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by madair 17y ago
I'm responding more to the outburst of (self-)righteousness happening right here on HN right now.
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by madair 17y ago
People need to chill-out their self-righteous and frequently hypocritical disgustometer. If you're gonna have a worldwide open discussion you're gonna have some trolls. How about thinking about how amazing it is? How about not having your e
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by madair 17y ago
May not be quite so simple, there's an update: UPDATE, 1/31, 6:55pm: I received an email from one of the people who has actively been involved in the search for Phil, and she isn't satisfied with the information released by the police. "Fo
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by madair 17y ago
The money quote: I'm not sure this has ever been studied, but the ramifications are huge: for one thing, it would mean the end of display advertising. Why would they pay you, when you maybe should be paying them?
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Higher quality ads == Immediate jump in click-through rate(thelastpsychiatrist.com)
3 points by madair 17y ago|2 comments
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by madair 17y ago
It sounds like you just said that piracy is a market correction too, just from a different angle.
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by madair 17y ago
I think that "I teach computers how to learn" is more indicative of the chicken or the egg nature of the problem.
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by madair 17y ago
Stop, or the Universe might implode! (Ohhh, that's why it's called that.) It's the ultimate pyramid scheme. Like which, it could do worse than deceive and slaughter, it could fizzle.
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by madair 17y ago
TPB is ideological, lampooning fear mongering politicians and media titans with brilliant satire.
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by madair 17y ago
It's not being a grammar nazi to point out that something is not misspelled.
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by madair 17y ago
Note definition 3. See also ensure. Gawd. Do you guys read before you vote?
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by madair 17y ago
You can vote me down all you want, it's still not misspelled. Or are you planning on voting down English dictionaries as well?
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by madair 17y ago
It's not misspelled. Look it up.
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by madair 17y ago
Yeah, it does seem like he's got an axe to grind, but he never lets on what it is. I think it's too optimistic to think he's alluding to marijuana laws, he seemed more forward thinking than that. Banking industry reforms?
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by madair 17y ago
Title is "8 Million requests for law enforcement data". Hmmm, sounds like data points to me. They were individual pings btw.
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by madair 17y ago
You don't think 3D TV is worthwhile or something?
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by madair 17y ago
Really brilliant article. Thanks! I'm wondering whether the premise of the language as not Turing complete holds up though. The article claims that the Piraha language lacks abstractions, including counting. Perhaps that could count as inco
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by madair 17y ago
This is dangerous , it carries far too much baggage and abuse potential. Terrorists may have dangerous weapons, but governments have police powers, extraordinary renditions, secret prisons, special interests, corrupt (and non-corrupt) offi
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by madair 17y ago
Totally pwned by the money quote: He and his co-editor "immediately cut out all the papers celebrating the Dude as a hippie hero in a postmodern landscape." That’s a sober choice. Admirers of the Dude are already dangerously close to becom
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by madair 17y ago
Nice reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_the_Iconoclast#Embiggen_an...
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by madair 17y ago
Short version of the article: DJ Hero failed because it's awesome. I kid. It's a fun read. However, in this context calling it failed seems to only apply if marketplace competition is a zero-sum game. Perhaps we could say instead that it
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by madair 17y ago
Maybe he prefers that JSMin code not show up in Hellfire missiles?
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by madair 17y ago
Some people actually don't want their code to be used for evil. Glad MIT works for you though.
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by madair 17y ago
Just because a legal department says something doesn't make it true. This is not tested in a court of law, and law departments have varying standards and interpretations. Some even have guts. Some prefer themselves not to do evil. But if yo
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by madair 17y ago
The salt is used for the original encryption, after which the plaintext is thrown away, then when you need to compare what the user enters next time, you use the same salt with the password entered every time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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Wondrous Oddities: R's function call semantics [2006](blog.moertel.com)
17 points by madair 17y ago|4 comments
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by madair 17y ago
Good response to the question, which was clearly loaded
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by madair 17y ago
If by jizzing all over it you mean writing a review that points out that it's got a great form factor and the touch screen works great but it's very slow, has some odd features, and doesn't do much other than surf, then you're right on. Did
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by madair 17y ago
Ah yes, vote me down, you're elite people you are.
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by madair 17y ago
This comment and the votes for it are just sad, and you people should be ashamed of yourselves. Welcome to groupthink, dorks. (I'll proudly sacrifice my mojo just to sneer at this stupidity.)

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