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by karzeem 17y ago
I don't suppose this type of crime is common, but to the extent that it happens, it's probably an inevitable consequence of people walking around the mall with a bag that screams, "Hey, I'm carrying $1500 in unopened electronics." In any ca
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by karzeem 17y ago
Including the dollar amounts is what pushes it over the edge. The number of ways this is helpful is massively overwhelmed by the number of ways it could get you into trouble.
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by karzeem 17y ago
Like Gruber says, I think the likeliest solution to the too-much-gear problem is that the iWhatever will simply replace laptops at some point. Maybe I'm being unimaginative, but it seems like anything a 10-inch screen can do, a 13-inch scre
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by karzeem 17y ago
By contrast, in France, iPods are limited by law to a maximum of 100 dB. (Sorry, I'm on a laissez-faire kick after just having read Capitalism and Freedom.)
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by karzeem 17y ago
I think people are rightly responding more to the stupidity of the new security measures than their ineffectiveness. Those are slightly different. We can debate the usefulness of a security measure, but the real problem is that the TSA is a
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by karzeem 17y ago
Carlin makes that distinction, actually. The bit is about how "save the planet" is the wrong slogan and that the goal is really just to save humans.
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by karzeem 17y ago
An ER doctor I was talking to recently said the same thing. He said the best thing you can say about Tamiflu is that if you give it at the very beginning of the illness, it'll shorten the illness by maybe 12 hours. He was annoyed that some
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by karzeem 17y ago
I agree that nature doesn't intend anything, but when people say that it does, what they're actually doing is slightly clumsily expressing a very valid concern. And that concern is that a lot of agricultural science suffers from a dangerous
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by karzeem 17y ago
My own kneejerk reaction is to fear a $/MB system, but that's only because I trust AT&T about as far as I can throw them, and it would be reasonable to predict extortionate pricing for whatever plan they come up with. (Side note: why
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by karzeem 17y ago
True. I think a big danger underlying people's general reservations about this stuff is government abuse of all this newly available data.
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by karzeem 17y ago
It's a bit facile to say that it's evil for Google to watch us. Yes, a company can abuse the data in its possession, and yes, all that data in one place makes the government lick its lips in anticipation. But don't forget, Google does a lo
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by karzeem 17y ago
I know it's not something you do for the money, but in terms of income, what other kinds of jobs is it comparable to?
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by karzeem 17y ago
I don't really know how to get around the problem of people placing bets with money they possess probabilistically. Clearly, if enough people are doing it, and enough of them make the same bad, massive bet, we all get screwed. But at the s
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by karzeem 17y ago
Certainly, but there are a couple trouble spots. A) The transitions aren't always smooth, and the people whose privacy is violated are sometimes sacrificed in the years-long process of mainstreaming whatever "shameful" thing they did. B) We
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by karzeem 17y ago
The key phrase here is "using legal means unavailable to corporations". Governments retain a monopoly over things like use of force, forcible investigation into your affairs, etc. And when they abuse those powers, you legally have signif
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by karzeem 17y ago
I think the difference between equity speculation and bond speculation is important. Debt bubbles are much more catastrophic than equity bubbles.
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by karzeem 17y ago
There are two arguments here. One is that a computer's inner workings can be fouled by secondhand smoke. If Apple wants to deny people repairs on that basis, it should say so in the warranty, because for laypeople it's a non-obvious point
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by karzeem 17y ago
I'm a little confused by the quote from Dalton's admissions director: "[Test prep] is unethical. It completely negates the reason for giving the test, which is to provide a snapshot of their aptitudes, and it doesn’t correlate with their fu
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by karzeem 17y ago
I get what you're saying re self-promotion in the case of pros who make money from endorsements and the like. But for most (and quite possibly all) of the pros good enough to have endorsement deals, most of their income is money won at a p
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by karzeem 17y ago
The paid version of Google Apps costs $50/user/year, so for a multi-year contract, $241 isn't too bad. I'd be surprised if they could pay less than that with anyone else. (That's all assuming that LA is getting Google Apps, and not just em
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by karzeem 17y ago
Is Wheeler Auditorium in Zellerbach Hall or in Wheeler Hall? Startup@Berkeley's map says it's in the latter, but this and a couple other sources say it's in Zellerbach.
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by karzeem 17y ago
It's stunning. For commercial use (i.e. the way that a huge number of startups would like to use this), the cheapest option is $2000/month. They say to contact them to tailor it to your needs, so maybe they're willing to come way down from
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by karzeem 17y ago
Doesn't Google do the same thing, at least with a lot of its smaller acquisitions? Job #1 is rewriting the thing with Google's usual set of tools? (Not to suggest that Google doing it makes it right or wrong.)
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by karzeem 17y ago
I'm so glad you said that, because I was primed to think only of entrepreneurs. But in many ways — especially the most important ones — Mr. Rogers is a better guide. Seriously. This video of Mr. Rogers is a huge help if you're ever in nee
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by karzeem 17y ago
On the subject of coin usability, I'd say one requirement is that any coin denomination should divide cleanly into 100. Surprising that they left that out.
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I figure that someone who's using an old browser is relatively unlikely to know much about browsers in general, so I didn't want to give them a bunch of indistinguishable (to them) choices. My guess is that more people will actually follow
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by karzeem 17y ago
Excellent idea. I was blind to it because I tend to keep a site's home page open in a separate tab.
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Thanks, I'm working on setting it up with the Fandango affiliate program so that you'll get a convenient "find nearby theaters/showtimes" box.
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A lot of great points, thanks. I removed all the text ads, so it's just display ads now. And on the movie pages, I enlarged the "log in to vote" text and cleared it up. A bunch of your organizational points are good ones, and I'll probabl
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by karzeem 17y ago
Good point, I just pushed a fix for this — a nice, big title right above the featured movies.

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