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by mherdeg 12y ago
What were some of the key contributions from Secret to wider culture? Was it — Julie Ann Horvath's decision to disclose big cultural problems at the company GitHub? Was there anything else?
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by mherdeg 12y ago
It's funny you should say "Every time I update Windows, or even restart my windows laptop I hope that it'll still work afterwards. Updating has previously killed my dedicated graphics card, which turned out to be a driver iss
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by mherdeg 12y ago
A friend shared the thought that Slack is a little bit of a scary company to invest in because it was very easy to adopt. "We had no trouble importing our historical message archive and just moving over to this new chat system very qui
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by mherdeg 12y ago
One of the passages I'm thinking of from The Stand: == Halfway there a thought rose to the surface of his mind like a bubble and popped. It happened casually, with no fanfare, but the implications brought him to a dead halt. The though
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by mherdeg 12y ago
I think you can still travel long distances anonymously using a bicycle. Stephen King treats bikes as the canonical post-apocalyptic transit method — roads are too crowded with abandoned cars for automobile travel to be effective, and motor
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Even outside of government, people are surprisingly compliant with authority when it comes to having naked pictures taken of them. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League_nude_posture_photos , http://www
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Just to add some context … this story is interesting in the context of the Ferguson, MO grand jury decision not to indict Darren Wilson. Recall that Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an 18-year old black man, in August 2014. The circums
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by mherdeg 12y ago
That is really reasonable. Good for Wild; he seems like a great guy who has his stuff together.
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Oh. So it does. Under "How do you decide to enforce a case?". Thanks, sorry, I missed that.
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by mherdeg 12y ago
While his article talks about "commercial infringement", his FAQ doesn't say that he's restricting his suits to people who are using his work commercially, which is really interesting. In principle he could be suing a lo
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by mherdeg 12y ago
I have often thought that Aaron Greenspan's attitude towards California money transmission law was a little aggressive, http://www.aarongreenspan.com/writing/20141022/the-common-se... , like, this guy is rant
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Is that a better deal than Quora's "you may exercise options within 10 years of grant date, whether or not you still work for the company"? Per http://blog.samaltman.com/employee-equity .
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Hmm. How does this description of a swindle jive with the amount of gold that is in Apple's 18 karat gold? http://leancrew.com/all-this/2015/03/apple-gold/ "“Now we multiply that by fourteen fo
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by mherdeg 12y ago
It sounds like Google hasn't committed to serving this content in any form past 2016. But there is a plan to provide archival-style info throughout 2016 (tarballs per project). Is Google in touch with someone like the Intenet Archive t
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by mherdeg 12y ago
See a video demo at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQOJ3yCK8pI that shows these various different kinds of projections (from this code). The video dates to 2011, but the repository has taken a lot of additional commits sin
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Sure, it gets us the "Terry stop", a police tactic which the Supreme Court currently says is legal. In Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), Terry was represented by Louis Stokes, who went on to become a luminary in local and national
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by mherdeg 12y ago
The faulty code was written by a single person, whose name has never to my knowledge been known publicly. I've often wondered whether they are still writing software and what industry they're in now. Obviously the Therac-25 accide
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by mherdeg 12y ago
I've always wanted a short name for this phenomenon, where a lie takes hold and never leaves no matter how thoroughly it is debunked. Maybe the 'swift boat effect'?
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Surely Uber is not the right solution here. Just extend the monorail out to the airport. How long could that possibly take?
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Could the Idaho State Supreme Court be doing Concordia University third-year law students a favor by not allowing them to take the bar exam? "Maybe it's better if you pick another profession", is that the message? (From http
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Well, the gold standard is to find fares (expertflyer.com will help you out here) then find inventory that matches the fares. United has a live $69 base fare K fare from EWR-OSL; find inventory to match and you're good to go. ITA Matri
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Yeah, there's a school of thought that competition, fares, and cabin service would all improve on American carriers if we allowed fifth-freedom flights within the U.S. Imagine if you could buy a seat on the Qantas 747 JFK-LAX — why w
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Some discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/BestOfReports/comments/2g62rg/dont_... ( which, btw, has a pretty funny screenshot of off-topic "reports" that a Reddit blog post got) says that it i
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by mherdeg 12y ago
If anyone else is feeling a sense of déjà vu in reading this article — there was another in depth story about some of the technical details behind this fault in the NYT in March 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03&#x2F
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Is this what gfycat does?
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Is this Moorea? I can't tell.
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Modern "mileage runs" require the travel to actually be completed. In the late 1990s/early 2000s, people used to go on "baht runs", buying a cheap Thai Airways airpass that allowed many segments of intra-Thailand tr
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by mherdeg 12y ago
The "kill him with hammers" stuff is from a 1988 Dave Barry column, reprinted at e.g. http://articles.philly.com/1988-02-17/news/26239559_1_crates...
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Yeah, it does seem like in general in science, we only see "we tried to do X and it didn't work" papers AFTER someone has published a paper that says "surprisingly, we tried to do X which shouldn't work and it did!&
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by mherdeg 12y ago
Just gonna leave a quick link to my favorite general-purpose academic journal: http://www.jasnh.com/ The Journal of Articles in Support of Null Hypothesis collects experiments that didn't work. Not very much volume, no

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