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by ewzimm 12y ago
I have gone my whole life thinking that this was the definition of empathy, understanding other people's feelings and how they are connected to their behavior. I always thought the concept of feeling what someone else feels was a metap
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by ewzimm 12y ago
On the flip side, you can consider that traditional proprietary software installs usually have full access to read and modify your system, often in ways you don't expect or wouldn't consent to. Running in a virtualized environment
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Okay, but Office is not Windows. It runs on Macs, and there are plenty of virtualization options for businesses to run Office for people without a Windows desktop. RHEL 7 in particular is built for it. And Microsoft's web apps are gett
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I fully agree that there should be more to this burial than a couple sentences. Why not take the opportunity to throw a party and collect memories, show how Yahoo has grown? The Yahoo directory changed lots of people's lives. It connec
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by ewzimm 12y ago
It's written by their marketing department. Basically, they say open architecture poses the risk of fragmentation and designing instruction sets is expensive, so it makes sense for everyone to pay them to do it.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
But what exactly can they do on Windows that they couldn't figure out in something like ElementaryOS? Get infected with malware? I think most people are actually pretty clueless about how to use Windows effectively, especially now that
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by ewzimm 12y ago
It makes other phones seem like such a bad deal. You can get it online for under $60 new, and the warranty is great. I use one with no plan, just WiFi, and usually carry a hotspot. Data-only plans are so much cheaper than voice for whatever
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by ewzimm 12y ago
They obviously don't represent workers. The USPS is one of the last big organizations where normal people can expect to have a retirement plan, even if they're disabled. In February, 250 UPS workers walked out for 90 minutes to pr
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Yes, the rules established by Congress in 1792. I don't think anyone would argue that organization has much in common with the current Congress. No organization in the world other than the USPS is forced to pre-fund pensions with $5.5
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by ewzimm 12y ago
It's pretty ironic that public representatives in Congress have been working so hard to shut down the USPS under the assumption that private business can do a better job while private business has been taking advantage of the USPS&#x27
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by ewzimm 12y ago
This is not about ancestors or special classes. A lot of people seem to be missing the fact that most indigenous tribes are sovereign nations with their own laws and government which have existed since long before the U.S.A. This is why we
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by ewzimm 12y ago
You might be right, but I have seen this trend before without mention that people tend to handle these things badly because of the environments they live in. Most people seem to have pretty poor training when it comes to probability, but th
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I can definitely see feelings overriding an opportunity for thought. Personally, I have never bought a lottery ticket. I always wear a bike helmet or a seatbelt. I don't really feel anything about these issues. It just makes sense to d
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Most of this makes sense, but I have a problem with the often-repeated assertion that humans can't handle large numbers. We might not have an intuitive sense of astronomical odds, but that's why we developed mathematics. We have t
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Right. It's reasonable to question a claim if someone has a vested interest in the outcome, but Baidu's future is looking pretty secure no matter what interface people prefer for their searches. Researchers definitely have biases,
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by ewzimm 12y ago
On the contrary, I think anyone who is thinking seriously about automation acknowledges that their job is on the list, especially for a lot of software work like debugging, updating libraries, refactoring code, etc. There's nothing wro
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Or for something heavier, try Emperor's "Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise," written while Ihsahn took a classical music composition course. I think it has an interesting structure and brings out some of the bes
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I sure you have used the Internet often enough to know people can move to threats pretty quickly. I have already seen plenty of open threats to her, so arguing that nobody has threatened her can only mean you haven't seen it yet or you
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I believe you, but I think we are talking about two different kinds of impairment. I'm sure there are also effects of tolerance to be able to program on opiates, and different people will react differently. The positive spin is somethi
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by ewzimm 12y ago
You definitely don't seem like a robot, but your initial comment was similarly surprising to me. From personal experience, I would say that it's entirely possible to act normally under the influence of opiates while being complete
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I have been prescribed opiates like hydrocodone before, and I can guarantee that they significantly affect your thinking. I'm not sure how anyone could argue otherwise. They are worse than being drunk. Is that really something that peo
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by ewzimm 12y ago
That one is called The Pirate Bay.
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Yes, you have that right, but I still think we're talking about different things. When you're talking about web apps, you're talking about apps hosted by Microsoft, Google, etc. I'm saying that those have their own issue
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by ewzimm 12y ago
You bring up legitimate problems, but again, they aren't unique to web apps. Physical computers can be compromised too. They can be compromised in manufacturing before they even reach you. There's never a guarantee of security, ju
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Non-free web apps definitely come with their own range of problems. Data doesn't need to be out of your control though. JavaScript is usually run locally, so there are lots of calculations being performed by your computer before it rea
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I do often agree with Richard Stallman, but... These are problems with particular web apps, not web apps in general. I host lots of web apps on my own servers, and they are just as free as any software, but I can access them anywhere from a
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by ewzimm 12y ago
You can even compare web standards to the most ubiquitous formats used in the most ubiquitous desktop programs. MS Office formats still cause people problems when they try to open complex files in older versions of Office or compatible suit
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by ewzimm 12y ago
Nobody ever tried to hide anything. Stellar was rebranded because it was launched as a forked collaboration with additional people and additional code. Look at the front page of stellar.org: Stellar Development is led by Jed McCaleb (resumi
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I think you're confused about what "playing the victim" means. When a man says he had to hit his wife because she wouldn't stop nagging him, that's playing the victim. When a woman contacts the police after receivin
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by ewzimm 12y ago
I think you've covered most of the reasons. Compression probably also reduces the actual storage size of files. They are probably also using some of their own storage outside of Amazon. Rarely accessed files could be moved to slower, c

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