drinian

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by drinian 17y ago
You're implying that the money is placed there as embezzled/a tax dodge/both?
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by drinian 17y ago
Regarding the first item (biofeedback), I've seen Emotiv's demo live at Tokyo Game Show, and it's not at the point where everyday people would want to use it. Basically, it's a lightweight cap that can detect when you're getting relaxed. As
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by drinian 17y ago
Author insinuates that all civilization comes from Western Europe. Worse, he suggests that, somehow, the fact that the classic masters more or less invented the arts of painting, writing, performance, architecture, etc. as we know them toda
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by drinian 17y ago
On the other hand, it has often seemed like anime has been one of the few professional entertainment industries devoted to trying to make money off the Long Tail.
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by drinian 17y ago
Corporate failures to make good technology choices should not be conflated, as they are here, with being unable to look at YouTube at work. The fact of the matter is that 90% of office workers shouldn't be using their office computers for g
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by drinian 17y ago
I have messed around with Emacs org-mode in the past, but never quite climbed the learning curve to the point of effortlessness. Many people justifiably are promoting Moleskines, but these days I prefer http://riteintherain.com/ waterproo
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by drinian 17y ago
That is true -- some high-end TVs come with ambient lights behind the panel for this reason, to ease the transition between bright screen and dark room. I know this won't help you (no glasses) but I often alternate days between contacts tha
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by drinian 17y ago
Unfortunately, "should be legal" and "is legal" are not the same thing. AFAIK there is, or was, a "legal" DVD player for Linux that pays the CSS patentholders' license fees. The situation is ridiculous. I was hoping that Psystar's case woul
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by drinian 17y ago
T-Mobile corporate owned store. Salesperson questioned whether it would work, since I didn't have a Sidekick unique identifier on my phone. Works fine. Unfortunately, port 80 and a few others were blocked back in July, when T-Mobile stopped
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by drinian 17y ago
I don't like to promote T-Mobile too much, because they have a lot of flaws, but they're great compared to the other US providers. I'm on a prepaid SIM chip with them at the moment, using my own phone. I just bought a $100/1,000 minute refi
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by drinian 17y ago
Personal experience tells me that information addiction is very real. So, the question is, how do we turn this to our advantage, rather than becoming information burnouts?
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by drinian 17y ago
Reminds me a little of Willie Wonka's musical lock.
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by drinian 17y ago
http://housewares.about.com/od/kitchenwareaccessories/bb/ant...
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by drinian 17y ago
I can highly recommend a standing-desk arrangement, at least when compared to a very cheap office chair. You need two things to keep with it for more than a few days: a good anti-fatigue surface to stand on, and a taller-than-average chai
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by drinian 17y ago
It fits the needs of the company, with a minimum of visual noise. How is this "underdeveloped?"
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by drinian 17y ago
The SSRI-class antidepressants' efficacy also appears to be somewhat linked to genetic factors (despite their all being, in theory, quite similar in action). Zoloft seems to be the only thing besides benzodiapenes that will keep my panic di
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by drinian 17y ago
... and I'll pay, if they give me DRM-free 1080p H.264 downloads, the same way the music industry lets me have DRM-free 320kbps MP3s now. And of course they're sensible enough to go for that market... right?
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by drinian 17y ago
Much as I may disagree with Coburn on a lot of other issues, I'm glad that he's most committed to things like transparency. So far as I know, he hasn't tried to pull a stunt like this on religious or abortion bills. The party of Obama is no
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by drinian 17y ago
That's amazing, thanks for linking to it. I was in North Korea in August for 5 days and I can confirm the costs reported here -- sending an email from the hotel would have cost me about 10 USD. Making a phone call to the US would have been
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by drinian 17y ago
Can anyone explain the legal status of unauthorized translations like these?
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by drinian 17y ago
On the other hand, unless you're on the International Space Station, you probably have enough space to rotate the screen relative to gravity and lock it.
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by drinian 17y ago
Yes. It was an up-to-date install of Wordpress, about two months ago. Luckily, the domain was being scanned for vulnerabilities by Duke University OIT, and they let me know about it; it was non-obvious that the hack was there. There were ce
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by drinian 17y ago
Baltimore. Relatively low rents for the East Coast, culturally unique, and has low-cost access to DC, Philadelphia, and New York. Not to mention there's huge numbers of technical people around here because of the federal government.
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by drinian 17y ago
Where is the boundary between sales and customer service?
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by drinian 17y ago
This is an attitude that I see more out of writers from countries with corrupt governments. Perhaps it's a way of trying to justify your own country's problems, rather than working to fix them?
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by drinian 17y ago
To gain karma.
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by drinian 17y ago
Any word on a public launch date yet?
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by drinian 17y ago
Yes, in fact the beginnings of a trip were organized through Hacker News a few months ago: http://coworkthailand.com/ I think these specific plans fell through, but I am planning something similar. Also, there's a commune of people doing
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Edushi: Beautiful, isometric city maps for China(hongkong.edushi.com)
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by drinian 17y ago
It was great meeting you folks. Really learned a lot and helped get the creativity flowing a bit. I would suggest something on the Maryland side of DC in the hopes of attracting more people from Baltimore, but I might not be in the area for

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