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by mfringel 14y ago
"Government out of the marriage business entirely" would be great. Also agreed on the government providing civil unions that give all the current rights and privileges currently set up under what is currently known as marriage. As far as I
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by mfringel 14y ago
Let's say that the assertion "An Internet would have existed in 2000 anyway, even if the government did nothing." is true. It's unverifiable, but let's assert it. Even if it was true, _that's not what happened._ FedGov put money into Arpa
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by mfringel 14y ago
The lower levels of a company are like undergrad... you go there for the reputation of the company/school. The upper levels are like grad school... you go for the reputation of the boss/professor.
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by mfringel 14y ago
The fact that you knew they were held (and would be held) for exactly 180 days puts them above PayPal.
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by mfringel 14y ago
An iPhone is, among other things, a $500-1000 camera rig.
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by mfringel 14y ago
If all you have is a battle-axe, everything looks like hours of fun.
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by mfringel 14y ago
I like how it shows where a player is comfortable and good (red clusters), and where a player is just comfortable (light green clusters).
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How To Make People Pay Attention To You (On The Internet)(online.wsj.com)
1 points by mfringel 14y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 14y ago
You're correct. HBO is offering people two options. However, there seems to be a significant amount of people who want a third option, which HBO considers itself structurally prohibited from providing. It is precisely no one's fault but HB
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by mfringel 14y ago
A gun is a force multiplier that makes it easier to kill someone. A car is a force multiplier that makes it easier for a drunk person to kill someone. A fork is a non-sequitur placed presumably to create a Voltron-like strawman out of a gun
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by mfringel 14y ago
I think the right answer might be writing a tool that uses the Facebook API to "open" your message and immediately reply saying "OpenAllMessages just opened your message. The actual person will read it when they get around to it."
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by mfringel 14y ago
I'm not sure what the problem is. Apple has created a filter to bug reporting that they're clearly comfortable with.
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Fuel Cell charger for smartphones available this year(news.cnet.com)
1 points by mfringel 14y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 15y ago
So Google admits that their current common shares are nominally non-voting by creating additional common shares that are actually non-voting. As long as they don't pull a Yahoo, that should work out for them.
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by mfringel 15y ago
This sounds like the way you get to creating a Web Commerce Server-as-a-Service. Pricing and Inventory goes into the cloud, and you get all the standard retail searchability "for free" i.e. dis-contiguous price searches, etc.
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by mfringel 15y ago
Your comment appears to be saying that it's morally reasonable to coerce the desperate. Allow me to explain my train of thought: Let's say that every business adopted this "your passwords or your job" policy. There will be a set of emplo
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by mfringel 15y ago
Great stuff! Seeing the thought processes intertwined with the implementation is fascinating.
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by mfringel 15y ago
Execution counts. A similar concept doesn't guarantee a similar user experience.
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by mfringel 15y ago
Several people in this thread state "It's cached, so why does it matter?" So, even ignoring the issue with cold caches, how about the two megabytes of code that the browser may need to go through to render the page? What on earth is twitter
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by mfringel 15y ago
While this is true, there's not much of a positive feedback loop on doing documentation. At best, you get a nod and a vaguely wary glance reserved for people who memorize the telephone book.
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How to *Really* Destroy a World in Mincecraft.(derspatchel.livejournal.com)
1 points by mfringel 15y ago|0 comments
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by mfringel 15y ago
I would like to thank Apple for providing school bullies with a single high-value target.
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by mfringel 15y ago
Granted, there are people who deactivate JS for whatever reason. The intersection of "people who deactivate JS" and "The addressable market of Four Seasons Hotels" is likely small enough that the lost potential sales wouldn't even cover the
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by mfringel 15y ago
Among other things, it would get around sanitation problems. By being non-invasive, there are less things that one has to worry about keeping perfectly clean, which is a good thing in the field.
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by mfringel 15y ago
I find that point to be orthogonal. That's like saying that everyone at Occupy Wall Street had forswear all material goods in order to be considered "valid" protesters. Discarding someone's argument due to a lack of complete purity is just
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by mfringel 15y ago
...and so one of (the many) goal(s) of cancer research is to find out if all of those letters come from the same alphabet.
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by mfringel 15y ago
I think of it as meaning "stay open to new ideas and experiences, and keep your preconceived notions at bay."
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by mfringel 15y ago
So, just a brief insight into the way I think, which I believe will add to the discussion. When someone complains about "political correctness", the first thing I do is figure out if "LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU" would be a good subs
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by mfringel 15y ago
If one works in complete isolation from other developers, then doing a "hand them a project, see what they produce" assignment would be a perfect way of measuring ability. There are certainly cases where that is true, but my experience lead
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by mfringel 15y ago
I've often seen "Adapt or Die" mean "Adapt (to my specific use case) or Die (in my eyes, i.e. someone who was never in your addressable market in the first place)." This may be one of those cases.

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