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by glesica 14y ago
So you're saying you didn't actually read the entire article... The data in the last 75% of the article were based on 70,000 organic signups split by beta/post-beta users.
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by glesica 14y ago
But Samsung didn't copy the entire design, they copied the basic form factor which, as someone else pointed out, was unambiguously not an Apple invention. Sure, Apple made the first popular device with that particular form factor, but t
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by glesica 14y ago
The other two comments (at this moment) summed it up pretty well. The treatment has a high rate of success (80%) and is in no way "experimental". If something has become a part of the standard medical "toolbox", providing it to everyone is
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by glesica 14y ago
Donated $50. I realize we're trying not to rant about the healthcare system too much, so all I will say is that this is exactly why the system is a problem. What's the point of all our technology and "progress" if we still don't provide rea
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by glesica 14y ago
But what's the difference? We're big kids, we can read the documents for ourselves. Or we can wait and let another news outlet read them and interpret them for us. I just don't see this as being a meaningful difference.
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by glesica 14y ago
So what? Seriously, why does it matter even one iota if there are others doing the same thing? Your entire objection to Wikileaks seems to be that it is unconventional in a literal sense, it doesn't follow the conventions of journalism that
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by glesica 14y ago
The "fact" is that "somebody said this in an email". Some of the most interesting things in the diplomatic cables were not of the form "X did Y" but rather "X said Y to Z". In that case, yes, an email is a fact.
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by glesica 14y ago
Seems like a meaningless difference to me. You're saying that if Wikileaks had carefully summarized each document instead of releasing the actual documents then it would be journalism? Wikileaks presented information, just because that info
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by glesica 14y ago
Speaking only for myself, the diagram makes sense, technically speaking, but it is totally unnecessary and adds nothing to my understanding of the article. It's the type of thing I would expect some manager to ask for because there were no
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by glesica 14y ago
What you just cited isn't a progressive income tax, it's a flat tax. Twice as much income -> twice as much tax. So we both pay, say 0.01% of our income for the haircut. So are you saying that even a flat tax is unacceptable? As to your
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by glesica 14y ago
You're comparing numbers that can't be reasonably compared. Yes, one is small and one is large, but that's meaningless. To illustrate why, let's make things simple. Assume a society with two people. One person, Adam, has income of $100 and
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by glesica 14y ago
Agreed. I have done a bit of teaching and I would gladly turn the monologue over to someone else and spend my time working individually or in small groups with students on projects or helping them gain a deeper understanding of the material
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by glesica 14y ago
I had the same thought, but I hopped over to the web site of the local community college and did some arithmetic. It turns out that $2,000 per year will easily cover four courses, two per semester, which is a decent part-time load. Cost wor
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by glesica 14y ago
"Internet expert" == ! expert
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by glesica 14y ago
I love the sentiment, but I doubt it will come to pass. That's exactly what people have said at every stage of industrialization. But the gains always end up being consolidated and the long work weeks and boring jobs march on.
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by glesica 14y ago
That's not the way "free market" is understood by the vast majority of people. In your version of a free market murder is also a common business strategy. Google could just kill any engineer who dares to work for a competitor. No one wants
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by glesica 14y ago
This is why I won't buy a machine from one of the many fine vendors that sell laptops with Linux pre-loaded. In virtually all cases (that I've seen) you have to choose between a low-resolution screen and paying $2,000 or more.
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by glesica 14y ago
They could just get the hardware Ubuntu certified, literally. It might actually cost Dell less, too. Of course everyone wants their own "ecosystem", so maybe they'd rather just lose the customers if they can't lock them in. http://www.ubun
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by glesica 14y ago
I actually assumed "smoke signals" was some sort of Mac app that I didn't know about (it actually sounds like it could be a 37 Signals product). I even wondered if "papyrus" was a team-management wiki or the like. Then I got to "quill and i
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by glesica 14y ago
I agree that social systems should be designed to minimize the amount of damage corrupt individuals can do. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't blame the corrupt individuals for their behavior. The author mentions regulatory capture and spec
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by glesica 14y ago
The DMCA doesn't say they have to pre-screen everything. Youtube goes above and beyond what the law requires (in many cases to the detriment of its users). The law doesn't say "you have to do whatever other, similar companies do". It says "
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by glesica 14y ago
Lack of reasonable Linux support made it surprisingly difficult to find a backup provider. I ended up going with CrashPlan. I tried SpiderOak but their client software was terrible and the headless install basically didn't work.
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by glesica 14y ago
I used to do this for passwords and such. The problem was that the file would become un-synched and I'd end up with several "<computer name>'s version..." copies. The problem is that with Dropbox you aren't accessing a single file,
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by glesica 14y ago
I don't understand how CL can even exercise this kind of control. I'm not a lawyer, of course, but it seems reasonable to me that apartment listings would be considered "facts", just like baseball statistics. So then the CL terms of use are
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by glesica 14y ago
Interesting that it comes up in DDG, which I thought was partially backed by Bing. They augment the results quite a bit, though, so not terribly surprising. Also, I made myself sad when I typed "kogan.com" into the address bar to test DDG a
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by glesica 14y ago
Seems like there is a good chance that the Internet will end up encouraging this. The same thing happened in magazine publishing. General interest magazines fell off a cliff, but special-interest magazines generally survived. The same could
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by glesica 14y ago
Limited grasp of human behavior? You're describing the average economist there, unfortunately. :) Bundling all 100 channels for $40 doesn't benefit everyone . There are a ton of assumptions embedded in that analysis that may, or may not be
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by glesica 14y ago
Agreed, although it's always a risky bet hoping Congress will turn corruption (promises of campaign money, cozy ties with lobbyists) into good legislation. I'm sure it happens on occasion, but we could just as easily wind up with laws that
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by glesica 14y ago
Why? Seriously. What has he seen in the market for devices over the past 15-20 years that makes him think that? Yes, there has been a trend toward consolidating devices (PDA and camera functions being subsumed by the cell phone, for instanc
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by glesica 14y ago
Did it actually say you can get a refund at any time? The only place the word "refund" appears is here: > ...we have the right to cancel your ticket (and refund your money). So based on the article, we don't know if you can get a refund

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