glesica

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by glesica 13y ago
> Here, if these behaviours were illogical and had a negative payoff in all cases, they may not have existed in the first place- or persisted. But they do. Why? In my opinion, that is not a meaningful question because the answer is simp
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by glesica 13y ago
> It's not totally false; Linux will work on almost everything, most of the time. For certain definitions of the word "work" :-). Much of the reputation GNU/Linux has for being wonky and difficult to use comes not from alpha hacker type
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by glesica 13y ago
Apologies, I was very much conflating WM and DE. However, you mentioned Unity, which is really both (Unity itself is a DE but it brings its own WM to the table and assumes that you will use it). My point was that if you insist on extensive
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by glesica 13y ago
You can switch away from it, you just can't do it with "apt-get install <new window manager>". Try a distro that is designed for the WM you want to use. I agree that in an ideal world installing a new WM would "Just Work", but we
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by glesica 13y ago
Linux is already winning the OS wars, it's called Android ;-) Just being snarky, I get your point. I've said this before, and I think it is important to keep in mind when discussing GNU/Linux: things work quite well... on supported hardware
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by glesica 13y ago
I see your point. I was thinking (though I didn't state it explicitly, apologies) of "worse" to mean "worse value". For instance, reducing the quality by, say 10%, but reducing the price by 50% would probably be a good value for many studen
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by glesica 13y ago
I agree with your general sentiments, but, and you are certainly not alone in this, you glossed over the financial issues facing universities. In many cases, the budget issues facing universities are not all endogenous, unavoidable problems
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by glesica 14y ago
If it was opt-in then mashing the "Next" button would be sufficient to prevent the app from misbehaving...
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by glesica 14y ago
Actually the article notes that quite a few other people do seem to have experienced this in the past...
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by glesica 14y ago
My intent was to take issue with the OP's assertion that the majority of what is printed is an outright fabrication. Even when journalists get some details wrong, or quote a source who may be misinformed or lying, the broad strokes are ofte
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by glesica 14y ago
Oh wow, so now you're insulting people who disagree with you? Impressive, makes me think even less of the big banks if one of them employed you, frankly. I don't see anything clumsy about my reasoning. The Libor scandal, for instance, is pr
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by glesica 14y ago
So banks didn't rig interest rates, or blatantly launder money for drug lords and terrorists, or foreclose on people who didn't even owe money on their homes? Are these things false? But you worked for Apple and an unnamed investment bank,
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by glesica 14y ago
FWIW this product fits my use case perfectly. I want to sync lots of data, but I don't want to pay for Dropbox because I really, really don't care if my stuff gets into the "cloud". I just want it across machines. Currently I use AeroFS, bu
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by glesica 14y ago
Don't you think "Pro" is more of a marketing term at this point than an actual description of the intended use or target customer? Not to belittle Apple, either, every company does this sort of thing.
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by glesica 14y ago
GPS?
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by glesica 14y ago
The difference is that the problems are much, much worse with some brands. For instance, I have ordered three Dell computers for myself and I have never taken delivery of a single one. In every case Dell screwed up the order and I ended up
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by glesica 14y ago
If it doesn't matter, then why don't they just read him his rights? If reading the rights is just a formality, then why all the effort and trouble to avoid doing it? The problem really isn't this case specifically, the problem is what this
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by glesica 14y ago
For the prices they're charging, just get a VPN, still be cheaper than cable in most places...
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by glesica 14y ago
> Hell, that's probably what make them join the force in the first place. This. If we believe that people will tend to behave in accordance with their incentives (and we all do, because we're all good capitalists here) then this is a vi
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by glesica 14y ago
Didn't the Dems have both houses of Congress for the first two years? Unless the "entrenched party, backed up by the ultra-rich" you're talking about is the Democratic party (I would argue that it is both).
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by glesica 14y ago
Well, not exactly, right? I mean, they don't contribute to liquidity, but the difference is that hoarded bitcoins might, at some point in the future, be traded. So it has to be considered when assessing the risk of bitcoins as an investment
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by glesica 14y ago
Use Pandoc! It takes normal Markdown and can create a beamer or fancy HTML presentation from it automatically. Or, if the HTML presentation frameworks it supports aren't to your liking, just create a quick template that spits out something
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by glesica 14y ago
The keys to the castle have been turned over to the enemy. I'm going to have to migrate eventually, so might as well start sooner rather than later. This is an incredibly sad event for me. But, like I said, I should have known better. Close
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by glesica 14y ago
I have personally integrated Mendeley into my process as a student, despite the fact that I should have known better. Sometimes everyone gets distracted by shiny things, I guess. Shame on me.
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by glesica 14y ago
They demonstrate this by lobbying to suppress freedom of speech? Weird. You haven't justified restricting free speech. I am willing (happy) to admit that some animal-rights people are uninformed blowhards. But that doesn't justify punching
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by glesica 14y ago
Fine, that's perfectly fine with me. But nothing you said suggests that recording slaughter practices should be some sort of special "first amendment black hole". If it grosses people out, then maybe we'll just end up with more vegetarians,
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by glesica 14y ago
I support free information. If "best practices" in animal slaughter gross people out, then maybe we need better "best practices" or maybe we need to rethink our agriculture system. Just because something has been decided upon by a group of
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by glesica 14y ago
Then the person should be prosecuted for trespass. Still doesn't make it OK to violate their free speech rights...
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by glesica 14y ago
This is an example of a law that, I think, truly benefits the public. There is no reason that Uber should not be barred from discriminating based on pickup location or destination. At the same time, I think the taxi laws are generally in ne
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by glesica 14y ago
It works over the Internet. It is basically Dropbox, but peer-to-peer within your personal collection of machines. They do not provide the storage.

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