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by digikata 12y ago
The profile switcher is nice - would like Firefox to support fast switching out of the box. But here Chrome is going a little backwards too. Recent work has made that profile switcher a bit less convenient. Many complaints here: https:&#x2
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by digikata 12y ago
Does he mean like old mining or lumber towns where the companies would pay in scrip and extract even more from the employees with the high markup at the company store? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
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by digikata 12y ago
Well connected parents also lead to greater business/work opportunities. Even putting nepotism type deals aside, the right introductions can help tremendously. Case in point Microsoft...
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by digikata 12y ago
Hmm, I'd be curious if there were correlation between first decades wages and the family economic background. i.e. could this be the narrowing of economic mobility as seen from another angle?
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by digikata 12y ago
I wonder if there's a correlation between the higher turnover of motivated professionals and the rate at which large companies get hit with security breaches. The people who are most able to move employment are the ones who often are t
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by digikata 12y ago
I think the selections are mostly regional or smaller now. In northern & southern California, Fry's electronics.
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by digikata 12y ago
After the big openssl bug, wasn't there some intent among some of the existing foundations to try to identify open source keystone projects and get them additional attention & support? It seems like the privacy advocacy groups mig
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by digikata 12y ago
The trivial way for someone to be watched 24/7 is a system called 'prison'.
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by digikata 12y ago
It's counter-intuitive, but execution seems to be a much more expensive option than life in prison. e.g. (semi-randomly picked links on the topic) http://www.hg.org/article.asp?id=31614 http://www.forbes.com
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by digikata 12y ago
I'm hoping that political organizations promoting net neutrality, now expand their attention to this issue or some other way to spur real competition in the last mile.
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by digikata 12y ago
It's not that capitalism is evil, it's that you have to make observations about some markets where capitalism is naturally working or failing. The current state of broadband doesn't have any competition to destroy with regula
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by digikata 12y ago
Perhaps electric rates would be more relevant than natural gas... http://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/browser/#/topic/7?geo=g&...
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by digikata 12y ago
I can't help but compare the investment timing & structure of fusion research vs recent renewable development. Fusion has had many years and billions of dollars of investment and it still hasn't been cracked. I hope fusion suc
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by digikata 12y ago
Yes, and I'd add while it's possible to use a spreadsheet based data source for the mail merge - you have to go through a fairly obscure path to set it up. And most people asking me for help with mail merge have their data in spre
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by digikata 12y ago
I'm optimistic that it's a good development, the more automation displaces high-salary occupations, the more likely society will change to address fundamental economic shifts associated with singularity, or post-scarcity, or whate
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by digikata 12y ago
In that article, Murphy calculates the difficulty of doing it with lead acid batteries which seems more of a strawman than a serious attempt to estimate requirements for a storage technology to match up to renewable power sources.
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by digikata 12y ago
I think your observations re: Gazelle point to the situation that telecom companies drive shorter upgrade cycles for phones, often hiding their cost and allowing three year upgrades. In contrast people generally pay full price for tablets,
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by digikata 12y ago
I'm finding that Chrome hit sort of a decline from a personal peak in that current versions seem to be pigs on resource constrained systems, and has started to move backwards in terms of UI friendlyness (e.g. frequent requests for logi
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by digikata 12y ago
maybe we should tie it to benefit of corporate personhood as a societal responsibility.
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by digikata 12y ago
I really want to lop off the 'ns' and '10 sec' divisions of all the charts and expand the resolution...
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by digikata 12y ago
But the problem is a problem of planning for uncertainties. Let's say you know its 50/50 chance of a "bad storm" and you have to make a decision to flip the "emergency prep" switch. You now have four possibilit
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by digikata 12y ago
The article names Forio as the author of Julia Studio. http://forio.com/labs/julia-studio/ shows this message: "Forio has discontinued development & support for Julia Studio." It still looks like the
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by digikata 12y ago
If the sounds are too different from existing mental models, they won't be associated with oncoming traffic?
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by digikata 12y ago
I think SO is starting the get the same problem that Wikipedia has been wrestling with - editor/moderator cliques. It may be a classic bureaucracy issue - on one hand they raise the quality bar by providing a higher level of consistenc
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by digikata 12y ago
I don't think we know what those test results mean unless we also see the test results of people already in the workforce - and their management!
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by digikata 12y ago
I don't think it's just cultural. Ultimately in physics you are often faced with a pile of observations from nature that you have to make sense of. Vs math, where you usually have a mass perfectly defined err.. well math that you&
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by digikata 12y ago
Interesting quote from the article: "He notes, for example, that the H1-B visa program is often described as requiring an unsuccessful search for a skilled American to fill a position before an H1-B visa applicant or holder can be hire
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by digikata 12y ago
Yes, my first flippant thought was, well send Mark Watney by for a quick repair... (I recently finished the Martian too, good read!)
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by digikata 12y ago
Looking at some of the other complaints re: OpenReach, the best setup might be municipal ownership/oversight of the last-mile, but with operations contracted out to private companies. That way you can split the network ops among vendor
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by digikata 12y ago
I think that kind of structural split you mention first could be a nice low-regulation/high effectiveness solution, at least compare to other alternatives. However, I haven't seen any kind of willingness to impose that kind of reg

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