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by damon_c 13y ago
You're right. This is indeed an alarming number of flags. http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/01/17/obama_nsa_spe...
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by damon_c 13y ago
... unless the owner of the robots who profits by selling all the apples to wealthy people in other countries is forced to redistribute the wealth in the form of a basic income.
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by damon_c 13y ago
There is a real issue with these buses. In New York City, gentrification tends to be correlated with subway commute time to Manhattan and distances to subway stations. When you introduce private busing, you plop gentrification down in stra
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by damon_c 13y ago
How much do you wish you could hear the sound of it?
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by damon_c 13y ago
I have been a longtime PHP avoider myself, but I just recently installed Wordpress for the first time and I admit to being impressed by a few things. One is the fact that because of the implementation of PHP, where I assume a totally new pr
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by damon_c 13y ago
The hard part is that in the next decade or so, there is going to no longer be an "off-web". Your face, walk, voice and probably the pattern of places you go and the smell of your breath will be just another set of tracking cookie
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by damon_c 13y ago
Google is still barely a decade old. Give them a few more years. Maybe they'll come up with something that will please you guys!
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by damon_c 13y ago
I have had a long freelance relationship developing for a company that works 9-5. I usually start the day around when they do, and engage in back and forth communication throughout the day. I often find it helpful to disengage around 1-2pm
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by damon_c 13y ago
Funny, this owl video shows that when blindfolded, the owl's vestibulo-ocular abilities are undiminished. I was wondering about that when the chicken video guy was speculating about blindfolding to prevent the chicken from rapidly cha
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by damon_c 13y ago
When did using single pixel images to surreptitiously track user behavior become a service that reputable companies offered to other reputable companies and talked about on blog posts? It seems kinda shady no?
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by damon_c 13y ago
Yes. One by one, I have been encountering issues with projects I've done in Node that are more easily fixed by rewriting in Python than by researching replacements for abandoned libraries that are breaking or dependencies that are not
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by damon_c 13y ago
> junk DNA Properly referred to as "noncoding DNA"... until it is proved to be coding something.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I have a spot on there but someone hijacked my domain when I let it expire. I guess I should deal with that eventually...
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by damon_c 13y ago
I had that same issue with Safari on Mac. One refresh did the trick.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I have found this Leonard Susskind lecture to come closest to answering the question of "why would anyone even suggest such a thing?" about this subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DIl3Hfh9tY
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by damon_c 13y ago
Maybe he would have been relatively civil, but it reminds him to be even more civil...
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by damon_c 13y ago
Ansible is made for this. From a fresh instance (or instances) with only ssh access to Postgres, Nginx, rabbitmq, redis, memcached, django app, etc. all configged and working.
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by damon_c 13y ago
I didn't see this info anywhere so... Try these keys: a for in, z for out, and the 4 arrow keys... much better that way!
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by damon_c 13y ago
This pretty much settles the "Is Pluto a planet?" debate for me.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Looking at this, it's hard to believe that we have subsisted for so long on the standard top down flat version of this that we have seen in books since... Pluto was discovered. The children of the future will not have to remember thos
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by damon_c 13y ago
Works ok for me. Safari: Version 7.0 (9537.71)
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by damon_c 13y ago
http://coding.abel.nu/2012/06/programmer-time-translation-ta... I occasionally just paste this link with no explaination at the end of emails containing time estimates.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Yes. I just bought a desk last week. Now all I see is ads for desks! Having just bought a desk, I am probably among the people least likely in the universe to buy a desk! If there was a button that said, "No Thanks, I just got one of
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by damon_c 13y ago
But, on the other hand, there might be dozens of Elon Musks each generation if people didn't have to worry about their children falling into poverty because the idea they quit their job and spent their savings trying to execute didn&#x
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by damon_c 13y ago
The question is: Deep down, whether we realize it or not, are these unspeakable manipulations the reason we come here?
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Already Anticipating ‘Terminator’ Ethics(nytimes.com)
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by damon_c 13y ago
Doesn't seem too far fetched... By removing the sealed packaging on this loaf of bread, you agree to the following terms and conditions: -- 10 pages of terms and conditions in tiny print condensed to fit on the packaging of a loaf of b
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by damon_c 13y ago
This is probably the first article I've read linked from HN where "firewall" referred to a barrier designed to partition fire.
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by damon_c 13y ago
Looks like the A7 gpu is coming in at 115.2 glops... so yeah... getting close. That's pretty awesome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(system_on_chip)
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by damon_c 13y ago
I believe you mean "hanged".

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