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by lovemenot 13y ago
As you say, cannot set it up. I guess nothing has changed.
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by lovemenot 13y ago
That has always been the case, but is not so today. Google Play knows where I am as it offered the Nexus5 in Japanese Yen. Nevertheless I successsfully installed Google Voice just now.
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by lovemenot 13y ago
A foreigner, I live and work in Japan, visiting companies large and small. I agree with this sentiment in principle. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with Japan's system. Indeed it has in the past brought wealth to the whole societ
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by lovemenot 13y ago
That wasn't really my point so much as an attempt to clarify. In all likelihood globalisation at best buys time against the monoculture issue. If and when that hits, with globalisation, it will be commensurately larger than it would h
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by lovemenot 13y ago
I believe your parent was arguing that vaccines facilitate travel and that globalisation is anathema to monoculture. So vaccines indirectly attack the monoculture which you both think is a risk to our civilisation.
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by lovemenot 13y ago
For this to work beautifully, we would fathom pearls when finding or collecting them. afaik only depths of water can be the literal object of the verb to fathom. It doesn't quite succeed, here. Which is likely why Pynchon is celebrated
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by lovemenot 13y ago
Yes, there are such wagons for the reasons you state - though limited to rush hour (about 90 minutes per day) and one per train of fourteen wagons or so and, in Tokyo, only used on some lines. It does seem better here, but I am both male
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by lovemenot 13y ago
Have you visited Japan? It has great civility and safety, applied to people of either gender and even to foreigners. At least to white ones like me. Japanese say the old order is breaking down in the cities, so I can only imagine how it onc
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by lovemenot 13y ago
I am not familiar with this story in detail. Yet on the face of it, these services are not directly equivalent. Without knowing details of their implementation, it is clear that in principle, FlightCar has the potential to be disruptive, by
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by lovemenot 13y ago
Disruption is not a TV drama. That there is no obvious villain, is not an argument in support of the status quo. The issue is inefficiency. Why take two cars into the airport when I can just fly-and-go? The inefficiency of storing empty veh
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by lovemenot 13y ago
http://foaas.com/king/cronin101/tarcon
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by lovemenot 13y ago
>> 1. you can't make information always for pay - why? - because it costs nothing to copy it and it's cheap to store terabytes of it. If you changed the word information to data, I'd agree with you. We cannot hope to bu
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by lovemenot 13y ago
Never much love for Jaron on threads like this. Personally, I find his argument makes sense and he is consistent with himself - at least since he switched sides. Let me try to contextualise his main thesis. As technologists, we are Cultural
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by lovemenot 13y ago
Expect to see the NSA as a back-up-of-last-resort cloud solution provider any time soon?
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by lovemenot 13y ago
Agreed. I am surprised there are few comments of this nature on sites like HN. Perhaps spammers could be unlikely allies in a future wave of data obfuscation / poisoning?
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by lovemenot 13y ago
The Fermi paradox is useful in that it shows us that something must be wrong with Drake. It is more likely to be something wrong in one or more of the assumptions, than with the empirical facts. I think the problem is with notions of "
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by lovemenot 13y ago
>> Of course, it's hard to come up with campaign slogans or appeal to emotions by making cogent, nuanced arguments. Just say "it depends".
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by lovemenot 13y ago
Which brings us almost right back to Turing's research on morphogenesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphogen...
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by lovemenot 14y ago
I agree with Hispanic. I suspect some portion of attachment to driers pertains to the shameful connotations of the phrase "hanging out one's (dirty) laundry in public". My wife asks me to hide her underwear behind other clothes on the rack.
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by lovemenot 14y ago
I have some friends in Takamatsu, near the airport. They run workshops - some commercial and some just for fun - from their home which is an old farmhouse. 3-581-2, Yasuharashimo, Kagawa-ken, Japan 761-1504. If you wanted to run your own wo
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by lovemenot 14y ago
People like you are the reason we need the rule of law. I am not defending the scammers, but vigilantes are insidious. You may claim you were being ironic, but a mob with its passion inflamed by a sense of righteousness has no time for subt
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by lovemenot 14y ago
Whether fair it or not, Microsoft has become an anachronism in people's minds. We heard about their greatness constantly for a decade and a half. It's enough. By comparison, IBM still had some very profitable and relevant products like AS/4
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by lovemenot 14y ago
An assumption I have made is that most merchants in the "normals" category would demand near-as-dammit watertight protection from theoretical yet systemic risks. FUD from competing systems would drive this requirement. I cannot imagine a la
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by lovemenot 14y ago
True, and as the value of those potentially doubly-spent coins increases, so does the cost of preventing such an infraction. This is necessary to protect the at-risk merchants whose presence on the network is vital if BC is to succeed. Also
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by lovemenot 14y ago
>>If the cost of electricity is more than the value of the awarded coins, miners will drop off because they're losing money, and the difficulty will decrease. Is that assumption correct? I am not as knowledgeable as you are, but I w