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by joshzayin 16y ago
The source poem the embedded song references (by Edwin Arlington Robinson): (\ns for stanza breaks) Richard Cory Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean-fav
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Does anyone have a mirror of the site? It's unexpectedly dropping the connection for me.
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Steve Jobs to take a medical leave of absence(tuaw.com)
1 points by joshzayin 16y ago|0 comments
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US Government's Document on Preventing Leaks Leaked(techspot.com)
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by joshzayin 16y ago
> Don't buy her geek toys/gadgets as gifts ...unless she's a geek, presumably? I mean, there certainly exist men who would love to have a geek toy/gadget as a gift, so why shouldn't at least some women want that as well?
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by joshzayin 16y ago
For the curious: http://www.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/index.html Essentially, sex is biological while gender is social. Transsexuality is a disparity between what someone was born biologically as (sex) and what they identify as (gen
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Yes, I made that post before I saw what smokinn said about QQ. (And what others said about other Chinese social networking companies, and American companies in China, in general.)
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Oh, huh. That's weird. I wonder if Chinese Internet users for some reason think they'd be caught evading the filter if they put their actual city in their profile? Or maybe his sampling method was just abysmal? ;)
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by joshzayin 16y ago
I'd suspect it's because people in China use proxies to evade the filter, and hence have non-Chinese IPs.
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by joshzayin 16y ago
That'd be the ideal, yes, but I highly doubt the court'll change what they're doing without something on the scale of a constitutional amendment.
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by joshzayin 16y ago
RE: the 9th, I think more precision is needed-it's still too easy for a court to reject certain things as "not rights." I think there should be an amendment that in essence makes it unconstitutional to ban any action which does not negative
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Yes, but that doesn't stop the government from taking away rights (See: Plessy v. Ferguson/Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia [was needed to stop abridgment of rights], DADT and DOMA, for example.)
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Well, free speech alone could also theoretically be enough to cover freedom of the press, assembly, and right to petition, but I'd rather have my rights spelled out explicitly so no court decision can take them from me.
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by joshzayin 16y ago
One-page, text-only version: http://pastebin.com/zAysvHcw
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by joshzayin 16y ago
"Big Bear's Sunspot" reminds me of the eye of Sauron.
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by joshzayin 16y ago
The error message given for a message that's too long is somewhat ambiguous. It states, "Message are limited to 140 characters"-but doesn't say that "I love Dropbox because " is included in that. It should say, "Messages are limited to 11
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by joshzayin 16y ago
How do they bypass the account lookup page they mention? (Screenshot from the article: http://vinhboy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/account-l... ) Presumably, there's some sort of verification that the account's valid and has paid fo
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Helicase is what unzips the genes, not RNA polymerase. RNA polymerase allows transcription (or creation of an mRNA molecule complementary to the given gene) to take place.
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Looking at the error rates, I wonder what happened at around 12pm? (Screenshots: http://grab.by/7gJ4 http://grab.by/7gJ5 http://grab.by/7gJh )
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Large Flaw in FCC's Cell Phone Radiation Level Tests(time.com)
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by joshzayin 16y ago
This never made sense to me. These rumors claim that a Verizon iPhone will be released in early 2011. However, the iPhone's release cycle indicates that the next hardware update's due in June. New hardware would be necessary for a Verizon
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by joshzayin 16y ago
I like that Google is both fast and slow, according to that diagram.
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Fabric Project Aims to Make All Code Secure (cs.cornell.edu)
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Re: 1: No, Jobs was clear that there you'll still be able to install software on your mac as you can now. 2: It could, depending on how Apple implements and pushes their App Store.
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Works fine for me, Safari 5.0.2/OS X 10.5.8, iMac.
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by joshzayin 16y ago
And cardinalities of infinite sets are cool. Did you know not every infinite set of numbers has the same magnitude? (Informally, "they can have a different number of numbers.")
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by joshzayin 16y ago
It's not so much the gender role or social norms that matter--not all effeminate men feel that they should be women, and vice versa. By saying "incorrect genitals," I was simply using a shorthand for "incorrect biological gender," or a biol
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Bigotry? What is your definition of bigotry that you think any response you've received is bigoted? As to what they would've done 100 years ago, how is that in any way relevant? This isn't "hiding" any issues--transsexuality is a medically
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by joshzayin 16y ago
> the person just is Exactly. Transsexuals were born with the incorrect genitals. The drugs and cosmetic surgery do not correct their gender--just the physical expression of it. Referring to them as the incorrect gender is no differen
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by joshzayin 16y ago
Disregarding your slurs ("shemales," "trannies," and "butch lesbians"), you seem to be acting as though it is somehow trivial to tell if someone is transsexual, or that all transsexuals tell everyone they know or have just met that they are

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