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I instead thought "Other browsers will have ad blockers, so there are people who won't use Chrome if it doesn't have one." Implying that Google might consider that market segment and the browser strategy pretty darn important. Just a diff
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Yes, this is definitely out of my area of expertise. Fair criticism. Is there a good resource to understand how the loans are repaid and what enforcement exists? That would be crucial to understanding the degree to which they aren't dona
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I kept thinking they missed one interesting point when discussing why Biya might still be neglecting the roads after 20 years--the point at which it's supposed to become in his interest to rebuild them so he has more to steal. If the World
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Most people I've met that accept evolution (well, the ones that accept evolution and also think about what they accept) accept it as requiring less bullshitting than other proposals and are also willing to reject it if something better come
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Thanks to all replies for feedback. I think I will try Git again. Any recommendations on a UI tool (or recommend that I don't use one?). I run Ubuntu and have Vista on my work laptop. If there's a good tool for simplifying adds and comm
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I've used svn and git a little and am shopping around for something to use on a current project. I found git harder to use than svn, given that I'm not a power user. I noted that the last item on the page seems to reflect that--git is onl
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I tend to agree with you that we will become desensitized to less important behavior, overall, as people become more directly associated to their activities online. Most people who travel the world and eat "wacky" food become more acceptin
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It would be particularly sweet if there were some way to more or less objectively compare the results of a rock star apprenticeship of this sort to a traditional graduate education. That would be hard to fashion, given some response bias a
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One issue with porting karma, rather than just being able to display different site's karma rankings on your blog or something, would be the ability to gain tons of karma at the Beenie Babies site where I am a subject matter expert and then
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Not defending or refuting this, really, but thought I'd point to a compelling argument I saw on TED by a "climate engineer." The summary is that he claims if things continue and there are problems and we haven't done anything about them, p
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Why not do both? Why not reduce their power some, change the law to reduce the variability of money in the system and see what happens? It doesn't have to be either/or. This constant argument that we have to do A only, followed by the cou
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The basic rule of thumb on predicting future tech progress: figure out a conservative estimate of how long until the tech comes about/matures and then triple that number. I think two major issues will be genetic discrimination, which seems
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Stop reading HN?
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Who is this lol person to whom everyone keeps addressing their comments? I tried Googling for pictures, but all I found where fat people and cats.
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I wonder if the mere existence of a blog tips the scale towards E instead of I. That would be based on an extremely common misconception that most people have of introversion on MBTI--namely, that it equates to being shy or private. If I r
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by justindz 18y ago
I asked a few people in Second Life how Ginko worked about a year ago and no one had any idea. Between that and the fact that there is no kind of deposit insurance mechanism, I wasn't going to touch one of those terminals.
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Being a big fan of Heroku and CouchDB, I would find the intersection between the two quite attractive.
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I'm finding CouchDB to be a natural fit with Sinatra. On Ubuntu 8.10, the database was easy to install and CouchRest has made it very easy to operate from Ruby. I was enjoying Google App Engine, but find this much easier to work with. I'
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"Re-ranked search results, however, are only seen by the signed-in user and do not affect other people's results." http://www.pcworld.com/article/154310/google_adds_customizat... Nasty comments, well, that one does share.
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"On the eve of this election night victory, I want to reflect on how we got here. I thought the campaign was over when I died. But, thanks to my team, I was brought back to life. I don't have a frog on my team, but I do have a girl with
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I'm in the vast minority on HN anyway, given that I'm in Marketing and work for a company employing over 2,000 people with no sanctioned use of Lisp :-P But, yeah, I wasn't trying to downplay Facebook, but only agreeing that I'm one of thos
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Yes, they turned down a large offer from Microsoft which at the time was debated on HN as either indicating an ace up their sleeve or sheer stupidity.
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I wouldn't pretend to be able to tell you what eBay does with 13,500 employees. But four? I would bet they retain more than four people purely for the handling of account disputes. If you want to get eBay down to four people, you might ha
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Russian spy may have passed on Nato cyberwar secrets(geek.com)
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If you had 100 people and cutting snacks hurt their productivity, you could end up with a more deleterious effect than you might get cutting 3 or whatever. Pragmatism.
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Yeah, I read that and was unable to understand how this was un-intelligent. Announce something, change plans without committing any work in exchange for payola. Sounds smart to me.
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If I couldn't pipe my Twitter updates to Facebook, I would never update Facebook.
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I thought this was going to be about Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Turns out it was natural language processing, so the rest of it became tl;dr.
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I'm a passionate under-consumer. I've recently made an attempt to better understand economics and I'm trying to tackle supply-side theory right now. I understand the Laffer Curve at a basic level, but one thing that seems to leap out at m
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The Dark Art of Cyberwar(foreignpolicy.com)
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