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by dnr 13y ago
Ai Weiwei who was disappeared for three months and reportedly subject to psychological torture? And he's the one who should be protected most by his international fame. Edit: You may be right that it's not "easy": I&#x27
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by dnr 13y ago
The question I've been wondering about is how he'll get money to live on. Presumably it won't be long before the US will freeze his bank accounts, if they haven't already. Has he set up offshore bank accounts in advance?
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by dnr 13y ago
I've been working on a real-time collaborative app that does just that: the client collects a list of edits and tries to push them to the server. It always displays the state as the last known accepted state with the local edits replayed on
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by dnr 13y ago
Same thing here: I learned some Spanish in high school, then studied Mandarin later. Now whenever I try to say things in Spanish, Mandarin comes out. It's like it took over the "foreign language" spot in my brain. I was never really fluent
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by dnr 13y ago
Exactly: I have some experience driving in snow and I've certainly made a few big mistakes that I'm pretty sure a computer (that would have a much better sense of available traction) could have avoided. I can also easily imagine sensors tha
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by dnr 13y ago
I use it to save backups of my desktop and laptop home directories to a home NAS mounted with NFS, which later gets synced to another NAS. It's a decent tool. I encrypt with a separate gpg key, do mostly incremental backups, and a full one
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by dnr 13y ago
Besides being able to achieve higher pressure (which I agree isn't terribly important), the Expeds need extra force to inflate because they're filled with down or synthetic insulation, which dramatically increases their insulating value. A
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by dnr 13y ago
You need a lot of interior baffling or insulating material stuffed inside an air mattress to get the R value up to 3 or 4. In a big open tube you get convection, which speeds up heat transfer. Note that the original NeoAir, which is about t
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by dnr 13y ago
Perhaps a better way to say that is they "feel entitled to a job regardless of whether they can contribute any value to an organization". And a likely cause of having nothing to contribute would be studying a subject they find personally in
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by dnr 13y ago
Monitors are not paper. They're much brighter.
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by dnr 13y ago
No, the point is he has $600K+ in the bank as self-insurance. If he has to pay $10K in one year for medical expenses, he would do something like reduce the amount that his family draws by $1K a year for the next ten years, not cut the draw
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by dnr 13y ago
Note that his family isn't dependent on his income or earning potential anymore, so it's not like he'd be leaving then destitute if he got killed. Purely financially, they'd be better off. That said, everyone has to choose their own accepta
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by dnr 14y ago
If there were zero or one slashes there, we could use urls starting with a colon for the same purpose.
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by dnr 14y ago
Relevant: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/11/the_terrible_awful_tr... He argues that the system is "broken" on purpose.
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by dnr 14y ago
Lem's best work (IMO) is the stuff about robot culture, including jokes. Try The Cyberiad and Mortal Engines. Edit: Though, to be fair, Lem didn't write near-future SF, his robot stories were more like alternate universes.
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by dnr 14y ago
I'm another VPM customer, for a little over a year. I like it and I plan to continue using it, but the website is definitely a little clunky and could use a redesign. Still, it's better than all the competing services (at least as of a year
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by dnr 14y ago
Thank you for explaining my immediate visceral discomfort on being introduced to rspec and cucumber more eloquently than I could.
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by dnr 14y ago
I remember this exact same feeling when I got rejected from what I thought was my dream school at the time (MIT). I felt physically tired and just laid in bed for several hours right after getting the news. It's a pretty natural reaction to
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by dnr 14y ago
Commenting a little late, but I just got around to reading this. One question, if anyone is still reading: How is looking at distance between derivation trees any more useful than just looking at distance between whatever ASTs the coffeescr
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by dnr 14y ago
I run Ubuntu without Unity on both a laptop and desktop (my window manager is ion3/notion). Both work fine. Wireless on the laptop just requires "docker & nm-applet &". (That was in 11.10, I'm not even sure if it's still needed.) I'
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by dnr 14y ago
If anyone is just looking for a way to manage and sync dotfiles without any of the sharing features (which are interesting but a little scary), you might want to check out my thing: https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff
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by dnr 14y ago
Seconded. I got a Schwab bank account prior to traveling in Europe this summer. They rebate even international atm fees. (You might want to save your receipts in case they miss one, but I think they caught most of mine.) For credit cards, m
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by dnr 14y ago
"Foreman" has nothing to do with being an thought leader, they're just the person selected to interact directly with the judge. In the jury I was on, he also moderated the discussion when it got too heated. But he deliberately avoided givin
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by dnr 14y ago
There are boats listed on airbnb. I've rented one.
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by dnr 14y ago
In a car you have airbags, which are sort of like an external helmet. As for walking, there are a lot more things that can go wrong on a bike. You can hit a pothole, get your wheel caught in a train track, slip on an oil patch, get doored,
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by dnr 14y ago
Easier in shell: $ date -d '864 days ago' Tue Apr 13 13:46:16 EDT 2010
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by dnr 14y ago
"Unusable while you travel" or in other countries is simply false: one of the two-factor authentication options is the google authenticator app on your smartphone, which requires no internet/phone connectivity at all. It's time-based. The i
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by dnr 14y ago
Maybe criminal cases are different. I was a juror recently for a civil case, and while I agree the jurors took their task seriously, most of them lacked the analytic intelligence required to rationally weigh the evidence. It came down to wh
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by dnr 14y ago
Here's my solution: https://bitbucket.org/davidn/dotstuff Briefly: ~/dotstuff is a hg/git/whatever repo that contains your dotfiles, which can optionally use simple preprocessor directives to turn on or off different sections on different