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by debatem1 8y ago
The key seems to be the same with these as everywhere else: you have to recruit and hold onto smart people, and be able to tell actually smart ones from people who love to talk. In the setting described here, joining such clubs conferred co
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by debatem1 8y ago
I was about to say, the size of the pinball scene in Seattle is unbelievable. Two of the top ten ranked players in the world live here, and probably 10 more of the top 100. That's versus 3 in the top 100 for Chicago.
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by debatem1 8y ago
I realize that "compating" is a misspelling, but I prefer to read it as a portmanteau of "compatible" and "competing" and think it's quite an excellent word for that difficult concept except that it errs s
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by debatem1 8y ago
Just to put my cautionary experience in on that, I woke up after some oral surgery about ten years ago to find out that my estimate was worthless and the actual cost was twice what was estimated. I was fortunate enough to have recently gott
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by debatem1 8y ago
I understand the need to test pain response for medical purposes, but I can't shake the feeling that in a few hundred years we're going to look back on the use of animals in pain studies and think it's barbarism.
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by debatem1 8y ago
I always assumed that Tom Bombadil was a kind of ur-hobbit; a jolly being largely immune to the hostile magic swirling around him and capable of opposing it at points but temperamentally disinclined to truly rule.
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by debatem1 8y ago
It reminds me of the start of "Brazil", bugs and all.
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by debatem1 8y ago
I hate to be that guy, but I had a cousin who drove down to Santa Cruz and lived out of their van there after hearing it was paradise for the homeless. While I don't condone these laws, I do understand wanting to shed that reputation g
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by debatem1 8y ago
Text is an imperfect medium etc, but for what it's worth this is what I read in your statement above as well.
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by debatem1 8y ago
The solution is likely the same here as it is elsewhere: not a permanent shelter bed where you are stripped of dignity and any facsimile of a normal life, but real homes and real independent lives surrounded by real people and the social co
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by debatem1 8y ago
"why sing when you could yell and be heard much further?" People like beautiful things, and some machines do have a hypnotic kind of beauty.
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by debatem1 8y ago
I was wondering the same thing. Most jewelers don't work this way anymore either.
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by debatem1 8y ago
Stupid question, but there have been a number of high profile fossil forgeries in China over the last few years and my understanding is that these are largely done by destroying other fossils of the type to fool tests that rely on the chemi
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by debatem1 8y ago
Fiber had all kinds of institutional beliefs that were never revisited, and this one was acquired before my time. I have no idea why that decision was made, and honestly I can't say whether it was a good one or a bad one.
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by debatem1 8y ago
I worked with the fiber team and I have to say this assessment is super accurate. We fought for every fucking mile, but Google is soft. It just doesn't have the pain tolerance for this fight.
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by debatem1 8y ago
Yeah, I don't think I've ever seen an 'airgapped' network that was actually airgapped. About half the time no discernable effort was ever put into airgapping and it was only ever a paper goal. Most of the rest of the tim
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by debatem1 8y ago
Your points 3 and 4 suggest that no answer to points 1 and 2 would satisfy. To me, that's a problem-- it means that no action they take or promise they make can satisfy, because promises can be broken and actions undone and you don&#x2
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by debatem1 8y ago
Hmm. I didn't understand you to be speaking specifically about your family above; in fact, if you read it again I'm sure you can understand how it came across as a sweeping generalization that simply isn't true for the 2.3B u
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by debatem1 8y ago
Or, alternatively, they're telling the truth. I've pointed out previously that critics of Google and Facebook often assert that every word they say is a lie, then use that to support the position that they can't be trusted. A
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by debatem1 8y ago
Facebook is surely at least an equal to Google in the tracking department, no? Google is also part of the student privacy pledge: https://studentprivacypledge.org/privacy-pledge/ , which seems like a reasonable document
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by debatem1 8y ago
I do this. Every day for lunch I have two soft-boiled eggs in soy sauce and some higher-grade instant ramen. It's a great way to get a mix of salts, fats, carbs, and proteins in you at low cost (I spend about $2/day on lunch all i
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by debatem1 8y ago
The more I think about this the more I focus on the Amazon case. Amazon's core competency is logistics. They would not exist at anything like their current scale if they couldn't do 2-day delivery. That's what really gives th
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by debatem1 8y ago
I'm sorry, I don't see the difference. If Macy's sells a third party product (say, a piece of cookware) and sees it doing well, then makes and sells a copy of it they don't seem to have taken more risk than Amazon. It al
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by debatem1 8y ago
I mean, that's nice but it's not an incentive. If you assume, as the author apparently does, that Facebook is at least motivated to have you believe that they're secure, telling them you won't no matter what they say is
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by debatem1 8y ago
If no one believes that they've improved I actually don't think they do have an incentive; what do you perceive that to be? To put it another way, if they will be penalized for being insecure either way, why spend the money to be
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I didn't ask for proof, and I think it's reasonable to demand a lot of evidence before you believe it when someone tells you they've changed. What bothers me here is that there's no articulation of that standard, just a
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The unasked question in this article isn't whether Facebook really has changed its views on privacy, it's how you'll know if they have. Rather than addressing that the article simply assumes they're lying and bashes them
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by debatem1 8y ago
Hmm? Large customer of leading widget manufacturer decides to make its own widgets in-house instead and keep the build minus buy money (plus possibly getting a better widget). Totally normal market practice. Large player in widget market ha
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by debatem1 8y ago
Reverse engineering doesn't pay that well-- IME at or just below par with software engineers. So as one point of comparison you might look at the tools of software engineers, which are essentially all free today. To get to hex-rays h
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by debatem1 8y ago
What? Nobody believes that you can just saddle up, head to Montana, and homestead yourself a wind farm. (It'd be a cool sci-fi setting, though). People do think that there are vast areas of cheap and lightly utilized land outside of th

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