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by kijinbear 16y ago
I wonder what would happen if some super-wealthy retired philanthropist (think Bill Gates, minus the MS monopoly tarnish) donated $1B to a promising Presidential candidate, with very few strings attached. Maybe we'll just end up with anothe
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Any port not listed in the link below, or listed as "Unassigned", would be fair game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_number...
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Your first point is fair enough. As for "anonymity is not the beginning and end of free speech", I don't think the comment you were responding to said anything to that effect. It only said that taking away anonymity would also take away fre
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by kijinbear 16y ago
> If you live in a nation with rule of law and wide ranging protections of freedom of speech like the US there is no need to be anonymous in the vast majority of cases. I think you overestimate the practical value of these constitutio
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Many of the salt flats in the Western USA used to be great lakes as recently as a few thousand years ago. What is now "a dry salt water lake bed a hundred miles from drinkable water" could very well become abundant land in 10,000 years.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Although the article only talks about TFA schools, the problem of parents treating school like daycare is not limited to poor neighborhoods. Too many parents seem to think that they're somehow absolved from all parental responsibility as so
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by kijinbear 16y ago
> Make parents responsible for their kids. Right now a lot of parents treat school as daycare for their kids, they don't care what happens there as long as the kids aren't at home. Absolutely agreed. There's very little that a school
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Your actual argument depends on the sense of the word "take" that you use. (a) It is a well-established norm in any modern society that it's immoral to take (move) something without permission. (b) It is not well-established -- or at le
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by kijinbear 16y ago
When you take $10 from your mom, your mom no longer has that $10. When you pay money to buy a magazine, the shop no longer has that magazine and you no longer have the money. Taking in the usual sense is moving . But pirates insist that th
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by kijinbear 16y ago
> People aren't judged for stealing because it costs the store owner money, they're judged because it's immoral! I'm not sure it's as simple as that. One could always ask: "Why is it immoral to steal?" and the answer usually revolves ar
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Nice landing page, but you should fix your web fonts. http://imgur.com/kyzBF (FF 3.6 and Chrome on Win 7)
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by kijinbear 16y ago
It asks me for a login.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
That's why I always connect the ethernet before plugging in any USB peripherals.
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Maybe you're right, and maybe they want to stay small for now. In which case the linked article is misleading in comparing Quora with StackOverflow. That doesn't change the fact that I do everything I can to avoid websites that tell me to s
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Which is now almost 15 times as expensive as Amazon SES. (Almost, because Amazon also charges a small data fee.)
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Go to StackOverflow.com and you can instantly see what kind of questions are being asked and answered. The UI may feel a little cluttered, but the information is there. Hang out for a few more minutes and you can appreciate the value of thi
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Yes, the purpose of the article is to beat up on the dehumanizing culture of shame. That does not, however, imply that the Judeo-Christian culture of guilt is any better. Most likely, each is better in some areas and worse in other areas. B
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Our Superficial Scholars(washingtonpost.com)
36 points by kijinbear 16y ago|38 comments
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by kijinbear 16y ago
A little late to the Amy Chua-bashing party, but it took me a while to get something "meta" written up. The article is less about education and more about cultural backgrounds. Not exactly computer stuff, but I thought some of the people he
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The Culture of Shame, in the context of last week's "Tiger Mom" controversy(kijin.posterous.com)
1 points by kijinbear 16y ago|3 comments
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Nothing beats Reddit's header. Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; --
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by kijinbear 16y ago
You're right, real velociraptors were pretty small. I was talking about the puffed-up version that appears in the movies, which more closely resembles the deinonychus (160lb). A pack of those monsters would weigh more than a pack of wolves
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by kijinbear 16y ago
I doubt that a brontosaurus will try to kill you (or even notice you) unless you did something stupid at close range. A velociraptor on the other hand WILL hunt you down and try to kill you. It will not stop until it feels your blood on its
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by kijinbear 16y ago
As much as I fancy the prospect of a real world Jurassic Park, I'd much rather they began with herbivores rather than a T. Rex, velociraptor, or these flying creatures. But then again, Jurassic Park without a T. Rex would be like an amuseme
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by kijinbear 16y ago
PHP has a reputation for insecurity, but it also has a lot of built-in features that help you build secure web apps if used correctly. Some of PHP's earlier experiments were disasterous, (I'm talking about you, magic quotes!) but recent fix
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Physical dimension is a very large factor in LCD panel pricing, and a 10" panel is only 10-15% the size of a 30" panel. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple could get hi-res 10" panels for cheap, especially since they'll be ordering millions of
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by kijinbear 16y ago
I can't deny that when you're first learning to write, you should be looking at fonts that closely resemble the way English alphabets are usually drawn. I hate people who write "a" the way it appears right here! Comic Sans fills this educat
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Even in America, MLA says you should place commas and periods outside quotation marks (unless they're part of the quote), whereas Chicago says you should place them outside. I prefer to put them outside quotation marks; there's a reason why
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Maybe Google will charge money for the "premium" search service. Take money from advertisers to show their ads, _and_ take money from users to hide the same ads. I'll hate Google when that day comes. At least I take comfort in the fact that
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by kijinbear 16y ago
Also, certainly a lot better than TAs (grad students who only barely know the course material).

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