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by avdempsey 9y ago
Also, the users who can afford to pay to remove ads may be the same ones that increase the value of their advertising products overall.
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by avdempsey 9y ago
Cool to seen this on HN; my wife did the illustration for this article!
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by avdempsey 9y ago
Pretty good actually. My main gripe with the DMV is the time spent waiting in line. That's hard to scale. To make the line go faster you need to hire more people. Your driver's license is an important security touch point, so it&#
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by avdempsey 9y ago
The natural response would be instead of fighting a government with an army, experiment and build the structures that you would like to see, without dogma, learning as you go. When these structures solve enough problems for your community,
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by avdempsey 9y ago
Have you seen what America does to enemies of capitalism?
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by avdempsey 9y ago
Trying to decide if you should talk to your driver? Let them take the lead. If they launch into talking, and you feel like talking too, go for it! If they're quiet, let them work. Worried they're only talking to you for the money?
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by avdempsey 9y ago
I'll break-down tipping for the neophytes. Yes, by George Orwell's account, tipping was considered repugnant by no less than the anarchist defenders of Catalonia in the Spanish Civil War. But you feel bad not tipping when expected
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by avdempsey 9y ago
You might also check out spacemacs, it has perspectives pre-configured. Or...steal their elisp :)
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by avdempsey 10y ago
Be proud to know you helped hold the world together long enough for our descendants to get there.
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by avdempsey 10y ago
Taking the headline literally "Yahoo installed a backdoor for the NSA behind the back of the security team" is as much an indictment of then-Yahoo's security team as a reminder that's it's a possibility for other co
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by avdempsey 10y ago
You mean American companies like Apple? Whether you trust them or not they've certainly brought it up. Though they might not label the spying indiscriminate; maybe still 'criminate. Or are Chinese companies doing some interesting
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by avdempsey 10y ago
How do we sponsor an iOS browser extension of this like you mention on your site?
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by avdempsey 10y ago
Is realtime collaboration offered in any competing desktop apps? On the Mac at least there is none in Office.
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by avdempsey 10y ago
You might check out Redash or Caravel. They're both open source, you host them yourself, and have a bunch of dashboard and access control functionality. Caravel in particular has some great exploration tools. You can build queries eith
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by avdempsey 10y ago
I have the same Google Docs issue; it can bring my machine to its knees. I open anything Google in Chrome, and the rest of the web in Safari. Without Docs, Safari is as solid as a rock. Google Docs seems to run fine in Chrome.
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by avdempsey 10y ago
That covers the vast majority of people browsing the web on their iPhones/iPads. Not sure what the browser share is on the Mac though.
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by avdempsey 11y ago
If you're interested in these questions I highly recommend the book "Beyond Words" by Carl Safina. He embeds with researchers that have been living with different species for decades. Cataloging the exploits of individuals an
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by avdempsey 11y ago
Sure, as far as the FBI getting this being reasonable I don't think we need to go much further than the user being a butcher of humans. But there's no way for Apple to comply with this order without putting everyone else in danger
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by avdempsey 11y ago
You're being down-voted because Klipt is agreeing with GP that by holding down the costs of property owners Prop 13 makes the holding down of property revenues by rent control more tolerable for the owner.
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by avdempsey 11y ago
Surprised to see Peirce on the front page! If you enjoy this you should check out his other popular essay: "The Fixation of Belief" ( http://peirce.org/writings/p107.html ). My professor had a "swear jar&q
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by avdempsey 11y ago
If you enjoyed this you should check out Carl Safina's book "Beyond Words" (review here: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/10/08/amazing-inner-liv... ). While we shouldn't simply as
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by avdempsey 11y ago
I think it's a response to this Atlantic article that was making the rounds: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/cities-e...
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by avdempsey 11y ago
I made an IPython notebook awhile back exploring the advantages and disadvantages of various DST proposals for my lat/long (you could download and plug in your own). (Please forgive the attempts at humor in the notebook, they were slop
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by avdempsey 11y ago
I find the following Pandas code pretty easy to read: (df .groupby(['a', 'b', 'c'], as_index=False) .agg({'d': sum, 'e': mean, 'f', np.std}) .assign(g=lambda x: x.a &#
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by avdempsey 11y ago
Are the music streaming companies paying T-Mobile to take part in the program? If not, is the barriers to entry objection sufficiently mollified? That is, the carrier is making an entire class of content zero-rated, not picking favorites.
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by avdempsey 11y ago
Well said. And correspondingly, very little talk of responsibilities.
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by avdempsey 11y ago
If you're interested in this you should check out the Electric Aircraft Symposium (taking place an hour North of San Francisco) on May 1-2 [1]. A quieter, more efficient aircraft with full auto-pilot could make general aviation attaina
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by avdempsey 12y ago
Wave wasn't just laggy, it was frequently down. All sorts of apps with scaling issues can work better with the Sandstorm model. The whole Sandstorm idea really started clicking for me when I read one of their earlier posts on motivatio
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by avdempsey 12y ago
I'm willing to trade away regulated net neutrality for honest-to-goodness competition. But it doesn't seem like there's anyone in Washington willing to deal with our serious monopoly problem. Stay Canada as long as you can.
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by avdempsey 12y ago
Kernel restart is zero clicks if you use the shortcut: esc-0-0-return esc to go to command mode zero-zero to bring up the kernel restart prompt return/enter to confirm I definitely still get thrown by the command vs editing mode (mostl

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