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by mapgrep 11y ago
This doesn't make sense. Corn is used much more heavily as feed stock for animals than as a sweetener or dietary carb for humans. Corn growers thus have more invested in encouraging high-fat diets than low-fat diets. About 4.2 billion
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Why We Need to Talk More About Mental Illness in Tech and Business(inc.com)
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by mapgrep 11y ago
Multiple civil engineering professors have been raising concerns over this issue since at least 2013. http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2014-... http://alumni.berkeley.edu/cali
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by mapgrep 11y ago
"In its initial phase, though, Whatsapp’s messaging encryption is limited to Android, and doesn’t yet apply to group messages, photos or video messages. " http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-m
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by mapgrep 11y ago
I was surprised there's no way to query the page beyond the small list of element accessors you provide (body, url, scheme, host, port, title, description, links, images, meta). When you're putting together a tool like this, it&#x
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by mapgrep 11y ago
> Where possible, and relevant, take control over that infomation and unlink it from data linked to you. For example, you can control the From field by creating a new email account. I genuinely wonder, what's the point of rotating d
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by mapgrep 11y ago
OP was saying (roughly) that the file attributes were used by, for example, DEFRAG.EXE to avoid having files like MSDOS.sys re-arranged ("defragmented") on disk because they need to be in certain locations the bootloader expects.
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by mapgrep 11y ago
httrack is also very nice! I found it more comprehensive than wget's recursive mode, but I haven't compared it to rsync --link-dest.
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by mapgrep 11y ago
Just FYI, this is an inaccurate headline ("No More Vaccine Exemptions: California Senate Overwhelmingly Passes SB 277"). "No More Vaccine Exemptions" will be true only IF this passes the Assembly, where it faces a toughe
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by mapgrep 11y ago
Ya but then isn't it pretty logical that people use a browser extension to get around buying subscriptions that are priced artificially high to protect a soon-to-be-obsolete revenue stream?
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by mapgrep 11y ago
Even people inside the NYT know the pricing for digital subscriptions is excessive. They're high because circ department won an internal war and inflated digital prices in a misguided attempt to protect print subs. The NYT has experime
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by mapgrep 11y ago
Because if they weren't effective, we wouldn't call them "click-bait." (In other words, because you've tautologically defined "effective" as "getting you to click.") Behind the headline is a pret
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by mapgrep 11y ago
The problem appears to be that Apple has reclassified smart watches as a "mobile platform" whereas they did not before. So suddenly having an app so much as mention a smart watch brand is tantamount to mentioning, say, Android. Th
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by mapgrep 11y ago
You're talking about a company that, within the last year, lost its CTO/first employee, COO, head of bizdev and head of PR, whose top early investors (Union Sq Capital and Andreessen Horowitz) sat out the last round, and that the
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by mapgrep 12y ago
It is simply inaccurate to say SEC "approved" crowdfunding. It is outright wrong. Saying that "anyone interested" would know the truth doesn't change that. "With rules things can move forward. " The SEC is
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by mapgrep 12y ago
No, no it does not. How is this headline still up? It's totally inaccurate. Equity crowdfunding from unaccredited investors was provided for in the JOBS Act. The SEC doesn't get to set the law, Congress does. What the SEC has been
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by mapgrep 12y ago
Does this architecture open you up to race conditions, where two clients are trying to update the index at the same time?Client 1 downloads the index, Client 2 downloads the same index, they both make updates to the index and try re-uploadi
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by mapgrep 12y ago
Very interesting. How much additional data, compared to a conventional fat server architecture, needs to be sent across the wire with a fat client? The blog post makes it sound not too bad.
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by mapgrep 12y ago
OK but aren't you thus pushing much of the intelligence typically part of the database server to the database clients? In this case, the "database server" is basically a dumb remote B-tree server, right? It's not running
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by mapgrep 12y ago
If you want me to trust what you say about a language — or any technology, actually — be forthright about its deficiencies. Because I don't believe you really, truly understand a language until you can tell me what sucks about it. It t
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by mapgrep 12y ago
Color me old and skeptical about "simple," "lightweight" web servers. Does anyone else remember when nginx was touted as the "lightweight" replacement for Apache because Apache was often "overkill"? (
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by mapgrep 12y ago
"It's better to simply store the UTC time of the event, and nothing else." The whole point of the article is that /you cannot know with certainty the UTC time of a future event/ if you are starting with a wallclock
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by mapgrep 12y ago
I still remember my mom using them at a "drive thru" at our bank in the early 1980s. Instead of a window you'd pull up to a tube station. Slips of papers would go in and come out. I think she even did withdrawals this way. (N
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by mapgrep 12y ago
From accompanying article by the editor of WIRED: "When I took over as editor in chief in 2012, WIRED had an archive of more than 100,000 stories. That’s good! But they were spread out over -->more than a dozen<-- different datab
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by mapgrep 12y ago
This is the sort of thing SMTP relaying would be useful for, if it hadn't been effectively shut down by spammer abuse.
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by mapgrep 12y ago
>That's the current-day Remote (for AppleTV) Remote is also handy for driving iTunes on a Mac :-) I wonder if some day it will drive the Music app on iPad and iPhone. I mean, why not, especially if you're wearing the Apple Watc
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by mapgrep 12y ago
Neither are OS X and Windows, yet they have their own sections.
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by mapgrep 12y ago
The very first step, assuming you already have an email account, for all platform pages: >INSTALL THE ENIGMAIL PLUGIN FOR YOUR EMAIL PROGRAM I Googled Enigmail as I was not familiar with it. It is "a security extension to Mozilla Th
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by mapgrep 12y ago
You don't make a quick buck on a story of the fall of a company. Business books, as a genre, are utterly dominated by success stories, because the people who buy them want to be inspired or to learn things they can imitate from winners
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by mapgrep 12y ago
Nice find!

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