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by alecst 18y ago
"Planning on dying soon"? What if you are in an accidents? Well, what if? This service is for people who are dying within the foreseeable future, as noted by their pricing/opinions column -- not for the casual consumer who is looking for
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by alecst 18y ago
If you're going to give someone a code to activate a service to send out an email, why not just leave them the email in the first place‽ Their pricing is ridiculous: the silver plan states $30 per email. For that price, I could outsourc
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Digital Music Start-Ups Hit A Low Note(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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Inside the Mac OS X Kernel: Debunking Mac OS Myths(chaosradio.ccc.de)
16 points by alecst 18y ago|6 comments
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Writing Systems Software in a Functional Language (pdf)(web.cecs.pdx.edu)
1 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 18y ago
Hmm... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7909627.stm http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/japan... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/4839546... And finally... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business
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by alecst 18y ago
I work with a non-profit organization called Kate's Club (www.katesclub.org). Until recently, however, www.katesclub.com was owned by a guy who was using it for erotic images, and we received more than a few complaints about this. A friend
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Record-breaking algorithm packs 2D shapes with unprecedented efficiency(newscientist.com)
2 points by alecst 18y ago|1 comments
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Why the kiddie foodie movement has got to go(slate.com)
1 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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Measuring Phenomena in Sentiment(datamining.typepad.com)
1 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 18y ago
This is more of a matter of coming to terms with facts and/or arguments. Often times people will form (knowingly) form opinions without having the data necessary to draw any sort of conclusion. What is being demonstrated here is the willing
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Potential cancer-causing genes removed from engineered stem cells(web.mit.edu)
2 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 18y ago
Forgive me for being that guy , but: > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something
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Brewster Kahle wants to create a free, online collection of human knowledge.(economist.com)
2 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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Machines that can see(economist.com)
1 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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'Nanostitching' could lead to much stronger airplane skins, more(web.mit.edu)
1 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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Lost in the Archives(chronicle.com)
3 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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User info stolen from music streaming application Spotify(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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Does Daylight Saving Time Conserve Energy?(sciam.com)
12 points by alecst 18y ago|2 comments
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MIT solves 100-year-old engineering problem (web.mit.edu)
32 points by alecst 18y ago|7 comments
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by alecst 18y ago
Can you provide links to some of these? I'd prefer a non-webapp version, since I have an intermittent internet connection.
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Chickenfoot Firefox extension: Customize webpages without viewing HTML source, and more(groups.csail.mit.edu)
2 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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What are editors for?(denisdutton.com)
1 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 18y ago
Uh, novice here, and although I'm sure we all agree that quality of code > lack of lines of code, there's no reason to bash clever programming. Who cares if it's pragmatic -- that's obviously not the motivation.
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by alecst 18y ago
The answer to this question can be found here: http://forums.projektgerman.com/showthread.php?p=83238
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Is There Intelligent Life on Television?(claremont.org)
2 points by alecst 18y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 18y ago
Right. I'm of the opinion that human evolution was influenced by a combination of these two factors, in addition to many others. However, given the evidence, I do not think that cooking is the preeminent contributor to cognitive/human/met
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by alecst 18y ago
This is called an analogy.
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by alecst 18y ago
Stating cooking "underpins all other [human evolutionary changes]" sounds interesting if corroborated . I perused the web for some more information on Richard Wrangham's research. Wikipedia provided this: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?
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by alecst 18y ago
I second nearlyfreespeech. Their pricing is extremely affordable for smaller sites. Mine is hosted there, and I still haven't payed anything . Though slicehost would probably be more sensible if you're expecting heavy traffic.

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