m_eiman

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by m_eiman 17y ago
A quick calculation says that $10k for 50 employees is roughly $16 per person and month. Less than one percent of the salary cost. If the margins in the company are so thin that this expense matters, they've definitely got bigger problems.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
In the blood of other animals, apparently. http://www.salt.org.il/main.htm The fact that we like it so much, as with sweets, suggests that it was hard to find - a significant mental reward was required to make us make the effort to find i
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Regardless if it's "right" or not, it's likely more valuable to the country. On the other hand, being able to bring the family might further increase the value of a skilled immigrant.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
As much as 60% of Americans are deficient in vitamin D Unlike many other vitamins, it's also very hard to overdose on D. Taking too much of some of the others is worse than not taking any at all, but with D that's not a problem.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Salt also tastes good, which is why people want to eat/drink it (and there's probably an evolutionary reason for this - the body needs it). Try peanuts without salt, it's not quite the same.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Awesome? I'd say it's pretty sad that ignoring IE is practically required to do advanced stuff on the web without resorting to Flash.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
the vast majority of AdBlock users block almost everything - including the 'useful ads for useful products' Is there such an option in AdBlock? If there is, I wouldn't mind seeing those ads. Currently they get blocked along with the rest,
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by m_eiman 17y ago
That might be a business opportunity - create a magazine that publishes rewrites of Wikipedia articles in need of references (for a moderate fee). It could actually even be a magazine with interesting, if diverse, content!
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Well, just keep saving what you get and see which companies keep sending more junk - they're the ones that work.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
IBM's text-to-speech tech is pretty impressive. http://www.research.ibm.com/tts/coredemo.shtml Try putting "Hi there, it seems you come from Hacker News. Do you like it there?" with the male voice.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
While you're at it, drop a hint or two about Silverlight being a response to Flash and not Javascript.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
If it's cheap or not depends on what you compare to. Most other VPS systems are like home cooking: it's cheaper (and likely tastes better) but you have to do more work yourself. EC2 is more like McD: the price is higher but all you have to
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by m_eiman 17y ago
single males are much more likely to be murdered or be murderers than their married counterparts/women in all cultures You don't think that that might have more to do with single males being younger and more likely to do risky things in g
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by m_eiman 17y ago
I came here to scan the comments to see if this was one of the conspiracy articles or one of the decent ones. I saw something that could be commented on without having read the article, and did so. Not too terrible, I think, but feel free t
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Are you saying that you think this article is an example of "paranoid conspiracy theories"? No, I didn't read the article. But lately there have been far too many items on the HN front page that are nothing more than conspiracy theory ram
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by m_eiman 17y ago
There's a difference between skepticism and paranoid conspiracy theories, though. And I've had more than enough of the latter.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Since the code is included, it might be possible to compile and run it through Cygwin?
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by m_eiman 17y ago
The operator had limited control over the system through an operator's panel composed of a power-on button, power-off button, and an emergency pull. Powering on the machine would start a program load routine that took about 30 to 40 minute
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What ever happened to storing pics with electron cannons?(theregister.co.uk)
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by m_eiman 17y ago
If you’re using elaborately graphical screens you could do that in such a way as to be broken by a different screen shape, but it seems to me that with just a little work you can keep that from happening. Oh, and the executable file format
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by m_eiman 17y ago
In other words, now is the perfect time for them to put their ships in the docks and perform maintenance and upgrades without losing money from missed shipments. Ships already beat (most?) other forms of transport on oil-per-tonnage-mile, w
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by m_eiman 17y ago
For the specific example of Facebook, it'd quite feasible to have a lot of different services that shared data as needed. It's not the name of the front end that people want, it's the social interaction.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
So, they applied a patent for embedding "small graphics" in a document. Small graphics that depend on other data in the document and are updated when that data is changed, to be a bit more precise. Still pretty obvious, of course.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
So he's complaining about both a) IE is bad and b) Microsoft is trying to make it better. I suppose he'd like them to just discontinue the whole thing, then? Not the most likely, or even desirable, outcome.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Very interesting, and a good lesson for startups. Paraphrased: if price is your selling point, you're likely to attract customers who care only about price and tell you they want it even cheaper or they'll go somewhere else. The infamous ra
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by m_eiman 17y ago
The same ting is also available in Sweden, here it's called "Starta eget-bidrag". Info at: http://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/admin/Documents/faktablad/s...
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by m_eiman 17y ago
"Everyone" is saying that GMail's spam filtering works very well, but how about other mail apps? I've been using Apple Mail for several years, and it's spam detection works nearly perfectly too.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Is it libel to brand someone with a list? I should think so. Not sure how it works with more or less anonymous accounts though, I guess it's not libel unless it can be linked to a specific person by those reading the list.
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by m_eiman 17y ago
That's not really comparable, though. That question is "what's your birthday", not "answer a bunch of ambiguous questions and see if the made up blurb that results is applicable to you". There's also the aspect of giving the "right" answers
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by m_eiman 17y ago
Even worse were always-present scrollbars even when having nothing to scroll) as misguided attempts to solve problem 1. What's misguided about that? It's consistent and easy to understand.

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