jaibot

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   by jaibot 13y ago

   I think Google did incorporate a lot of this functionality into Docs - multiple users editing the same doc at once is pretty close to the functionality I wanted from Wave, and I've used it multiple times to great effect.
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   by jaibot 13y ago

   There is an ongoing conservative boycott of the Girl Scouts of America: http://cookiecott.com/
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   by jaibot 13y ago

   These two statements don't seem contradictory; Real life things can be complicated.
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   by jaibot 13y ago

   What is and isn't acceptable in figuring into professional interactions is a moving target over time. For example, actively supporting white supremacist groups would probably have drastic professional consequences today; in the 1920&#x
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   by jaibot 13y ago

   I'm guessing that his non-straight-people-shouldn't-have-the-same-rights-as-me side is sufficiently outnumbered within Mozilla that he won't rescind any of the equal opportunity/friendliness stuff the organization provid
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   by jaibot 13y ago

   This essay was one the things that made me decide to become a vegetarian a year ago.
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   by jaibot 13y ago

   Synthetic meat. Soon, I hope, as a vegetarian who is acutely aware that meat is tasty.
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   by jaibot 13y ago

   We disagree about how well redistribution can and has worked at scale. My ultra-compressed (lossy) take is "pretty inefficient, but somewhat effective improving the lives of the less-wealthy". One of the most dramatic and promisin
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   by jaibot 13y ago

   Agricultural technology already replaced most manual human jobs (from the era when most human jobs were agricultural). Humans found other things to do, and we found ways to use the surplus. If it gets to the point where there isn't any
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Needs more fish numbers.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    http://www.boomeranggmail.com/ seems to be doing pretty well.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Panic doesn't lend itself to careful writing.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    I'm working on a way to shame yourself into doing it. http://powershame.com
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Or, you know, lease a VPN connection. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_(payment_protocol)
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    I have a desktop client that requests one-time upload URLs from my server via an API. Later they get downloaded and processed somewhere else - never actually touching my web server.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    The financial crisis was probably extremely dire.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    12 Senators, for a start.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Huh, apparently I've already developed muscle memory for typing "2014". This is going to make writing certain powers of two difficult.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Note that this is $10M _per RSA-2014 key_, whereas the hypothetical quantum computer can crack all of them.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Technically, Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist who just happens to have a Nobel Prize in Economics because his work in the field has been amazingly usefil to economists.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    This neatly demonstrates what the alternative to "gouging" is - a shortfall of supply. Like breadlines for transit.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Well, one advantage is having any competition at all. The taxi market has been so badly broken for so long that just being able to introduce new drivers and companies results in lower prices and better service all around.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    It's not gouging when there's competition - all of the other ways of getting around (cabs, public transit, friends who have cars, other ride sharing/providing services) are as available as they were previously. If Uber were t
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    The thing is the alternative to the "gouging" isn't "lower priced rides for everyone", it's "most people can't get a hold of a cab no matter how badly they want one". The "gouging" has
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    No idea why this comment is being downvoted. Although s/Americans/most-of-the-first-world.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Technically correct, but the pooping in the hole wasn't the cause of the disease - it was a necessary countermeasure against the effects of living in the same place for years on end.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    I just bought some hot pockets.
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    Yes. http://dresdencodak.com/2009/09/22/caveman-science-fiction/
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    by jaibot 13y ago

    I believe a referendum to allow for some new housing to be built was voted down "because it would drive rents up". Sigh.