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by mcbits 9y ago
It's possible that Airbnb has their own, separate license with Facebook. It's also possible that they decided they could absorb the cost of a countersuit if they ever sue Facebook over a patent. I don't think speculating abou
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by mcbits 9y ago
Hyperbole, yes. Hyperbole is what's ruining the world today. Metaphors if they're really bad, sculpting intuition that's off by orders of magnitude.
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by mcbits 9y ago
I've often thought Opera should have stayed commercial. They probably would have still maintained 1% market share, but with a cool half-billion in revenue keeping it the browser worth paying for. I wonder if it's too late for Viva
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by mcbits 9y ago
The only way it would help is if we had some other way to rule out asteroid impact ejecta but not probe contamination. So we'd have: 1) Life on Enceladus that's 2) genetically indistinguishable from Earth life, which 3) we know di
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by mcbits 9y ago
If we find life on Enceladus that looks just like Earth life, the null hypothesis is that it came from Earth. That won't change, whether we crash a probe there or not. Finding extant life anywhere beyond Earth would still be a paradigm
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by mcbits 9y ago
It seems pretty unlikely that Earth life could accidentally seed any moon of Saturn, and extremely unlikely that it could out-compete life that's been adapting to that environment for eons. As in, even less likely than Earth's sur
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by mcbits 9y ago
Yes, to clarify, I was using `setTargetAtTime` to ramp the volume, but it was still clicking in Firefox without an extra hack. At the time I found a bug report that appeared to point to the cause (something related to internal audio buffers
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by mcbits 9y ago
There were no sound files. I used an oscillator and changed the gain with `setTargetAtTime` to briefly fade in and out. That should prevent any clicking, but in Firefox it required an excessive amount of time.
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by mcbits 9y ago
I tried making a simple Morse code trainer using the Web Audio API, which seemed perfectly suited to the task, but I ran into two major problems: 1. Firefox always clicks when starting and stopping each tone. I think that's due to a lo
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by mcbits 9y ago
Building a second HQ is horizontal scaling unless they plan to consolidate at the new location and continue vertical scaling from there. It sounds like they're actually distributing the HQ across two locations, not just building a spec
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by mcbits 9y ago
There is evidence that they haven't reached their limits with vertical scaling as Amazon apparently has.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Abuse is any use that is unacceptable to those making the determination. With illegal and prescription drugs, that's usually any recreational use at all. Substitute "recreational use" for "abuse" if it makes you fee
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by mcbits 9y ago
Ethics is stuck between a rock and a hard place if nations collapse because they're not disregarding ethics enough, as the previous comment suggests. (I'm disputing the premise.)
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by mcbits 9y ago
Different ethics != not caring about ethics. And if not caring about ethics were the key to winning the nation-state game, the ethical response would be to tear it all down ASAP, which is usually quite unethical in practice.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Is that really true? How many people in a 50,000-person campus ever even make eye contact, much less work together in a way that requires physical proximity?
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by mcbits 9y ago
Well, at my high school, the "stoners" were also drinking, sniffing glue, eating nutmeg, smoking banana peels, etc. In adult life, the few people I've met who only smoke weed have been pretty level-headed. There's some
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by mcbits 9y ago
Instead of two headquarters, why not 50 headquarters? They have one of the largest and most reliable networks in the world - use it! With offices spread across the country (continent, even), they could hire from a talent pool that dwarfs Se
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by mcbits 9y ago
It feels like this should be the first part in a series.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Substance abuse isn't inherently immoral or ungodlike or whatever. In some cases it can cause harm. Causing harm is a problem at individual and societal levels. Public policy should aim to reduce harm, but our drug policies almost all
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by mcbits 9y ago
I don't know how they do their farming in practice, but I'm pretty confident that it involves more land use and lower yields. They may also adapt their diet to whatever is the most edible among the weeds. This year a grape vine my
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by mcbits 9y ago
Thanks, yes, it was the uncertainty about getting the job back that I was hinting at with "should". BTW in case anyone thinks it was a ridiculously contrived example, I was just trying to illustrate that what one person thinks is
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by mcbits 9y ago
Yeah, they know you were browsing custom-fishing-lures.com on your phone just before those girls were strangled with fishing line one block away. The guy who did it wasn't using his imperial login at the time, so you're the only s
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by mcbits 9y ago
By growing a lot more of it (which prevents the birth of whatever would have grown in its place, but that's an invisible effect and technically not killing). Also, grow mixtures of plants together that naturally crowd out weeds, inhibi
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by mcbits 9y ago
I'm not an Equifax customer and don't plan to become one by signing up for anything, so I haven't seen the terms, but I would fully expect to see some kind of indemnification in there.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Not if everyone signs up for free credit monitoring as their settlement.
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by mcbits 9y ago
If they said they had received word that the car was registered to Alice, that wouldn't be libelous. If they said she was the driver, that would be libelous. If she was charged with murder and they said she was an alleged murderer, tha
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by mcbits 9y ago
She would be inconvenienced, but that doesn't mean she was slandered. If someone steals Alice's car and commits a hit-and-run, she will be inconvenienced when the cops show up at her door, but the person who reports her plates won
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by mcbits 9y ago
It sounds to me like they may not see the value in preserving languages (not "anything"), whether widely spoken or not. I don't see much value in maintaining the regular, daily use of any particular language, but I see trem
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by mcbits 9y ago
Hmm, I guess you could call it slander if the person and the dossier were perfectly interchangeable. But all the institutions know is that someone has been failing to pay back loans that were issued based on the information in a dossier. Af
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by mcbits 9y ago
> We're looking for experience in Linux and Unix, not just Unix-like OS. ... > We're looking for students with experience working on Linux and Unix. What the recruiter said - twice - was pretty clear and matter-of-fact. Why

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