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Typhoons trigger earthquakes (Does good weather mean bigger earthquakes?)(physorg.com)
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I wasn't trying to sound offensive. Wanted to soft pitch you something easy to hit because I hadn't heard of Fluther before and as long as you're disclaiming, it would be helpful to know what you're about. I'm curious about your use of Goo
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Unpack that "middle of this fray"--what differentiates Fluther?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Looks like it's 4 million, which is still worth announcing. With more users, I'm curious if paid accounts are growing at the same rate as free accounts. I also pretty much assume that a much higher percentage of all users in the US will be
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by jimmybot 17y ago
It's tangent, but I'm interested. Are you alluding to particular events in recent history or kinds of events? Any pointers to reading on this?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Given the historical Western narratives on China (and all other Others), I think we can do a lot better than talking about China as a highly sexualized female seductress with ulterior motives.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Well if you're going to go that route... ... then wouldn't it be cool to be snails? It's still kind of like a slug, plus you solve the rent part by carrying your entire house on your back. Not sure if there are any advantages to being a s
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by jimmybot 17y ago
This confuses a minimalist result with a minimalist process. Minimalism doesn't necessarily mean it takes a minimum amount of time to arrive at a good solution. It is an aesthetic ideal for the end product where what can be eliminated is e
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Okay, so why not have something that submits "better link and headline" and that can be voted up? Pass a threshold and the original headline and link get swapped out.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I'm not a legal expert, but like others, I don't think they have much of a legal argument. But isn't "your business should be based on making innovative products" exactly what Plurk is complaining about? Although Microsoft was caught lifti
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I'm nearsighted and every eye doctor I've had while I was growing up said it's just genetic, and there's nothing you can do about it even though none of my grandparents were nearsighted. But more to the point--there's probably nowhere near
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Sounds like relying more on a gas tax would have been the better way to go. Distortionary taxes really need to be careful they are distortionary in the desired way.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
What indicated that I didn't read the article? I understand there are content grinders out there that are made to rank high for Google (but see, they are not made by Google nor are they Google itself ). It sounds a lot more like givin
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail What the heck is this supposed to mean? Is it just a catchy title or is there some unintuitive but turns out really appropriate metaphor going on here that I missed?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
What is the difference between the reminder and the extinction training? The reminder is the colored square but doesn't include the shock right? And the extinction must use the same colored square or else it wouldn't work right?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I'm sure they will try to do something with the data, but Google's problem these days is that it's been so successful and gotten so big that it's incentivized to basically make the Internet bigger, better, faster in order to continue to gro
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I don't know if it's rendering or if it's disk access or what's going on, but I installed the Django docs locally expecting it to be pretty much instantaneous to access. With Chrome, it is. With Firefox there is a very noticeable and ve
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I think what's really cool about this is that it looks like a really helpful tool for breaking the boxy, straight-line feel of nested elements and display:block that is normally the natural state of web page design. Props.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Suggest/autocomplete. Well, it's not really enough to call it an API, since it's already just AJAX requests for JSON, but it'd be nice if the format was standardized and they all supported JSONP so that it can be cross-domain.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
From the referenced Google Code Blog http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/11/use-compression-to-ma... : Anti-virus software may try to minimize CPU operations by intercepting and altering requests so that web servers send back uncompresse
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Come on, Malcolm Gladwell isn't being ghostwritten. Anyone that good doesn't need a ghost writer, and if his ghost writer is that good, he's not going to be ghost writing instead of writing his own stuff and building his own name. Even if
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Let's say he is being honest, and we believe that he really is actually acting on new information. So working for Microsoft completely blind-sided him to how useful Gmail and Google Docs are? He really didn't know about Gmail's spam filte
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Ah yes, engagement is the word. Interesting. I'd imagine the query expansion should also work across the author dimension--include and rank matches from the same blog higher, even if according to my history, I haven't read that post.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Cynical, but likely true. But we shouldn't just throw out everything that's in the congressional record. If we have "spam detection for members of congress", we'd usefully know who's doing the saying, and what was said that was at the behes
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I would think that this is more common, and they only got caught because it was so egregious this time. Someone should take plagiarism detection software and turn it on the congressional record. Then we'll know for sure.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Do you use Zotero? If so, how does it or does it not fit your needs?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I've thought about number two as well. How about a combination of caching all pages you read and how long you are spending on each page (and maybe if you scrolled as well)? The idea is to save enough data that you can have an algorithm tha
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Fair enough--I should have said inspired by rather than wholesale copied. I do see a remarkable parallel there between the KMT having lost one country due in part to extreme economic disparity, redistributes wealth to maintain control in a
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by jimmybot 17y ago
"Democracy Wall" writers in this transition period referred to the example of Taiwan as a basis for criticizing the Communist Party regime in China. So China had no choice but to loosen economic regulation and tacitly reject orthodox Mar
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Right. What works for Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, the Isle of Man, and other low tax city states just does not work for the rest of the world--it doesn't scale.

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