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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>the submission detection script does not think that "www.domain.com" is the same as "domain.com", and treats them as different links. Those two are not the same. Just like mail.google.com isn't the same as google.com.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
If pg doesn't delete your comment, isn't he guilty of the same thing as The Pirate Bay are being charged with? (actually I guess he is protected in the US unless he gets a DMCA notice?)
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
I'd be so freaked out about great whites if I was swimming around with an oblivious seal like that..
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Python already has a solution for callbacks: @reg_callback(button.onclick) def callback(): do_stuff()
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>Maybe this isn't "rational", but it is empirical Actually it is perfectly rational; it just doesn't have as much to do with with a progressive tax as you might think: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal_utility
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
BS. Money's marginal value goes down the more you have--your 1st house is worth more to you than your Nth super car. After around 500k net worth, money is more about status and ranking than anything else--something that happens to be pres
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Maybe he didn't design this for phonologists? I doubt anyone else has too much use for intra-word diffs.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
There are two ways to enable everything to talk in a slick manner like this: brutal monopoly, or open standards. As evidenced by this video the "new" Microsoft has all sorts of cool ideas, but I'm willing to bet they see the enabler the sa
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Knuth: Selected Papers on Computer Science http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Computer-Science-Language-Inf...
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Why would anyone want to do this? It is completely zero sum. You aren't creating any wealth, even if you are making money.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Bankruptcy is by far the fastest way for this special case where you are using the profit to eliminate a debt. Warning: won't work for student loans from the government.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
So you liked the prodigy solution better than email? Sure there was less spam.. but you couldn't talk to people
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
So if I get the gist of his argument, when an aspiring tyrant-king decides to take over a democracy "due to the unsual structure of [congress]," the new structure "is not [a fascist dictatorship] because of the mechanism through which [it]
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
If V8 gets threading support and auto-vectorization, then if processors-graphics cards ala Intel's Larrabee take off, it may be a non-issue. Developers can just do a 3d engine in pure javascript and get roughly the same order of magnitude
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
The real goal of it is to have mathemeticians available to translate journal articles into english for the curriculum-setting elder mathemeticians =P.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
So when I click reply to an email, and preserves your entire text at the bottom of my reply, I'm guilty of copyright infringement? How about when I forward the school newsletter to the person the school meant to send it to?
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
I'm pretty sure we only get to hear the ones that complain.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Irrelevant. "So in colour [...]" not "so in sound [...]"
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
'LOLs' (and related cats) are fine on reddit, but not on here =).
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Manages to break alt left-arrow "back" shortcut.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Unless everone thinks like the parent and those numbers become underrepresented.. and you can take it into the Nth level like a Keynesian Beauty Contest.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Give me one example where you would ever want a copy of a tuple rather than another reference to it.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Not just time available but also units sold; if you are looking for a niche item, you don't expect a lot of ratings.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
In Lassez Faire economy anyone who creates a systemic risk discounts said risk by how big they are in relation to how big the system is.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
It isn't total vapor when the OLPC already was a compelling proof of concept.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
A lot of free credibility with who, the SEC? =)
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
As far as I know, to buy a kindle you have to log on to amazon.com with a computer (or iphone =P).
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
Writing well? http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Well-25th-Anniversary-Nonficti...
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
"Better Place" wants to do this with cars. Americans pretty much let most IP related policy get into looney land. But, don't fuck with Americans' cars. That is, unless you have military power to back it up and enforce martial law =P.
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by anewaccountname 18y ago
>No, that bit about dividends can't possibly be right. Relatively few public companies pay a dividend, and basically none of the other companies face shareholder lawsuits about the absence of a dividend. Relatively few public companies

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