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Peter Pan and the Copyright That Never Grew Up (2015)(plagiarismtoday.com)
2 points by patorjk 7y ago|0 comments
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by patorjk 8y ago
> "Executive director Sue Gardner is now seeking to change the mission of the newsroom to one based on advocacy against the tech companies. She argues that The Markup needs to be a ‘cause’ rather than a ‘publication.’" > &qu
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by patorjk 8y ago
It's not visible on my monitor unless I hover my mouse over the title. It looks completely white. Checking dev tools it says it's rgb(29,29,29) with a 0.05 opacity, but to my eyes it's invisible.
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by patorjk 8y ago
Reminds me of the research now starting around MDMA as a cure for tinnitus (ringing in the ears) [1]. Lots of people who use the drug have self reported a reduction in the ringing they hear. It'd be real interesting if this eventually
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by patorjk 8y ago
> She described how bewildering it had been to accompany a friend downtown, near the tourist-friendly Inner Harbor, one night a few months earlier. “The lighting was so bright. People had scooters. They had bikes. They had babies in stro
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by patorjk 8y ago
Kind of a bummer Google again didn't give a bounty for this type of issue, but also kind of interesting that we had the same experience. Also cool to hear you'd heard of my story before :).
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by patorjk 8y ago
No prob, glad it was useful :)! Heh, I used to wonder how many people who find that easter egg. I figured it'd be a cool little surprise for anyone who tried to move the splash screen.
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by patorjk 8y ago
I found an exploit like this in Google+ back in 2013 that worked in basically the same fashion (script tag and onload/onerror handlers) to identify users, and to tell if they were apart of certain groups. Google fixed the issue, but la
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by patorjk 8y ago
> At the least, social media trains us to stay within the lane of our “brand”. Even with a very small following, I've noticed this on Instagram. Whenever I post something outside of my niche, my likes take a dive, even if I think it
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Super Micro sees strong holiday results despite chip-hack claims(marketwatch.com)
1 points by patorjk 8y ago|0 comments
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by patorjk 8y ago
I wonder how much he makes, and how long he thinks this gig will last. He wants to own a Yacht, but unless he's making a ton, I'm not sure how that would be possible. Also, I'm not sure it's fair to say "lonely life
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by patorjk 8y ago
Like hanklazard mentioned, Sargon was banned, but this had ripples that effected a lot of non-controversial creators. People closed their accounts due to him being banned, and I remember Tim Pool (independent journalist) complaining that he
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by patorjk 8y ago
"software which demotes overheated discussions" is pretty noticeable. It seems as soon as a story gets more comments than it has points, it drops like a rock from the front page.
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by patorjk 8y ago
This kind of blows my mind. A few years ago when I went to the eye doc, they refused to give me my prescription, I had to buy glasses from their store in their office. Last year when I went, they gave me my prescription at the end, without
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by patorjk 8y ago
> But your friends aren't going to read it. Even back in the day my friends weren't reading my LJ. I wound up discovering the only people reading mine were a few internet friends, ex-girl friends, and a professor I was working
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by patorjk 8y ago
Sadly I'm not sure what happened to them, my family moved away from the area when I was 14. I caught up with him a few years ago, and he did go to college, though I'm not sure if the cards were sold to help pay for it. As an aside
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by patorjk 8y ago
At the height of baseball card collecting in the 90's, my best friend's dad went out and bought a closet full of baseball card sets (not classic sets, but sets from the time period). He told my parents he was doing it to save for
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by patorjk 8y ago
The article talks about some scientists doing DNA injections meant to stall aging. I could see that becoming popular if it turned out to work.
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by patorjk 8y ago
I wonder how many contractors this effects. The article mentions that 800k federal workers are out of work, but it doesn't say how many contractors are out of work (it just mentions that some private contractors are out of work). As so
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by patorjk 8y ago
I remember my son crying and telling me "but I miss it..." when I told him he couldn't watch that channel anymore. It's like a bunch of toy commercials, but I think kids also feel some connection to Ryan, which is what m
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by patorjk 8y ago
That's always what I've been told. This isn't apple to apples, but I've worked as a government contractor for the past 15 years. In my experience, when money starts to dry up, sub-contractors are the first to go, but sub
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by patorjk 8y ago
> ...and a graphic instructing liberals how to kill themselves. “Rock on insignificant Liberals … you will not be missed,” wrote the person who shared it, whose profile says she is a registered nurse. It boggles my mind that someone woul
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by patorjk 8y ago
Is there any discussion about making it easy to sell prints? I'm an amateur photographer and have had several people inquire about prints, but I never know what to say because I have no idea how to make prints, nor do I have a lot of t
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by patorjk 8y ago
I really like Flickr. There's a wealth of beautiful images, great groups (even though a lot of the ones I used are dead/dying), and I really like that I can upload uncompressed images. A lot of what this post says rings true, and
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by patorjk 8y ago
The articles says that Sun Yi wrote around 20 letters, does this mean there are ~19 other people who got a letter but said nothing? It makes me wonder who often this kind of thing is tried but gets no response from the recipient of the lett
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by patorjk 8y ago
One possible problem with this - I listened to the Simpsons commentary tracks a long time ago and one comment the writers gave was that episodes were hashed out in the writers room, and everyone contributed jokes. Once an episode was hashed
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by patorjk 8y ago
I've noticed this with food trucks (like the article mentions) and some mall food court places. It definitely feels awkward. It's resulted in me avoiding these types of places or using cash. It's kind of a relief to know that
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by patorjk 8y ago
Sorry for any confusion. New Mexico moved from #50 to #41, while Maine moved from #6 to #48. This raised some flags with me since I went to school in New Mexico and find it hard to believe they have better schools than Maine, especially sin
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by patorjk 8y ago
Even though my comment was kind of negative, I love Las Cruses. The scenery and weather are the two things I miss the most. It's certainly possible the rest of the state has better schools, but I never heard anything about them while I
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by patorjk 8y ago
I only have 2 data points of experience on this issue. Which I know doesn't mean much, but I'm left scratching my head after looking at their list. I spent the first 14 years of my life in Las Cruces, New Mexico (the state's

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