aptimpropriety

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by aptimpropriety 15y ago
No, the title is incorrect. Opting out is not going to the mall (private property). I kind of see it like saying "I want to buy something on your website - but I don't want to give you an email address or credit card!" Obviously not a perfe
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
To be fair, government confirmation of a 'contact' 'inside the Chinese parties involved' seems like at least somewhat of a new development. Maybe not 'proof', but definitely stronger evidence - maybe even a step beyond suspicion.
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
As the NYT explained it - I believe the classifications organize the cables into degrees of secrecy. 'Top secret' is the highest secrecy in the US Gov't, so I would imagine 'secret' is therefore more secret than 'classified'. 'Noforn' appar
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
If the link asks you to log in, going through Google News works (top link - Binary Breakthrough): http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&...
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
I am taking a class taught by the professor who wrote this book about the economics of higher education: http://www.amazon.com/Tuition-Rising-College-Costs-preface/d... One of the more interesting things he went over from the book was the
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
Does Einstein really hold an important relevance to 'everyman USA'? To nearly every citizen - and, I would argue, even with those a basic (HS) level of physics - he's not so different than Heisenberg, Bohr, Bethe, Shrodinger, etc. Sure, the
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
Isn't email the only password that 'really' matters? Barring super-secure sites like banks, if you have the email password, you have every 'forgot my password' link available - which will typically either let you reset the password, locking
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
AFAIK, he's been quoted a number of times in the past saying things to the effect of "I don't want to leave that much to my kids" i.e., most of it will go to charity anyway.
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
One glaring inconsistency with the 'scale' argument: substitutions. Have you ever met youth leave (competitive or otherwise) that didn't allow free substitution? Hell, do you think that in their quintessential (and cliche) example - the str
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
I think first and foremost it was incredibly inappropriate for the ref to be talking about the play with the player. But here's a description of what I saw: -Ref inquisitively looks at Fabiano, pointing to his arm -Fabiano jokingy shakes hi
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
For me, the incident leaving the worst taste in my mouth was the footage of the ref laughing with Fabiano, pointing to his arm after Fabiano's obvious double-handball goal in the Brazil game against the Ivory Coast. (Again, very hard to fin
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
Can anyone comment on the divorce situation? The seemingly huge requests by soon-to-be ex-wife? I mean, CA community property and all, but nonetheless, any insights/opinions? (for those of us not up on the gossip)
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
Windows 7 actually comes installed with a Microsoft-developed 'Snipping Tool', which allows the user to drag a semi-transparent box (or free form, or windows size, or full screen) over whatever part of the screen the user so desires. You ca
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
Website of the newly founded company: http://www.roundrockresearch.com/index.html Very little content, but interesting to look at the design of the top graphic. According to article, logo was designed by his 14-year old daughter.
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
Try this thread from a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554166 which links to this article: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2009/04/have-you-ever-legali... Perhaps not an argument against, but certainly a 'reality' check ar
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by aptimpropriety 16y ago
In your copy paste, as far as I can see the [line] between "Facebook" and "Zynga's" is, indeed, an em-dash (or at least longer than the other dashes).
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
Somewhat unrelated, but I help to run an organization that is generally unhappy about the raving media attention OLPC gets repeatedly. While OLPCs cost many hundreds of dollars (not counting the high volume of volunteer hours/dollars), we s
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
I could be totally off with this analogy, but this argument is similar to the thinking that overtook my mind a few months ago when I was doing a case study on whether or not Apple should release an eBook reader (complete coincidence). I kep
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
It's not over. I got rejected from nearly everywhere I applied as a freshman, then transferred to Cornell as a Sophomore where I'm now a very happy junior. Looking back I'm actually very glad I transferred as opposed to entering as a freshm
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
Tag-along: Are there any alternatives to the long-closed Grand Central (or Google Voice if you don't have an invite)?
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Ask HN: Free, Twitter-like nano-blogging SMS enabled livestream webapp?
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
(Still a college student, but what I've been told...) -Use the resources available to you as a result of your undergrad status. Free multi-thousand dollar industry reports, free legal advice from law experts/professors, free tech advice fro
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
At least domestically, airports have been incredibly inconsistent/lenient about the "3-1-1" (liquid/gels) rule for quite some time. Today I flew from JFK - SFO, and I didn't bother to unpack my carry-on toiletry kit, which had a number of l
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=014ehsWPDEYdHjc10VbVmMlA==... Thanks a bunch!
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
To add to this list - 1) Add an in-browser audio control I had to mess around with my equalizers to get it to sound right (bass static problem), and I'm sure we all have memories of scrambling to lower volume when controls aren't nearby.
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
Has normal center/blockquote ( don't know exact terminology) on Firefox 3.5x (latest).
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
Why isn't there a subset of web traffic/application for Adult Content? Perhaps urban myth, but I remember 5-10 years ago people would talk of large percentages of online content consisting of such material.
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=554166 Regarding most points made on this thread - I really don't think it's that simple. Steve Yegge's post on the subject is by far my favorite on the complexities of the subject, and not surprisingly
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
I'd say the likes of .copm, .cop, etc. will be hot property - typical typos I always used to do.
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by aptimpropriety 17y ago
This is ridiculous - under similar conclusions, everyone should be dumping IE6 and switching. Not surprisingly, this isn't happening. Too often people expect people to make the most correct, informed decisions. That simply is not the case.

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