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by blahedo 15y ago
It's exceedingly unlikely that any sort of survivalist scenarios will come to pass, so stockpiling is sort of pointless here. About the only thing that might make sense would be to diversify your investments to include some denominated in
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by blahedo 15y ago
> Usually it's not a problem, because people only vote up the first version of a story. I'm not sure if this is actually false (i.e. people vote for multiple versions of the same story) or just practically false (i.e. people vote for
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by blahedo 15y ago
It need not be a "merge" as such, as long as we are granted the ability to mark something as a dup (and mark what it's a dup of). Everything else can be done algorithmically; I outlined some ideas for this in an Ask HN last year: http://n
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by blahedo 15y ago
It sounds like this is a transition period (of one week)—after which you'll presumably only see the notice when the settings change, which is (security-wise) exactly right.
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by blahedo 15y ago
tl;dr: He didn't quit Google (just his current project, sort of).
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by blahedo 15y ago
Rather, it's just as hard, but not as certain when it will hit. If you're speeding towards a brick wall at 60mph and you think you're 1000 feet away, and someone says "aha, you might be as much as 1500 feet away!", this does not mean the b
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by blahedo 15y ago
This site is blocked unless you have a Google account and log in with it. Anyone care to post a summary?
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm so glad to see this message out there; a frustratingly small number of people are aware of the 1984(ish) peak in females in the field. My mom taught computer programming (Fortran) in a Chicago high school from 1967 until 1984, and was
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by blahedo 15y ago
It started out promising. Then the author states, apparently without irony, that "aesthetics are important but aren't the ultimate goal of design", making particular reference to people reading with tiny screens, when his/her own site is q
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by blahedo 15y ago
I have a number of former students who do this, and generally they have come up with some clever way to modify their name so that a search on their IRL name will not turn up their FB page, but a glance at the FB name will immediately bring
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by blahedo 15y ago
But even if they were combined without permission, wouldn't that invalidate the later copyright? I know copyrights aren't exactly like patents, but was it really possible to take something someone else had written (decades earlier!), and c
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by blahedo 15y ago
According to the review, Spaces can no longer be laid out spatially, only in a line. Separately: I've used Keyremap4Macbook to get my desired hotkey-switching behaviour in Spaces.
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by blahedo 15y ago
ARGH. I'm still bitter over the introduction of Spaces in the first place—a crappy implementation of virtual desktops that nevertheless drove all the third-party versions out of business—and now they cripple their already-weak version furt
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by blahedo 15y ago
Maybe not, but the phenomenon of kids managing their own image, brand, and marketing is pretty unusual. Michael Jackson et al never did that.
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by blahedo 15y ago
Perhaps someone who understands patents better can explain this quote to me: "According to intellectual property activist Florian Mueller, Apple is unlikely to grant HTC a license for these patents and might make a damages claim." My unde
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by blahedo 15y ago
This was well understood nearly a century ago; an awful lot of people know FDR's line that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" but have never thought about it and have no idea what it means.
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by blahedo 15y ago
It's really patently unfair for purchases from Amazon.com not to require sales taxes while purchases from BarnesAndNoble.com do require sales taxes. That's what this all boils down to. Amazon is not, on some level, competing directly with
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by blahedo 15y ago
Or at least choke you way way down. But even more important than the "cut off at cutoff point" solution is the "let me know my usage" solution. They couldn't (or wouldn't) tell him anything about the shape of his bandwidth usage, or how m
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by blahedo 15y ago
Protip: keep an envelope of pre-split money. Anytime money is added to it, every contributor adds an equal amount (or whatever agreed-upon proportion). Money can then be spent from the envelope without splitting. Also useful on long road
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Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industry(slate.com)
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by blahedo 15y ago
> I would be very concerned if people could change the privacy settings on a post after it's been created. Why? Certainly this should be no problem at all if the change is a monotonic increase in publicness, i.e. you're not blocking
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by blahedo 15y ago
Aha! I'd been wondering---I've seen this a few times over the last couple weeks and wondered if I'd stumbled into a different section of YouTube or something, but it was always ephemeral. Apparently I was just falling into the A/B testing
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by blahedo 15y ago
One of my students (CS) once took a creative writing class, and her professor, a man well-known in the creative writing community, told her he thought computer programmers make better writers. She was pretty sure this had a lot to do with
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by blahedo 15y ago
It must depend in part on how people use your site and what you hope to happen with the move. If most of your users just go to the top front page every day to read what you've posted, you could almost certainly post the new URL on your fro
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm surprised at how many people in this thread are focusing on the "Google locked the account" as the bad part of this. The clear fuck-up on Google's part is rather that they didn't provide any avenue for Alex's parents to accept the cont
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is interesting because it provides a mechanism for speciation that doesn't involve sequestration in a lost valley or something like that: in an already established population, once you have a herd or tribe that has translocated chrom
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by blahedo 15y ago
He has a normal 5 and a normal 16 as well as the modified versions.
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is the money quote (at the end of the article, quoting Andy Baio): "Nobody should need a law degree to understand whether art is legal or not."
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by blahedo 15y ago
If we protect them from making difficult decisions when they're 12, they'll be forced to learn to make difficult decisions when they're 18 or 21 or 22, when bad decisions have MUCH worse consequences.
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by blahedo 15y ago
EU in origin but Netherlands have added to it by requiring companies to be able to retain proof that every user had been asked for their permission. My understanding is that the base version, the EU-wide model, would require companies to s

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