/14/01/30/13432
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When Proton Meets Monopole (1983)(npl.washington.edu)
2 points by ableal 13y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
> Here's the very interesting story behind the patents. > http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/31/why-google-might-be-going-t... That link is definitely worth a few minutes. Thanks.
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by ableal 13y ago
When I found H.L.Mencken, I was somewhat astonished at the essay "The Sahara of the Bozart". A search will produce the text, and Lew Rockwell has a good piece about it here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01
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by ableal 13y ago
Quite a few browsers do not have a "search bar on the top right". They use a single field for both URL and search.
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by ableal 13y ago
One of the ifixit commenters tossed in the story of the floppy drive: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Hide_Under_This_D... "But American business practices, they are very strange. Very strange." said
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by ableal 13y ago
I'd guess something may have got lost in (mental) translation: in Portuguese, the same verb may be used to mean meeting people and finding things.
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by ableal 13y ago
I like the post at the bottom, http://pmarcatweetsasblogposts.tumblr.com/post/73631082205/m... , which starts with: """ The problem with arbitrary metrics in complex situations — they tend to backf
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by ableal 13y ago
Probably this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter The golf-ball typing element has a lever at the top, which opens to unlock the ball in order to change fonts. Besides the carbon ribbon, there's
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by ableal 13y ago
Good story. The insightful bit, perhaps not unlike http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_%28countermeasure%29 : The most troubling lesson she learned from Mullen, Gomez says, is how readily misleading information can mi
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Google Exec Quit His Job To Work In China – And He's Been Totally Blown Away(businessinsider.com)
29 points by ableal 13y ago|1 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
I think I spotted an overturned cone at the 55 second mark ... Wired magazine had a small piece about the presentation, including that video: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/01/bmw-builds-self-driftin...
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by ableal 13y ago
An even older (1960s, I think) clip featuring Marshall McLuhan, still rather relevant on the topic http://www.openculture.com/2010/04/marshall_mcluhan_the_worl... The keywords here were "Individual man is out
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by ableal 13y ago
Sounds like a 17th century English puritan ... http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/09/13/puritan_name...
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by ableal 13y ago
Google cache clicky: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:u4CVeIw...
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by ableal 13y ago
This year, Apple's "12 Days of Gifts" app only runs on iOS7. I don't know if that was intentional, but it seems likely.
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by ableal 13y ago
> to offset an undesirable sour or bitter flavor It's better to err on the side you're on, because that justification covers quite a lot of ground. For instance, it's hard to find tomato without sugar in prepared food. Or
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by ableal 13y ago
> If Google strictly abode copyright or computer access laws, it would have never existed Whoa there. At the time, the consensus was that anything put up on web servers was there for anyone to see by any means. Minus the 'robots.txt
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by ableal 13y ago
You're probably right, I only looked at the path. Thanks for the followup.
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by ableal 13y ago
Curiously, the URL seems exactly identical in both submissions, which are almost consecutive ( ...94, ...96). That probably means the duplicate detector has some delay on getting its past submissions data. The rate of submissions these days

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