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by jim-greer 11y ago
Yeah. The ones where he could ever have gotten a disc from Netflix.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
> He used to be able to but now he can't. Netflix will still send you DVDs in the mail. They just don't promote them much. If you're a digital subscriber the disc add-on starts at $5/month. You can also download Jupit
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by jim-greer 11y ago
It's different in New York and San Francisco. Here it is much less common to drive for both. Lyft drivers and passengers tend to be younger, and are more likely to be talkative. In New York I really couldn't tell any difference.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
How would you describe the difference between a symptom and a disease? To me this article is akin to saying that the various forms of heart disease are not actually diseases. Instead, they are symptoms of a poor diet and lack of exercise.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
While there's truth to this, it's a generalization. Twin studies show that there's a moderate genetic factor in depression, and a strong one for manic depression http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/558030
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Actually as of a few weeks ago, they IP blocked French users from Google.com.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Should Iranian internet restrictions apply in France? Chinese? If not, what's the distinction?
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Not only that, it has made it so that French users are only able to use Google.fr. Until a few weeks ago they could use Google.com as well. Now they would need to use VPN to do that.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Do you think a customer service representative at Google should be the one making this decision? Seems like it should be a French official. There are hundreds of thousands to deal with though. And over half are invalid (examples include pub
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Do you think a customer service representative at Google should be the one making this decision? Seems like it should be a French official. There are hundreds of thousands to deal with though.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Whoops, didn't see that one.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
To be more precise, they are requiring Google to remove specific results for searches on a person's name. The problem is that Google gets hundreds of thousands of these requests, and over 50% of them are deemed to be invalid - a doctor
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France fines Google over 'right to be forgotten'(reuters.com)
34 points by jim-greer 11y ago|20 comments
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by jim-greer 11y ago
I'm curious about the sparse places that have good transit... Where do you mean?
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Best quote from the ruling: "As far as I can discern from the record, Feng did not at any time 'rent, lend, lease, sell, redistribute or sublicense' Apple's software; what he did 'sell' or 'redistribute&#x
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by jim-greer 11y ago
That doesn't work if you're trying to build native mobile apps.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
OP answered my tweet and said that it's thousands of people, which is definitely significant.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
450M data points is cool, but without knowing how many people that represents, it's hard to say how meaningful this is.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Whoops, misread your comment. Agreed.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Fair use allows for this kind of thing, but is fuzzy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use The web is a little different. One factor is that robots.txt is effectively an opt-out. But no, in general indexing a site
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Programming is much more of a craft than it is either an art or a science. Good craftsmanship combines beauty with utility, as does good coding. Programmers work with abstractions, rather than with wood or clay. And their craft is as cerebr
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by jim-greer 11y ago
The opposition to density is actually happening more at the neighborhood level than the city level. Current zoning rules would allow quite a bit more density in many neighborhoods, but the approval process allows for tremendous delays if ne
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by jim-greer 11y ago
> I remember when we had no seat belt laws or child seats There's really no downside to putting on a seat belt, or using a child seat. There's a big downside for being overly protective of children - both for their development
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by jim-greer 11y ago
If you're interested in a more in-depth analysis of the free expression impact of this new privacy bill, my wife wrote a number of blog posts about it (she's a director at Stanford's Center for Internet and society). The edit
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Missteps in Europe’s Online Privacy Bill(nytimes.com)
3 points by jim-greer 11y ago|1 comments
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Matt is a really good guy and was my employee at Kongregate.
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Please help find SF programmer Matt Wastrodowski(sfgate.com)
10 points by jim-greer 11y ago|1 comments
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by jim-greer 11y ago
In this thread: a lot of people who haven't used Slack attacking it...
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Yes, I think that was actually easier in the 90s (and I only did 2d games, which were simpler).
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by jim-greer 11y ago
I was the lead scripting developer and general content fixer... I helped the world builders and hacked on their tools etc. I was 20 at the time so my title in the credits was "Wonderboy" I haven't seen a lot of writing about

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