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by mseebach 9y ago
We'll see about getting screwed. It seems to me the most effective way to get households to use a lot more electricity is to encourage them to get electrical/plugin hybrid cars.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Humans driving faster than is safe, even if due to emotions, is still human error. The primary limiting factor on safe speeds (at least on "proper" highways) are humans and their poor reaction times.
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by mseebach 9y ago
We should be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are always going to be bad people standing by to abuse whatever -- there are also plenty of scams that shroud themselves in supposedly scientific fact, e.g. practicall
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by mseebach 9y ago
Not a chemist, but pretty sure Nitrous oxide (N2O) isn't in the NOx family.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The kind of truth relevant for faith isn't the empirical sort that science concerns itself with, it's the kind of truth that is contained in wisdom. Faith is guidance for all those situations where it's not practical to set u
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by mseebach 9y ago
Here's a bunch of >$1000 bounties posted: https://www.bountysource.com/bounties/search?direction=desc&... None for the Linux kernel, though, but it does have >20,000 forks on GitHub: https://g
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by mseebach 9y ago
Evaluating someone based on their GitHub repos isn't trivial at all, and it's not something a (non-developer) recruiter generally can do effectively. At the stage when HackerRank is relevant, the recruiter is trying to decide who
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by mseebach 9y ago
1: I'd suggest you'd check out the book and bring it home with you and do the scanning at home. 2: This is not Google's first rodeo when it comes to scraping. I'd be surprised if you got more than a few days into the des
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by mseebach 9y ago
It seems to come down to a definition of what it means for something to be a part of your identity. All of those internal discussions the waiter has, he can have those productively, probably more productively, without making waiterism his
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by mseebach 9y ago
Sure, as an individual, your direct powers are limited, but they're a lot less limited than if your kernel is closed. You can offer a cash bounty to anyone who wants to fix the bug (not just those employed by the kernel-vendor) and you
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's probably splitting hair at this point, but Grey Goose isn't bad vodka, it's just no better than other "good" vodkas (whatever "good" means in context of a product whose defining characteristic is
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by mseebach 9y ago
Few hotels at the $100 mark has any staff to speak off onsite during the night. A night porter, and a single guy in the kitchen, if there's overnight room service. These people, while probably nice, will be fairly limited in their abil
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by mseebach 9y ago
The last 20 years have taught us to be super vigilant, but that is because the bad guys were (are) always at our heels (if not occasionally pulling ahead), but surely the gold standard for security is that which is just there and works, b
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by mseebach 9y ago
At some point you could also just get the book from the library and scan/photograph and OCR it.
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by mseebach 9y ago
That answer is so silly that it's difficult to imagine that it isn't just very poorly phrased. Especially considering that Microsoft was found to have broken the law on Gates' watch (ok, sure, Gates probably wouldn't cla
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by mseebach 9y ago
> you're always going to have to see yourself as something. I think this is indirectly a large part of the problem. The trend in society is that everybody must have totally unique and interesting identities, and since few people are
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by mseebach 9y ago
A power outage looks exactly like flipping the switch twice.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The idea is about trying to keep seperate the things you do/feel/believe and what you are . For our waiter friend, is the fact that he's a waiter somehow the essence of his being? Or is it a job he does, because one needs a
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by mseebach 9y ago
I hypothesised the same, remembering the huge difference freshly ground coffee made, and got a flour grinder a little while back. I've only made a few batches, and I'm still tuning the recipe, but I have not been blown away by the
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by mseebach 9y ago
Isn't your (1) the AMP for email that Google just announced?
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by mseebach 9y ago
Even worse, I was super excited about Wave and wanted to use it for a project - but I couldn't secure enough invites for the project team, so my trial never happened.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Positioned is the operative word here. Slack isn't positioned as a replacement for email. It might become that, it might even already be that to some, but nobody is buying a Slack subscription as part of a plan to turn off the Exch
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes... But since we're off-topic, running with the thread for a bit, the kind of upset caused by the euro/franc un-peg is entirely inside the boundaries of "stable" in the context of the kind of country for which just ad
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by mseebach 9y ago
The argument for violating privacy in communications is literally that it is being used as a mechanism for breaking the law. I'd be interested in hearing a logically consistent argument for why bad guys hiding illegally gotten gains is
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by mseebach 9y ago
> Wrong question, wrong perspective. Even the very best jobs where everything seems to be perfect still have significant setbacks because of the nature of a job This is a strawman. The article isn't about how jobs are perfect and ma
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's very likely that the low-tech alternative just catches up way sooner than the (objectively better) high tech solution becomes viable. The low tech in this case is that your friend probably has a compatible charger, and it's p
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by mseebach 9y ago
I grant that it protects against phishing, but I would cautiously suggest that sites that are smart enough to enable 2FA are smart enough to salt/hash/bcrypt/whatever best practice their passwords, so leaks are neutered. It d
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by mseebach 9y ago
I struggle to see why this is problematic, to be honest. They (the registrar, not puri.sm) didn't pay their bills, so they get turned off. The story doesn't relay to what extent the registrar received reasonable and timely warning
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by mseebach 9y ago
> you get the added benefit of being able to store 2FA settings Don't do this. If you use a password manager with all the benefits this entails (long, random passwords, each only used for a single site), the only benefit 2FA really
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by mseebach 9y ago
I suppose it's the "better horse" paradox. A/B testing can only get you incremental improvements, to make the leap from a really good horse to a car, you need to make a bet and sustain it for a bit to get people comforta

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