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by discostrings 13y ago
> All your doing is slippery sloping your way into a cynical Utopian future which exists only within your own psyche. Your comment reeks of paranoia and baseless conspiratorial fear. If all you can think of in relation to the uses of coo
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by discostrings 13y ago
> For instance, your proposed solution of just rounding the distance to the tenth of a mile is scarcely better. I didn't propose rounding the distance as a solution--I mentioned it as an example of the kind of thought that should ha
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by discostrings 13y ago
The exact-coordinates debacle should have been a wake-up call to examine and put some thought into the data that the service sends to users. In fixing the issue, someone should have asked "should we send a ridiculously precise number,
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by discostrings 13y ago
It's a horrible shame that many developers don't think through the consequences of their implementations before publishing services that trade in personal information. The technique published in this disclosure, as well as the fac
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by discostrings 13y ago
Kant agrees that empirically, space and time are things themselves and exist independent of our perception. In fact, for Kant, anything that can come to us or be reasoned by us, and the relations of those things, must comply with space, tim
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by discostrings 13y ago
I don't think relativity or quantum field theory undermine the idea that space and time are our forms of intuition. On the contrary, I feel it may be the first framework that really created a sensible space for those phenomena. Kant&#x
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by discostrings 13y ago
I think Kant may have rendered this article's vector at the question pretty meaningless over 200 years ago. In the Critique of Pure Reason, he posits that space and time are the forms of our intuition, and he claims that anything that
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by discostrings 13y ago
It's disappointing to see so many people here read the title of the article and immediately start the see,-social-differences-are-the-result-of-vast-differences-between-the-binary-sexes wheel rolling again. It's nowhere near a val
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by discostrings 13y ago
I think the added transparency in Fobo's pricing is a great feature. Ebay's recent change to a flat-rate system was horrible for occasional sellers. Until late 2012 or early 2013, the fee for computers and tablets was only 4% fee,
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by discostrings 13y ago
I'd really like to see something replace Ebay/Paypal and be more like "the old Ebay". This is an interesting idea, but there are a number of aspects about the initial version of Fobo that seem to fall quite short: --97 m
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by discostrings 13y ago
> but it is rare that you see Wall Street bankers rioting in the street That's more about privilege than about class. I'd love to see what Wall Street bankers as a class would come up with if they felt their livelihoods were at
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by discostrings 13y ago
> How meaninglessly proletarian and small minded. You think this violence is representative of the working class? That's a pretty dismal view of a huge part of society. I'm hoping it's just that you lack a full command o
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by discostrings 13y ago
This report was published in early 2013, and it appears the only update since the beginning of May was for MySpace[0]. The report doesn't take into account any of the new information we acquired in 2013 or the "transparency report
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by discostrings 13y ago
Here are some statistics for each trait as of 16:00 PST: I 71.77% - E 28.23% (General population: I 50.90% - E 49.40%) N 90.73% - S 9.27% (General population: N 26.90% - S 73.40%) T 77.16% - F 22.84% (General population: T 40.40% - F 59.90%
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by discostrings 13y ago
Actually, yes. It wouldn't mind if the term originated 11 years ago and the author stated it was coined 10 years ago. But the author claimed it was less than 10 years old, and the term was around for many years before 2002--I just fo
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by discostrings 13y ago
I got to 'Ten years ago, the word "smartphone" didn't exist' and stopped. I know it's just a topic-establishing observation, but it's terribly incorrect.[0] If the writer couldn't be bothered to check
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by discostrings 13y ago
It seems like Amazon is developing quite the relationship with the USPS in New York City. Perhaps the recent increase you see in Amazon USPS deliveries is related to their recent announcement that they'll be delivering Prime orders on
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by discostrings 13y ago
> it does not allow you to switch into neutral if you're traveling above a certain speed. I don't think this is correct (at least for 1997 - 2009 models). Could you offer a citation?
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by discostrings 13y ago
Windows 8 runs fine on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet from 2005. That's not 10 years, but it's pretty close. It has a Pentium M and 512 MiB of RAM. The only real issue is that you need to use the generic Microsoft video driver, which isn&#
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by discostrings 13y ago
I think this format has a lot of potential, but it's also really hard to do well. To me, this film felt much more like a stylistic proof-of-concept than something that's been realized. Having Noah change the status in Amy's a
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by discostrings 13y ago
Yes, the common notion of "responsibility" you criticize is what I was responding to and talking about: the rule-based, considered-in-advance, "responsible choice" idea that having children in certain situations is &quot
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by discostrings 13y ago
I'm noting my observation of a social and economic phenomenon, not justifying that approach or expounding a principle we should live by. There are many incentives to being irresponsible today, and learning about being responsible with
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by discostrings 13y ago
Responsibility is a luxury reserved for those who can afford it.
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by discostrings 13y ago
The "direct access" that the NSA has to Google accounts probably requires sending a request for some set of information to Google. It likely needs to be signed off on (even if it's all automated). I'd imagine the NSA wou
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by discostrings 13y ago
> After getting our ice cream we went back to the table only to find our jackets gone and some fat people sitting there, eating ice cream with their fat kids. > When I asked where our jackets were, a man, presumably the father of the
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by discostrings 13y ago
I actually read your write-up before starting the process--thanks for putting it together! Yes, I used Apple's D-U-N-S lookup form. Here's a quick summary of what's happened so far: The first time I submitted the request for
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by discostrings 13y ago
It's not really a solution--it's a hack to get around their horrible process. I want to correctly publish what belongs to and was created by the LLC under the name of the LLC, not my own name.
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by discostrings 13y ago
Being in the process of registering my LLC for an iOS Apple Developer account, I couldn't agree more. It's been over two months now of back-and-forth with Apple and Dun & Bradstreet, and the end is still not in sight. All I&#x
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by discostrings 13y ago
Interesting, but I think there's probably a large intersection between users who want a text-only interface and users who don't want their browsing habits on your site attached to their name in your database.
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by discostrings 13y ago
> The specs only need to be higher if you want to run modern Windows on it. I agree, and that's the tragedy of the situation. The first netbooks shipped with Linux, and Microsoft saw that as a threat, so they started licensing Windo

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