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by gherkin0 10y ago
It's related to the parent's points by a misunderstanding.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I don't think that would accomplish much. People would just delete the 9 papers that they don't care about rather than maintain them as clutter. And even if everyone did keep the extra files, would use would they be? It would b
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> What's wrong with setting up a mirror at archive.org? After all, they /are/ a library, so they get some immunity from copyright. Or can we not do that? Pretty sure no-one gets "immunity from copyright," at list
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> Even the modern replacement careers- nursing schools, medical schools, which, contrary to the American legend, are calibrated to turn out very few brilliant practitioners in favor of a large, reliable number of perfectly adequate pract
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Honestly, while that's a good suggestion, I think it's only part of the answer: 1) Trees used to be a lot more abundant before fossil fuels were a big a thing, but now people are using the land the trees would need for other thi
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> Recently Elsevier contracted top logicians to produce a Handbook in the History of Logic. It runs to 11 volumes, each volume north of $300. So folks, if you want to get acquainted with the complete history of what is supposed to be a f
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Honestly, I don't see good solution to this until the rate of technological change really slows down. It seems like your options are to either pay to periodically re-engineer every system or pay to maintain obsolete hardware.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Plus they can scold you if they catch you tinkering with your car. On the plus side: they're watching you. On the negative side: they're watching you.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
It's ironic that the factories that make incandescent bulbs are being shut down.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> There is nothing that says the feds can't pursue bad cases It's unfortunate that there isn't something that says that.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> Ban education discrimination against job applicants. (Except for jobs which require certification). All that will do is create a regime of required certifications that people will need to get a job, and it will probably greatly reduce
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by gherkin0 10y ago
It's still censorship, even if it's within their legal rights as owners to do it.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I think you have a point if you're talking about a personal website, but I think things get a whole lot blurrier when you're dealing with places that are communities, have an ethos of free expression, or have taken on the characte
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I think that's incorrectly narrowing the concept of "censorship" to mean only "government censorship," when other kinds exist (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_censorship ).
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Can you really make much of a statement about the modern "progressive movement" by talking about Theodore Roosevelt? While they both used the "progressive" label and perhaps one descended from the other, there's ab
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Oh, I'm not criticizing that interest. It has a legitimate and practical basis given the amount of time programmers spend using keyboards and how integral they are to the performance of their job.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> These keyboards are ergonomically awful: an undifferentiated mass of completely flat buttons, with crappy keyswitches. You'd think they could splurge a little on keyswitches given that it costs $20k a year to use one ( https:&#x2F
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> This keyboard has been out for ages, unless I am missing something here? Not everyone works in finance and/or is familiar with Bloomberg terminals (like me). I think this is pretty interesting since Bloomberg, unlike most applica
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I just use mine for loyalty cards and magstripe gift cards (so they don't collect dust because I don't want a fat wallet). Might be worth a try if you haven't tried it for anything.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Got any loyalty cards or gift cards? That's what I used mine for.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Honestly, I just used mine for gift/loyalty cards. Never loaded a real credit card to it.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Well, that's just great. I was an original backer and got a Coin 1.0. They kept saying they'd ship me a Coin 2.0 due to the problems with the 1.0, but I never got it. Now it appears all mention of that has been scrubbed from th
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Did you reply to the wrong post?
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by gherkin0 10y ago
A USB battery seems far more useful than some special-purpose device that runs off of AAs. Due to their versatility, I'd probably get way more value out of it than something with a 15 year shelf life that I never use.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Not to mention one that non-developers already know and are productive in.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
Free-radicals? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-radical_theory_of_aging#M...
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by gherkin0 10y ago
IIRC, mitochondria are only used for aerobic respiration (which requires oxygen). So there might be a chance for such an organism to have survived an an anaerobic/oxygen-free environment.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> I would be surprised to learn that USOC isn't doing the same thing. Does the US government care enough about its Olympic performance to coordinate systematic cheating like this? Winning at sports is cool, but my impression is that
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by gherkin0 10y ago
I like this one: https://worldofvnc.net/browse.php?id=2677 It looks like the LCD display of some embedded system, something I would have never expected to see over VNC.
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by gherkin0 10y ago
> If yes, the device can never be trusted second-hand - the OS might have been modified to secretly accept more keys. That's always going to be a risk with second-hand devices (or even new devices). Who knows what kind sneaky thin

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