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by inversionOf 11y ago
The workarounds are arguably a circumvention of DRM. Sites that have paywalls have chosen not to participate in social news type engagements (unless they make specific exemptions for sites like this, rendering this whole discussion unnecess
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Many once "low paid" positions now pay reasonable well in the area -- police officers, for instance, can easily make over $100K per year. Have both adults in the house working at those sorts of income levels, and a 600K house is e
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Prices in Vancouver and Toronto are absolutely insane when one considers incomes in the region. Vancouver has hints of insanity, but Toronto's pricing is entirely rational for the current financial reality -- more and more people, an
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This is the aspect that absolutely boggles -- the company has provably lied time and time again. They've lied about markets, metrics, and the composition of their userbase. There is no honor among thieves, the saying goes, and you can&
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Worth noting that Ars also reviewed the OnHub While a bit of a sidetrack, that review is horrible. Aside from the unnecessary narrative, the complete hackery of their tests leaves me fondly remembering the old days when tech sites actuall
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Also keep in mind that the whole affair thing was a branding change done in 2009 2005- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/double-trouble/ "Darren Morgenstern is a happily married man who runs ashleymadison.com, a
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Ignoring that it seems like the "fix" in this blog post is a really bad idea This is a new restriction and setting on an OS that won't be released widely for months. When fully functioning this setting doesn't downgrad
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The data is out there. There was literally no way to stop it. Whether people find glee in it or not is entirely irrelevant, and this notion that if we all just held up our nose no privacy would be invaded is unreasonable. And it's wort
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by inversionOf 11y ago
People who are aware of Ubuntu's Unity will also know that it obviously has long existed on Linux, so there is no confusion. Simple heuristics made abundantly clear more than any additional title clarification could. There are a lot of
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by inversionOf 11y ago
as the trend over a decade or more will always be "up" This is a growth based analysis (in effect a form of pyramid scheme), and it increasingly simply isn't true, as many in Japan are discovering. As populations flatten an
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by inversionOf 11y ago
I replied to someone claiming that Canada was in "huge trouble". It isn't in huge trouble. You have provided conjecture, but the truth is that it's exactly the same conjecture we've been hearing for around 15 years.
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Huge trouble? While there is an economical slowing in the oil patch, exactly as expected, the government most recently posted a surplus . Canada is a bit odd relative to oil given that a pretty large contingent of Canadians are really on t
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There has been a surprising hesitation by many in making the data searchable. I mean, it's straight up mySQL dumps. You don't even have to do any complex ETL. Making that geographically and attribute searchable is remarkably eas
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by inversionOf 11y ago
No one seemed morally repulsed then. The single and only reason Ashley Madison got media attention -- and they got plenty (morning radio in the Southern Ontario space just loved bringing them up) is that it was salacious: The whole premis
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The fact that points set multiple daily records per year has no bearing whatsoever on the significance, or lack thereof, of a monthly, global record. Exactly the same principle applies. Look at the title of this submission. Stop and befor
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Conflating six heads in a row with a periodic new record is unproductive. For any given area of the country we generally have several record highs per year, and record lows per year, and have every single year since 1880. That's the na
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The pattern is that it is utterly impossible to discuss any nuance of AGW, the data, or its meaning, without zealots such as yourself acting as strongly as you can to make sure everyone knows how much of a Believer you are. AGW is reality.
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by inversionOf 11y ago
This new record high for the month beat the previous record from 17 years ago , to begin. Do you really think you want to understand? Again, the irrational histrionics of so many to this discussion (such as the conflation of billions of ye
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Interesting comment having positively nothing to do with my comment. That you fail to understand that speaks volumes. Of course, you're the one who conflates 135 years with 14 billion years, so not unexpected.
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Comments like this (and predictable moderation of my comment) are what makes this whole discussion a religion. You profoundly and completely missed the entire context of my comment in your zeal to, you think, denounce anti-warming. It is ti
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The surface of the Earth was molten some 4.5 billion years ago. The big bang was about 14 billion years ago. The start of the relative record is a mere 135 years ago. It is absurd to conflate the two, and it's a critical foundation for
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Offtopic, but the magic piece of hardware will be a washer / dryer that is actually competent at both tasks.
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by inversionOf 11y ago
tptacek is like some sort of HN version of famous (note that his post was so important that his friend dang moved it from a completely different thread from many hours earlier), and I swear that the vast majority of his posts would wallow
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by inversionOf 11y ago
That whole AMA is absurd, and conveniently appeared right after the hack was first announced, and is surprisingly apologetic for a former employee. "My co-workers were a bunch of mad geniuses" "one of the best companies I&#x2
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by inversionOf 11y ago
While I have generally approached this in an analytical fashion (e.g. this has happened, the data can no longer be stopped, and here are the inevitable outcomes), your outrage is a bit over the top, and I would say over-reaching for a moral
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Denial is a powerful thing, and at this point there are people who still think the genie can be put back in the bottle. I'm just being rational about how these things always go. Quite aside from the inevitable, very quickly built sea
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Storing the final digits complies with the CC requirements, to my knowledge. I mean, every online store happily shows me my final four digits. So it could just be confusion about what they mean. Having said that, Ashley Madison has approxim
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by inversionOf 11y ago
Given that the dump is straight mySQL dumps, nicely including geolocation data, emails, IP addresses, birth dates, and so on, I fully expect that at this very moment there are people loading servers and building search apps that will allow
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by inversionOf 11y ago
I grabbed the data and found an old peer in there, and he listed both our office and his home address in profiles, which he would never have done for anything else. He also used an email address on a domain he controls that he created just
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by inversionOf 11y ago
The article specifically talks about taking genes from bacteria (tolerance to certain chemicals, for instance) and splicing it into crops. This isn't quite the same as cross pollination.

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