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by icambron 12y ago
> After that we've used the playtex liners. Why did you wait until then? Is it that you prefer glass bottles but they're too heavy for the baby to hold? I have a 6-day-old (breastfed so far, but pumping means bottles get used t
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> There's no victim here, this is one extraordinarily rich startup complaining about another extraordinarily rich startup. That you don't care about the victim does not make them not a victim.
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I think it's a question of defaults. The null hypothesis is that it won't lead to blight, violence, and widespread addiction for the same reason that most other stuff doesn't. Those fears, as the article puts it, are imaginar
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Because competition drives prices down until they're close to costs.
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You should have lots of sympathy for them, though. They're not on their guard about MITM attacks, so they deserve to have their data stolen?
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Ticket submitted.
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Very cool. I'm starting a JVM-based project, and I'd love to use this in the places where I was planning to use JRuby. Besides being impressed overall, two pieces of feedback: * On enhancements, I very much like C# extensions desi
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I have a late 2012 13". It usually takes ~8 seconds to connect to an AP. Seems to depend on the AP and anecdotally it's very sensitive to the wireless channel. Maybe I just have a bad card or something.
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One of a handful reasons I don't have Linux on my laptop anymore, even though I like so many things about Linux so much more. I'm not sure about this point, though: > Connection time. I dislike OS X pretty deeply and think that
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> Another approach would be giving every process an ID that never repeats and is unique across all namespaces, and use that for comparison instead of the PID. This seems like a nice choice. PRNG seeds aside, it's always bothered me
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Google Directors Wanted Page, Brin to Court Facebook Employees(blogs.wsj.com)
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That does seem like a nice option, and sort of what I was going for with my Clojure suggestion. And I suspect that mostly any Lisp will do for SICP's purposes.
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Telling me that the class I think of as "new" has been around that long makes me feel old. Point taken that they're just fundamentally different classes, not just the same class using a different language medium. 6.001 had so
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I've always been of two minds about this. My intro course at MIT was in Scheme, a class that has since been renamed and is now taught using Python. On the one hand, it was a great course, and the FP was an awesome mindfuck (previous pr
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I think as a practical matter, sure. But it's also really fun to explore "fancy" algorithms, even when you don't have a practical need for them. I certainly felt the tone of the article was less "I need to sort a sh
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I like "Fancy algorithms are slow when n is small, and n is usually small." -Rob Pike
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I wish I'd used those exact words in my clumsy footnote.
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I'll admit it's been a few years since I parked in SF. But I guess I don't understand how that program could be working but still give these guys a market. If the meters are setting the prices at market-clearing levels, then
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by icambron 12y ago
As I understand it, the issue isn't the leftover meter money at all; it's just access to the spot . There are no meters (or there's a meter and it's trivially cheap) but there's a chronic shortage of parking spaces
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I dislike all of these companies, but I'd have put it all differently: The first one, Reservation Hop, is simply indefensible because it relies on fraud. It's deceiving restaurants into thinking the person asking for a reservation
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My first name get misspelled more commonly than it's spelled correctly. I don't mind that so much from a personal relationships standpoint (it's not an intuitive spelling), but it's caused me real issues. The pharmacy ha
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I'm guessing they just thought they misheard it, since "Nate" is so much more common than "Nat".
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> Extreme example (IANAL): a person who uses Facebook heavily and is part of the "more negative stories" group commits suicide. Is Facebook exposed to any legal risk because of this? IANAL either, but a) I'm guessing not,
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So, to demonstrate that, you need to make an argument that: 1. Describes the limits of what experimentation is ethical without consent (i.e. the relevant way in which A/B testing is different than what FB did) in a consistently applica
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Eh, so someone made up a bunch of rules and stamped "ethics!" on them, and now, completely independent of the original justification, it's somehow the law of the land. But, at least as applied here, it's pretty bogus. Th
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by icambron 12y ago
Meaning, for example, the tweet that links to this article? [1] Doesn't look like they have a current mailing list other than notifications from...the forum this article was posted in. If they wanted to market Gradel to HN (rather than
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Er, how Kafkaesque is that? They (or, rather, their coworkders) are the ones who detained her in the first place. "So, we locked you in this cell with these other unsavory people. Notice how now you're in a cell with unsavory peop
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Fair enough.
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Not at all. It's not even clear what rules they were even applying here, other than their own discretion. My point was that if "security" and "threat assessment" were the operative parts of their decision, they coul
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> Another word for their language would be the language of security, threat assessment, and law enforcement. If deporting social entrepreneurs on the basis of their nationality and the word "hacker" is what's meant by &quo

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