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by mentat 15y ago
Yeah, that struck me too. I'm pretty sure that's definitely a pretty serious crime to be blogging about casually.
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by mentat 15y ago
"Throughout history kings and queens usually ate much better than the peasants." Those terms post date this by thousands of years. Please cite research that supports this statement.
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by mentat 15y ago
You can trust them to continue working on the research that gets them grant money. Where that grant money comes from tends to have a disproportionate impact on the outcome of the research. This is a problem that must be addressed before sci
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by mentat 15y ago
What happens when those companies downsize or outsource their jobs? They can't move and they don't want to learn new skills. If anyone thinks that because they've had the same job for 10 years they're going to have it for the next 10, I'd s
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by mentat 15y ago
However, how many people stay in a place for the life of the mortgage? This is the flexibility part of the equation. If you lose your job in one area then while renting you can adapt quickly. If you own you have to sell (at a loss) or try t
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by mentat 15y ago
No, it would be a great society in which to live because you'd have a reasonable number of crimes and you'd have a fair chance of knowing if you were committing them. As it stands now there are an indeterminate amount of crimes specified in
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by mentat 15y ago
Please specify which term you think means this. I just scanned through and didn't see anything.
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by mentat 15y ago
Just used it. Very smooth process for signing up, though I didn't really like giving my phone number. What are you thinking the pricing will be?
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by mentat 15y ago
The narration on the video is pretty funny. It didn't come across as exactly "professional" and at some point ought to be less trash talk, more demo. Nonetheless, amusing.
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by mentat 16y ago
The basic idea of the article is that self determination of actions coupled with a overall purpose for those actions leads to higher productivity and happiness. I tend to agree given that I current don't feel that level of self determinatio
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by mentat 16y ago
This can easily be automated. You could send a hash of the binary and have a custom patch either pulled from cache or created (the largest "patch" being the whole binary). You'd end up with a fairly complete cache very fast though. Binary d
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by mentat 16y ago
"Dropbox's admin interfaces for employees may simply not reveal data that could technically be revealed" This is not the same as "is not accessible to employees". Interfaces are just that. There are quite a few very sharp developers at Drop
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by mentat 16y ago
"In essence, the university treated us like adults." The funny thing is that most adults aren't "treated like adults" if your intention is to compare this with working conditions. There are very few jobs that don't care about attendance at
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by mentat 16y ago
It would be interesting to have a web application that both people submitted the answers to and it came back with just "same" or "different". Might be one was to genuinely compare quickly. Then based on the number of sames you could discuss
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by mentat 16y ago
No purchasing or nationalization happened in the US. The people who made the bad bets just got public money with essentially no strings. They did not get acquired, the same people maintained control and are now paying themselves about the s
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by mentat 16y ago
This was my initial thought too. When you start selling food for money things get complicated quick. If you look at some of the actions against shared kitchens and such it's disturbing. You'll want to look into this ASAP as it's complicated
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by mentat 16y ago
"every first introduction between a browser and a website is insecure, so that subsequent connections might be less insecure." I think the claim is that this is already the case. There are certificate signing certificates in the hands of pe
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by mentat 16y ago
Yes, a sample size of two is certainly significant... If you want data it's going to take more than that.
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by mentat 16y ago
Did you only use it once, or twice, as the article specifies? (Ideally within a relatively short amount of time.)
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by mentat 16y ago
This actually goes to the heart of a debate a friend and I have been having, whether it's possible to create rules that have longer term usefulness. Hopefully this isn't too off topic, but after reading Anathem and looking at the Long Now s
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by mentat 16y ago
"you will also encounter people who are not full of shit" I'm particularly curious about how to maximize this. Is it a fixed percentage that you have to get out more to increase the number of not full of shit people you meet? I've long felt
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by mentat 16y ago
He's risking his reputation if he's pushing a company that he's not confident in. The reputation is worth a lot too, probably mostly in reciprocal connections.
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by mentat 16y ago
The "management" of prestige is a problem not a solution. It leads academics to non-optimal and even immoral decisions.
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by mentat 16y ago
Let the market decide. If developers are making clients that are worse than the standard, people won't use them. What is Twitter's product here?
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by mentat 16y ago
It would seem that the person violating the ToU is the user of the app, not the application writer. Using Apple to enforce this seems to be quite a stretch. If you want to say creating a deep link is a copyright violation, then any browser
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by mentat 16y ago
I believe he was being sarcastic.
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by mentat 16y ago
Having low quality non-working code is a detriment to the ecosystem because you have to go through the whole list of questions in the article to figure this out. So, I think it's better for non-quality code to not be released. This differen
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by mentat 16y ago
Mocana (San Francisco, CA) Interested in embedded security? Have C / Network / RTOS skills? Mocana is hiring into a variety of positions. http://www.mocana.com/careers.html
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by mentat 16y ago
Learning from failure is clearly an ingredient in success. However, it seems that there are varying qualities of learning. People often seem to learn the wrong lessons both from success and failure. What, beyond "attempt to pay attention" i
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by mentat 16y ago
The problem is that science is being essentially undermined by funding battles. The lay person or even casual scientist can't make substantial fact based decisions and can't trust the summaries. Hence the doubt about any study.

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