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by ds9 12y ago
Also the working memory and a certain willingness to sit there doing purely mental work for significant periods of time (well I guess the latter is part of 'math/engineering ability'). The working memory aspect is what makes
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by ds9 12y ago
One US university used to (may still) have a program where they would take relatively non-technical people off the street, and if they could pass an aptitude test would consider them (interview) for a programmer training course. This test w
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by ds9 12y ago
I think it's a problem of adjusting to something new. Looking at alcohol for comparison, societies have evolved cultural norms for dealing with it. In W. Europe for example, wine is part of meals; in UK a pint at the pub is a routine s
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How Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are rushing to cash in on cannabis(wired.com)
107 points by ds9 12y ago|73 comments
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by ds9 12y ago
Somewhat related: presence or absence of diseases in an area may influence social and political systems, according to one theory ( http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/bugs-lik... )
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by ds9 12y ago
For centuries in the western world, the Christian church, which considered this to be in its purview, kept trying different calendar schemes to try to make a set of months, preferably equal, fit neatly into the year. There have been may sol
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by ds9 13y ago
The problem with this interpretation is that in the vast majority of cases, one cannot know whether downloading is authorized or not. Virtually every video, audio or text file of works created in the past century, more or less, is copyright
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End ‘information striptease’ by certifying communication devices – MP(rt.com)
1 points by ds9 13y ago|0 comments
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by ds9 13y ago
transcript: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1403/S00108/edward-snowdens... , http://www.independentsciencenews.org/science-media/edward-s...
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by ds9 13y ago
Aren't HN titles supposed to be the original title? The h1 is "Krav til nettløsninger (WCAG)" / "Requirements for network solutions (WCAG)". In this case a substitution may be necessary to giv an idea of what i
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by ds9 13y ago
The author points out that it's possible in some sense to have a world with less work, OK material standards, more leisure and less unhappiness. People would still work, social/technological advancement would still occur, but pe
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by ds9 13y ago
It would be a very bad precedent if an owner of a domain name can gain rights to the same name in another tld just by his own site becoming popular. US trademark law is limited to (a) commercial context and (b) possibility of confusion. If
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by ds9 13y ago
This was one of the original arguments for patents. It is actually the reason they're called patents (opposed to "latent"). There had been, in UK, cases of formulas for making certain things, which had been lost because they
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by ds9 13y ago
Maybe I'm being daft here, but why don't would-be file-sharers just encrypt files and send their friends passwords along with the links? Neither the provider nor the copyright holders would be able to tell who was sharing what, un
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by ds9 13y ago
To be clear, I was only commenting on the neurodiversity thing in reply to the parent, not advocating for it. We agree that it is relevant for only a small percentile of ASD individuals. And on second thought, it may make sense from a publi
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by ds9 13y ago
Many Asperger's people themselves have rejected the "disorder" label and ask to be thought of as different in a neutral, not necessarily bad way. For this reason they refer to non-Aspergers people as "neurotypical".
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by ds9 13y ago
This is admirable and I wish the author well. His example may also help others. It should not be taken as a signal that "outing" oneself is advisable for others in comparable situations. This guy is very fortunate that he is well
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by ds9 13y ago
GIMP is great for editing photos, but a poor choice for creating bitmap (non vector) graphics. It's a big hassle even just to draw a straight line in GIMP. MS Paint is the reverse - easy for graphics, ill-suited for photos. As I noted
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by ds9 13y ago
I don't know about that particular feature, but after looking around I found that Kolourpaint (4?) has essentially the functionality of MS Paint, with better usability and without its annoying bugs.
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by ds9 13y ago
Can anyone explain this line from commenter Darren Cook: "Once this enforcement is in place, browsers will simply refuse to connect to Google over an insecure or compromised connection. By shipping this setting in the browser itself, c
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by ds9 13y ago
I was skeptical of that too - however, another part of the article implied another scenario, leaving it unclear whether the writer confused them or refers to both. The second scenario is, company may control its own gear well enough, but re
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Cybercrook? Bent on mischief? WE'LL GET YOU, vow Facebook and pals(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ds9 13y ago|0 comments
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by ds9 13y ago
Not that alone. They show that that is "practical", which may be semi-new, but the main trick: " it is the de-authentication step in the wireless setup that represents a much more accessible entry point for an intruder with t
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by ds9 13y ago
Does anyone know what court precedents there are for a site owner O. suing companies C. that present altered versions of O's site to third parties T, without consent from O? Arguably C. is interfering in the relationship of O. to T., w
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by ds9 13y ago
I looked at mage like that in the 80s and even then they were never reliable sources for anything. They were influential just because they reached mass audiences, and had a quality of "newsiness" or what's now called "
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by ds9 13y ago
I stopped in here to say, I really like the idea of listing points for and against a proposition being true, in ambiguous cases like this. Often in relation to, say news stories or other controversial claims or ideas, the public have an int
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by ds9 13y ago
It's true that most people leave the defaults. However, there may an easy solution for a subset of cases. Do the browser defaults in any country include multiple language settings? It seems likely that in most countries, the default wo
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by ds9 13y ago
I wouldn't mind a smartphone that was a little clunky and less functional, if it were really open.
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by ds9 13y ago
SOPA would have given big copyright-accumulating companies the power to arbitrarily cut off revenue to sites of their choice, by making accusations of copyright infringement, with no penalty for false accusations and no compensation to vict
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by ds9 13y ago
"What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant ... a memory chip, wired directly into your brain's hippocampus, ... an implanted interface with the Internet ..."

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