jstalin

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   by jstalin 12y ago

   It seems the pendulum is swinging back in the direction of paying for quality. The explosion of the internet and the effect it had on media destroyed so many of the traditional outlets that spent money on quality content. For instance, my l
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   by jstalin 12y ago

   Let me worship your awesomeness.
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   by jstalin 12y ago

   I hate scribd. Please stop using it.
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   by jstalin 12y ago

   Down the memory hole goes everything in the EU. I'm thankful every day for the First Amendment in the US.
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   CNBC accidentally outs Apple CEO Tim Cook(youtube.com)

   7 points by jstalin 12y ago|11 comments
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   by jstalin 12y ago

   I'm not sure what "we" have lost the desire to colonize the moon, it's just that the costs far outweigh the benefits. One of the points of his article is that it will eventually be possible to build self-replicating robo
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   by jstalin 12y ago

   I switched from gmail to fastmail about six months ago and I'm very happy. It's fast, relatively cheap ($40 a year for 15 gigs of storage) and they aren't scanning my email to serve up advertisements. The addition of calendar
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   by jstalin 12y ago

   Not sure why this is news. Virtually every privately-held corporation or LLC has a stock transfer restriction. Any company that doesn't is an outlier.
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   by jstalin 12y ago

   It's annoying to an oldtimer, like me, that animated gifs have now simply become gifs .
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Forgive my ignorance, but how do these actually enter the real world? Do browsers adopt these new characters?
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Here's a decent history on why the US liquor laws are the way they are: http://reason.com/archives/2014/06/04/how-not-to-legalize-a-... These licensing schemes have become nothing more than rent-see
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    It looks like Amazon has the exact same rate (lowest tier) as Paypal: 2.9% + $0.30.
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    No response is complete without a reference to the Koch brothers, indeed.
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    I'm surprised anyone is still repeating that 98% consensus hoax. http://richardtol.blogspot.com/2013/08/open-letter-to-vice-c...
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    As a frequent traveler, this looks like a terrible idea. It allows people to be packed even closer together.
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Conversely, I've been able to publish through Amazon's on-demand imprint, CreateSpace, books that I would have no way of publishing otherwise. I make a few hundred bucks a month and have fun with self-publishing. The Kindle editio
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Same here. I stopped using shampoo a few years ago after reading an article claiming that it may contribute to acne. I did notice that my hair is now much more manageable when I don't shampoo. I'll wash my hair with soap maybe o
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    One size fits all is surely the answer.
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    It amazes me how maps like this were made... I presume it was using navigation tools to determine the place on the globe? I just can't imagine how to draw a map when having nothing but navigation tools.
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    I don't think that we can infer anything about the modern NYT from their involvement in the pentagon papers. For god's sake, they still have a hard time calling Bush out for torture and instead stick to the use of "harsh inte
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Agree with regards to the NYT. I cancelled my subscription when they published a front-page NYT Magazine story on how wonderful Anthony Weiner was, how he had reformed, and that he was a real family man running for mayor of NYC. It was so t
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    I have personal experience with urban education, having been a member of a fairly large city's school board. One thing I realized is that centralization has killed the ability for anyone to think outside the box. There used to be thous
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    From that article: "But these effects are very small, and Antarctic sea-ice levels have increased only marginally. In the coming decades, climate models suggest rising global temperatures will overwhelm the other influences and cause A
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Yet antarctic sea ice has been increasing annually and is near all-time highs (since the 1979 satellite measurements began). That doesn't really indicate warming (to me). http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMA
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    No Global Warming Since The Kyoto Treaty Was Rejected(stevengoddard.wordpress.com)

    1 points by jstalin 12y ago|0 comments
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Economics is about the allocation of scarce resources. Capitalism is one method of allocating scarce resources. If some resources become so plentiful that they are no longer scarce, they are treated as having no value. I don't see how
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Thanks for mentioning Secret Agent. I had looked for a plugin to do that some time ago and couldn't find one. Now I have!
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    I currently run adblock edge with the regular easy list, privacy list, and social blocking list. How is this plugin different?
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Nutritional info would be helpful.
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    by jstalin 12y ago

    Mandated? "The Congress shall have Power To . . . establish Post Offices and Post Roads" The constitution permits congress to establish post offices and post roads, but it certainly does not mandate it.