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by getpost 10y ago
Looks like oasisbob answered, thanks!
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by getpost 10y ago
So they built a big strong dam and a "protected" it with a smaller, weaker dam. Seriously, what was the rationale for this design? No criticism or Monday morning quarterbacking here. I'm genuinely curious what the original en
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by getpost 10y ago
That was the first thing that caught my attention. Travis' statement reeks of narcissism and grandiosity. The understatement is "extreme." "My job as your leader," -- it's an episode of Lost? The remedy is to b
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by getpost 10y ago
I still don't get it. Assuming it's true that there was a lack of clarity on whether he had the appropriate type of visa, why was he held 10 hours? Why was so much time spent on his case? And why badger a 70 year old Australian ch
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by getpost 10y ago
Building a fancy corporate HQ is often a signal that management has lost touch with the core business. EDIT: I can easily make the case this has happened at Apple. Look at their iPad lineup, for example. How do I figure out which model to b
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by getpost 10y ago
I will, once I've had a chance to look at it more closely. It's captured my imagination. I'd forgotten about ipfs. And, not that it's the main idea, but merging the file paths and an email address is something 'ever
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by getpost 10y ago
Wow, this is really brilliant, and there's the potential for high disruption. Only for file sharing? Not as I see it. I'll have to make time to try this out asap.
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by getpost 10y ago
Asking Holder and Huffington to get involved is grandiose. I imagine isn't difficult to avoid being grandiose when you have a multi-billion dollar valuation. The thing is, what's needed is a culture change, and these people aren&
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by getpost 10y ago
Agree with CPLX. It is improper to speak for others in this way. If Leo and Sunil want to post about their plans, they may do so. "Leo and Sunil asked me to to say this...." would be fine, although still TMI. A customer might thin
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by getpost 10y ago
I enjoyed using Twitter for ~8 years. It gave me access to news and opinions from groups that aren't covered by traditional media, and it functioned as an RSS feed for people I wanted to follow (authors, researchers, etc.) However, I q
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by getpost 10y ago
I'm curious, what's the fraud's mental model of what he is doing? Does he know he is cheating, and is he telling himself that's what he has to do to survive? Or does he not actually know that the code has meaning and tha
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by getpost 10y ago
I used awk until I learned Python (long ago). For me, awk was yet another example of the "worse is better" approach to things so common in unix. For example, if you make a syntax error, you might get a message like "glob: exe
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by getpost 10y ago
Actually, we do get to blame Hollywood (partly). http://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/03/05_torture.s... When I was a child/teen, it was popular to wonder about the effects of TV violence,
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by getpost 10y ago
My experience is that few physicians have any idea what various procedures cost, especially in a hospital setting. Advance cost information is very difficult to obtain, and often there isn't time to obtain it. I'd like to see at l
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by getpost 10y ago
Slightly off topic, but this brings up the issue of whether data maintained using technological means is correct. And how can the correctness be verified or refuted? For example, suppose Amazon does provide data in reply to the warrant. How
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by getpost 10y ago
Carole Cadwalladr's points are well taken. I tried the queries myself when I saw these articles and got the same results she did. Apparently Google is listening, since some of these results have been changed. Was it a manual fix? So, G
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by getpost 10y ago
My experience is that employers, and people generally, are completely unpredictable. An employer might seem supportive, but later on decide that your side project should be company property. And, people hear what they want to hear. The empl
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by getpost 10y ago
This is rich. James Clapper says the rule of law is under assault, which is true. He's a notable assailant! He hasn't been indicted for perjury, and the CIA is spying on Senate oversight, for starters.
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by getpost 10y ago
In 1995, Gary Taubes (lately a writer on health and diet) wrote a profile of Thinking Machines Corp. The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines A close up look at a doomed-yet-brilliant start-up computer company that never quite grasped the bas
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by getpost 10y ago
Using an untested procedure for a non-essential health intervention does raise a mental health question, or certainly a question of judgement. And anyway, of course it's a hit piece! The vampire metaphor is just too juicy.
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by getpost 10y ago
https://twitter.com/johnrobb has some interesting observations http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2016/07... http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas&
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by getpost 10y ago
This isn't right. You water the soil, and the soil moisture is uptaken by the plants. Watering the area immediately around the stem doesn't work, except for growing seedlings.
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by getpost 10y ago
What do you mean by "fair?" Business isn't about being fair in the sense of fair play ("chivalry"). Do you mean your employer is engaging in illegal monopolistic practices? Is advertising fraudulent?
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Tesla accident highlights the need to ensure worker visas aren't abused(latimes.com)
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by getpost 10y ago
I don't see any comments on the question of whether a commercial entity has legal standing to control the use of products it sells. A commercial entity relies on the legal system to enforce any restrictions, so this amounts to a questi
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by getpost 10y ago
Exercise on a bicycle for an hour? This instead: http://www.menshealth.com/health/ejaculation-and-prostate-ca...
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by getpost 10y ago
When the news of VW emissions fraud first broke, I thought, "corporate death penalty!" That'll teach 'em. Not playing by the rules on an industrial scale has the consequence that you don't get to participate in our
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by getpost 11y ago
Agreed. This mentality doesn't only lead to being denied a bank account; it leads to murder, literally.[1] How is this any different from any number of discriminatory practices in the past, which are now (at least superficially) illega
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by getpost 11y ago
Huh? Airline deregulation since 1978 is one of the poster children for improved service to consumers. Any transportation business is inherently subject to the flux of fuel prices and demand as it varies with overall economic activity. If an
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by getpost 11y ago
This is true, and the difficulty is compounded because the government lies or is incompetent. I remember a time in Menlo Park (unclear on the year, was it the late 70s drought?) when there were fears of the need for water cutbacks. The Wat

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