mayneack

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by mayneack 14y ago
Some things are back now. Still not mit.edu
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by mayneack 14y ago
Confusing timing eh?
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by mayneack 14y ago
Because before you set it up, you don't know there's a problem. Sure, you can say that everyone should get access to the research from the start, but when the framework for federal grants started, the cost of distributing journals was tied
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by mayneack 14y ago
All .mit.edu domains I've tried appear down (stellar, my fraternity, etc)
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by mayneack 14y ago
MIT is very open. They just put ID card readers on the student center in the last month or so. I used to see homeless people in the computer labs around campus and the student center all the time.
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by mayneack 14y ago
It being from reason should be a heads up to watch for bias anyway. Glad it was posted, taken with grain of salt and all that.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Posts like that are not necessarily a bad idea from our own self-interest, however. If enough people bitch about how stupid all these things are and the conventional wisdom shifts, I would guess that it will be good for those of us that wan
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by mayneack 14y ago
Assume 100k/year? I wouldn't
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by mayneack 14y ago
The patent office isn't the entity with either the most say or the most desire to keep things the way they are. Congress determines whether or not the patent office even gets the fees or they go straight into the treasury.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Every moment is the closest moment to date to the extinction of mankind.
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by mayneack 14y ago
It also wasn't what it is today. The current fox news functions because of fear. Remember, in the last decade, MSNBC went from trying to beat fox by supporting Iraq more than them to what they are now, I wouldn't make a whole lot of conclus
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by mayneack 14y ago
Let's say he's using packrat in this scenario, if he chooses to restore folder X, will it restore all the files ever in this folder with packrat?
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by mayneack 14y ago
It gives me great joy that both posts appear downvoted. Hopefully mine will be too.
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by mayneack 14y ago
With the important exception of an email address. Most of the time the part that annoys me the most is entering that because at best I have to check what it was sent to (many email accounts all going into one gmail) and at worst, it wasn't
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by mayneack 14y ago
I miss the keyboard. My fingers are too big to even begin to use an iPhone, but I can get by with some androids and swiftkey. I would kill for a blackberry shaped Android, I'm not a fan of sliding keyboards because I like to fiddle around w
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by mayneack 14y ago
This page has some serious issues with it's floating header in Chromium on Xubuntu 12.04 http://i.imgur.com/5Z3H6.png
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by mayneack 14y ago
The exact same thing that your comment brings. It's not saying those are interesting things, it's saying "why do all these 'new sources' think those are interesting ideas"
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by mayneack 14y ago
Lack of incentives for long term success? Too big to fail?
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by mayneack 14y ago
Thing I'm most happy about is the upgraded export course materials. The zipped file is now logically organized. They used to have seemingly random arbitrary grouping of materials in folders with half of the directories only leading to one s
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by mayneack 14y ago
Tangential, but I am a little frustrated that I can't sign into one of my google products without being signed into all of them. I get so nervous any time I sign into google music somewhere that I'm not necessarily actively monitoring becau
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by mayneack 14y ago
It's quite the improvement from last year's Dead Friday (or last winter's dead Thursday with Friday finals.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Really? I thought I saw one for the majors. Might be wrong. edit: nope, you're right. I was remembering a different tech survey graphic.
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by mayneack 14y ago
5 probably is just a factor of a small sample size. It's a small major. There's also some weird things going on with 17 (political science) and I would speculate that it's due to the high rate of double majoring. AFAIK, there is only one 17
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by mayneack 14y ago
A relevant note is that MIT doesn't release class ranks or average GPAs or anything like that. Personally, I think it's good because while people might think they're below average, I'm ok with them not worrying about the particular number.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Revenue.
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by mayneack 14y ago
I don't think it's too ridiculous. Sure, it's by no means the only determining factor of tax rates, but I find it hard to believe that tax rates are entirely independent of a government's bottom line. Thus, if this just goes straight to the
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by mayneack 14y ago
IF they go into the general treasury of the relevant states, then you could say that in the long term it goes "evenly" to the taxpayers of those states. This of course assumes some relationship between the amount of money a country has and
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by mayneack 14y ago
I'm submitting this because it appears to be in direct opposition to this that was on the front page of HN a while ago: http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/archives/2012/10/pandora-and... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4633842
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Business success should not trump creativity: Pandora isn't playing fair(thehill.com)
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by mayneack 14y ago
Works fine with Chromium Xubuntu 12.04 for me. Extensions out the wazoo.

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