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by ajslater 13y ago
1993. I considered registering cocacola.com, sex.com, shell.com, etc. etc. Spent the money on consumables instead. There are few moments I remember as clearly as making that decision.
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You can build cool stuff with WebRTC in five minutes(simplewebrtc.com)
104 points by ajslater 13y ago|14 comments
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by ajslater 13y ago
In, for instance, US presidential elections, unless you live in one of maybe 3 to 5 states the probability of your voting affecting the outcome of the race significantly is near nil. However I still vote, just to show pollsters what support
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by ajslater 13y ago
me too: http://cbldf.org/
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by ajslater 13y ago
I'd love to donate to an organization who's charter was ending the drug war, but I'm not sure I know of one specifically like that. I suppose NORML might be an obvious choice, but I don't feel like picking a specific dru
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by ajslater 13y ago
Human Rights Campaign http://www.hrc.org/
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by ajslater 13y ago
The Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/
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by ajslater 13y ago
The American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/
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by ajslater 13y ago
Planned Parenthood http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
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by ajslater 13y ago
The Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/
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Of Brainiacs and Billionaires(psychologytoday.com)
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by ajslater 13y ago
Steve was good, but not magic. One thing counting against this deal is that people have seen what happened to the music companies and the phone carriers. Carriers still hate the iPhone, they don't make much money from it, but are in a
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by ajslater 13y ago
Melatonin does not directly induce nightmares, per say, just the vivid or lucid dreams you are familiar with. However, if just one of those incredibly vivid melatonin induced dreams goes awry and descends into nightmare territory, you will
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by ajslater 13y ago
We wrote Bloglines, the first and greatest RSS reader web app, in C. And by "we" I mean Mark Fletcher did, and the people he hired like me, continued it. It wasn't bad. You just get used to keeping track of memory, arrays len
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by ajslater 13y ago
> to allow management to feel like they're verifying that you're getting work done. You hit the nail on the head for some offices. In some offices there's a clear ridiculous condescending paternal feeling as if punching a
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by ajslater 13y ago
Why don't you just grab the nearest person on IRC? Also, the way your write it sounds like you and your teammates communicate so tersely as to be an impediment. Don't do that. In every office I've ever been in, all the progra
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by ajslater 13y ago
There is a definition of "social class" I read in the last few years that separates income or wealth from social class. The definitive marker in this definition is the length of time you are able to plan for. Naturally wealth affe
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by ajslater 13y ago
Glen Greenwald - With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful http://www.amazon.com/With-Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality/dp/... Discusses the era from Waterga
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by ajslater 13y ago
He was only granted that much good will because he was 1) Anyone But Bush 2) A very good orator with a brilliant 2008 campaign staff 3) Black That none of the above contribute to satisfying governance should come as no surprise. I am (naiv
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by ajslater 13y ago
"You can (and should) continue to use jQuery 1.9 (and the upcoming 1.10) on web sites that need to accommodate older browsers."
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by ajslater 14y ago
Google bought the technology that would facilitate your volume slider. It was called PostRank: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostRank They even had a Chrome plugin for Google Reader that enabled just that on the client side. I for instanc
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by ajslater 14y ago
Feedly's first out of the gate already here.
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by ajslater 14y ago
You may be talking about people who confuse 'aggressive' with 'assertive', which would apply to either gender.
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by ajslater 14y ago
Every time someone posts one of those "world's most biased" libertarian political quizes, I tend to link to the New and Improved World's Greatest Political Quiz: http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/politics/humor/quiz.h...
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by ajslater 14y ago
If you live in a decided state ( http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ ), vote third party. Most states are decided.
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by ajslater 14y ago
There's no reason to put humans out there. There are no aliens. There's nothing out there for us. That's why we send probes. Cheap probes. Unmanned probes. If we happen to discover something amazing that would be interesting or beneficial
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by ajslater 14y ago
One way is to have no character ability improvements, only player skill and player experience matters. Like say...tetris, q-bert, pacman or tekken. In this scenario, you skill and experience is always fully portable. I hope Subotai's CLANG
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by ajslater 14y ago
http://ismycreditcardstolen.com/
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by ajslater 14y ago
at the very most, your unadorned smartphone costs $1000. That's hardly comparable to a watch.
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by ajslater 14y ago
This occurs with dietary reporting too. Deficiencies in a population are reported as if alleviating the deficiency is an unnatural enhancement. I'm glad you mentioned this.

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