nairteashop

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by nairteashop 13y ago
You do raise an interesting point. I think calling jail time what you called it is a bit extreme but yeah, lots and lots of people do get thrown in jail here. I don't have a good answer as to what I would consider "just punishment" by the s
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I live in the US (bay area) now, but I've lived for significant periods of time in the middle east and asia in the past. I know the US gets a bad rap as far as personal freedom is concerned (high incarceration rate, capital punishment, etc)
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by nairteashop 13y ago
No, you got it right (I'm not american, but I live here). And I absolutely agree with you - like caning, capital punishment has no place in an enlightened country, and I sure hope it is eradicated from the US, and throughout the world, soon
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Are you saying that singapore doesn't cane people, or that it doesn't cane people for littering? Maybe you are right about the latter (I can only find evidence that you will be arrested, perhaps not caned, for littering) but caning is most
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by nairteashop 13y ago
It depends whether you think it is ok for the government: - to ban chewing gum - to publicly cane people (limited to "6 strokes" for women, how nice) - to enforce capital punishment (i.e. killing people for allegedly killing people) - to li
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by nairteashop 13y ago
This is absolutely right. "Oh you create search algorithms at Bing? Mleh. I find that Google's search algorithms are so much better." And you hear this from people who can barely use grep. I think someone's work needs to evaluated on their
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by nairteashop 13y ago
That is true. However, Gates' point is that there are health problems faced by poor folk, even in America, that no one there seems to be solving (not a pressing problem, not enough $, etc). India is in a unique position to solve these issue
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by nairteashop 13y ago
This is a very cool app. Carousels always remind me of this poignant bit from mad men: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suRDUFpsHus
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by nairteashop 13y ago
You are dismissing the emotional factor; I think this is a fantastic gift. It is most certainly easier to send someone a free "e-card", so why are good old "dumb" paper greeting cards still in vogue?
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by nairteashop 13y ago
To echo @adambard, I would've given this a shot as well if you hadn't requested my FB login. I'm very protective of using my FB credentials on a site I don't know much about (probably an irrational fear, but I know I'm not alone.) You will
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by nairteashop 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I've tried the Bose QC and the Shure, and IMO the latter is better at removing ambient sounds. The Shure does not use active noise cancellation like the Bose, but I think it is more effective simply because it fits snugly in your ear like a
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Security cameras use MJPEG (Motion JPEG), which works quite similarly to animated GIFs. They're very easy to find as most vendors have a URL pattern. For example, here're a bunch of public security cameras made by Axis: https://www.google.
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by nairteashop 13y ago
That may be true, but that's not the claim that MS made. If their ad had shown a VivoTab and an iPad side-by-side playing a widescreen movie, I wouldn't have had a problem with it. (In fact I would've agreed with them that the VivoTab is pr
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I don't know, I think it's honest. In the eyes of many business users - myself included - the lack of Office is a legitimate shortcoming of the iPad (albeit one that I personally don't care much about). It would be equally honest and fair f
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I think it's nice to be able to quickly run the candidate's code in your environment, without interrupting the candidate's flow. (It wasn't entirely clear to me from the demo, but it did seem like you could evaluate the code independently o
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by nairteashop 13y ago
This was very interesting, thank you. The original Mac keyboard you'd linked to is exactly what I would've expected from Apple. You're right about the control key. IIRC back in the day it was used to actually activate "control" characters t
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Exactly, it just seems out of place for Apple. During my Windows days, I had never wondered why there were so many keyboard buttons - my MS Intellimouse had 5 buttons all on its own :)
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by nairteashop 13y ago
Perhaps. I really think that the alt/option and control keys can be merged though. In many cases, control is actually used as a modifier. For example, ⌘ + ⇧ + 3 takes a screenshot and saves it on the desktop. What if you wanted to save it t
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by nairteashop 13y ago
I agree with you that it's no more difficult that a Windows PC. It's just that when I moved to the Mac platform years ago, I found the general simplicity quite refreshing (yes, even the lack of a right-mouse button!) and was surprised that
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by nairteashop 13y ago
You know, I'm a mac convert through and through, but for a company that favors simplicity so much that they create mice with just one button, I've never quite understood why there are SO many modifier keys on a mac. I always get a mild migr
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by nairteashop 14y ago
One of my buddies in LA got involved a multi-car accident. Within minutes he had a lawyer stop by his car and drop off his business card in case he could be "of assistance". So yeah, "ambulance chaser" an expression, but sadly very close to
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by nairteashop 14y ago
It's both. The Indian supreme court recently rejected Novartis' patent on Glivec, because the formulation wasn't different enough to merit a new patent (I don't know enough to know whether that was the right decision; just pointing out that
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by nairteashop 14y ago
Oh, there is! Here's a list of such businesses (on the right side of the page): http://www.patientsbeyondborders.com/facilitator
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by nairteashop 14y ago
I've always wondered this as well. There was even a paper from the DOJ that advocated elimination of these laws: http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/eag/246374.htm I think the reason has to be purely political: it stands to reason that stat
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by nairteashop 14y ago
Oddly enough, I can see it in Chrome but not in Safari. I'm on OS X.
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by nairteashop 14y ago
I think this is impossible to do if the audio is being played via java/flash/etc as the plugin bypasses the browser completely. Here's a comment from the google chrome team from a while back: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gdyun/iam
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by nairteashop 14y ago
Heh, love this game. Like a time machine to the 80s.
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by nairteashop 14y ago
$7m, apparently: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/sources-apple-paid-7-millio...