ascuttlefish

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   by ascuttlefish 16y ago

   What happened to being a good old agnostic? I think that in attempting to fight against being pigeonholed as either a believer or a denier of god/gods, he lights on the notion that somehow being a better (or real) scientist by being open to
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   by ascuttlefish 16y ago

   That's only loosely true. See: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/IIIC6aOntogeny....
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   by ascuttlefish 16y ago

   I think they tried to choose movies that are also about business.
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   by ascuttlefish 16y ago

   Opera 10.62 in linux gives me this error: Based on your current browser, you are not seeing all that this website has to offer. For the best 'Never Mind the Bullets' experience, we recommend you install Internet Explorer 9. Seems to work ok
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   by ascuttlefish 16y ago

   That's a shame. A lot of municipalities see their libraries (and museums) as low-hanging fruit in times of financial distress. Often they're pared down to a bare minimum of services: circulation. This is troublesome for many reasons, but th
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   by ascuttlefish 16y ago

   I'm not sure what libraries are like in your town, but all those services you mention are the bread and butter of public libraries here in Ontario. That sort of targetted programming is by far the best way to get people in the door.
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   by ascuttlefish 16y ago

   Those negotiating ACTA are looking to change that...
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   by ascuttlefish 16y ago

   For now. ACTA appears to be aimed at cramming DMCA-style IP law reform down the throats of the rest of the world.
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   Young, male, testosterone-fuelled CEOs more likely to start or drop deals(publicaffairs.ubc.ca)

   3 points by ascuttlefish 16y ago|3 comments
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    Phantom by Max Planck(fair-use.org)

    2 points by ascuttlefish 16y ago|0 comments
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Seems quite silly. Singing along with music is a gas. Do digitally purchased albums come with lyrics? I remember paging through the cassette and CD liner notes, singing like a tonedeaf banshee.
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    I'm starting to think that much of what is considered disorderly is actually just representative of the diversity of mind within humans. Reminds me of a Robertson Davies quote from The Rebel Angels "[P]eople don’t by any means all live in w
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Link to project page: http://www.haystacknetwork.com/
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    But without good metadata, accessing and searching those texts will be an exercise in frustration and missed results.
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Seeing the past in colour can be jarring. I just watched a documentary called Photographer (Fotoamator) about a batch of colour photos taken in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland during the Second World War. To contrast the colour photos of the past
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Ah, gotcha. I like other types of ebooks though! :)
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Looks like a good service. I've signed up. I'm curious, what's the purpose of the Kindle ebook question?
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    I knew it! I only ever get 1.5 Mbps and I have the "up to" 10 Mbps connection from Rogers. What a joke.
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    What's wrong with earning a few dollars providing a useful service?
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    I haven't noticed any significant delays using their encrypted search either.
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Here's an associated question that archives everywhere are beginning to struggle with (though they should have begun struggling long ago). Many municipal records are being born digital these days, and records retention schedules telling us
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    I think you're largely right, but I have one nitpick: microfiche, and other types of microform, are pretty stable, and only require a magnification tool to be human-readable. They're pretty much the gold standard for efficient archival lo
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Any idea where they get the number 300 years? In the archival world, we're leery of such blatant marketing claims, especially since CD technology is only a few decades old.
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    In a Video Game, Tackling the Complexities of Protein Folding(nytimes.com)

    2 points by ascuttlefish 16y ago|0 comments
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Johnny Long wrote an interesting book called No-tech hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing that might interest you.
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
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    Integrating DuckDuckGo and Wolfram Alpha: regular expressions(duckduckgo.com)

    2 points by ascuttlefish 16y ago|0 comments
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    If you like this sort of thing, Johnny Long wrote an interesting book called No Tech Hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing ( http://www.amazon.com/No-Tech-Hacking-Engineering-Dumpster/d... ).
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    I've actually moved away from using electronic transations exclusively to using them only for receiving my pay, paying bills, and online shopping. Every pay, I withdraw the cash I've allocated for various things (food, fun, photography, gas
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    by ascuttlefish 16y ago

    This morning.