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by navait 11y ago
Of course, the risks are minimal on twitter. At worst they can write a death threat, but nobody's going to come to your house. They'll spend more time arguing with your defenders. And the attention span is short, by next week your
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by navait 11y ago
As a long time blizzard fan, I think their games are about the same quality. Highly polished and fun competitive action games (I've found their games significantly less buggy than most PC games). In many respects, they managed to revol
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by navait 11y ago
Isn't the above mindset the mindset used for debugging?
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by navait 11y ago
Let's not overblow the threat. W was known to have done cocaine in his youth, and he was still elected, and I would expect statute of limitations to apply.
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by navait 11y ago
If you only read mass media, most co-ops are too obscure for anything other than universal needs like food. My town for example, has a co-op printing shop and a co-op bookstore as well as a co-op grocery. A FOSS project could be seen as a c
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by navait 11y ago
You understand the article explains what the problems of the USPS are right? No need for speculation.
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by navait 11y ago
Some integration with Alfred and Quicksilver would be nice on the desktop - I never use the media player itself, but prefer to bring that up and type the song/album/artist.
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by navait 11y ago
You're in luck. human overpopulation is mostly a solved problem thanks to modern contraception. To curb it all one needs is to build a robust economy and make it avaliable. No need for state policy beyond it, people will do it themselv
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by navait 11y ago
Care to illustrate with a real example?
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by navait 11y ago
i think some people read only the title and voted it up assuming it's about aggressive recruiting spam on services like linkedin.
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by navait 11y ago
I've read some sources that state as adults get older, they lose some of their inhibitions even if they don't suffer from dementia. However, I couldn't find any scholarly papers to back that up. Most of them are specific case
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by navait 11y ago
It's 4.99/Mo which it clearly says after the sign up dialog.
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by navait 11y ago
Do we really need an analogy? What will it teach us that we can't conceive of now? There are benefits to someone doing this, and risks and costs to it, if benefit > (risk)(damage), it's good. If not, it's bad. Analogies ju
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by navait 11y ago
Being an extremely small person, American Apparel appealed to me for making clothes that fit me well. Yet, AA always sold clothes that to me appeared garish( I'm never was into the punk hipster look of their models) and flimsy quality
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by navait 11y ago
Given that key escrow failed eventually, what is different today that would make backdoors possible?
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by navait 11y ago
> “You don’t have to worry about having a hypothesis, a conclusion, beforehand.” Sadly, in my world of biology and this has been a factor in the epidemic of bad papers and unreproducible results. Most of this is due to the treatment of p
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by navait 11y ago
I got the idea that what the author really thinks (whether he knows it or not) is "It's our turn to be the bullies now"
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by navait 11y ago
[Citation Needed] - I've seen people who have worked at IBM multiple times, and certainly nobody has ever said that to me.
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by navait 11y ago
So...if you're a person from Wichita Falls moving to NYC knowing basically zero people, what exactly do you do? When I was in university, I got some awful roomates in my dorm - and now that I can pick my roomates, I'd love to be a
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by navait 11y ago
Pretty tough to pirate their products in the first place, and I imagine "phone home" type applications will only make it harder. Especially when they already have a community edition in place, I think more people will use that.
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by navait 11y ago
The article is full of unsubstantiated claims, though I agree with the author in principle.
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by navait 11y ago
Sometimes, to attract attention, you need to say things that will get people riled up.
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by navait 11y ago
Given they couldn't be arsed to spell the misleading headline correctly, I'm sure they were more interested in posting the link first than writing accurate headlines.
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by navait 11y ago
Do you have infinite time and omniscence? If not there isn't. If Morning Edition is an echo chamber, all media is.
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by navait 11y ago
> Economically gifted students are likely to have an outsized impact If you do that, you basically just dumped a bunch of money into kids that are immediatley leaving for somewhere else. It's like global warming; why cut emissions f
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by navait 11y ago
From a cost standpoint it makes sense. You're capturing most students. How many students will use a gifted program? They will require dedicated teachers and staff, and their own curriculum. That's not cheap, and not subsidized by
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by navait 11y ago
Apparently our politicians should understand infosec to demand policy, but the people don't have to understand their goverment to demand policy.
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by navait 11y ago
Coke's and Pepsi's marketing has actually responded to that trend - rather than try to win non-drinkers, they try to get current drinkers to buy more. Obviously, the second part of that strategy is to create a range of products to
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by navait 11y ago
Is bitbucket considered not a competitor? I've found it quite suitable for anything github does, though I'm at max a 5 person team.
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by navait 11y ago
I always assumed that google took my past searches and history into account, that a normal person would get a python.

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