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by cyrus_ 15y ago
If you did exactly what Stripe did but charged less, there is no reason you couldn't completely replace Stripe. You aren't being judged on novelty here.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
This is the way to get things done. Calls are all well and good but Schumer likely dismisses them as a small but vocal minority. When there is serious money being spent against him, he'll pay attention.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
You can host your own mail server (on a cloud server if you don't want to worry about power outages and such) and use Gmail as a POP client, instead of using the gmail address as your email address directly.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Pretty sure polymorphic inline caches are standard fare in both Javascript and other VMs (JVM, CLR, etc.). What other techniques are you referring to?
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Congress should appropriate $400,000 for them, then. Scientific research is inherently unsustainable if you focus on short-term profits, that's why so much of it is federally funded.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Some open science advocates continue to publish in the top journals out of necessity but refuse to do free peer review for them.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Careful with .ly, the website you serve on a .ly domain name must conform to the laws of Libya. A URL shortener, vb.ly, was seized in the past for linking to adult materials: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370354,00.asp .
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Don't put their slogan on a Powerpoint presentation then. Also, your corporate culture could use some lightening up (you may not have the power to do this, just saying.)
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
As does NameCheap and pretty much every other registrar. Here is the relevant text for NameCheap: Namecheap may also cancel the registration of a domain name, after thirty (30) days, if that name is being used, as determined by Namecheap in
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
There are a lot of issues with putting advertising on a site dedicated to providing unbiased information to the public. Advertising is, I think you'll agree, very unbiased information. You can argue that users will be able to distinguish be
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
You may substitute "commercial ad" every time you see the word "ad" in discussion about this, if you'd like to be picky.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
The problem with this is that because lying or omitting the truth is so common, you end up communicating more than you may intend to when you are honest and forthright. For example, it is impossible to comment about being attracted to someo
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
It is a woman, but simply having a husband doesn't imply that.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
The Electronic Frontier Foundation doesn't really handle TSA-related issues (they might be interested in customs officers demanding access to your laptop without needing cause, but that's a different issue). A better choice would be the ACL
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Seems that they found Google to be a better end-user experience for email and for casual calendar users, but Microsoft won out on power calendar users and in terms of legal/compliance issues. Doesn't seem clear to me why they chose Google h
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
What if Google bought T-Mobile (or Sprint)? They are certainly interested in the telecom space -- look at their investments in fiber-to-the-home and products like Google Voice. Together with their purchase of Motorola, they would be vertica
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Is it just me or are those amounts really low? Surely the tech industry can pony up another $50,000 and get this guy on their side?
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
People can have different, mutually incompatible definitions of the two, that's fine. All I'm saying is that very few people who have any opinion on the subject think the two refer to the same set of values and behaviors.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
We should stop conflating the term 'geek' with the term 'nerd'. I think most people familiar with the cultures in question would agree that there is an increasingly clear difference between the two (although membership in the two is certain
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Pornography is not difficult to come by in Islamic nations nowadays (if Pakistan is any indication). Its sold in the same places as other pirated western DVDs, often without the shopowner even realizing that it is a substantively different
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Searching for "amber js" does bring up the Amber Smalltalk project right away though.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
It seems unethical, sure. But a "bad idea"? Consider that all of the following must be true for it to affect how you are perceived by a non-trivial number of people: 1) someone on the admissions committee must come to know you (that is, mat
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Serious question: Is there any reason not to just lie about your ethnicity? Why not put "black" or "native american" on your app to really up your chances? I mean, I'm sure the school would reject you if they knew you were lying about it, b
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
It isn't a 3% chance of a false negative, the 97% figure is conditioned on actually having HIV. The actual chance of a false negative is far lower, since most people don't have HIV at all.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
According to the eligibility requirements [1], yes. However, this was not always the case and domains registered before 2001 were grandfathered in. According to the whois record for academia.edu [2], it was first registered in 1999. [1] ht
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
You could argue that Javascript is a language with the hashmap as its central data structure. It doesn't have a macro system/quotations/other LISPy things, of course, but you can certainly frame your argument as "would JS benefit from <
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Come on, no one is saying he shouldn't have the right to express his opinion, just that he could have worded them in a way that didn't make people cringe.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
Facebook probably doesn't need "early adopters" per se. A big banner across the top of Facebook would drive tens of millions of downloads within days and this would generate tons of ambient discussion on Facebook feeds. Assuming normal peop
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
This could work for personal browsing, but I'd imagine few people would want to be seen using the Facebook browser at work.
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by cyrus_ 15y ago
yes, I believe so. curious now about whether they could compile clang/llvm itself using emscripten and then pull the whole compilation stack for C into the browser...

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