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by conover 15y ago
It's turtles all the way down...
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by conover 15y ago
I wouldn't consider 30%+ percent of the global mobile phone market irrelevant. There market share is, in fact, up in the 4th quarter of 2010 according to Wikipedia.
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by conover 15y ago
I completely agree. There is, of course, always a balance to be struck but it's pretty difficult to ignore 100x speed up in something non-trivial. Also, I read part of the paper linked in the post. It doesn't seem completely inaccessible, j
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by conover 15y ago
I didn't realize how big the disparity in the number of employees is between IBM and Apple. 426,571 for IBM vs. 49,400 for Apple
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by conover 16y ago
I heard this on the radio on the way to work this morning. The obvious thing that came to mind was the technology used to build the pyramids.
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by conover 16y ago
To give a counter-anecdote, the organization I work for bought several Google Search Appliances and we have had excellent support. Granted, GSAs are not cheap. However, I do think Google has the organizational capacity to provide good supp
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by conover 16y ago
What depresses me about it is that their basic argument is "too much free speech is a bad thing". Really? Have people become so uncritical that we need to protect them from themselves by limiting the most powerful communication/free speech
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by conover 16y ago
Unless you work in government, then your company can't be culled.
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by conover 16y ago
There was a great article in the New York Times about how the USDA is simultaneously trying to get people to eat more cheese while telling them that saturated fat is bad for them. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/07/us/07fat.html
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by conover 16y ago
It is available in the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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by conover 16y ago
I wonder how casinos get away with seemingly blocking cellphone signals. In my experience whenever you go near a slot machine or table game in a casino, cell signal drops to zero.
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by conover 16y ago
According to the BEA, the Personal Savings Rate has increased significantly in the last few years and hasn't been negative in at least the last 6 years. http://www.bea.gov/briefrm/saving.htm
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by conover 16y ago
You shouldn't be able to delete comments that have replies attached to them...
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Jonathan Harris - Cold:Bold - Combining Code & Art(aiga.org)
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by conover 16y ago
If you click the print icon the upper right, all the pictures will be displayed on a single page vertically.
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by conover 16y ago
The concept of strict liability comes to mind.
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by conover 16y ago
Why would an attacker give up? The site may stay online but you are still having to pay thousands of dollars+ in bandwidth costs. It seems like a win-win for the attacker.
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by conover 16y ago
Some Yale engineering students created a "spoke-less" bicycle for a class recently. I thought it was pretty cool. http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/b2g91/spokeless_...
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by conover 16y ago
There was a movie fairly recently called Sleep Dealer which incorporated virtual labor as a plot element. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804529/
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by conover 16y ago
Flagged. There is a already a robust discussion of this story here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606517
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by conover 16y ago
This seems absolutely crazy to me. I was always taught put money into long term, stable investments when you are young so that you have the longest possible period for return. The last paragraph I think is dangerous. Putting $5000 towards f
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by conover 16y ago
I think he or she meant that it is very difficult to get student debt expunged from your record. You can certainly default and even declare bankruptcy but the student debt will remain in most cases.
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by conover 16y ago
Another technical problem is that you have to transmit all that power somehow. I'm no expert but I would imagine that you would need orders of magnitude higher voltage transmission lines (or more of them) than currently exist. Also, the geo
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by conover 16y ago
I had trouble equalizing my ears for a long time. Then I took some SCUBA diving training where the hold-nose-blow-out method is the first thing they tell you. They should put that in the little packets they put in the back of the seats.
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by conover 16y ago
The find feature in Textmate is the same way. I'm not sure how that became prevalent. It's really difficult to notice if you are new to an application.
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by conover 16y ago
It was a very, very dense cat.
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by conover 16y ago
I had the same thought. You would have to be passed a list I guess but then that kind of changes the problem.
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by conover 16y ago
Reminds me of the scene in Meet the Parents where Ben Stiller is thrown off the airplane and interrogated for saying bomb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ25xMRHtj4
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by conover 16y ago
But the big difference is that US states (redundant?) must run a balanced budget.
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by conover 17y ago
I completely agree. I don't understand why foo and bar are so prevalent. Not only are you trying to describe something abstract (computer code), you are now adding another layer of human language abstraction on top of it. In many cases why

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