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by irq-1 11y ago
Twain was wrong on his main point. He claims self-approval as the motivator for following fashions (of all sorts), but most conformity comes from trying to navigate life: we do what works for our neighbors. IBMs dress code wasn't adopt
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by irq-1 11y ago
The advertising industry is not capable of self-regulating. Advertising will change when technology forces it to change.
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by irq-1 11y ago
> if they can't find out how their revenue is being affected, Does "being affected" mean reduced? Because they're not losing out on ad revenue they would otherwise gain. That's the piracy argument with ads: if on
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by irq-1 11y ago
Obama publicly agreed with the data collection and voted to expand it before the election. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jul/14/... > But recently the Senate again took
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by irq-1 11y ago
This looks similar to Orange. Orange has a visual designer, easy data access (SQL, arbitrary files) and lots of widgets, but it's a desktop tool not a library and doesn't standardize the data structures. http://orange.b
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by irq-1 11y ago
> Have an independent party, who has signed an appropriate NDA, asses and certify that your product does what it says on the tin and audit it at regular periods. This may work for safety standards or financial liability, but it doesn&#x2
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by irq-1 11y ago
I just want to recommend Alpha House [0], a political comedy about Republican senators created by Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) with lots of great cameos. Its original/exclusive content and the kind of thing that might help Amazon, unlike
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by irq-1 11y ago
This isn't negligence. Instead of trying to protect data and networks the US government has made "cyber crime" a military issue. They've been doing it deliberately and publicly, for over a decade. Domestically they follo
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by irq-1 11y ago
> eight text messages at a total cost of about $7 a student lol dumb government wasting money! > The text intervention was particularly cost effective: the messaging campaign cost $7 per student, inclusive of the expense of hiring sch
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by irq-1 11y ago
If the NSA can't steal the data, then companies will provide the data. Same thing they did with phone "meta" data; shift responsibility to the companies. This is the new peace. The NSA won't attack your business, and you
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by irq-1 11y ago
I Googled this yesterday thinking the same thing, but the real increases in production came from Iraq (nearly doubling yearly output) and the extra US production. Saudi Arabia didn't seem to have any substantial change in production. M
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by irq-1 11y ago
I draw the exact opposite conclusion: Yelp is selling reviews and need to control their product. Twitter and Facebook aren't selling followers or friends, so they fight fakes... but not too hard, because that isn't their product.
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by irq-1 11y ago
People use PayPal for the same reason banks use email, not because either is secure or reliable, but simply because people make decisions by following the crowd. As long as people think PayPal (or Yelp) has a big crowd of users, they'l
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by irq-1 11y ago
On Windows both Firefox and Chrome use ANGLE [0] to translate WebGL into DirectX calls, so this will be an issue in the browser not the driver or hardware. [0] https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/
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by irq-1 11y ago
Very little of what was planned was implemented in 1.5. See the design doc: https://golang.org/s/execmodes edited summary: - Go code linked into, and called from, a non-Go program In the Go 1.5 release this mode is imp
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by irq-1 11y ago
> OpenJDK itself can be forked Tell that to Google.
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by irq-1 11y ago
> If I don't know what it's doing, how can I trust it? It's not enough to examine software: if you don't trust the company , then anything they say or promise is worthless. Automatic updates can change anything, incl
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by irq-1 11y ago
Maybe you don't remember what a huge deal it was that Microsoft leveraged its desktop monopoly to gain market share for its internet browser. Bill Gates declaring that the browser is 'part of the OS' and can't be removed
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by irq-1 11y ago
> On Windows 10 you can opt-out as well. Few IT departments will allow opting-out -- it'll be part of how your work computer is setup, and part of your job to use it.
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by irq-1 11y ago
Nice service. You should considered a default expiration (a week?) to lighten the load, and an option for multiple downloads (?dl=3) so the first n get a copy or multiple tries if corrupted. Also, you don't keep logs but what about you
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by irq-1 11y ago
Firefox still needs a minimum font size, or font scaling like Chrome has.
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by irq-1 11y ago
An unmentioned alternative is Firefox "Reader View" or Readability [0], which reformat the source post-download. They don't work on all sites and can get somethings wrong. Still, its a solution that's: open, distributed
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by irq-1 11y ago
> Multiple identities are trivial. ... linked to an entirely non-overlapping set of social accounts, with different friends etc. That's not trivial, and it's certainly won't be the default, normal thing everyone does. Inst
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by irq-1 11y ago
To use your example, your brother posts a message on Twitter and you don't know your brothers Twitter username. If you're confident that it's your brother posting, then there's no problem. If you're uncertain that i
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by irq-1 11y ago
Keybase is the wrong way to do a PKI directory. First, people should have multiple keys/identities by default; multiple identities should be the normal thing everyone does. Single identities will be used by governments to control peopl
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by irq-1 11y ago
The 2007-2013 numbers for 'All' show about 40% drop, but: it's a longer period (than 2009-2013), and there's a very sharp decline between 2007 and 2009, which would make the national numbers worse when compared to the sa
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by irq-1 11y ago
Its idiotic: the cost of making physical chips doesn't disappear if MS buys AMD. Plus, any minor financial benefit is far outweighed by anti-trust issues and making Intel a competitor.
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by irq-1 11y ago
You could also pay more. Instead of trying to create culture and develop leadership to get employees who "walk away from compensation packages 2-3x what they currently make", pay them more. Then you can create culture and develop
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by irq-1 11y ago
Looks like it's not working just now: Searching packages failed: atom.io is temporarily unavailable, please try again later. Also, install Mercurial before the go-plus package. See "Missing Tools" near the bottom of
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by irq-1 11y ago
Remember when search engines had Boolean operators?

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