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by dlss 15y ago
Way to put a positive spin on the article :) Don't forget the lesson though -- if you use an extra-curricular in a negotiation it's no longer extra-curricular.
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by dlss 15y ago
This is retarded. You go dark to make users who would otherwise not know about SOPA realize how bad an idea it is. No one using hackernews fits that description. I am in favor of a wikipedia or perhaps even a google blackout. HN needs a b
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by dlss 15y ago
He was asking for good SOPA jokes. Like "How many SOPAs does it take to screw in a light bulb? I would tell you, but google doesn't work anymore" :(
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by dlss 15y ago
I assumed they were talking about something akin to wikipedia shutting down for all of italy for a day. See http://www.niemanlab.org/2011/10/blackout-in-italy-the-first...
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by dlss 15y ago
I'm confused. Are you saying that the person you are replying to is only interested in aligning consumer action with consumer beliefs because of a shallow interest? He is explicitly saying he thinks a roughly shallow idea could be taken fur
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by dlss 15y ago
Yes, search amazon. - Art of Computer Programming is good but hard - Algorithms by Cormen et al. is good, more accessible, but not as practical Start with Algorithms and then advance. If neither of those work for you, try an intro to progra
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by dlss 15y ago
Sigh. This may actually be good PR :( I had never heard of this controller until this story. It looks really cool. How other many people is that true for? edit/update: this story is #2 on the vanilla reddit front page.
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by dlss 15y ago
You need to read it in a context where there is nothing else to do, and you can leisurely let your thoughts move between the book and your life. Read in this way, the book can act as a catalyst for meditative insights -- overlooked possibil
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by dlss 15y ago
I don't think GP was saying that the law had no reason for existing, just that its existence had an unfortunate unanticipated effect on microloans. (If you wanted to outlaw loan sharking, you pass something like the Fair Debt Collection Pra
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by dlss 15y ago
Dude. This is a technical forum not poetry night at a coffee shop... Also, out of curiosity, would you be in favor of anti-female sentiment in a future with the technology for asexual male reproduction?
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by dlss 15y ago
It is freemium ($3 level pack), and has admob ads
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by dlss 15y ago
You are on a forum for technical people. We don't talk about things that are provably impossible to implement. Enforcing copyright law is provably impossible, hence the moral question is moot. We are trying to examine what that will mean fo
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by dlss 15y ago
> This is inherent in the nature of near zero cost replication If coca-cola sold their recipe rather than selling cans of soda, then I would agree with your paragraph one. Remember that coca-cola does not pay royalties to many of the in
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by dlss 15y ago
This. A million times this. Thank you. The customer's desire to give you money is the product. This is inherent in the nature of near zero cost replication. Loius CK gets it, Reznor gets it, Yorke gets it, kickstarter gets it. OP doesn't
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by dlss 15y ago
Usually things like preferred stock and senior bonds are used to protect shareholders from bankruptcy , rather than acquisition . When you issue stock to someone, you accept a fiduciary responsibility for increasing the value of those sha
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by dlss 15y ago
Anyone else notice all the about:blank links in the article?
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by dlss 15y ago
Nope. That's next week's post :)
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by dlss 15y ago
You don't see anything sleezy about an employee who put in both sweat equity and money getting nothing for his stock, while other shareholders are reimbursed for theirs? Seems both sleezy and a cautionary tale for those thinking of working
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by dlss 15y ago
Agree. A sieve is generally more useful than a bucket with a hole.
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by dlss 15y ago
It still works with irrational exponents (start with fractional numbers and work towards that). It also works with imaginary exponents. It works because the power notation is short hand. But that wasn't the point of my reply. The point was
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by dlss 15y ago
Being able to explain proofs intuitively is a valuable way to check how deeply you know them. In this case, the reason that when different powers of the same quantity are multiplied together their exponents are added is because powers are s
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by dlss 15y ago
I think "no one" is a bit strong there. The article cites one company who walked away from a profitable $1B deal for a dressed up version of "but this is lame"
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by dlss 15y ago
Okay, a bit off topic, but I'm hoping I wasn't the only one who clicked this title after sight reading "Have 4 minutes to help startup vista?"
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by dlss 15y ago
> Death is necessary for human ecology Ugh, not now. References or stop talking. I have my fingers crossed he was signed up for cryonics. This is tragic.
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by dlss 15y ago
Why not model GEN-2 GC frequency, then do the following: 1. When a gen-2 is likely to occur (looks like 3 vertical lines on your chart), tell the load balancer to stop forwarding requests. 2. Let any existing connections finish. 3. Run the
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by dlss 15y ago
This performs poorly when testing variations that convert at 0%
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by dlss 15y ago
It's a shame that PGP/GPG email never really took off :-/
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by dlss 15y ago
The intro read like it would be a much longer article. tl;dr - Haskell isn't easy enough to use / is lacking good toolchains for author's use cases
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by dlss 15y ago
It's an analogy. Without publicly viewable karma, posts lose a lot of their information content. Polls without results lose more, but some would argue[1] that there is no royal road to understanding what others think, and that the best way
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by dlss 15y ago
I think people are downvoting you because publicly viewable poll results are too similar to publicly viewable karma. My guess is pg just hasn't gotten around to hiding the results from everyone except the poster.

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