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by guygurari 14y ago
First, I doubt we would be able to agree on a viable definition of "humane" commercial farming. But even if we did, I would not take the farmer's word for how the animals are treated. What I have heard from a former farmhand, who worked on
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by guygurari 14y ago
I am a vegan for moral reasons, and I have no objection to people eating animals. What I do object to is the horrifying daily torture that animals must suffer in the meat, dairy and eggs industry. I am guessing this is where some of your fo
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by guygurari 14y ago
RSS feeds can be monetized. For example, Daring Fireball [1] sells weekly 'sponsored posts' on the RSS feed, in addition to selling ads on the site. [1] http://daringfireball.net
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by guygurari 14y ago
See this discussion [1] for example where they say this explicitly. Passwords and logins and other sensitive details are encrypted, but item titles (including note titles) and URLs are not. They have a new keychain design [2] in which most
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by guygurari 14y ago
Using a password manager allows me to assign a different random password to every site I use. This means that, if a site that uses weak hashing gets hacked (a relatively common occurrence), none of my other accounts are compromised. Do you
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by guygurari 14y ago
I know very little about economics. I will be happy to know if this 'theorem' is supported by experimental evidence (none were mentioned in the article). Otherwise it should really be called a hypothesis.
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by guygurari 14y ago
Thanks for explaining and for the examples. I would like to clarify that by 'practical advantage' I do not mean 'how does this help us write a web app' (although that would be nice), I mean 'how does this help us better understand programmi
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by guygurari 14y ago
So the algebra of data types, as described, is simply the algebra of natural numbers. I guess this can't be the whole story because it does not describe types which can get an infinite number of values. But still I wonder, what is the pract
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by guygurari 14y ago
Actually his answer was that he is familiar with several independent reconstructions and that they suffer from similarly problematic flaws, not that he is not "interested in the answer". Your second paragraph is an ad hominem, where you mak
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by guygurari 14y ago
The grandparent offered specific criticisms against said reconstruction, and you countered with, essentially, "others got the same result". Scientific questions are not decided by a majority vote. Do you have more concrete arguments? By the
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by guygurari 14y ago
I write latex in vim using latex-suite and I'm very happy with it. The vim spell checker also works well in latex files.
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by guygurari 14y ago
One piece of evidence that flat discussions don't work well at all: on general news sites which have numbered flat comments, I often see comments that start with 'reply to number 4...'. Users are actively trying to make up for the lack of t
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by guygurari 14y ago
Others have already answered, but to address the health issue allow me to mention a credible source [1], written by one of the leading experts on the relation between nutrition and health. The word 'vegan' appears only a couple of times in
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by guygurari 14y ago
As far as I know that is an upgrade price, which you can only get if you already own a legitimate copy of a previous version.
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by guygurari 14y ago
If that were true, then I would have also expected them to ease up on the anti-piracy measures.
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by guygurari 14y ago
I use CrashPlan both on Mac and on Windows. On the Mac it works very well. On Windows it is okay, though it needs some hand holding -- sometimes the service gets stuck and needs to be restarted manually. Overall I find that it is better tha
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by guygurari 14y ago
"There are a variety of measures that could be taken to alleviate the problems I've described. They include: reducing the patent term for inventors in industries that do not have the peculiar characteristics of pharmaceuticals that I descri
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by guygurari 15y ago
No, but this is. http://www.google.co.il/search?q=5000-140*%28x*x%2By*y%29%2B...
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by guygurari 15y ago
The day I bought my mother her iPad, she closed her Thinkpad and hasn't opened it since. That was over a year ago.
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by guygurari 15y ago
I think this article, "Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'" [1], makes a compelling case. There are essentially two reasons why privacy is important. The first is that privacy can be used to 'hide bad things'. This is wha
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by guygurari 15y ago
> As others have mentioned, Apple disallows time bombs Yes, I did not know this. I don't understand the reason behind this rule, but as a user I find time-limited trials annoying. I prefer to have a trial version where I can use all the
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by guygurari 15y ago
> I sure hope Apple is working on a way to enable free trials. Official support would be nice, but can't developers already implement trials using in-app purchases? Download the app for free to get the trial, then pay to unlock the full
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by guygurari 15y ago
> How many people now have gmail accounts, and are searching through google then before they had Android devices? Judging by Android users I see around me, not a single one.
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by guygurari 15y ago
I guess the canonical example is using a compiler to compile its next version. Ken Thompson famously used this bootstrapping property to insert a trojan horse into the C compiler [1]. It propagated itself into future binary versions of the
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by guygurari 15y ago
> I have done is sandboxed it: I have a separate “Facebook” account on OS X At what point will you decide to ban Facebook? Will you stop using their services if they find a way to spy on your cross-browser behavior? Or will you just san
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by guygurari 15y ago
I have different expectations from my iOS device and from my Mac. My main work machine must give me the freedom to install whatever I want, since limiting this freedom would be crippling. But I don't require this of my phone, since I don't
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by guygurari 15y ago
> Apple has already demonstrated several times over that the professional market isn't really of much interest to them anymore. There is one group of professionals Apple cannot do without: developers. One of the main appeals of both iO
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by guygurari 15y ago
My thoughts exactly. I've been trying to figure out the best way to introduce my kid to programming, when it becomes relevant. Games are probably the most engaging type of software for children. This app is just what I've been looking for.
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by guygurari 15y ago
"In fact, where there is a clear and sane hypothesis in play (e.g. "time spent watching TV is time not spent learning to talk") it almost always works out that further science shows the causation that you expect." There can be more than one
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by guygurari 15y ago
"A correlation is still a very real statistical thing. It doesn't automatically imply causation, but it doesn't rule it out either. In fact, it's usually pretty good evidence in favor of causality." If A and B are correlated, it might mean

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