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by chris11 16y ago
Yeah, another one would be nice, I'm planning on taking a vacation in Japan in late July, but I won't be able to make it down there this time.
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Michael Geist, Canadian law professor, does IAMA on reddit(reddit.com)
1 points by chris11 16y ago|0 comments
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by chris11 17y ago
The eff wrote an essay on how to deal with music piracy. They basically said that although artists need to be fairly compensated that piracy is not going to disappear. They also think that government interference should be minimized and tha
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by chris11 17y ago
So would that imply that the founders could try to collect part of the $50k from Bootup Labs? It sounded like when they got kicked out of the program, Bootup Labs only covered the previous months rent, when Statusly should have already paid
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by chris11 17y ago
You are right that googles' results can be repetitive. But I am not expecting cpedia to be perfect. I am just expecting their solution to be better than the problem. And that's not the case right now.
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by chris11 17y ago
This wasn't a normal hedge. They were actually creating the products that they were betting against.
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by chris11 17y ago
Yeah, I think that is what happened. From wikipedia: Timms read Mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he gained an MA in Mathematics in 1977 and an MPhil in Operational Research in 1978. Before entering politics, Timms worked in
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by chris11 17y ago
Now the thing that really bothers me about HFCS is that it is so hard to avoid. It is in nearly every type of food. For example, most ketchups and breads contain HFCS.
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by chris11 17y ago
Unfortunately, I can't really help you with a decent pair. I too go through headphones really fast. But if you don't care about quality, I'd suggest that you buy a really cheap pair. I am currently using a $4 dollar pair (eh 220 earhugger)
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by chris11 17y ago
This blog about the class seems to go a little more in depth: "1. Carve out your areas of incompetence: There was some debate about the downside of such a principle (ie: young girls jumping quickly to say "I'm bad at math" when they might
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by chris11 17y ago
It's great for slang, but I wouldn't say it has authority in any other area.
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US government rescinds 'leave Internet alone' policy(theregister.co.uk)
42 points by chris11 17y ago|9 comments
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by chris11 17y ago
I really like Douglas Hofstadter. Metamagical Themas is a good collection of his essays. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas
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by chris11 17y ago
I would be really interested in seeing data on how much people decide to pay for the interviews.
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by chris11 17y ago
There was a discussion about living on a boat earlier on HN that you might find interesting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=565077
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by chris11 17y ago
He is currently giving the 2000 edition away for free in exchange for an email address. http://dealzon.com/deals/how-to-be-invisible-by-j-j-luna
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by chris11 17y ago
Support for LaTeX would be awesome.
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by chris11 17y ago
"I know several research scientists with several hundred publications to their names which these 'authors' have not even read." Now I am not completely familiar with academia, so I was wondering if you could provide some context. Is is blat
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Worlds most resiliant tracking(thepiratebay.org)
5 points by chris11 17y ago|0 comments
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by chris11 17y ago
I had a totally different experience with Best Buy. I used to get extended warranties with my cell phones from Best Buy. I'd get a phone, and it would usually stop working sometime later. I'd just take it in with the warranty info, and I wo
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by chris11 17y ago
London School of Economics also comes to mind. But Oxford and Cambridge are probably the ones with the best reputation.
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by chris11 17y ago
While this would be a good use for the guidelines, http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/10/endortest.shtm seems to imply that the onus is on the blogger to declare material connections. So while it might help with astroturfing, I don't see it real
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by chris11 17y ago
"If you're a blogger and you're really upset about this, you're telling me that you're now pissed that you have to now disclose all of your back-room dealings, and that doesn't instill much confidence in your reporting." Sure, it may requir
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by chris11 17y ago
The text to speech feature was also pretty attractive. But I ended up with a sony prs 600 though, and I'm really happy with it. So while I guess I might take a closer look if I was getting an ebook reader now, it probably would not have ch
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by chris11 17y ago
I usually buy off of amazon. Since most of my classes are technical in nature now, I usually end up keeping them for future reference.
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by chris11 17y ago
This is horrible news. I didn't know Dan personally, but I recognize the name from his comments. He will be missed here. My condolences to Tom, and Dan's friends and family.
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by chris11 17y ago
I second the suggestions for using GTD. It really saved me from dealing with school emails the previous year. Now spam isn't allowed, but before students at my university used the email system for basically everything; like finding rides, a
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by chris11 17y ago
Washington has a similar program. You can take college classes for free at state run schools for up to two years while in high school. I know a bunch of people who entered college as juniors immediately after graduating high school. http:
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by chris11 17y ago
It's not that great for deep personal conversations. But it is good for easily finding out whats going on in your friends and acquaintances lives. It keeps me connected to people I don't see a lot. It has usually been how I have found out a
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by chris11 17y ago
I believe that qualia arises out of specific, physical, quantifiable conditions. And so I think that would imply that machines can experience qualia as long as the initial conditions are there.

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