jordan0day

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by jordan0day 12y ago
It is a little disconcerting that a website that purports to enhance your cognitive abilities (implying they can can measure your current abilities) also won't agree to keep that data private. But, alas, in today's market, this
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by jordan0day 12y ago
There's something about this site that's very www-of-1996 for me, in the best way possible. That is, here's a site full of useful information, obviously created by someone who is interested in the subject and cares about it.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I'll counter with the fact that I think consistent, accurate, and up-to-date "basic usage" information is still really hard to come by for a linux newbie. The thousands of guides, HOWTOs, forums, mailing lists, etc just means
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Perhaps that's why wired presumes you've never heard of it?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
So what is the market for small satellites? Is it just the companies that have existing (big) satellites needing to replace them? And now with miniaturization, it's possible to replace them with smaller, cheaper-to-launch versions? Or
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Lots of dithering, a 16 or 256 color palette, or just straight up convert to ASCII art.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
So in your opinion is the bureaucracy actively oppressing the poor? Or just being intentionally incompetent? Because I'm not sure that you really answer this question "why the system picked them to be the bored masses", eithe
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> Isn't that at least partly because they arm themselves as if they were enemy combatants and treat the police as such. That certainly happens. According to http://www.odmp.org/search/year , 30 American police o
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by jordan0day 12y ago
The increasing militarization of police in the USA has seemingly had a significant (and hopefully unintended) side-effect: Police tend to treat suspects (and those around them) not as law-breaking citizens , but as enemy combatants .
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I think you could successfully make the argument that most hiring decisions are probably done like that. Of course, I would imagine there's a lot fewer metrics available for hiring for most non-athlete positions, so "moneyball&quo
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by jordan0day 12y ago
It's certainly not a family, but a "team" probably isn't right, either. If you company wants to use a sports team metaphor, that's fine, but just remember that many professional sports have players unions and gua
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> The U.S. military is always fighting the last war. In this case, they aren't even fighting the last several wars, but are still locked into Cold War, pre-drone thinking. I think there's an argument to be made that investment
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by jordan0day 12y ago
This doesn't seem to weight the "prefer to live in urban areas" item very highly. It placed me in a town of 207.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
"operating system research which we think has been dormant or stagnant for decades" Is as much of a dig on unix/linux as windows, is it not?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
That presumes that they'd be able to get the same fare numbers during those additional 4 hours. I can see 11pm-3am being a fairly high-demand time. Not sure if there's an equivalent time slot with similar demand.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Thanks for the thorough response. My original paraphrasing was probably a little too simplistic, but I guess I got the gist of the general argument.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
That was an interesting paper, but I'm having trouble with the concluding paragraphs. Is the argument against the grandfather paradox essentially "You can set up the mechanism to create the grandfather paradox, but it won't a
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Another movie that could have benefited greatly from a rabbit-proof fence: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I wonder if most "per capita" assessments in the USA take the "collector effect" into account. That is, I've never owned a gun. I have a friend who owns something like 15 guns. I don't think it's necessari
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by jordan0day 12y ago
The taliban were (effectively) a national government before 2003. Before that, they were part of a civil war to become the national government. They're hardly a couple of unorganized gun enthusiasts.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
This sort of response always make me laugh. I'm going to go ahead and guess that you're not a member of a well-regulated militia? You know, that thing the 2nd amendment specifically mentions? I'm totally okay with private gun
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Sometimes I think the "keep us safe" line, though, is really just an attempt at trying to have a more respectable-sounding defense than "I think they're pretty neat!" Gun owners are constantly on the defensive (exce
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by jordan0day 12y ago
The family sharing looks like a great idea that is way overdue. Hopefully it works as easily as the marketing material indicates.
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by jordan0day 12y ago
> I'm never going to get to sue most of this stuff tort reform freudian slip?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I don't see anything sexist in the article? Or are all uses of gendered pronouns to be banned?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Has capitalism succeeded so wildly that it's now basically invisible? So something created and meant to be sold, but having some other quality ("art", in this case), can't be considered a "product"?
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I think the purpose of giving disabled people the opportunity to work has more to do with socialization and fulfillment than some sort of adherence to rules around being "productive members of society". If you're happy sittin
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by jordan0day 12y ago
I'm a bit ashamed that a similar thought never occurred to me (that is, using something like glass for helping people with disabilities, instead of just recording first-person views of roller coaster rides). I can totally see the usefu
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by jordan0day 12y ago
The veracity of each of those statements would increase substantially with a well placed "some".
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by jordan0day 12y ago
Xamarin.Forms looks very compelling. In a former life I was a .NET person, and so I've always kept my eye on Xamarin, but the only real mobile stuff I've done has been native cocoa touch dev on iOS. Even though Xamarin.Forms mig

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