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by mdc 14y ago
There is value in specialization. You denigrate the OP with your condescending "too busy doing whizbang gollygee Important Work" and mischaracterize him as using words like "silly and useless", but the OP never said that. All he said is t
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by mdc 14y ago
When I bought the game, the descriptions of the two version were pretty clear that db+ was the same levels as db but with more bonus levels. Maybe they've updated that since you bought. I got db+ and was happy to see that the bonus levels
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by mdc 14y ago
>The best course of action is probably for funny junk to get try and wring some minor concession out of Inman (that he'll inform them of any issues directly before publishing them on his website or something similarly trivial) and drop
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by mdc 14y ago
They're taking saltwater from brackish aquifers inland, not pumping it from the sea. In terms of pumping costs, it's no different than their current sources of water that are pumping out of the Edwards aquifer or other fresh groundwater so
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by mdc 14y ago
How selective is the zeolite in what it absorbs? Could this be used for water purification? That is, if you let the zeolite absorb water from an impure source, move it to a clean container and heat it to release the water, is the water po
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by mdc 14y ago
Personally, I use the negative reviews much more than the positives. Especially on business reviews on Angie's List or book reviews on Amazon, I get a lot more info from the negatives. The company itself is usually able to tell me the pos
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by mdc 14y ago
My wife doesn't need an excuse and I didn't offer one. I provided an explanation for this discussion lest you think we were recent immigrants or had some other cultural norm different from mainstream US. In fact, we're about as mainstream
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by mdc 14y ago
>share the same last name. This may make sense in the US That counts me out. My wife was well-known professionally before we were married, so she kept her name. In my circle of friends, I know a handful of others to whom this also app
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by mdc 15y ago
I'm pretty sure their "the need may arise to take a closer look" language exists solely to cover the fact that most of their agents are so poorly trained that they don't know and can't be bothered to worry about consistent definitive answer
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by mdc 15y ago
>only to have 10 more drones pop back up This only works if TPB has significantly more money than every government and commercial concern that would like to take them offline.
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by mdc 15y ago
Sorry to see iKeePass missing from the analysis.
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by mdc 15y ago
I've been involved in two types of usability studies. The first are academic, rigorous, well-designed experiments testing readability, visual search, or other issues in web site design. These were designed to provide statistically signifi
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by mdc 15y ago
If Pinterest was mostly music tracks instead of photos then it would be equivalent to a web-based Napster and we all know what would happen under current copyright law.
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by mdc 15y ago
>It was part of his CIA training to be able to do that. In the '90s, long before 9/11, I was traveling with a girlfriend. She didn't want to remove her belt with a big metal buckle so she just went through the metal detector with it on
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by mdc 15y ago
This echoes a lot of the ideas from Clay Johnson's book "Information Diet: a case for conscious consumption". That book has a few good actionable ideas about how to modify your sources and methods of getting news so you get better informat
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by mdc 15y ago
This seems like preaching to the choir. How many people who read XKCD (or BoingBoing for that matter) aren't already aware of and opposed to SOPA/PIPA? I applaud the effort and a show of solidarity in the tech community is worth something
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by mdc 15y ago
>why don't you just code a native app? It sounds like that's exactly what they did, They just hosted most of the code on a server. It's kind of like the "native" iOS apps that just use a webview component to display a web app. Stickin
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by mdc 15y ago
I agree. We tend to accept lies from politicians because they "always" lie and we don't expect otherwise. But understanding that this is the practical reality at the moment doesn't mean it should be acceptable. We should push back and ex
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Apple pushing iPads for use in hospitals(wired.com)
4 points by mdc 15y ago|0 comments
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by mdc 15y ago
>There's a flip side to this as well: as a voter, I don't know what information my elected leaders have when making decisions. I once had a discussion with an Air Force officer who was involved with Homeland Security planning. I made p
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by mdc 15y ago
It's not politicians certainly, but it's often unaccountable bureaucrats stamping something classified for questionable reasons. The conventional wisdom is that nobody ever got fired for classifying data, and the administration may classif
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by mdc 15y ago
If technology stood still, that might work. In 20-25 years, all politicians will understand the web and email, but the same kind of politician that today is ignorant of the web will then be ignorant of technologies x, y, and z that are new
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by mdc 15y ago
You're conflating two different things (quantum computers and quantum cryptography) which just happen to share a basis in quantum effects. An attack on quantum cryptography has nothing whatsoever to do with whether a quantum computer could
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by mdc 15y ago
Having an iOS version is a lot different than being iOS based. I use Dropbox, Instapaper and Pandora on iOS, but I use the web-based version from my laptop just as often. I think many if not most people, especially in Wired's audience, acc
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by mdc 15y ago
You mean trademark. Copyright doesn't work that way and is not relevant to this issue.
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by mdc 15y ago
I suspect that when it comes to Google, Apple's review process may be to approve anything broken and ugly and to find a reason to reject anything that works.
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by mdc 15y ago
Great list, but not all that surprising. It's the job of science fiction to be speculative and one of the things that can make sci-fi great is when the fictional technology is plausible, fits the science we know even if we can't go there y
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by mdc 15y ago
Really nice interface. Kudos there. Who are your target users, people using Etsy or eBay? Are you competing with other services like those on ease of use alone? For people looking to buy things, will you provide some search across all us
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by mdc 15y ago
Looking on the bright side, if FB were given a very broad patent on this, it would mean that we could focus on just blocking FB's efforts and let their lawyers keep anyone else from doing it to us. This is just another step in the privacy v