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by natrius 13y ago
Github has a git wrapper that adds commands for their extra functionality. Pull requests can be done from the command line. https://github.com/github/hub#git-pull-request
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by natrius 13y ago
Modern building codes prevented that from happening again in '89. If you think earthquakes are a legitimate reason to limit density, Tokyo and Osaka would like to talk to you.
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To add to this, many Americans seem to view the goal of preserving the Union as self-evidently noble. I disagree. Self-government is an inalienable right of free people. The Union didn't just forcibly end slavery in the South, which wo
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I'm pretty sure Yelp has actual usage data that provides a better signal of which cities are worth the effort than population. Plus, trendy cities get talked about more than non-trendy ones by definition. More people care where hipster
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by natrius 13y ago
I don't think this distinction is anywhere near as trivial. VC-funded companies have meaningfully different qualities than those that are just trying to build up their revenues. The author failed to internalize this distinction, and it
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by natrius 13y ago
I don't think it's meaningful to compare educational outcomes in states with large amounts of low-skilled immigration with the rest of the country. A quick look at education statistics will show you that outcomes are highly correl
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If you use the same zip code every time, they still know who you are.
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"But this model is a problem for online journalism, because revenue is generated only from the articles that are actually read" Not anymore. Paywalls are going up everywhere.
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Austin's traffic is avoidable if you live and work in central Austin, which you can do for half of what you'd pay to live in the Mission.
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by natrius 13y ago
Britain has access to PRISM. I wouldn't be surprised if other European governments do as well. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jun/07/uk-gatherin...
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I don't think we have enough information to come to that conclusion. Plain old FISA orders are lawful and constitutional. There's no good reason to disclose them, but there is a good reason to push for a limited term on their secr
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What if "provider" is a euphemism? If they're intercepting and decrypting all traffic to and from the "providers", they have to write code to actually extract the data from those streams. Such code would "vary
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If a Tea Party leader gets a call from a Koch lobbyist, that information could easily be used to discredit them. Lots of the past abuses of government power would have been just as effective with merely the data the government is collecting
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The Verizon order explicitly applies to calls within America between American citizens, which is why it was so novel. PRISM, as described, only incidentally collects information about Americans. This statement does not preclude the direct a
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Let's talk a little about trusting the government to abide by the Constitution. The Constitution establishes the treaties we enter into as the law of the land. The Geneva Conventions are treaties that make torture illegal. The governme
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He also glosses over the fact that cell tower location is included in this data. Most of the information that they would overhear in the actual call audio can be deduced from the data they're collecting. Which is kind of the whole poin
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by natrius 13y ago
Surveys of the American people show that at least two of his three preconditions are correct. I think we're going to have some problems here.
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"I believe the world is more dangerous than it used to be" I don't understand this belief. Since the 90's, we've lived in a world without a nuclear armed superpowers with a hostile relationship. Trade has made war
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What happens when you get a National Security Letter that demands both longer data retention and your silence?
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Don't worry about it. Everyone's on the monitoring list.
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FISA does not trump the Fourth Amendment. Moreover, this controversy is about tracking the location of Americans in America, which is beyond the purview of FISA.
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Note that this is a separate story from today's furor about the NSA obtaining American phone call metadata.
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Sounds a lot like the Borders strategy. It worked well for Amazon. For Borders? Not so much.
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That's a Bay Area problem, not an industry problem. I don't hear the same housing complaints from people in Austin and Seattle.
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I merely calculated the margin on $50k/month at $150k/year for the sake of argument. If Google engineers are underpaid, someone should be able to pay them more in exchange for a slightly lower profit margin. I don't think this is the case.
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by natrius 13y ago
If I were Elon Musk, I'd abandon FWD.us too. Lots of people buy Tesla vehicles for environmental reasons, so funding ads touting policies that are perceived to be harmful to the environment would be a bad idea. That doesn't mean the strateg
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A Google engineer might generate $50k/month in value, but she is unlikely to generate as much value as a non-Google engineer. Competitive labor markets generally don't see such ~75% profit margins across the board. Either anti-competitive p
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"A civilized society doesn't rely on the generosity of philanthropists in order to take care of the most vulnerable among us." I don't understand this sort of logic. One of the hallmarks of civilization is people doing the right thing eve
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Right. I was trying to choose straightforward terms that would make it clear that I was referring to the monetary base, not any other measure of the money supply. I guess that didn't work.
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A central banker could easily achieve a perfectly accurate prediction of the amount of currency available, which is the type of prediction we're talking about. They print the money, so they can just print according to their predictions. The

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