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by josho 12y ago
If that really is the only barrier to using this then I'm sure a simple email to the sole copyright holder asking for an MIT/BSD/etc license to the code would solve your problem. The author put together what looks like a nice
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by josho 12y ago
I love good visualizations, this one is neat. Unfortunately the visuals don't carry much data with it. That is, it didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know--climate change will provide more extreme (hot/cold) w
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by josho 12y ago
You are right, my conclusion was linking happiness with mixed economies, that was not from the report--the link is intuitively obvious to me, but likely hard to prove. I've seen a study in the past showing the relationship between happ
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by josho 12y ago
If you look at the numbers closely we see that 12% less is put into the public system in the US than the OECD average. This pattern is true of most things in America, you put more dollars into health care and education than other countries,
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by josho 12y ago
Let's take this a different direction for a moment... Why is it that the IT industry screams that they have a labor shortage when salaries are flat. With million dollar salaries in finance you would think that industry must have a seve
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by josho 12y ago
The system also does a pretty good job of ensuring the masses are distracted. E.g. plenty of hype & reporting surrounding things like celebrities, sports, movies, and games. To contrast that very little substantive reporting occurs on i
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by josho 12y ago
This is how the Regulatory Capture has come to be. None of those out protecting consumers from the finance industry are doing what really needs to be done, because they know that their next job is likely to be at one of the institutions the
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by josho 12y ago
The US government does not have the will to fight this particular fight. Ie. regulatory capture.
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by josho 12y ago
Fraud is fraud. I understand that it is possible for officers of corporations to face jail if found guilty of fraud. My understanding is the lack of will (or resources) for entities like the DOJ/SEC to investigate and punish those resp
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by josho 12y ago
A 2014 UN study on the happiest populations* doesn't even include the US in the top 10 (it scored #17). All of the countries in the list have some form of a mixed economy (ie. not full on socialism, but a much stronger social support s
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by josho 12y ago
I left software development because my salary was maxed in my market. Rates have not been going up. However, offer me that kind of salary and I'll be back in in a heartbeat. My point is simply if there was a shortage rates would go up
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by josho 12y ago
Wait. Where can I get free certs today? Or did you mean once this service goes live? I've used StartSSL, but somehow messed up the process and can't issue a new cert unless I pay to revoke the current. Even then their free certs e
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by josho 12y ago
This puts in context why privacy is so important. If for some reason you were to become a leader of a movement and the NSA had swept up every digital bit about you for the last 30 years then they could potentially have a goldmine of informa
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by josho 12y ago
Yup, it's going to be hard--lets just not bother. I get it, you've got to update SMTP, the mail client, and likely other points (mail storage). But that's no reason not to try. Look at DKIM and SPF--we've maid steps to p
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by josho 12y ago
Yup, I get that. Same can be said of http--so we solved that problem and created https. I just don't get why folks like IBM, Microsoft, et al never bothered to push secure email standards. I'm surprised their customers never pushe
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by josho 12y ago
This is the lamest approach to fighting spam. A better approach is for the ISP to block outgoing port 25 from their network, and force their users to use their mail relay that requires authorization. Any accounts that are caught spamming ca
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by josho 12y ago
Why is mail so broken? We send so much confidential information over email, yet have no reliable way to secure the information. We insist on https, so why are we ok with the current lame security around mail? Folks go out and get S/MIM
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by josho 12y ago
'Big pharma' has no interest in marijuana because it's not their business model. Since there is no patent protection the generic manufacturers would squeeze out any profit to be had the medical marijuana market.
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by josho 12y ago
I can't help but to wonder if the tobacco lobby is somehow involved. For decades society fought against smoking and has largely won. So, what happened to all of those tobacco crops? I wonder if that industry is behind the legalize move
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by josho 12y ago
? My understanding of iMessage is end to end encryption. Where the endpoints are the separate certificates on each of your devices.
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by josho 12y ago
I wonder how relevant this is today (the article is over a year old, and is not clear which version of OS X it is discussing). As I understand it with Mavericks the default file sharing protocol was SMB2, in Yosemite it is now SMB3. With su
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by josho 12y ago
Having reflected on my own question for the past 20 minutes I'll add the following. For decades programming languages struggled with how to persist object state. We built custom file formats, tried to serialize object graphs, built ORM
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by josho 12y ago
Is Ember really the right path forward? Or simply a stepping stone to a better (yet to be discovered) solution? Specifically, I remember first picking up Rails and how productive I could be in that environment. I haven't felt the same
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by josho 12y ago
This is a common (and brilliant) pattern on Mac's. Once you learn the keyboard shortcut for an action, you've immediately learned how to do the opposite action, eg. Undo: Cmd-Z Redo: Cmd-Shift-Z.
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by josho 12y ago
If you are born poor in America the statistics show that you will stay poor. Despite the belief that there is mobility between classes in the US, that is largely decreasing. Thanks to cutbacks on public schools, a regressive tax system, et
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by josho 12y ago
Congrats you just argued for a social welfare system. This is what modern societies do. Yet, for some reason in the US it's branded as socialism which is viewed as equal to communism which is evil and therefore never enters the debate.
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by josho 12y ago
I started down a similar path with ember.js and was starting to see the same issues. Primarily the business models duplicated on the client. So, it strikes me that we are still figuring out the right path forward on the client/server b
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by josho 12y ago
There isn't really a dominant hardware platform. So, you can build an app for wii, Xbox, Samsung, etc and jump through their platform hurdles (both technical and business). But when you are Amazon, why bother? You have the resources to
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by josho 12y ago
Their hypothesis is that bad data (I click everything) is worse for the ad networks than no data (ad blocker). I suspect the hypothesis is wrong for two reasons. Those clicks make the network money, and a small percent of bad data across th
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by josho 12y ago
Since the continuity feature requires Bluetooth 4, I figured the magic was done over Bluetooth and wifi. I personally don't mind using iCloud, but I understand the authors reservations. But feel the root problem is the NSA, not apple.

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