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by glesica 13y ago
Oh hey, that does work! I hadn't noticed that, good for them! Their calendar dropdown is also superior to most others in that it isn't a popover-style context menu but has been integrated into the interface so that I can see a vis
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by glesica 13y ago
"For marketers who are trying to establish a personal relationship with their customers..." Isn't that kind of an oxymoron? How can the relationship be "personal" when one side of it (the marketer's side) is re
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by glesica 13y ago
But Kayak already has a really nice discovery interface... https://www.kayak.com/explore/ In fact, I often use Kayak to figure out which airport I should fly into. For instance, if I'm traveling through countries
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by glesica 13y ago
That really isn't the type of input I was thinking of, though certainly that is a fairly easy problem to solve in a variety of ways. I'm more interested in being able to say something like 'Aug 2' or 'next Thursday&
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by glesica 13y ago
What? No. Why would you put a weird palm tree icon on a marker instead of the price? I know it's warm in the Mediterranean, I'm not an idiot so please don't treat me like one. Also, why does it matter where the user is locate
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by glesica 13y ago
Because that would be a concrete step that would actually change something and would be a clear signal as to how each representative stands on the issue of unlimited domestic surveillance.
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by glesica 13y ago
The stock market doesn't get hacked? Are you kidding? Did I miss a /sarcasam tag? The stock market is a hack. If the stock market doesn't get technologically "hacked" it's only because it's so easy for t
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by glesica 13y ago
> Also claiming that they have an incentive to leave the country seems wrong I don't know about that, ever been to Narva? Ethnic Russians are, at least to some extent, in a position similar to that of African Americans in the US, bu
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by glesica 13y ago
You can keep your footing on a slippery slope for awhile, but I personally believe that it is an unstable equilibrium in this case. I will admit, though, that in some sense all societies are just in temporary equilibrium, so maybe it's
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by glesica 13y ago
It's not a slippery slope to limit speech. It's a slippery slope to limit speech based on that speech being offensive to a person or group. There is plenty of evidence for this, just look at the Muslim world, or the world as hardl
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by glesica 13y ago
I wasn't speculating that rapes would go unreported. I was pointing out that laws often have unintended consequences. I would be much more worried about innocent or incidental witnesses being prosecuted over-zealously or maliciously. F
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by glesica 13y ago
So pointing out that an ill-conceived law can be abused damages discourse? That thinking probably helped give us the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...
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by glesica 13y ago
I agree that protecting victims is a noble goal, but I still don't think it is a criminal matter. If anything, victims should be able to sue people for distributing such materials, but even that brings up a troubling slippery slope. Th
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by glesica 13y ago
Agree completely, this jumped out and slapped me in the face. Even images of actual rape should not be illegal . For one thing, that would mean that, for instance, documenting a rape-in-progress that you are unable to stop would be a cri
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by glesica 13y ago
So because doing X would only solve x% of the problem (without significant cost, as noted by another poster) for x < 100, we shouldn't do it? That's an absolutely insane argument. Apply it to business, software development, or
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by glesica 13y ago
I suggest Fastmail. I switched a few months back and haven't missed GMail yet. YMMV, but you owe it to yourself to give it a look.
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by glesica 13y ago
I personally found the quote to be in poor taste to a certain extent. He's talking about experimenting with people's lives. Yes, the students agreed, at least in some sense, to be a part of the experiment, but it is still a rather
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by glesica 13y ago
But if your customers don't understand the product then all bets are off and you have a moral (and, frankly, self-serving) responsibility to explain the product to them. The way it sounds to me, SJSU and Udacity and are going to take
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by glesica 13y ago
The power hungry and abusive still like to give their actions a veil of legitimacy. Abusive behavior might be impossible to stop entirely, but that is absolutely not a justification for making it legal .
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by glesica 13y ago
Wait a second, $60,000 for a one-year program?! Wasn't online education supposed to be cheaper to deliver, more efficient? They claim class sizes of no more than 20, but this is a graduate program, small class sizes are the norm in gra
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by glesica 13y ago
I think the correct assertion would have been that more Jews would have left. Even the information you linked to suggests that, at least as of 1938, many Jews weren't convinced they had to leave yet.
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by glesica 13y ago
That's true, and it works well for subjective or popular topics. However, it works much less well for highly specialized, technical topics. I have noticed that quite a few very technical, or highly specialized articles end up with just
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by glesica 13y ago
Peer review doesn't demand arcane terminology or difficult-to-understand writing. Ideally, peer review is just someone writing down some thoughts and other people who have some expertise in the field providing comments on those thought
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by glesica 13y ago
The part about not controlling for educational experience is probably a pretty critical flaw considering the fact that women outnumber men in colleges. Of course that is itself a tricky problem since men and women tend to choose different m
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by glesica 13y ago
I suspect the implication was that being written in Python makes the code more accessible to "normal" people, both to read and (perhaps to an even greater extent) to run. If it were written on .NET one would likely (because Mono i
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by glesica 13y ago
I agree. I am personally very supportive of what Snowden has done and I want him to remain free (the torture that has been inflicted on Bradley Manning is totally unconscionable). But at the same time, I do recognize that there is always da
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by glesica 13y ago
The world is a sphere, the projections shown in the article don't reflect that. Russia is near the "top" of the world, so flying north is the quickest way to go south, on the opposite "side" of the planet.
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by glesica 13y ago
Well first of all, I seldom search for an address. 99% of the time I'm either looking for a general category (places to eat or sleep, that sort of thing) or directions from one town to another (specifics can be worked out later on a mo
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by glesica 13y ago
Huh? Who searches Google for addresses? I search Google Maps for addresses... I guess my mom, or someone else who thinks that the Google search bar is "the Internet" might do that, and perhaps other savvy people have workflows tha
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by glesica 13y ago
But I'm talking about using Google anonymously, incognito. Sure, they might guess who I am from my IP address or font list or something weirder, so who knows. But assuming they don't know who I am, or at least act like they don&#x

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