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by dictum 13y ago
> For safety reasons a pilot needs to be able to quickly isolate any system (even ones that are 'vital'). If the pilot wishes to kill everyone, he will This seems like really good news for would-be plane hijackers.
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by dictum 13y ago
> The truth of the matter is that pretty much anywhere in the world men tend to think that they that are much smarter than women. My corresponding anecdata of choice is that most women think they're smarter than other women.
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by dictum 13y ago
>I hope that founders of startups will consider forming their companies in SA Which makes me wonder: can businesses use Google Fiber? I was under the impression it's a consumer-only service. Would they allow servers not for personal
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by dictum 13y ago
So delightfully Web 2.0. To see how the average aesthetic of the web has changed, compare jyte, http://web.archive.org/web/20070622000055/http://janrain.com... and http://web.archive.org/
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by dictum 13y ago
The cynical nitpicker in me would like to express frustration over Facebook tracking both people who use it and people who don't when they visit websites that have Facebook widgets.
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by dictum 13y ago
Yes, good point. You don't have to store everything forever, you can have tiers of interestingness — capture everything, read it looking for certain patterns, store anything that matches those patterns forever, store stuff that matches
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by dictum 13y ago
~200TB/day is entirely within the room the NSA's budget allows. You don't need to record all phones in the world if you have the metadata of all calls in the world. The NSA or another spy agency could record only calls that m
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by dictum 13y ago
> I guess it depends on what employees are looking for in their career - to be the best they can be, or live a laid back lifestyle. He could no longer see anything, even though their bedroom was covered with the bright light of a sunny d
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by dictum 13y ago
GitHub still leaks your browser information to Google (and some would argue , Automattic) unless you take steps to prevent this.
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by dictum 13y ago
I like JavaScript. I do most of my browsing on a browser with JS enabled. I only browse with JS off when I think the sites I'm about to visit are sketchy. However, I also like saving resources and separating concerns. We have CSS to ma
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by dictum 13y ago
This page scrolls slower than most pages on Safari (OS X 10.9.2). EDIT: And the page is blank with JS disabled. I didn't know about the Cassowary Constraint Solver and it's interesting to see a project thinking outside of CSS and
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Rodolphus Allen Family Private Trust(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by dictum 13y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 13y ago
>I could imagine a system where police departments send a notification: "The person 50 feet in from of you is a potential person of interest in an investigation. Keep him in your line of sight for 10 minutes and win a free iPad!&quo
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by dictum 13y ago
I wouldn't call it "greedy", but when webfonts were starting to gain traction (2011-2012), foundries didn't sell licenses for web use, so their fonts were only available on services like Typekit or FontDeck. I don't
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by dictum 13y ago
And in a third, different place on Earth a man is choosing between keeping his sanity or caving in and typing "valleywag.gawker.com" in his browser's address bar.
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by dictum 13y ago
>You want to do as far opposite from this as reasonably possible. And be crushed by the arrogant, cruel jerks. (I realize becoming the enemy is in no way defeating the enemy , but using the enemy's tactics to advance better princ
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by dictum 13y ago
In the usual the current iteration of our product will stay ad-free, but we'll release a new version later and everyone will have to switch to it way.
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by dictum 13y ago
There are many forms and degrees of talented , and many of them are perfectly possible without being able to write in English comfortably.
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by dictum 13y ago
My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly f
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Programma 101(en.wikipedia.org)
66 points by dictum 13y ago|17 comments
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by dictum 13y ago
This will come off very elitist, but these popular image-based self-expression venues like Reddit image macros, the pictures on whisper.sh and the inspirational/life lesson pictures people share on Facebook all the way back to MySpace
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by dictum 13y ago
> unique device identifiers and mobile network information I always wonder why . Can't you just attach any retargeting/personalization/whatever to the logged-in account? There's no need to know exactly which device
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by dictum 13y ago
"My cat only eats cuts of Wagyu beef. It is costing me a fortune. What do I do?" This is satire of course, but for a brief moment it made me reverse my stance on the SF Google shuttles/rent price thing. And you know—sometimes
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by dictum 13y ago
It's only secret-from-your-friends. Actually, secret from your friends if they can't identify your writing style and personal idiosincrasies, and if your friends don't happen to include people in the SF startup scene that are
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by dictum 13y ago
This reminds me of the debate of sovereignty in the context of mass surveilance. Ultimately, you can't keep a country from doing something that affects citizens of another country. You can only nudge them away from doing that with trea
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by dictum 13y ago
> I personally do not mind levying tons of taxes to level the playing field My view is certainly tinged by living in a country where taxes are high but public services are mediocre at best, but there's no use paying high taxes if yo
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by dictum 13y ago
The irreplaceable benefit of ivies, and especially Harvard, is getting an easy entry into established old-boy networks. It sucks for individuals who don't get the opportunity to get this ticket to OBNs plus a good education, but for
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by dictum 13y ago
This is the first pattern library I've seen that wasn't made for a web application. It's nice to see a pattern library for a content-focused publication.
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by dictum 13y ago
Also, most people don't compare themselves to the richest people today or the richest people from the past. They compare themselves to richer neighbors/relatives/coworkers/friends. In the same way people don't get t
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by dictum 13y ago
Here's a reply that won't help you. 1 year old is quite early to really push her in any direction, but when she's around 2, you could introduce building blocks (building and rebuilding as a metaphor for creation) and jigsaw p

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