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by chao- 15y ago
In very comfortable, expensive beds. But in all seriousness, humans are very good at rationalizing their circumstances. Tell yourself something often enough, and over time you will come to believe it. Even if someone introduces you to an al
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by chao- 15y ago
I appreciate the perspective you've provided.
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by chao- 15y ago
Please excuse my question, as I am quite design-inept, and often have no problem with whatever visuals are presented. I'm trying to figure out which margins are worthy of ire or inconsistent, for the sake of my own improvement on such visua
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by chao- 15y ago
Versus a small corporation? Or versus his image not being used at all? It is a tribute, with at least some degree of creativity and effort put into making the video. I don't see this being exploited to gain Google any more users than, let'
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by chao- 15y ago
Second part is about explorer itself. While it might seem like a common utility (even necessary), I find it very rare for a general user to know about it (my wife does not, nor my parents, siblings, their friends,...but my wife's father do
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by chao- 15y ago
True enough. Much like how LulzSec's government targets were rural police forces and the like, with little in the way of security considerations.
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by chao- 15y ago
Definitely a strange choice, as many people have said. Missed the mark by a longshot, but if some media outlets get on this you might have a handful of already angry/frustrated people getting even more angry/frustrated at BART for exactly w
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by chao- 15y ago
Given that the LulzSec name was a clique from AnonOps rebranding itself to begin with, I would bet on the latter. Although it may be a while before we hear of them pulling such flamboyant stunts again.
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by chao- 15y ago
It would be on a per state basis. In several states [1] the common practice is now to use wiretapping laws to prosecute people who record conversations in which the parties involved have not consented to the recording. Now in the example yo
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by chao- 15y ago
Police are not elected, and they rarely attract top talent. In many cases they're not even hired and promoted by people who were directly elected. So regardless of the system of government, our law enforcement would have similar people and
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by chao- 15y ago
It would have been more interesting if the sizes had been based on some approximation of downloads/users/market share. The xkcd map, although a guess in some places, attempted to be grounded in something empirical.
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by chao- 16y ago
That's an interesting point. If so, would it not be a little misguided? I'd love to see some data one way or the other, but in my experience and among my friends and associates, people who buy Apple computers are incredibly likely to value
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by chao- 16y ago
When last I used the Unity shell, it was clearly not ready for prime time. I'll spend some time later today, cross my fingers, and discover if that has changed or not. There's much more in a new release than just that, but the supposedly-cl
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by chao- 16y ago
A good mix of the well-known and less-known. I felt that half of them were "Mind blowing", and the rest ranged from "Apparent if you have ever thought about it" to "Obvious if you have ever thought about how advertising works", but informat
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by chao- 16y ago
Having seen him give his spiel at Rice University a few years ago, I came away from it with thoughts nearly identical to the original letter. Your comment here fits the tone he used when responding to the few questions that were allowed at