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by gerggerg 15y ago
I agree that his word choice at points is unscientific, and that he no doubt has an agenda especially being Professor of Pediatrics. But I still feel it's a hugely informative talk in which the science greatly outweighs the sensationalism.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Anyone with a bit of time and a mild interest in chemistry and/or nutrition should watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM It's a talk by Dr Robert Lustig called Sugar: The bitter truth.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
This has been known for some time now. What would make your blog post more interesting is if you cut down on the conjecture and put some real research in it. For example, heres flickr's report on camera usage: http://www.flickr.com/cameras
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Just read it. Here's why I don't like it: >> "NOTING further that the proliferation of counterfeit and pirated goods, as well as of services that distribute infringing material, undermines legitimate trade and sustainable developme
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by gerggerg 15y ago
" Denormalization might be important " Denormalization is still important. Taking that comment example a bit further, if you need user records tied to the comments, you're going to want to include all the user information that you need fo
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by gerggerg 15y ago
I think a lot of the sentiment here comes from people wanting to have their cake and eat it too. What people want: Everyone 'good' for the discussion. No one 'bad' for the discussion. No manual labor. Unlimited growth whil
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by gerggerg 15y ago
I think you mean we soon found ourselves overwhelmed. He still takes discussion from people over email, twitter and facebook linked directly on the site.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Meh. Let the people have their fun. They're not taking any real programmer jobs and would just be seeking narcissistic ends somewhere else if it wasn't in tech. At least the heightened attention brings work along with the unnecessary gloati
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Ok seriously, why the flamebait title? This deck is about padrino, yet it's no where in the title. We should be enticing discussion not argument in our titles. Also, now I'm not going to be able to find this post in a search. I'm going to h
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Some takeaways. The US government absolutely does monitor twitter. Not having your real name on-line still matters greatly. The US is willing to waste gobs of money just to make you feel bad.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Which also makes it possibly the world largest personal collection of code. I wonder how many millions of lines that man is in possession of.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Internships are essential for obvious reasons, and most of us are even willing to work for free if it means we get the opportunity to hone our skills Internships are not essential. At all. They're generally anti-competitive and exploitati
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Ok, here's the issue. We don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. The problem: If it's a good thing... whatever. If it's a bad thing... Mass Death. Seriously, that's not an exaggeration. Any slight imbalance and we're talking catastr
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by gerggerg 15y ago
I love this talk. For whatever reason, language history is immensely interesting to me. I love the haskell class photo from the 90's, I love him talking about envying features of other languages, I love hearing about research papers helping
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by gerggerg 15y ago
heres some more js Watness var a = undefined = 1 //vs b = undefined = 1 what happens there?
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by gerggerg 15y ago
'cept I don't see any bit.ly links on Bank of America's website but I do see them using QR codes.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
'cept if people are trained to use them. It's harder to read a url on a mobile device. Plus i can change the url and put up a new sticker. Or just use a bit.ly redirect. And then browsers would have to have a specific link warning instead o
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by gerggerg 15y ago
It's phishing. Sure, you're going to check the url. But most people won't. And simply being on the bank is going to be validation enough for most.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Most importantly, we should send them extortionate threats of law-suit based on easily fake-able evidence that claim they owe us thousands of dollars just to get us to not send them more letters. And then when they stop using our service we
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by gerggerg 15y ago
The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle. Ok lets play this game. The fact is that H20 is not a pollutant
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by gerggerg 15y ago
A good question is how does this get fixed? Why are we still tied down to this arcane system that has been finely tuned to exploit it's own customers? Why is it so hard to start an honest bank? Seriously, how do we start non-exploitative ba
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Hollywood is the term used to refer to the current ideology and industry of film making, not film making it self. Hollywood is dying. Film making is not. There is no fight against film making. Everyone loves the motion picture. Its the id
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Though they do pose an interesting avenue for protest/civil disobedience. I could easily post QR codes on fast food restaurants that go to PETA or on the back of bus seats that link to pages about transportation system corruption. Or perhap
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by gerggerg 15y ago
A better way (for marketers) of validating an email address. Technically nothing has been validated. You've proved that the email address exists. But it's deliberate use hasn't been validated. And that's the whole point of validation.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
Copyrights should not trump human rights. I think that's the next big struggle of the digital age. No more censoring for copyright. No more jail terms for copyright. No more searches for copyright. No more extraditio
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by gerggerg 15y ago
QR codes are a massive phishing scam waiting to happen. I'll just go cover up the one at my bank with a sticker of the same exact size that links to my own site that looks exactly like the bank's site. Or maybe I'll put one on the ATM and s
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by gerggerg 15y ago
I think you're confusing the photo with the products. Perhaps the products are deceptive, but this case is about a unique photographic execution being a violation of copyright. Not a label infringing trademark.
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by gerggerg 15y ago
And that's why the ruling is contentious. With out an attempt to deceive it's not a counterfeit. It's an inspired piece of creativity. The judge is effectively defining the boundaries of inspiration. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/
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by gerggerg 15y ago
previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277027 not sure how much has changed since then.
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Remember the 'Red Bus' copyright judgement? Heres what photographers think.(dpreview.com)
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