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by jkn 13y ago
Indeed, as was discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4551907 I really like the atmosphere of the old git design[1]. The new design[2] is so corporate and soulless. Open-source projects can afford to look mo
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by jkn 13y ago
Indeed it does what RSS used to do for me. It also adds comments and pictures, something RSS could also do depending on the reader. The real added value of G+ compared to RSS is the original content: a lot of people in Open Source and scien
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by jkn 13y ago
I fire up my G+ stream and get: A post by Timothy Gowers about Mobius strips and Valentine's Day: https://plus.google.com/103703080789076472131/posts/gYmEcGuN... A repost by Michael Chui with an animation of
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by jkn 13y ago
Thanks a lot for this.
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Interesting. I think that long-term coherent policies are best supported by strongly multi-party systems: when the power is shared by several parties, you don't get the political swing after each election that can happen with two-party
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by jkn 13y ago
I'll take this opportunity to share another amazing optical illusion: http://9gag.com/gag/a9d1jxj I wonder if dynamic optical illusions such as this one will prove relevant to VR somehow.
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by jkn 13y ago
I found it rather reassuring. I was expecting a simple "sorry, here's a small freebie to make you happy" but the CEO recognizing the problems is exactly how to make me think they might actually fix them soonish.
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by jkn 13y ago
One difference would be that Belgian fries are traditionally fried in beef fat, which changes the taste quite a bit.
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Thanks for including the important "essential" and "little temporary" qualifiers that are so often left out. Even so I don't like this quote. The notion that some people don't deserve safety because of their po
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The absence of Mexico from the FATF blacklist simply means that Mexico makes a good effort at implementing the FATF recommendations. Which makes sense since Mexico is a FATF member (I don't think there is a single FATF member in the FA
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I don't understand your position on HSBC's guilt. There is plenty of evidence that they have intentionally weakened their AML program. When they rated Mexico with the lowest AML risk in contradiction to every indicator in the indu
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I think most importantly it's about being computer-literate in a broader sense. Introducing kids to programming should be seen as a general knowledge matter. We introduce children to many fields so that they understand better the world
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Then don't look at different countries but at the evolution of inequality in a particular country. The rise of inequality in the US since the 1980's is an indictment of the current system. Here's an animated map showing this
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by jkn 13y ago
I'm a Google Apps user, which means I have my own domain. I can always switch without losing my email address. If you're using a @gmail.com email address, then you should really stop doing that. I'm thinking of switching to
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by jkn 13y ago
Thanks for bringing some positivity to the debate. PNaCl and asm.js are timely and they are technically very different. It will be interesting indeed to see how it goes from here.
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Holland said on television he hates rich people It is unfortunate to misquote someone in such a polarized debate. What Hollande really said is better translated as "I don't like rich people, I don't like rich people, I have
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by jkn 13y ago
I'm a big Android fan and have to agree with 'pearjuice'. I have yet to see an Android device without the extra lag compared to iOS. Maybe you're confusing low lag with smoothness? Android can be smoother than iOS, i.e.
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by jkn 13y ago
The responsiveness of this forum is amazing. Is the client side doing some pre-fetching? I remember finding the website disturbingly fast on my first visit. I wonder if it is just me being so used to loading delays, or if there is a point w
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by jkn 13y ago
It's a good question and frankly I was quite surprised to realize, after using my chromebook for a while, that I was subconsciously turning to the chromebook rather than the macbook for browsing because the experience is just better. I
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Well it's not like the proposal is to divert 34% of the GDP into a black hole. A state cannot afford to divert 34% of its resources (materials, workforce, etc.) to build a fancy statue. But the only direct cost of this proposal to the
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by jkn 13y ago
I had a discussion with someone who feels strongly about this recently, and he pointed out that even the few chickens and cows that get decent treatment during their lives are brought to the slaughter house when they're not productive
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by jkn 13y ago
What is evil about a high opening bid? Especially when it has been the standard official royalty rate of Motorola for years..
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by jkn 13y ago
The premise of trickle down economics is that a rising tide lifts all boats, which has occurred. I don't think this is correct. "A rising tide lifts all boats" is a metaphor to say that an improving economy benefits everybo
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I can't think of any tech company in Google's league that matches them in terms of device openness. The Nexus phones and tablets officially support flashing of custom ROMs.[1,2] The Moto X will have an unlockable bootloader on car
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Am I right that this makes it trivial to deploy a new version of my server with zero downtime? I can just start the new server to handle new connections and tell the old one to stop accepting connections and quit when existing requests are
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Thanks for clarifying, that makes a lot of sense.
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Is it fair to label this "extremely authoritarian" though? I tend to agree with Sustein's views as described in your comment (not the views described in OP's comment) but I don't consider myself authoritarian...
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Phil Shiller: While the primary message is that there are Kindle apps on lots of mobile devices, the secondary message that can’t be missed is that it is easy to switch from iPhone to Android. Not fun to watch. Steve Jobs: What do you re
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by jkn 13y ago
Would it really be expensive? 1 mbar is a low grade vacuum. You can achieve that with mere rotary vane pumps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_vane_pump
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To me the origin of birthright citizenship in the U.S. as a means of guaranteeing civil rights to Black people is more significant than having the Supreme Court interpret the text of the amendment in the rather obvious way. On the other han

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