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by mtts 17y ago
Presumably Jared Diamond was talking about the New Guinea tribes in the lowlands that are in fact rather "paleo" and not about the inhabitants of the mountain ranges of the interior who practice agriculture and where the men don't, in fact,
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by mtts 17y ago
If you think that is in any way comparable to a country like North Korea (essentially one huge prison camp) or countries in Africa such as Guinee or Congo where maybe a hundred or so people are fabulously wealthy and the rest of the populat
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by mtts 17y ago
7. Remove ‘category’ from a URL with htaccess is wrong. It does exactly the opposite of what you want.
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by mtts 17y ago
1. I doubt the effect of this is as strong as you seem to think, but ok. 2. There's a reluctance to allow doctors educated elsewhere to practice without undergoing a rigorous accreditation process of some sort in nearly every country in the
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by mtts 17y ago
Doubtful. Medical and pharmaeutical research is done either by private companies or by universities and such.
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by mtts 17y ago
Cute. But it misses an important point in Jeff Atwood's original post, which was that John Gruber got actively hostile when someone else extended his Markdown code in a way he didn't approve of. If nothing else that was in poor taste.
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by mtts 17y ago
I treat the voting arrows as if they meant (1) as well, and in addition to that, if something is at 0 or worse and isn't in fact a waste of time, I'll vote it back up. Downvoting something you disagree with kills a discussion, IMHO.
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by mtts 17y ago
In that case you're not providing "other content not obtained from YouTube" at all, so you're violating the TOS.
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by mtts 17y ago
It's not vague at all. If you're totlol.com and all your content is from YouTube, you're in violation of the TOS. If, on the other hand, you have a blog that occasionally posts YouTube videos but a lot of other content as well, you should
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by mtts 17y ago
It probably wouldn't be so much of a problem if you could enter into some kind of deal with Google where you would pay a monthly fee in return for access to their API (for example) and Google would have a financial incentive to allow you to
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by mtts 17y ago
From the about page: I created dancePROOF aiming for it to be the blog and community where you, as a teenager or young adult, can come to find help with the questions in your life that you can’t easily find answers to. Even for teenagers
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by mtts 17y ago
I'm sure totlol.com is a nice site and all but ... The guy's making money showing clips that are hosted somewhere else without reimbursing the people that actually pay for the streaming bandwidth. The people that do pay for the bandwidth, i
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by mtts 17y ago
That's what I thought at first too. Then I pulled my head out of my ass and realized that Adam Smith, in roughly 1800 or so, had no way to even conceive of what it was I would be doing for a living 200 years in the future and was, in fact,
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by mtts 17y ago
Nice. Now there's this. I went from an American high school to a Dutch university (admittedly a decade and a half ago, but still) and was shocked to discover that Dutch students as a matter of principle refuse to put in any effort that will
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by mtts 17y ago
But he would be lying. Yegge would rather maintain the concise code with sparse comments if and only if it were Yegge's concise code with sparse comments. If it were someone else's, he'd rather it were in fact rather heavily commented.
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by mtts 17y ago
There are a lot of words in the dictionary you shouldn't use. They're obscure, don't have a meaning that isn't expressed equally well by another word (or limited number of other words) and/or don't actually mean that much. They exist on the
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by mtts 17y ago
Mine has books.
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by mtts 17y ago
Of course there is. But Oracle may feel it makes no sense to compete against itself.
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by mtts 17y ago
Like any software product, MySQL has bugs. You might not run across them in day to day use, but they're there. If development stops, those will never get fixed.
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by mtts 17y ago
To get it into the enterprise, I guess.
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by mtts 17y ago
The difference, and he spells it out quite clearly, is that Oracle already has a database and that it wants to sell its database and that MySQL interferes with that.
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by mtts 17y ago
And I'm sorry I'm apparently so culturally myopic that the thought that you could've said what you said because you were actually from Eastern Europe didn't even occur to me.
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by mtts 17y ago
Interesting. AFAIK my own education in the field of history was by most standards quite comprehensive and yet I'd never heard of it either( * ). So I'm kind of grateful the NYT has decided to fill up some space with an overview of a culture
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by mtts 17y ago
Methinks the serious issues the author raises would have benefited from a better written article. Even though it's a subject that interests me greatly, I found this nearly impossible to get through on account of the fragmentation.
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by mtts 17y ago
Interesting, didn't know that. However, from your link: "no-one has yet demonstrated uranium-extraction from seawater on an industrial scale."
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by mtts 17y ago
"I think nuclear fission combined with fossil fuels is probably enough to last until we develop fusion or hydrogen based power." Problem is there isn't enough usable uranium on the planet to make increasing the number of active nuclear plan
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by mtts 17y ago
The definition of what a reasonable person is, seems somewhat variable. The law holds that a reasonable person is too stupid to see the difference between a T-Mobile logo done up in magenta and an Engadget one but at the same time is smart
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by mtts 17y ago
Read the article again. Companies can in fact trademark a specific color and they do - T-Mobile magenta is specifically mentioned. If T-Mobile magenta shows up in a photograph or a painting, that is, of course, not a problem, but if it show
449.
by mtts 17y ago
Equally anecdotally, I've spent pretty much the entirety of my 34 year long life indoors, either staring at a book or staring at a computer screen and my eyesight is absolutely perfect.
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by mtts 17y ago
Let's not be excessively gentle here: text-indent -1000 is a terrible hack (try input type="img" instead) and while I'm not mean enough to think the author deserved what he got, I also don't think we should feel overly sorry for him learn

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