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by olefoo 12y ago
There are two issues with most 'cognitive enhancement' drug regimens. On the one hand they are risky, potentially triggering or exacerbating existing mental health and neurological issues. On the other if it becomes an expectation
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by olefoo 12y ago
The hot-standby approach, using VRRP to manage a floating address between the two boxes does work and fails over quickly ( unnoticeably to most clients ) but getting it set up correctly is a project.
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by olefoo 12y ago
For instance, Hacker News's continuing descent into a babbling echo chamber convinced of it's own superiority is someone else's problem. You can safely ignore this comment.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Tanks full of liquid nitrogen... Cool and non-combustible. Although; you're talking a multimillion dollar project to get enough liquid nitrogen on-site and an effective distribution system to spary it into an active gas fire.
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by olefoo 12y ago
If being under surveillance really does trigger the feeling of being stalked as prey; then it raises everyones stress level ( as represented by cortisol in the bloodstream ) and that should be detectable in the general population through th
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by olefoo 12y ago
He was a humanitarian as well as a vegetarian. _insert emoticon indicating sarcasm combined with emoticon indicating awful pun_
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by olefoo 12y ago
You might want to take a look at http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/23/amazons-tactics-con... It certainly seems like Amazon is beginning to exercise their strength as a monopsony to gain unfair advantages
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by olefoo 12y ago
Just wait 'til someone finds a zero day for Otis equipment that lets you turn an elevator into a remote control assassination tool. Facial recognition is good enough that if you had the right systems in play you could automate the whol
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by olefoo 12y ago
In other words; there are plenty of good intentions to make it available as open source; but the hard and painful peer review process for which open source is a prerequisite has not yet actually happened. Road to hell and all of that. Lesso
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by olefoo 12y ago
It's called transaction id wraparound, and you don't want to allow it to happen. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/routine-vacuuming.... Fortunately the PostgreSQL has autovacuum so you prob
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by olefoo 12y ago
Seen this pattern at work.
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by olefoo 12y ago
I want copies of this printed on non-decaying plastic paper (like that cradle-to-cradle book a few years back ) so that it will still be around if we screw up technological civilization to the point of a near-extinction event.
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by olefoo 12y ago
And supposedly half the population that lives West of the Mississippi lives within 30 miles of I-5. Don't have the US Census loaded currently so I can't check it, but that does sound about right.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Piketty proves his point using data ( or should that be Data? ), so it's a bit harder to argue that it's just perception and that the losers in the game of life are merely angry that they were not born at the top of the meritocrac
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by olefoo 12y ago
a. You don't understand what an ad hominem actually is. b. Show me exactly where Al Gore committed an outright war crime. c. If you think that war crimes are a mere baguatelle and should not interfere with a politicians later life in c
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by olefoo 12y ago
One change that would lessen the burden of the patent system is mandatory licensing. It doesn't matter who invented what, everyone pays a percentage of revenue into the pot and it gets spewed out per usage. The sticky bit being that yo
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by olefoo 13y ago
Anyone who's had contact with american public school knows that they are quite prone to all sorts of social pathologies. The suggestion that they are willfully malign is not entirely implausible, especially in places where the main job
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by olefoo 13y ago
Did Al Gore knowingly lie to force the country into disastrous and ruinous wars? Did Al Gore approve warrantless wiretaps, illegal detainment of citizens and non-citizens and the use of torture by agents of the American Government? In her r
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by olefoo 13y ago
The main cause of homelessness is a lack of political will to fix the issues. When Utah does a better job on a social issue than California or even Oregon, it's not because of a lack of resources ( CA, OR and WA all have greater GDP )
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by olefoo 13y ago
It's not a patent. It is a trademark, or trade dress registration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress If you make agricultural equipment and paint it a bright green and yellow; John Deere will come after you
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by olefoo 13y ago
opengl [1] is the graphics library that underpins most of the animation and rendering that games ( and your browser ) do. This app allows you to trace and capture events in code that calls openGL and to follow what's actually happening
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by olefoo 13y ago
I've seen a demo; it was finicky and had issues and didn't do orientation.
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by olefoo 13y ago
This is why it's bleeding edge technology. At the moment it's not very good; and it won't be for some time. To get to something useful will probably take multiple iterations. This is why it's so exciting. If you can buil
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by olefoo 13y ago
With two or more beacons in range you can triangulate for an accuracy within centimeters. It's a key enabling technology for Augmented Reality. It's also how you're going to talk to ambient environmental controls and retrofit
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by olefoo 13y ago
That's regulations with a multilateral peer enforcement mechanism. Conveniently enough it serves as a barrier to entry to new competitors. So if you were wanting to start a bitcoin exchange, you may have missed the boat.
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by olefoo 13y ago
This sort of thing is why finance is a regulated industry. Although why anyone would have had money in Mt. Gox after they had their stateside accounts frozen is beyond me. It's not like there weren't any warning signs http:/
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by olefoo 13y ago
It is a political question. What happens if the government restricts access not only to drugs, but phones without key escrow, or media players without DRM and uses the money laundering tools to go after the "pirates and tax evaders&quo
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by olefoo 13y ago
From reading the complaint; it seems that the BTCKing guy was advertising his services on Silk Road and was active on the forums. Which means that he was knowingly violating the laws on money transmission and specifically the know your cust
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by olefoo 13y ago
There is nothing about programming computers that is gender specific; in fact it seems kind of weird and awkward that we have to discuss this at all. Given that so many of the foundational figures of the field ( Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper,
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by olefoo 13y ago
What if the bird will not sing?

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