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by naterator 13y ago
> a very small number of bad eggs Even if there are a lot of bad eggs and hype and bullshit, you have to ask yourself what the alternative is. The non-science-based existence we suffered through for millennia? I think not. Excuse us for
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by naterator 13y ago
That's not going to help his revenue problem, probably. The only thing I can think of is if he--in addition to making it look appealing--somehow places targeted ads based on user queries, in the midst of their search results. This is e
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by naterator 13y ago
More specifically: What if they completely trash the place? How remote is he, and could he travel to do the repairs on sudden notice? Could legal wrangling over the damage make it no longer worthwhile? What about future guests who are displ
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by naterator 13y ago
Further along the lines of what panzi is asking, could you publish OSS that contains code that would make obvious how to interact with the protocol?
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by naterator 13y ago
I have reddit blocked on my computers because for a very long period I wasted so much time there, but I bet I already know what story you're linking to. "Today you, tomorrow me". It spawned a subreddit by the same name. I avo
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by naterator 13y ago
I can't tell if this is a joke/experiment, or the situation has gotten so bad that people with decades of education/experience and highly specialized skills no longer have any leverage. Or possibly, that the funding situation
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So it's come to this: Unpaid Post-doc position for Biologist, La Jolla(sandiego.craigslist.org)
4 points by naterator 13y ago|3 comments
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by naterator 13y ago
It was released in the news months ago that the government pays Google/Microsoft/etc. for the trouble they go to in order to provide the data they do. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23&#x2
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by naterator 13y ago
>Apple got into maps because Google maps product for iOS was shitty and that was being held against the iPhone. Wait, really? Was this an actual thing, for anyone? Because I _never_ was disappointed by any Google Maps related product on
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by naterator 13y ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/02/us-crime-silkroad-...
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by naterator 13y ago
My reading of it was that "Senior intelligence officials" could mean anyone that actually agreed with Snowden but didn't have the balls or opportunity to go through with what he did. Now they're taking the opportunity to
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by naterator 13y ago
"Sorry sir, but the system clearly says you're to be executed next Tuesday. There's nothing I can do about it. Please choose your last meal carefully from the touchscreen."
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by naterator 13y ago
I assume he was talking not just about UI functionality, but UI look and feel. In that later respect, MS and Google definitely were ahead of Apple. Hell, the design trend is even called "the metro look" by some in the design commu
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by naterator 13y ago
I'm not a huge fan of patents for many cases, but drug patents are something I support. Don't forget that while someone might die today from not having the drug, more people may die in the future because it's not worthwhile f
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by naterator 13y ago
If we take Schneier's example of the bank president and the ATM, you could easily argue that is a flawed philosophy. Every day I go to the ATM, money comes out. Like clockwork, very efficient.
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by naterator 13y ago
And why--if you're a web designer--you should own and handle all design & hosting until you get paid. If it's purely design, and no backend (databases, PHP/Ruby/Python, etc.), you should probably get paid half what y
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by naterator 13y ago
I wonder what the social implication will be when, over the next 20 years, whole sectors are automated. There are so many simple jobs that are /ripe/ for automation. If you're not doing the automation or some other high skill
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NSA admits rare willful surveillance violations(news.yahoo.com)
58 points by naterator 13y ago|7 comments
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by naterator 13y ago
I use DDG as my default, and when I'm not getting the results I know I could get with Google, I go to Google. It's usually pretty obvious. This way I support DDG, while not sacrificing my productivity (too much).
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by naterator 13y ago
Further reading, for the curious. Thanks, Nadim! http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/crypto-cat-encrypti...