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by imichael 6y ago
Maximizing vertical space is why I always put the task bar dock or whatever at the right. Plus you have less back and forth with the mouse because scrollbars are also on the right.
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by imichael 6y ago
When I read that I immediately thought of social media and how it sucks up everyone's time and energy.
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Virgin Hyperloop Hits Milestone: The First Human Passenger Test(theverge.com)
8 points by imichael 6y ago|0 comments
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by imichael 6y ago
This is cool. I had a similar idea, but for spending instead of investing. It seems likely that, post Citizens United, directing your spending towards companies that are supporting politicians that you also support is probably more effectiv
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The Masks Masquerade (Taleb)(medium.com)
1 points by imichael 6y ago|0 comments
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With masks, “no clients contract Covid-19 from salon exposure”(springfieldmo.gov)
3 points by imichael 6y ago|0 comments
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Can we “fix” social media while maintaining arenas of discourse?(medium.com)
1 points by imichael 6y ago|0 comments
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by imichael 6y ago
Has anyone ever tried to sue the union for keeping a misbehaving cop on the street? It may be that they have to defend their members, but the union should pay for the consequences, not the citizens at large.
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Washington in talks with chipmakers about building U.S. factories(reuters.com)
3 points by imichael 6y ago|0 comments
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How to Eradicate the Corporate Disease That Is Worsening the Covid-19 Pandemic(ineteconomics.org)
2 points by imichael 7y ago|0 comments
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by imichael 7y ago
How about ssdnodes ( https://www.ssdnodes.com/ )? I've only used them for personal sites but so far, so good and it seems to be a good value. I also like webfaction ( https://www.webfaction.com/ ). You get
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Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?(ritholtz.com)
9 points by imichael 7y ago|0 comments
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by imichael 8y ago
> Automatic censorship of live feeds, how do you do that? Make it live but with a time delay (say 1 hour). Allow .1% of all users to see it immediately. Add a Flag This Content button. Depending on how many people flag it, triage as safe
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by imichael 8y ago
I was told to assume $350/square foot for new construction here in the East Bay by a design/build firm I contacted recently. So a typical 2000 sq. ft. home is $700K just for design, construction, and permits, plus $300K for land i
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Japan gears up for mega hack of its own citizens(ft.com)
1 points by imichael 8y ago|0 comments
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by imichael 8y ago
I wonder how it really works. My first thought is to have a dedicated credit card used only to pay for my google services, kept in a drawer at home (and not uses for any other online service) and therefore unlikely (less likely?) to be used
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by imichael 9y ago
Yes the mechanics of handling a message or posting or whatever is understood at some level by everyone and perfectly acceptable. What's troubling is that they associate all of it and more with a cumulative collection of information abo
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by imichael 9y ago
Agree it depends on the bottom line. But if this makes people more skeptical of things they see on Facebook and reduces the effectiveness of ads on the platform then it could be a problem.
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by imichael 9y ago
etrade also has a free API if you have an account: https://us.etrade.com/ctnt/dev-portal
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by imichael 10y ago
To me it all boils down to this: hardware is all about making billions of things, all identical. Software is about building innumerable things on top of that hardware, all different. What would you like it to do, what can be done, how to do
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by imichael 10y ago
I was wondering the same thing. It would have to be a sphere, a thick shell constructed of an incompressible material such that the inward pressure causes compression. Some kind of honeycomb structure? The weight of the shell depends on the
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Circulus.svg generates circular menus(sarasoueidan.com)
1 points by imichael 12y ago|0 comments
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by imichael 13y ago
The problem is that we do not have any discernable influence on our nominal political representatives. A workaround is that we might be able to influence the corporations that do have significant influence. It's worth a try. The Citizens Un
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by imichael 13y ago
I suppose you begin to learn what is ethical and what isn't in kindergarten. What's legal is an entirely different matter. Copyright is just a government regulation.
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by imichael 16y ago
So ideally they publish music from the artists directly, eliminating the other intermediaries and effectively making them the... the... the record label.
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by imichael 16y ago
I have been dabbling in this and it is pretty interesting. It is a huge time sink by the way. Also, you are playing the odds and you need a certain amount of cash or it will be gone before you get anywhere. If you end up trading frequently
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by imichael 17y ago
Funny that this other heist came up on rolfe-winlker's blog. Quite a contrast. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk-1O31r1Q8&feature=playe...
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by imichael 17y ago
You might pick up a few nickels, but you might also get crushed. (I'm not sure how it applies here.)
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by imichael 17y ago
You were willing to work for nothing because of what you might learn. For one thine, you didn't know that you had skills that were worth money. Now you see that you do. You probably learned a lot of other things too. I also think that an in
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DRAM glut turning to shortage by year end(ft.com)
2 points by imichael 18y ago|0 comments

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