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by pigscantfly 13y ago
What constitutes doing evil with it? Presumably you hope that God will exalt righteous believers and punish misbehavior, since you believe that his surveillance of people is important. I can't think of any motive for surveillance tha
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Yet the article also indicates that even the supposed 'golden tickets' into the highest tier schools don't guarantee success. Sure, if your family built the library, they'll probably let you in with mediocre scores, but
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Well, I'm not going to side with the people who gunned down a Reuters journalist from their Apache and the military who tried to cover for them over the person who outed their conduct. I guess you can choose which way your patriotism
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Part of my favorite passage from the Aeneid :); the literal translation is a little different from the English phrase that's become popular, but I've always thought it amazing that people from that time period had the same insight
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
My one issue with the latest Apple scrollbar is that I've yet to figure out a convenient way to scroll horizontally. The horizontal scrollbar is almost always hidden, I can't use my mouse wheel to bring it up, and using arrow key
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Full disclosure: I'm a rising senior at Stanford, so maybe your comment is just irritating to me on a personal level. That said, the Stanford CS department is objectively very good; further, judging by the number of people I know who
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Right, it's a cost-benefit analysis for the company. Why does Google have a dentist on its campus? So employees don't need to take the day off to visit the dentist; they can just take a break from the normal workday and then com
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
When you reduce a person down to a scalar, you're inevitably losing most of the signal in the different variables which go into that calculation. I am extremely skeptical that it's possible to come up with a model which makes t
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Analysis this questionable transcends the 'take with a grain of salt' threshold, in my opinion. They're not publishing this to inform anyone, just grab eyeballs. Hooray new media...
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
What do you think is bad about using jira at a startup? I'm not trying to be obnoxious, but I've only ever worked at two startups (~120 people - I'm 21) and both used jira for bug management.
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
I won't speculate on LinkedIn's practices, although it seems possible they could drive retention by 'rotating' inactive users into a more featured spot (or maybe you're correct and they have a feedback loop based ar
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So logically, someone probably has.
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
It's all down to laziness, IMO. That FBI agent could have done some research for verification and realized that Goldman was selling him an overblown story. What's the point, though; the courts will do their background research e
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Haha, suspect. You know their tool for importing new types of data into a Palantir system is called Prism, right? Aggregating data from different sources and linking it is all they do.
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
A partnership between app developers and event production companies would be great; I was at EDC Las Vegas a few weeks ago, and the promotion company, Insomniac Events, produced their own app for the festival. Sounds great, right? Only pr
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
I don't understand why so many are criticizing this guy; if he doesn't want to retire right now like it seems, why shouldn't he work for another few years until he's ready? Obviously increasing his savings in the mean
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Have we forgotten phone books so quickly?
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Why should people invest past the point of being wrong? If someone proves you wrong, you should change your mind, not keep arguing just to save face.
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Exactly - if you hold my phone up to a light, you can easily see my unlock pattern in the fingerprints left on the screen.
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
I think that some breeds of cow, at least, would be able to survive a human extinction event. You would see rapid adaptation in the population, though, so maybe we could rephrase your observation to: "If we become extinct for whatever
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
What's wrong with pink...?
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Thanks for taking the time to stand up for yourself. I probably wouldn't have called Mayer a cupcake princess in my comment, but people are taking it a bit too seriously. The comment was mainly about frivolous Google UI changes, whic
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by pigscantfly 13y ago
Comparing an attacking man to an attacking dog is a little apples-to-oranges. It's probably less likely that the dog can be 'reformed,' and a reformed person is a lot more useful to society than a reformed dog. They're