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by cjensen 11y ago
I'm not seeing a problem here. There is tons of precedent for taking a RSS feed and displaying advertising next to it. Google Reader did it. NetNewsWire did it. Having an RSS feed implies that you are okay with someone copying what is
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by cjensen 11y ago
Jumpers interfere with scenery and the enjoyment of the same. Choosing to allow some things while disallowing others is not hypocrisy. It's thoughtful decision-making.
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by cjensen 11y ago
National Parks are preserves; they are not playgrounds. You cannot play loud music. You cannot drive off road. You cannot parachute. You cannot hang-glide. You cannot camp anywhere you like. There are many strongly enforced rules to maximiz
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by cjensen 11y ago
It was a very un-Apple-like presentation. Apple has a reputation for rehearsing presentations many times. The presentations are critiqued in order to make sure they are clear and to the point. These presenters didn't fit the usual mode
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by cjensen 11y ago
After reading Levine's column [1] and Sand Hill Exchange's response [2], I'd have to say they were amazingly clueless. [1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-03-11/how-should-... [2] https:
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by cjensen 11y ago
In the original, "not a reasonable argument" was specific to this instance. I try to avoid generalizations as one can almost always manage to find a corner case exception.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Since you specifically requested my argument... I'd agree that lawbreaking is a reasonable moral choice, but not in this case. Moral lawbreaking, in my view, is done when there is a clear benefit or reason to the lawbreaking. And by cl
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by cjensen 11y ago
Harm reduction is a reasonable argument for a Country to make for changing its drug policies, or for a person to make in an effort to advocate for a change to a Country's laws. It is not a reasonable argument for an individual to make
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by cjensen 11y ago
Did you mean to address your comment to the original comment instead of mine? It was the grandparent comment who used the phrase "bullying" to imply immorality. My comment only claims that even if you assume morality in internatio
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by cjensen 11y ago
Voluntarily accepting conditions attached to a loan is not bullying, particularly as the countries giving the loan are in no way at fault for Greece's dire need for a loan.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Multiple return values is now handled in C++ with tuples and std::tie.
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by cjensen 11y ago
You came close to the truth when you said "Are there any surveys which suggest numbers of bees and wild bees have improved in Europe since the ban?" The European Ban is a gigantic experiment. Either it will clearly demonstrate tha
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by cjensen 11y ago
This has the same problem as most seemingly-good ideas: unintended consequences. If you give every US citizen who attends a US college $20K/year, think about what happens to popular universities with fixed numbers of slots like Stanfor
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by cjensen 11y ago
Yelp has a history of salesmen selling business the right to mess with their reviews [1] [2]. I don't love Google, but I'm confident they will end that. (Yelp claims to have ended it already, but they have already lost my trust) [
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by cjensen 11y ago
I'd love for Google to buy them so I could trust them. Pro-tip: if you have a credibility problem so severe that you need to put up notices saying that your site does not bias reviews, you probably should stop sorting and filtering rev
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by cjensen 11y ago
DWCAS is mentioned in the DCAS article.
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by cjensen 11y ago
One thing I've learned about lock-free structures: DWCAS[1] is your friend. Using DWCAS, the Michael and Scott Queue algorithm is trivial to implement. Not really sure why the author insists on using plain CAS, especially when implemen
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by cjensen 11y ago
If your point is that your link with 7 upvotes was not promoted to the front page like another link with 7 upvotes, then... I'm afraid it's not rigged at all: the rank algorithm has more inputs that just upvotes. Which should be o
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by cjensen 11y ago
Contrary to your entirely reasonable assumptions, California is more conducive to farming than most places. There is little to no frost, a nearly yearlong growing season, and plenty of water thanks to the natural reservoir that is the Sierr
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by cjensen 12y ago
I'm mystified that NASA falls for this pseudoscience and falls for things like the bad-science of arsenic bacteria and Martian bacteria. Why aren't there any adults in charge who can put a stop to this before NASA embarrasses itse
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by cjensen 12y ago
He specifically calls out Greece as a special case. His comments are directed towards economies which are not like Greece.
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by cjensen 12y ago
In the TV industry, it's well-known that the human eye is unusually sensitive to the color of skin. If a tree is the wrong color, no one will notice. If skin is even a little bit wrong, it looks horrifying. I've always worried tha
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by cjensen 12y ago
Pretty sure you meant "PCI-Express" (or "PCIe") not "PCI-X". PCI-X is the name of an obsolete bus type. Totally agree with your view of the advice given. For example, TRIM has surprisingly little effect because
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by cjensen 12y ago
Why not both? Load the additional resources as the user scrolls down, but still have a Next Page after allowing a generious amount of scrolling?
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by cjensen 12y ago
Browsers do not and should not have infinite memory. Each time an infiscroll website scrolls down, more memory is consumed. On my iPad1, that's a guaranteed insta-crash for Safari. What is a crash on an iPad1 is a major slowdown on a n
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by cjensen 12y ago
Warplans require that resources be allocated. If you come up with a plan that requires S3 and AWS and your company gives you a Dell Server attached to the local cable internet, you too may become a scapegoat for a failed plan.
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by cjensen 12y ago
Both of those requests are already done. They're just not popular, particularly in the US.
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There is a difference between being a scapegoat and being at fault. Churchill was the former with respect to Gallipoli; his actual plan was simply not followed.
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I told you so, again [Gnome screensaver cannot be trusted](jwz.org)
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by cjensen 12y ago
Keep in mind that Feinstein has witnessed political violence firsthand: she was the first into Harvey Milk's office after his assassination[1]. Her views on the Constitutionality of all tools of violence are understandably less permiss

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