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by jbattle 13y ago
here's what you do - design a beautiful cube that has a few ports (USB, firewire, whatever). It should also connect to the local wifi network. It'd ship with Dropbox-like software so synching files to it over the home network is
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by jbattle 13y ago
not conclusively, but that notion is countered by the fact that crime is down in at least one country where gun ownership is very difficult (UK) while being up in at least one country where it's not so bad (Brazil)
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by jbattle 13y ago
I'm having a hard time believing that the NSA trusts it's own people so much that they tie their own hands here. Unless it's a strategy to limit the amount of internal information any one person can access (?)
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by jbattle 13y ago
The US did elect Obama, who prior to being president was crystal clear that he'd put the aggressive policies of the bush administration (both foreign and domestic) behind us. I think we did vote for a change of policy. Too bad obam
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by jbattle 13y ago
it has to be said - if non-sterile mosquitos are having a hard time surviving because sterile mosquitos drank up all the blood - we're probably going to suffer more than they will
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by jbattle 13y ago
Not sure how many layers of paranoiac overanalysis I'm applying here, but letting Snowden fall into the clutches of Russian intelligence may be a far better deterrent to future leakers than a 'clean' prosecution and imprisonm
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by jbattle 13y ago
For what it's worth, I think the principle of journalists being unbiased dates from the latter half of the 19th century. I may be wrong, but my understanding was that the press was explicitly and formally partisan up until that time.
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by jbattle 13y ago
unless you make a yacht for someone the russians would like to track or listen in on
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by jbattle 13y ago
Chicago, IL - GrubHub GrubHub is the nation’s leading online and mobile food ordering platform that shows diners local restaurants available for delivery or pick up. We have been insanely picky over the last 8 years in hiring only the smart
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by jbattle 13y ago
I'm a little confused - you are saying the article is overstating things, but that degrees in science, engineering, academia, and possibly medicine are "mostly useless"?
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by jbattle 13y ago
This got me thinking. If you are floating along in a void, and float past a virtual particle - you can legitimately say you are moving (of course you could instead say the virtual particle is moving). Assume now the virtual particle wink
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by jbattle 13y ago
Getting way off topic - the same underlying forces still play out today worldwide, largely through american/japanese/indian(?) movies and music.
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by jbattle 13y ago
> You will never be a Sheryl Sandberg if you've dealt with a true workplace bully, and at least 90% of people get hit at least once in the first 10 years. Your reputation and career history are too damaged, and you really can't "start o
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by jbattle 13y ago
But getting location information on a facebook app user requires like two lines of code. I'd do that for a mere 1/4 billion!
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by jbattle 13y ago
Thanks - that was a good read! But what about cuatro & four qualifies these as "ultraconserved"? Do these stand in contradiction to other words that arose without some gradual evolution? If a word that evolves in a multitude of branche
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by jbattle 13y ago
I don't get this. I know this is a monstrously crude approach, but I put the sentence given in the article to Google translate "You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And n
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by jbattle 13y ago
> Do the founders of Instagram deserve their success? no! good for them - but I don't see any way they 'deserved' it
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by jbattle 14y ago
I think you have that backwards - in an agricultural society, food production is distributed - so you can't have control over the food supply unless you have an inordinate amount of power over the population.
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by jbattle 14y ago
Is this related to artificial intelligence? (strong vs weak AI)
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by jbattle 14y ago
Which in a round-about way - means that sanitation problems in India might turn into problems for the rest of humanity through the over/misuse of antibiotics leading to widespread resistance.
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by jbattle 14y ago
Are you saying it's OK to copy music/movies someone else made, but not software/visual assets you made?
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by jbattle 14y ago
Would this prevent a third party from digitizing the records and putting them into a online searchable database?
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by jbattle 14y ago
The world is so hard in many places that people actually flee to Yemen. http://www.unhcr.org/50f5377e11.html
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by jbattle 14y ago
Is this particular distribution related to either the Mughal or British invasions?
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by jbattle 14y ago
I don't see why past & present inequality justify anything and everything that is bad for men/whites/whatever. Don't you see a difference between e.g. hiring policies that specifically advantage women and objecting to services that
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by jbattle 14y ago
The once a minute firing of the engines feels like it'd be a very unpleasant sensation - I wonder what the momentary acceleration experienced would be. Also - this craft sounds perfectly suited for laser-transmitted power (rather than carry
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by jbattle 14y ago
Imagine a question comes up in conversation like ... "How close did Washington come to being proclaimed the king of the USA?" Honestly I hate when people end a conversation like this by just looking up the answer on wikipedia. The point of
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by jbattle 14y ago
Thanks for this - I read Consider Phlebas and was very underwhelmed by it. Just now I struggled to remember much of the plot even though I read it less than a year ago. I'll check out some of your other recommendations.
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by jbattle 14y ago
A few thoughts: - I think CarFax has an affiliate program that might let you link through to their reports, keyed by VIN. These reports are a pretty valuable tool to shoppers as the condition of a used car is driving 50% of the buying de
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by jbattle 14y ago
My son loved Scratch. The other thing that is great about Scratch is the built-in mechanisms for sharing your creations with friends. Tapping in to that popularity contest mentality can either be a motivation or a distraction depending on

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