iamnotlarry

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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
I liked Mozilla's Persona (BrowserID) for the fact that it protected privacy from the 3rd party provider. You're asking for privacy protections from the site seeking identity authentication. It's a fascinating idea to have so
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
I have thought about this a bit lately. Social media can be a very convenient way to keep up to date with people, and to allow people to keep up to date with you. But it has real costs. I abandoned my Facebook account many years ago and ref
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
This includes a call for help on Photon, the "new user interface." "Since the UI is written in major parts in JavaScript and CSS and an HTML-like language called XUL, anyone with webdev skills can improve it!" I thought
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Monsanto has waged war against independent farmers for years. If your neighbor planted Monsanto seeds and they germinated into your crop, Monsanto sues you for stealing their IP. They now own your crops because your crops contain their inte
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
The assumption was that you have 800 train cars and that you would load roughly 33 cars every 10 minutes. But let's take your numbers: 415K passengers per day. Let's keep the same three day evacuation period. That's ~1.2 mill
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
I have been involved in a few disaster recovery scenarios. Some of them have involved the Red Cross. The best efforts I have witnessed have been under the direction of locals. When the government or Red Cross or whoever showed up, they real
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
6 million people / 60 people per bus = 100K buses. If each bus made 10 trips, that's still 10K buses. If you assigned each bus to one of 100 evacuation depots around the city, that's 100 buses per depot. It would take a remar
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Imagine a train with 100 cars that can hold 50 people in each car. Imagine that train traveling from Houston to Austin in 3 hours, making three round trips every 24 hours. That train could evacuate 15K people a day. Imagine if each state ma
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Congratulations, cptskippy. You just predicted 2001. Intel and HP combined lost to amd64. This time around, Intel will have to take on more than just AMD. You think eschewing backwards compatibility will work better this time?
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Every time I have ever purchased any insurance policy, I have read it. All of it. Then I pick out sentences or paragraphs and ask my agent to explain what they mean. The agent never knows. Their boss never knows. I'm a fairly educated
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Ah. "Not-for-profit." Yeah. Right. How many millions do the execs get in salary? Those are costs, not profits, right? edit: typos
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
I have come to believe that the insurance industry in the U.S. has become part of the cause of expensive medical care. I am not opposed to the idea of insurance, but here are some of the problems I see in how it works today. I do not believ
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
This is a classic lesson. Firefox OS tried to invert it. You could run FxOS apps on Android devices. And Windows devices. And Linux devices. MS is doing somewhat the IBM thing with their Linux for Windows. I've been curious to see if t
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by iamnotlarry 9y ago
Anybody who tries to imitate this without knowing what they are doing won't make it 10 meters, let alone 1000 meters. To even make it to the face of El Cap, you have to have some idea what you are doing.
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Big names outside Silicon Valley
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
You can open a hair salon without venture capital. You can start a tech consulting company without venture capital. You can start a construction company, a law practice, an auto repair shop, or a dental practice without venture capital. Oh,
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
Selling under normal market value is not an act of violence. Using robots instead of human employees is not an act of violence. You have a very strange world view. Are your clothes hand-stitched? Was the electronic device you used for your
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
You may wish to tone down the condescension. Many people use their brains just fine and have, in fact, experienced violence from those in power. Perhaps they knew or were related to one of the dozens of people murdered by police. Perhaps th
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
Good luck with that. The daughter of a wealthy estate might receive the very best in private education, music lessons, etc. She might take her allowance and start a successful business. She might just have a successful business because of a
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
We're not talking about all rich people. We're talking about Jeff Bezos. How did Jeff become the second wealthiest human on the planet? Well, his mother's family had some wealth. But his mother was a single teenage mom until
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
How is minimizing labor costs an act of violence? The point was that Jeff Bezos did not violently force anybody to work for him. Nor did he force anybody to buy from him. Your complaint is that Amazon is profitable because nobody works for
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
First, losing money to edge out competition is not illegal. Loss-leaders are a normal business practice. Second, none of your three points refute the Chamberlain argument. 1. There were limited alternatives to Wilt. When Wilt was named MVP
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
Yes. It is overstating Japanese regularity a very little bit. And understating the irregularity of English an enormous amount.
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
generally, no
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
As others have commented here, Japanese relies heavily on inference. Subjects and topics are very commonly dropped. I shouldn't say that the language relies on inference. Rather, speakers of Japanese rely on inference. It's like c
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
What? You mean there's a ternary operator? I bring this up to illustrate that the metaphor isn't perfect, but it has some legs. I meant that BNF diagrams would be easier to create and understand for Japanese than for English. You
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
Wa/Ga aren't that hard. Mostly just subject vs topic. Just like objective and subjective isn't that hard in English. Of course, most Americans can't master objective/subjective. The trick for wa/ga is often jus
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
I really like the Korean writing system. It's very cool. Take the 1-4 sounds that make up a syllable, arrange them into the syllable template, and you have a single character that represents that syllable. It's pretty slick, space
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
For Japanese, you learn a handful of rules to conjugate a verb. Then those rules always apply with no exceptions. In English, there are not set rules. Every case is special. What is the past tense form of 'shake'? 'see'?
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by iamnotlarry 10y ago
I think you should learn a handful of grammar rules right up front. Obviously, * Desu/deshita/de arimasen/de arimasen deshita * Masu/masen/mashita/masen deshita Then add a few more * if * while * want to <ve

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