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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Thank you for that. Very interesting meta-search engine, clean results. It appears that Google is not among the engines they use. I like that they don't record your IP, and that they offer https access. Hard to say whether they really do wh
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Anything on Google would be your papers and effects, I would think. The spirit of the law is to protect your privacy, and it's not the place of government to search your affairs just because new technology makes that possible and practical.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"... we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities." The right to privacy from the government is a logical consequence of the fact that the
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
My guess is that after the ensuing anguish is over, and news companies have figured out how to charge for some of their content, this editorial would still have been outside the paywall.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
When I searched for $HOME on google, the result page had this: "See results for: $home unix" Which leads to this: http://www.google.com/search?q=%24home+unix I.e. if you want a unix-related result, say unix.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
+1, but, if a person is a subscriber, how can they tell the difference between an open and closed article?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Giving your password to anyone is a problem (and probably violates the TOS of the passworded site, do people and services think about that?), but it's not the problem being raised here. "If you give up your password just because a stranger
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
To add any search to the search bar in Firefox: - install addon Add to Search Bar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3682 Then right click in the search page's search field and choose "Add to search bar ..."
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"Either that, or we're just hearing one side of the story." And likely that's all we'll ever hear. Ads are bad enough, but to be de-indexed, with no way to know why or how to fix it is scary from a business point of view. It could, and does
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Has anyone else ever heard of duct tape called "100 mile an hour tape" in small aviation?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I wonder if a news site counts the visit as a "visit" for purposes of selling ads and eyeballs when you get a paywall poster on your visit, and you just click away rather than register?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I've noticed this recently about FT. My reaction is that when I notice a link is to FT I don't bother clicking it, because it's annoying to get the "register first" page, and that because I'm only going to close the page rather than registe
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I never would have been aware of APL without being in software, and I'd never read anything on architecture or building before that. It was one of the most interesting books I've ever read, and it made a lot of sense. Yes, if I were buildin
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Sorry, I was sloppy. The more taps, the more profit. You can make more money from warranted taps plus unwarranted taps, instead of just warranted taps.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Well that would be stealing, the same as if you walked out of the room during a commercial.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"He found that Cox Communications charges $2,500 to fulfill a pen register/trap-and-trace order for 60 days, and $2,000 for each additional 60-day-interval. It charges $3,500 for the first 30 days of a wiretap, and $2,500 for each additiona
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Another reason not to eat ground-anything. One, it's harder to keep ground meat clean; you can't clean off the e-coli once it's been mixed in. Now we won't be able to tell whether we're eating real or synthesized sausage. I would be relucta
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
But they're still short and anonymous. Besides relevant and telling, they would be more appealing if they weren't shortened.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I'll probably never know what the data supports (although I'm admittedly skeptical), but I do know that discussing deleting emails and data to avoid responding to an FOI request is probably illegal, and definitely casts a cloud on everythin
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The two wikipedia pages list the USDA Nutrient Database as their source. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/ You can put "chicken" in the search field wade through the many choices, or you can put input the NDB numbers from my o
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
http://aaron.justaaron.com/ I hope openid becomes mainstream some day, I really like logging in once, and I really like being able to log in to a new site without having to register.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
The huge set of fabulous add-ons is the main reason why I don't even bother looking at Chrome. The addons make the browser, for me. AIOS All In One Sidebar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1027 Vast improvement over default
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
What have you done? What are you going to do?
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Ah, looks like you're right. "New with points."
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I've never seen Ze Frank before today. When I first followed the link, I saw a site with almost nothing, and a video with no obvious reason to watch. So I didn't watch. Then I noticed that this post was attracting a fair number of comments.
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"I've been reviewing the early days of my business, and tremendous luck was involved. Sure, I was there, and did the work, but a big part of it was the wave." Without the luck, the hard work would have had less effect, but without the hard
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
1. I really like that you can start using it without registering. I assume that the assigned name is usable beyond "now?" 2. Signup is easy and low-stress (no "how am I obligating myself" qualms). 3. Bug: before I signed up, I clicked one o
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
I could be wrong, but I also could be pretty close to right. I think the RSS feed tracks http://news.ycombinator.com/newest , the new link in the top menu bar. The feed and new link appear to me to be in reverse chron order. If you do
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
"they're telling you that they won't fix damage caused by smoking" I don't think they're saying that. I think they're saying that they won't force a technician to work on a computer that has nicotine residue buildup, because OSHA has identi
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by nfnaaron 17y ago
Make it so hitting the random tab works even when you're on the random tab. If I hit the random tab repeatedly, nothing happens. I have to hit another tab and then come back to he random tab to get another random selection. (Ubuntu, Firefox

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