ianferrel

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by ianferrel 16y ago
If we managed to eliminate mosquitos, malaria would go with it, just as it has in many developed nations. Afterward, we could reintroduce mosquitos without nearly the risk of malaria we have now. I'm not sure how true that is of other disea
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by ianferrel 16y ago
Competitors don't go after them because the competitor has too much to lose. Patent trolls do, because the shell company has nothing to lose, and no products to protect from its target's patent portfolio
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by ianferrel 16y ago
Only if he obtained their services by trading something to them that started from the paperclip.
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by ianferrel 16y ago
There's a need for some space in a web browser that is reserved for browser messages. This space has to be distinct from space that can be used to display content, otherwise the website can spoof browser notifications. Of course, this has t
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by ianferrel 16y ago
Iv'e seen these so much they don't even phase me any more.
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by ianferrel 16y ago
Doesn't sound 100% legal to me. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd claim that the mere existence of an invoice is a statement that money is owed. Since money is not owed, and the creator of the invoice knows that it's not, that makes this fraud. The
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by ianferrel 16y ago
Even without prior reference, it's a combination of a commonly used greek root "hyper", for "over, in excess, or more" with the word "mile". Its meaning can reasonably be derived from that.
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by ianferrel 16y ago
A per-share tax makes no sense, because a share is an arbitrary measurement. This would effectively be a regressive tax on small-time investors. As Cuban himself mentions, it would put pressure on companies to do reverse splits. But I belie
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by ianferrel 16y ago
That's some pretty impressive FedEx service, too!
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by ianferrel 17y ago
Can you provide an example of a nonlinear unit?
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I think that that sentence desperately needed an "on" after the "or". "Pwn2Own didn't offer prizes for anyone beating up on other popular Web browsers such as Opera or [for beating up on] the Linux operating system" is how I parse it.
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by ianferrel 17y ago
One of either Scott Adams or I is really ignorant of the furniture market. I've bought * A bed * Bookshelves * A table * Chairs * A desk * A couch And I've never had to wait more than a week for delivery. The chairs, table, bookshelves, and
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by ianferrel 17y ago
But then Apple would be ceding the future of electronic publishing of text to Amazon, and could never differentiate its hardware over the Kindle's, unless Amazon decided to support richer media in its files than the Kindle will actually dis
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I had a gen 1 Kindle, and sold it because I was frustrated with the page turning rate. Well, not just the page turning rate. It was that, combined with a smaller screen area, combined with a lower-contrast display (than paper), which made
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I claim that anyone who buys books on the Kindle is in fact renting them, just for an unspecified duration that Amazon gets to choose after the fact. Amazon has already demonstrated that they are capable of remotely deleting books on people
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by ianferrel 17y ago
The author meanders quite a bit, and makes it sound as though if you can't afford locavore cuisine from Whole Foods, you can't be healthy. That's silly. You don't need organic, locally grown produce to eat well, you just need to eat more un
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by ianferrel 17y ago
Unsecured lending to individuals is not, in general, a "safe" investment. Lending Club hasn't even been around long enough to reasonably estimate how safe it might be. Note that I'm not claiming it's a bad investment, but it really stretc
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I respect Adams' opinion generally, but I don't understand why he thinks the buyer would get the sorts of responses the buyer wants. Why wouldn't the buyer just get spam (or, at best, directed advertising of the sort that Google already has
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by ianferrel 17y ago
That's not true. You can't compare one business strategy with nothing and conclude that it's a good strategy. You have to compare against the alternatives. If Newscorp has 10 million visitors per time period, and makes a net of $0.01 per
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that's what he meant by "clean hospitals".
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I read the whole thing and I think that the grandparent comment is pretty accurate. Consider the methods he suggests for retaining shelter: * Squatting. * Couch-surfing. * Living in his car. * Buying some out-of-the-way land and building a
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by ianferrel 17y ago
As long as they either don't open the envelope until just before the presentation, I'm pretty sure they fit within the rules of the competition.
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by ianferrel 17y ago
But it's the best guide we've got.
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by ianferrel 17y ago
For one, it would require making very specific agreements with the music industry to support that price structure, and I don't think Apple trusts the music industry much. But, more importantly, console games are much more difficult to pirat
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by ianferrel 17y ago
That's what I thought, too, but then I realized that what we were both missing is that the edges of the cutting surface are not the same as the edges of the shape. The vertices really do trace out a right angled square, so if you just put c
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I agree that it's pretty easy to transform the code. You could also take the code block in the loop, make it a separate function, and return instead of break. It's no harder to understand a block with break statements than it is to understa
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I might. I'd at least try it if given a substantial discount. Flying coach is already an uncomfortable experience. I wouldn't be surprised if short flights were actually more comfortable standing.
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by ianferrel 17y ago
I don't know if that would really help. The problem with numbers above "million" is that people tend to think that a billion is a few million. Changing to a notation where the exponents are just numbers won't help. They know what 12 and 6 a