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by ajays 15y ago
I came here to say this. Dating multiple women takes the pressure off your primary pursuit. I know this may sound immoral or bad to some people, but: believe me, it works. Just the fact that you have a couple of backups makes you a lot more
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by ajays 15y ago
This is why I canceled my membership in IEEE (and ACM). I believe these organizations have gone beyond their stated purpose, and now exist purely to sustain themselves and their monopolies on conferences. If we just started boycotting them,
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by ajays 15y ago
This is easy to figure out. Move the detection station to, say, half the current distance. Do the neutrinos still come out 60ns faster? Then it's a problem with the apparatus. Do they come out only 30ns faster? Then some of the Physics need
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm not so sure if this number means anything. Don't get me wrong: I'd love to see G+ succeed, so that FB has some serious competition. But despite nearly 2-dozen early adopter friends on G+, it feels pretty empty. Initially they used to po
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by ajays 15y ago
Then BitCasa _can_ tell what files you have. Here's a hypothetical scenario. Suppose Random Joe's machine is searched by the MAFIAA , and they find some videos downloaded via torrents. Then the MAFIAA guys just have to compute the same hash
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by ajays 15y ago
I agree. A lot of times the contractor who built the system will either (a) see the value in the data, and put in a clause walling it off, or (b) try to obfuscate the data so it's not easy to get to, so that they'll get more money to free t
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm sorry, but: the position of a transit bus at a given point in time is not really "private" data. Neither is the number of parking spots open in a City garage; or the meter rates of parking meters.
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by ajays 15y ago
I don't know why transit agencies don't just open-source and make available the raw data they have. Often I see them trying to put together "apps" or some such gizmos, when the reality is, if they just made the underlying raw data available
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by ajays 15y ago
Man, I'd love to get my hands on one. I have an Airport Express right now for streaming music from my Linux box to my home theater system, but it's just not working out. All I need is a Linux-supporting little toy like this with audio out a
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by ajays 15y ago
You got laid off/fired. It's over. He won; you lost. Trying to get even with him at this stage is not worth the effort. You don't owe the company anything; just take your severance and move on. Doing anything negative at this stage will onl
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by ajays 15y ago
"I wish I shared you idealism. You're talking about the SFPD - the same SFPD that has gotten away with beatings, illegal arrests, blatant racism and bigotry for decades." I know what you're saying: but that shouldn't stop us from trying! Lo
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by ajays 15y ago
You probably have never seen this happen, hence your naiveté. When a bunch of cops show up at your door, each of them doesn't identify themselves separately as a cop. The leader will usually announce, "SFPD! We are here to investigate blah
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by ajays 15y ago
He granted what he assumed were the SFPD to enter his house. And just because he doesn't know the law, it does NOT mean that it doesn't apply to him. The laws still apply. The cops knew that they had absolutely no evidence or reason to sear
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by ajays 15y ago
"And the fact that the cops themselves didn't go inside shows me that they knew what they were doing was questionable." EXACTLY! Have you ever, ever known the cops to back off from doing something, and let a civilian handle it? In my few o
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by ajays 15y ago
Ask yourself: would 3-4 SFPD officers show up at the door of a suspected bike thief if someone claimed he had stolen a bike worth $500? Dear H-N readers from SF: you _can_ effect change by contacting your supervisors and asking them to rais
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by ajays 15y ago
Does anyone have a combined PDF? While I appreciate the author putting out the PDF, separating the files out into individual chapters and figures makes it harder to read in a sitting.
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by ajays 15y ago
It depends on the type of laptop. Today, a brand new laptop can be had for $350. If this was, say, a 4-year old model with a lot of wear and tear on the surface (possibly, since it was a laptop that was loaned to people), then it's possible
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by ajays 15y ago
Maybe you should stop using the Internet, since it seems to have failed, in your opinion.
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by ajays 15y ago
"Names say something about the people who pick them. Yes, race; but also education, socioeconomic level, and community...." You are forgetting one not-so-minor fact that the resumes were _identical_ to the white ones'. Are you saying that t
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by ajays 15y ago
I think one of the reasons flawed legislation like "Protect IP" comes into the picture is because the "Internet" community does not have a technical ruling body like the AMA (American Medical Association). The Congress trying to legislated
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by ajays 15y ago
Do you have a reference for this? I'd like to send it out to a few people, but "I read it on HN" doesn't seem to have the same cache' (yet.. ;) ).
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by ajays 15y ago
Is there a place where we can download end-of-the day ITCH data? There are so many HFT/LLT outfits out there with this data; surely one will be generous enough to release it for free or some trivial amount?
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by ajays 15y ago
You can buy a US green card too. Just invest $1M somewhere, and you get a green card. So in effect the money stays with you, thus you're not even "buying" the card; just flashing the dough to get the card.
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by ajays 15y ago
And when the next hurricane strikes, guess who they're gonna call? The US Coast Guard! "Help, Nanny State! Please help us!!!"
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by ajays 15y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. I came here to say the same thing. These people will do all this song-and-dance of making a "libertarian utopia", but still keep their money in dollars; their house on Sea Cliff; their kids in US un
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by ajays 15y ago
Wow. The OfficeMax site, http://www.officemax.com/ actually will just return an empty page when you search for "HP Touchpad" or "Touchpad". Note that searching for something that doesn't exist in their inventory returns a _different_ page
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by ajays 15y ago
Yes, I'd love to get my hands on it and put Android on it.
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by ajays 15y ago
Let me get this straight. Anon claims the government doesn't give a fuck about me. So they come in and punch me in the face, and then say, "see, the government didn't care about you". This is like walking up to a person who's getting raped,
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by ajays 15y ago
The vast majority of the routes that the USPS runs are money losers. Try delivering a 44-cent piece on a mule to the Havasupai at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Don't you think, the way the Congress can be bought, that a private company th
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by ajays 15y ago
I'm willing to bet that if there a private company had to operate under the same stifling rules as the USPS, they would have quit a long time ago. The USPS could raise the price of delivering mail to match the costs. BUT THEY CAN'T! Even th

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