matt_morgan

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by matt_morgan 9y ago
There's something missing in this, I think, which is exactly what about the experience makes in-person retail work. Compare buying a book at a bookstore to buying it on Amazon or bn.com. Still, 20 years later, it's only good onlin
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
This is not about making it easier to get deliveries. When an Amazon delivery doesn't work out, they refund you. This is about reducing Amazon's costs. Don't do it. As long as we all don't do it, Amazon will credit us wh
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
Reminder that patio11 might be saying all these things without trying to imply value. I.e., he's not necessarily saying any of these things are good and bad; the "obvious" part is just that they are true.
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Why Is Affordable Housing So Expensive to Build?(citylab.com)
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
This is really the key point of the article (or maybe one of two, the other being Cuddy's unwillingness to accept change in favor of continuing to survive on her unsupported results); and the overall message is that we all do dumb thin
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
It's contextual. If a person developed a situation in which a creative work was produced, i.e. the direction was instrumental in the resulting work, then possibly yes. Think of reality TV. Unscripted, but produced, and absolutely copyr
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
32 Kilometers is not very far in earthquake terms. Machines all over the world can feel small earthquakes no matter where they happen, and this is a very big earthquake.
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
"All systems—especially internet-connected ones—must be configured with security in mind," Gerald Hanrahan of PDQ wrote. "This includes ensuring that the systems are behind a network firewall, and ensuring that all default pa
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
I know some authors and some agents. No editors. But the authors and agents tell me that it's rare for editors actually to do what we usually call "editing." It's more about selection and promotion, a lot of the time. So
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
Does anyone know what's going on inside Elsevier? Publicly at least, they're acting like the music industry acted in the 90s. Are they doing anything internally to make sure they stay in business in ten years, other than fighting
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
I don't doubt it! I just can't imagine that half a grape is safer than a whole grape for small kids.
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
This is not in Uber's interest. From their perspective the purpose of the surge is to get more cars on the road. They don't care about drivers, they care about fares (riders).
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
Do you have kids? Everybody thinks everything causes choking. People stop you on the street to tell you how to feed your toddlers. Grapes were particularly suspect in our neighborhood. People cut them in half, believing it was safer. You ar
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
StackExchange discussion of the more general case: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/3193... Interesting related historical item (java used to disallow usage in nuclear power facilities): https:&
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
I recommend starting with one empty box (every family tree has at least one member) than an entirely blank screen.
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
Nice! BTW I've never found a really nice, easy way to draw up organizational hierarchy charts (I've always used Dia or similar, and that's fussy), and I guess it's the same thing more or less?
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Hurst exponent – long-term memory of time series(en.wikipedia.org)
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
It's no less secure than the one password she's already using.
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
I'm all for this but this is not what I like to see in a funder for a "research" project: "We’re going to help alleviate the pain of a suffering population, and generally I’m talking about veterans, but also individuals
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that one drone causing a car crash that kills one person would be more effective terrorism than 20 drones taking out lots of electricity. I.e., you're right, it's just probably not what terrorists would do wit
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
It was always rare, but it used to be more common than it is now.
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
This is the only "game" I have on my phone. Years later I'll still sometimes stumble on a strategy I never noticed before, in one or another of the puzzles.
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by matt_morgan 9y ago
I take issue with the title. Screwing some other corporate conglomerate is not worse than screwing people at risk of their lives.
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by matt_morgan 10y ago
Looks like it's fixed (at least mostly) in bash 4.3?
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by matt_morgan 10y ago
If you're interested in this and you haven't read Logicomix, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix get it at your library now. http://www.worldcat.org/title/logicomix/oclc/708
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by matt_morgan 10y ago
It's sensible to ask whether a specific 3rd-party vote had a chance of affecting the outcome in a positive way. E.g., one of the more effective arguments against the current Green party in the US is they don't seem to try very har
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by matt_morgan 10y ago
I would avoid the thing you're doing with the pictures, where you fade them out to show the overlaid text. People have a tendency to mouse over things they're looking at ... and then the picture disappears. It's the opposite
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by matt_morgan 10y ago
60 years ago, most people didn't have large appliances. Growth came from actual growth. You could build reliable appliances and still sell new ones. Today, most new sales come from replacement. I'm guessing, I didn't look thi
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by matt_morgan 10y ago
FF on Fedora 25 showed lots of languages, FYI.
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by matt_morgan 10y ago
I wonder what cloud-connected pets the Trump and Trump-Kushners have.

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