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by me_again 10y ago
I'm guessing the archive includes some ISIS sites that this person finds objectionable? Idiots.
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by me_again 11y ago
Agreed- if there are 2 real people debating, it's much more bearable. Ironically some of the canonical Socratic dialogs ( http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1643/1643-h/1643-h.htm ) have the same problem - Men
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by me_again 11y ago
Q: Are you sick of the Socratic method? A: Oh God yes. Q: What's wrong with it? A: It's overly verbose, condescending, and allows you to give the appearance of resolving a debate when all you've actually done is talk down to
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by me_again 11y ago
I have never heard the claim of 42 million before. I have investigated only to the point of looking in Wikipedia, but they claim closer to 11 million, which is down from the peak number. Where are you getting that from? https://e
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by me_again 11y ago
I found this book to be a very interesting and affecting discussion of the end of life. Unfortunately it gives fairly cursory attention to the topic of suicide, assisted or otherwise. Otherwise highly recommended. http://atulgawa
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by me_again 11y ago
Heavens, no. That would be gambling. This is insurance. Entirely different.
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by me_again 11y ago
My tongue-in-cheek scheme: Operate a "lottery disappointment insurance" company. For (say) $1.50 you register your numbers with us, and we promise to pay out what you would have won had you bought a $2 ticket on the real lottery.
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by me_again 11y ago
I was a bit surprised by this statement: "it’s pretty obvious that throttling all traffic based on application type definitely violates the principles of net neutrality". Setting aside the specifics of what T-Mobile is doing in th
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by me_again 11y ago
The extension developers sell the right to embed arbitary tracking code in the extension. That code puts it on a site which arbitrary users can pay to get access to. Still not worried?
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by me_again 11y ago
Reminiscent of JBS Haldane's Classic essay "On Being The Right Size", which I recommend to anyone who liked this. http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
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by me_again 11y ago
He explicitly states he isn't leaving (or fleeing, if you want to be needlessly dramatic) because of race. Try reading the article.
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by me_again 11y ago
ITYM consistent, available or partition-tolerant...
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by me_again 12y ago
I think most of our lives could be summed up with a similarly dismissive tl;dr. But perhaps something would be missing in the result.
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by me_again 12y ago
Bruce Sterling put this rather well 10 years back: "I'll believe in settling Mars when I see people settling the Gobi desert". http://boingboing.net/2004/01/08/sterling-ill-believe.html
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by me_again 12y ago
There may be a slightly-strained analogy to be made here with vaccinations and herd immunity. Just as refusing vaccinations makes others in more danger of contracting infections, willfully allowing yourself to be surveilled makes it more di
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by me_again 12y ago
The app contains third party libraries specifically designed for user analytics . Therefore, maybe it might be using them to gather information about how users use the app. Why else deploy them - for fun? In the context of an app which is
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by me_again 12y ago
There have definitely been ethical lapses at many large pharma companies. Ranbaxy seems in a different class altogether, though. Incidentally, Mercola.com is absolutely not a reliable source of medical information. See http://en.
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by me_again 12y ago
I own and am currently using an Actiontec Q1000 with a CenturyLink DSL connection. I'm trying to work out just how exposed I am, and whether there's anything practical I can do about it. Presumably I can: 1) buy a different device
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by me_again 12y ago
By all means wait, but as a programmer, I've found the Samsung 28" UHD monitor terrific. I can get a huge amount of crisp text on the screen at once, and the color accuracy is Good Enough For Me. I have not seen any issues driving
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by me_again 13y ago
I won't claim to understand Marxism, but i think copyright is not the issue here. Unlike boxed software, web sites like Hacker News don't directly depend on copyright for their business models to work. More broadly, the whole noti
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by me_again 13y ago
This article is specifically about a lawmaker trying to draw a line, and the lobbying around that process. At least as far as this article goes, no court case is underway, nor is there a claim that this is currently illegal.
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by me_again 13y ago
You might want to read a bit more. Gates owns approximately 4% of Microsoft stock. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=MSFT+Major+Holders
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by me_again 13y ago
This is not actually true. I just tried it.
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by me_again 14y ago
You're misreading. OP is saying that in Java and Python you must bend your problem to the language. So you both agree.
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by me_again 14y ago
Complete nonsense. Skype's architecture is changing to match the changes in user base. As more and more tablets, phones, televisions and other devices which can't act as a supernode are added - and will be added in future - Skype needs to r
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by me_again 14y ago
Harbison & Steele, "C: A Reference Manual".
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by me_again 14y ago
A bad metric can indeed be worse than nothing, because people optimize for the metric, and if it's a poor proxy for the real thing you want, you can actually get less of it. Imagine what would happen if you evaluated software engineers by l
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by me_again 14y ago
A minor point, but this is wrong in several ways. InstallShield was never acquired by Microsoft, and was never actually very good. You can think of it as being a leaky abstraction over the underlying horror of Windows Installer, allowing ju
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by me_again 14y ago
A similar sentiment is expressed wonderfully tersely in Lemony Snicket's notes on Occupy Wall Street. http://occupywriters.com/works/by-lemony-snicket There may not be a reason to share your cake. It is, after all, yours. You probably bak
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by me_again 14y ago
It was originally, but I don't think it's controversial to say it wouldn't be in its current state as a 1-man project.

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