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by mindstab 14y ago
I think you miss the point. Such a critical system should not be so fragile that pretty much anyone can disable it, one would hope.
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by mindstab 14y ago
I was interested he didn’t point out that having a hit free game != having a hit paid game and the conversion rate form free players to paid is like catastrophically small. additionally free games spread via word of mouth way more virulentl
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by mindstab 14y ago
Part of me wants to debate this, point our correlation does not equal causation and ask for better evidence. (yeah, I know, cheap attempt at last word) But ultimately we probably won't be persuading each other and at this point the debate i
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by mindstab 14y ago
Ok but that's not really what he's talking about. I totally agree that being able to have everyone walk to work may be a better goal than self driving cars and sadly because of past choices our best option is probably demolishing cities (no
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by mindstab 14y ago
I think this article must come from a point of incredible ignorance about most of what science has been up to. Across the board there have been incredible advances in chemistry, physics, quantum physics (which allows us our tiny powerful pr
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by mindstab 14y ago
That must be nice if all you are doing is being a student. I on the other hand don't even get off work till 6. Home by 7, then dinner. If I'm lucky I sit down to study at 8. Lets face it, you really don't realize how good you have it as a s
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by mindstab 14y ago
This seems to be showing completely different information so I'm not sure it's much of a comparison
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Purple map, 2012 edition(kryogenix.org)
43 points by mindstab 14y ago|43 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
> We have > 300 M people. That's a huge population Um, unless you're talking to India which manages to pull off votes with 1.2 Billion People. You are like 25% their population.
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by mindstab 14y ago
http://gs.statcounter.com/ Stat Counter usually seems more reliable to me
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by mindstab 14y ago
:/ the more I learn and read about quantum mechanics I'm starting to realize the FTL quantum communication seems to be an SF pipe dream hoped and imagined on some possible theories but they seem to be less than likely. What a PITA. Ah wel
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Something has been stolen, that's for sure(raganwald.posterous.com)
3 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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Samsung loses another big patent case to Apple, this time at ITC(arstechnica.com)
1 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
So of all the possible futures we could have, ones where we use computers to give us crypto, good security and privacy etc, instead we end up with Masamune Shirow's admitted guess of Ghost in the Shell where people can't properly use their
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Adding DKIM to my Gentoo Postifx mail server(mindstab.net)
4 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
:/ One of Britain/the UK might be more interesting. Also, where's Alaska?
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by mindstab 14y ago
Author Warren Ellis also noticed this recently when digging into how to promote his new book: http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14404 His conclusion? Not Facebook
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by mindstab 14y ago
I'm surprised no one's mentioned Twitter. They are one of the most successful internet things and yet they still don't seem to have any really solid way to monetize that. They are now part of culture but are they revenue positive? The thing
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by mindstab 14y ago
seeing as it's 3 weeks before launch I don't think there are any honestly-bought copies which means its blanket ban approach and it works perfectly. Which is why it's hilarious
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by mindstab 14y ago
RFTA They did not do that. What happened is it appears a friend who did know added them to a group and before they connected to joining that showed up on their feed. They did nothing. They were passive, and they were still outed because fac
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by mindstab 14y ago
yeah and not he seems to be poking at his suit
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by mindstab 14y ago
Last I saw his breath was still fogging the screen so not yet
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by mindstab 14y ago
require ID for free online classes? Facebook, email, everything else doesn't require this. Good luck!
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by mindstab 14y ago
You're essentially acting as a hotel business. I'm not sure you can do that with the level of anonymity you require to a legal corp like airbnb to remain legit. You may have unreasonable expectations. Try something even more underground ne
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YouTube Alters Copyright Algorithms, Will ‘Manually’ Review Some Claims(wired.com)
2 points by mindstab 14y ago|0 comments
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by mindstab 14y ago
These stats and graphs are at least a bit misleading. For the Firefox cross section they show 10.91 + 3.20 + 0.72 + 0.99 = 20.08 ?? It is in fact 15.82 Which explains my first question: Where is Firefox 3.6? I cannot believe ie6 is still "s
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by mindstab 14y ago
eh, I've only lightly dabbled in Rails and Django, nothing serious, where as for work I use a lot of Drupal, so I don't have the most balanced or informed view. Drupal is kind of a framework and a CMS in one, it's somewhat unique. It also s
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by mindstab 14y ago
... and all the rails code of the world is better? How has the rails community gotten this "my shit don't smell" attitude? Like I said, the barrier to entry for ails is even lower, it stands to reason that there would be even more horrify
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by mindstab 14y ago
um no? PHP "has a relatively small community, with the majority of people working under the radar and on their own?" ? Where is he getting these stats? relative to what? For instance http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/in
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by mindstab 14y ago
Richard Biggs / Dr. Stephen Franklin (2004) Andreas Katsulas / G'Kar (2006) Jeff Conway / Zach Allan (2011) and now this. Wow. Until you mentioned it I had no idea about the first two. :(

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