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by akd 18y ago
Depth and accuracy? The first AP article isn't going to have anything except "there was an earthquake." Perhaps they will have the Richter number. They will definitely not have the epicenter or the damage/casualties. It may even be less tha
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by akd 18y ago
Most major news sources' first release is just that, without the "fuck" and 20 minutes later.
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by akd 18y ago
Yup, they tried to get rid of him when he pushed out Cornel West, then they tried to get rid of him when he was about to fire FAS dean Kirby, and then they finally had their day when he made the gender commments.
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by akd 18y ago
Summers tried to change a group of people that was extremely resistant to change. They tried to crucify him several times, and were finally successful.
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by akd 18y ago
My name gets 2,290 hits on Google and 0 on Cuil, and many of those 2,290 are on some of the biggest domains on the Web. I'm having trouble believing Cuil's claim of indexing more pages.
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by akd 18y ago
The courts do not always assess right and wrong -- they are concerned with legal and illegal, which isn't the same thing.
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by akd 18y ago
Conspiracy theorizing is fun, but it's a lot easier to believe that he's just a talented investor.
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by akd 18y ago
With $33m in venture they could have spared a few Gs for a better domain name.
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by akd 18y ago
In fact that URL will not get you anywhere ;)
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by akd 18y ago
Nothing can protect the "idea." If all you're contributing is the idea itself, you'll soon find yourself cut out of your stake, even if the idea takes off. Your engineers or investors will work around you :)
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by akd 18y ago
"Justified" is a concept that exists only in your head. Yes, the most successful textbooks make millions of dollars for their publishers and authors (Paul Samuelson's Economics for example). The least successful ones lose lots of money. Wha
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by akd 18y ago
Stupid article. Nobody ever claimed lossless will destroy MP3. It will be supported in some MP3 players for those people who want it. Why does everything have to be about one product destroying another? They will coexist.
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by akd 18y ago
His counterexamples are very bad. If you don't practice proper car maintenance, you can get into a very unsafe situation with e.g. underinflated tires. Prescription medication? My dad almost put "otic" (ear) drops in my eye when I was a kid
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by akd 18y ago
Stockholders say: "no"
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by akd 18y ago
An amazing guy by anyone's measure, but a "hero"? Does that word mean anything anymore?
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by akd 18y ago
> Yet in this study the Wonderlic is keyed to position, not performance in that position. It's automatically keyed to performance in the position since it's based on NFL players, who are the people at the 99.99th or 99.999th percentile
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by akd 18y ago
> For some reason, this never gets as much publicity as the perceived lack of black quarterbacks. The reason is that quarterback is the most glamorous and well-known position. This explanation doesn't explain why there is a lot of publi
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by akd 18y ago
Imagine the endgame, where web apps handle all user accounts, collaboration features, sharing, and permissions through Facebook. It's not this year or next year, but Facebook could become the equivalent of what Microsoft Windows is on the d
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by akd 18y ago
It's not that they think that there's only one way to scale, but they only want one way in their company, so they can spend all their resources on optimizing that one architecture.
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by akd 18y ago
If by "doing fine" you mean "almost dead," yes they're still healthy.
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by akd 18y ago
Why shouldn't unlimited mean unlimited? For six months my only Internet connection was through my Blackberry. T-Mobile is very good about not restricting what you can do with your phone, and not complaining when you do things like this.
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by akd 18y ago
Some of them seem juvenile, but the fact that your reading habits can be monitored without court proceedings is something that every library user should be aware of.
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by akd 18y ago
Of course, making money and using that money for more hardware is a better step towards fixing that.
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by akd 18y ago
Driving a stick shift well teaches you not only that cars have gears, but that the power output by an engine depends on RPM, that your car has synchronizers and that you can reduce the wear on them, etc.
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by akd 18y ago
I run my own server for a hobby project and it goes down as frequently as S3 for various reasons.
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by akd 18y ago
I don't know the science of it but female fertility peaks between about 16 and 25.
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by akd 18y ago
The girl who is waiting until well into her thirties might find it impossible to get pregnant, or may have a child with Down Syndrome.
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by akd 18y ago
Well an idea (such as a flying car) can differ so marginally from its ancestor idea that the two are almost impossible to distinguish. But while the idea can have several thousand iterations, it's usually measured externally only by its pop
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by akd 18y ago
Who made you the arbiter of taste and decorum on this board? This is a user-driven website; what is popular is what we want to be popular. Of course PG can do things like block Valleywag but if he gets too cavalier about it the users will g
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by akd 18y ago
The information is really only valuable if you have the power of law enforcement behind you. What can you do with a printer serial number? You'd need to subpoena Xerox records which would lead you to Staples, then Staples records to find ou

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