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by ja30278 12y ago
I hacked up something similar on appengine a few years ago, though it's more of a url shortener than a DynDNS replacment. http://symlinkd.com
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by ja30278 12y ago
I've been eating a low-carb diet for the past 2 years. In that time, I've lost roughly 20lbs, while my blood work has gotten dramatically better. (Cholesterol: 160 (92 HDL, 64 LDL), Triglycerides: 46, Blood glucose: 92). More impo
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by ja30278 12y ago
Begging the question of how candidates achieve the Y level of support. Either they are already well known figures (actors, athletes, etc), or they have to spend money to make themselves known.
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by ja30278 13y ago
" And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to
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by ja30278 13y ago
Exactly so. I don't understand why the 'Basic Job' idea doesn't get more traction. For all of the talk about a 'post work' world, I still see plenty of work that needs doing, every day.
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by ja30278 13y ago
Absolutely agreed. It seems that some people won't be happy until all human interaction is mediated through vapid, inoffensive office-speak.
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by ja30278 13y ago
I am in my middle thirties now, and I feel that I'm probably the best I've ever been. Part of this, I think, is that true understanding comes from the ability to contextualize ideas into some larger framework of knowledge. I find
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by ja30278 13y ago
Whether it assuages the conscience of white collar Americans or not, the fact is that the poor in America have it pretty good. The average poor person in America is overweight, not starving, and enjoys a standard of living far better than m
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by ja30278 13y ago
I found the counter-argument made in the first reply to be more compelling. http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2014-01/msg00178.html Whether you agree with the FSF or not, their whole existence stems from their belief
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by ja30278 13y ago
The problem with the 'a calorie is a calorie' theory (which I used to subscribe to as well) is that is that your body doesn't burn food like a calorimeter. Different types of foods require very different amounts of energy to
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by ja30278 13y ago
Exercise is wonderful, and (particularly strength training) can dramatically change how you look and feel. If you just want to lose weight though, just stop eating carbs. It really is that simple. There are many ways to lose weight, but dro
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by ja30278 13y ago
This is one of those insane comments that I only ever see on hacker news. Who gives a shit how they pick up leaves in Europe? Picking up leaves isn't some artful process..it's drudgery which consumes some amount of my (finite) lif
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by ja30278 13y ago
In this case, you really should care. http://www.benfrederickson.com/2013/04/09/python-catastrophi...
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by ja30278 14y ago
China today reminds me of the US of the 1950s...growing fast, optimistic about the future, and willing to create it. Contrary to sentiment on HN, they aren't going to be drowned in their own pollution..they're going to win the future by not
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by ja30278 14y ago
As an aside, I find that I usually disagree with anyone who feels compelled to frame their argument as an 'open letter'. In this case, I agree that javascript is ubiquitous, and has the advantage of being delivered to the end-user in (more
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by ja30278 14y ago
Having a 'goal' of 50 women is quite different from having a quota of 50 men.
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by ja30278 15y ago
The only workable deterrent is the threat of a proportional (or more than proportional) response. Since hacking is usually hard to pin down definitively to a single actor, and it's difficult to justify a conventional armed response, you pro
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by ja30278 15y ago
He would favor limiting the actions of the federal government to the "enumerated powers" listed in the constitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers
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by ja30278 15y ago
I wonder if a payment provider (Visa, Amex, etc) could insert consumer friendly terms into their merchant agreements.
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by ja30278 15y ago
Consider the situation in which most subscribers of Comcast in your area wanted to switch..if there are enough of them to build a business, that strong 'latent' demand is a market waiting to happen.
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by ja30278 15y ago
Your comment seems to suggest that healthcare is an infinite resource. It isn't. There are a finite number of brilliant surgeons, a finite number of expensive MRI machines, a finite number of hospital beds, etc. A market is just a means of
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by ja30278 15y ago
different != superior.
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by ja30278 15y ago
bleh. So part of the price I pay for a Mac is now doled out to some charity of Apple's choosing. How about they just cut prices by the total amount of the match, and let me figure out where I'd like to donate.
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by ja30278 15y ago
Who said anything about helping them? I was responding to a comment that suggested we had no useful counter-strategy to hacking, since it's difficult to respond to a cyber attack via conventional means. They know this, which is why it's rel
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by ja30278 15y ago
The logical counter-response would be to encourage the sort of unrest present in the "Jasmine Revolution". This would present China with the same sort of dilemma...they might suspect (or even know) that we were stirring up trouble, but woul
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by ja30278 15y ago
While it _seems_ bad to hire someone who's already receiving a pension, what's the alternative? Hiring someone else, who's unskilled, and _still_ paying the pension? Maybe the problem is the pension itself, not the double-dipping.
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by ja30278 15y ago
In this case, look at the target data that was recovered from a single control server: http://blogs.mcafee.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ShadyRAT_... US defense contractors; the governments of US, Canada, Vietnam, South Korea, Taiwan, an
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by ja30278 15y ago
> I find the Chinese explanation a little too convenient and a little too amenable to typical national defense thinking. What this article really says to me is that if you want to hack an American company, own a Chinese box first. Nob
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by ja30278 15y ago
"They have not been charged yet, but the house was the source of 3,678 packets in about two-and-a-half hours." really? were they mounting a DDOS attack using a pocket calculator attached to 4800 baud modem?
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by ja30278 15y ago
From the patent app: "As such, in one embodiment of the invention, the channel characterization matrix 616 at the Base Station is continually updated. In one embodiment, the Base Station 600 periodically (e.g., every 250 milliseconds) sends

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