gloob

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by gloob 15y ago
It is self-evidently true that removing visible comment scores mostly removes methods for trivially measuring "viewer sentiment". It is the contention of those in support of non-visible comment scores that trivial measurement of viewer sen
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by gloob 15y ago
Your first sentence has been true for the better part of a century, now. And - while the American government is undoubtedly less corrupt and more liberal than the Russian one - I don't really see the odds of America using nukes being signi
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by gloob 15y ago
every other sentence out of his mouth could be "I'm better than you" and people wouldn't flinch To my understanding, that's pretty much what "charismatic" means. It's not a synonym for "friendly".
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by gloob 15y ago
Why the following: "the selection pressure at the individual level tends to outweigh the pressure at the group level". Because "I had 1.8 viable offspring before I died" is more fit than "I had 1.5 viable offspring before I died", no matt
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by gloob 15y ago
Could you describe how that makes it like a pyramid scheme?
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by gloob 15y ago
So whether the porn industry wanted it, if the market wanted it, it would happen. What do you mean by "if the market wanted it"? Unless people actually stopped paying for porn on non-.xxx domains, or they payed more for porn on .xxx doma
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by gloob 15y ago
Forgive me if I'm being dense, but what motive would I have to pay X dollars a year for the privilege of being easy to block? Edit: I mean, I've heard people argue that it would help the porn sites curry favor with parents, but I really hav
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by gloob 15y ago
Normally I wouldn't be this pedantic, but in a discussion about currency, it's worthwhile specifying whether you mean American dollars, $some_other_country's dollars, or the Platonic form of dollars.
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by gloob 15y ago
I'm skeptical. I don't really see anything inherently less memorable about Blackwater, Microsoft, or Coca-Cola than Pepsi, Apple, or Dropbox.
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by gloob 15y ago
Then they should accept responsibility for the outcome of their decision when Google backing up their stuff isn't "backed up enough".
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by gloob 16y ago
To quote myself from a few months ago: "I am a citizen, you must hold (if you are the government) or fund (if you are a taxpayer) an election for me to vote in." What's your feeling on that positive right? I've encountered people who argue
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by gloob 16y ago
Fair enough, but the end result is still that the "security" of the system is rather different than what most people think it is. "Just your friends see BBM" versus "Just your friends, and RIM, and the government of India, and - oh hell, l
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by gloob 16y ago
It's entirely possible I'm in the minority on this, but the following (theatrical, paraphrased, artistic-liberty-ized) conversation implies that there is a serious security issue with Blackberry devices: India: Give us access to your
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by gloob 16y ago
I haven't used this myself, but it looks like it might be something up your alley: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004254 http://proxlet.com/ My understanding is that it's basically a proxy for Twitter that allows you to filter bas
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by gloob 16y ago
Though, in fairness, Erlang has a completely different emphasis than most other functional languages - instead of provability, experimenting with type systems, or state-phobia, my understanding is that it was pretty much engineered for maki
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by gloob 16y ago
I believe I'm in violent agreement with your second paragraph. A mismatch between the predictions of an economic theory and what happens in the real world demonstrates a predictive (and therefore descriptive) inadequacy of that theory, rath
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by gloob 16y ago
You might disagree with the idea that "it simply doesn't matter", but I don't actually see any refuting of that idea in your post. Could you offer a reason why it does matter?
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by gloob 16y ago
I might be misremembering, but wasn't Tivo also Linux-based?
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by gloob 16y ago
Brings a whole new meaning to "good artists copy, great artists steal".
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by gloob 16y ago
In a pyramid scheme, the people at the top of the pyramid want to stay in the game for as long as they can, not cash out as soon as the opportunity arises. What you've described sounds closer to "pump'n'dump".
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by gloob 16y ago
He mostly did it manually. He had started to pull a system together to automate it, but (iirc) some people rather resented it, so he discontinued that.
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by gloob 16y ago
Because it's [dead], would be my first guess. Now, if you are wondering why it is dead, I can't help you in the slightest.
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by gloob 16y ago
I'd rather not have any facet of government in an easy position to monitor my internet traffic. In fairness, it's a bit late for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa#AT.26T_Internet_monitoring
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by gloob 16y ago
Sorry - I accidentally downvoted you.
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by gloob 16y ago
No it's not. Even if "most of the IPs involved in the attack came from Iran" constituted proof that the attacker was Iranian, it would not be proof that (1) the attacker was the Iranian government, or that (2) they intended to use the stol
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by gloob 16y ago
So the solution to "the CA system is not trustworthy" is "tell the public the CA system is trustworthy"? Edit: I mean, I can see how it's in the browser's interests to convince people that the system is reliable. And I can see how it's in
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by gloob 16y ago
Freedom of expression does not exist in Apple's app store. That has consistently been my takeaway from previous discussions on this topic, at least.
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by gloob 16y ago
Without further qualification, "better" and "worse" are usually pretty meaningless words when discussing something like programming languages. I've only read the first few paragraphs on the page so far, but it seems reasonable to guess it
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by gloob 16y ago
I'm not really certain about eastern Canada, but in Calgary the seasons are something like: Spring: Mid-March til Mid-May. Snow goes away. Then it comes back. Then it goes away. Then it comes back. Then it goes
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by gloob 16y ago
all-the-worlds-a-va.xxx

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