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by pinaceae 12y ago
is this the equivalent of throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks? why do vcs with a specialty in software suddenly stray into completely unknown territory? nothing left to fund in software? rarely does this end well.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
they're not that much better, you still have seniors, old ladies in a hat, etc. driving. the initial steps to obtain a driver's license are much harder than in the US, that's correct.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
If the US really would like to hit Putin in the balls, they would offer all Russian university graduates (at least in STEM) a green card and a one way flight ticket to the US. Since 9/11 and the effects on immigration to the US there h
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by pinaceae 12y ago
what? the Bose noise cancelling in ear plugs already do the processing in a "dongle" which is at the end of the plug that goes into the phone. nothing is stopping Apple/Samsung/whatever to put this piece of hardware int
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by pinaceae 12y ago
well, to take the other perspective: little kids are not smarter than little animals. it's not like the typical 7-10 year old kid is a fountain of smartness. supervision is still needed, it is not able to sustain its existence by itsel
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by pinaceae 12y ago
oh my, goes to show that statistics might have good numbers, but no meaning. Macedonia? Georgia? My god, Georgia just had a war with Russia, is the second biggest target after the Ukraine/Krim. Ethopia? WTF. If you want to live secure,
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by pinaceae 12y ago
a bit of a weird review. mixes trial design, which is international, with inherent US issues like the ok to advertise prescription drugs. i postulate that pharma is actually working, better than a lot of other industries. pharma has a worki
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by pinaceae 12y ago
didn't G+ out some transgender people? http://www.zdnet.com/google-outed-me-7000025416/ now imagine the same with Google having access to all medical records. regulation around this exists for a very, very good r
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by pinaceae 12y ago
oh yeah, all military spending is just soooo stupid ... say people writing comments on something originally funded by the very same military-industrial complex, living in an area largely funded through said complex after ww2. but we like dr
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by pinaceae 12y ago
especially through youtube and the gratis availability of so much existing music you never heard of. just listening through the stuff created between 2000-2010 will take years. and then youtube carries all the older stuff. add pandora, spot
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by pinaceae 12y ago
Use of anti-biotics for livestock has not been banned in Europe, where exactly do you get this info from? The article talks about the Dutch stopping the use of anti-biotics as preventive measures, a practice where you feed animals antib
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by pinaceae 12y ago
well, the pessimistic view, as also expressed by michel houllebecq in his books: ugly, weird, fat (and come on, look at our industry) people tend to stick to their partners because they know that the alternative is not another partner - but
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by pinaceae 12y ago
he is an apple-centric blogger writing for his own site. where exactly does journalism ever come in play here? don't think gruber ever claimed to be a "journalist".
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by pinaceae 12y ago
because this is about competing eco-systems and if you make your living writing software that runs in those eco-systems ("apps"), the health and capabilities of said systems is critical. iOS/OSX vs. Android/Chrome vs. Wi
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by pinaceae 12y ago
http://www.mucommander.com/ muCommander run ons OSX, Linux, BSD, Windows as it is a lightweight Java application. especially nice on OSX as Finder comes nowhere close to its power features.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
Wrong end of the correlation/causation pattern. Human beings make mistakes. A lot of humans use Excel. Hence a lot of errors in Excel. Would all those humans program their logic in Python - we'd have a lot of wrong calculations in
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by pinaceae 12y ago
wanna be the asshole nerd that ruins every conversation? constantly remind people that it's pronounced "fuh", like the German "fa" as in "fahren". met a lady like that last year, has been stuck in mind sin
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by pinaceae 12y ago
2013 MBA - zero issues. And this is on a corporate machine with Meraki, Sophos and Symantec Encryption Desktop running on it...
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by pinaceae 12y ago
same with https://lobste.rs/ i guess.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
which USB? USB, mini-USB, micro-USB, USB 3.0 Micro-B, USB Type C? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#Connectors_types ubiquitous, indeed.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
literally just a fucking box.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
they don't appear teary eyed in the video. i am sorry, but the trailer makes it look like a one-sided propaganda piece. angels & demons. and as i wrote, i hope the trailer does not reflect the whole documentary.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
nowhere did i talk about "justice", i talked about current laws. do you feel parking tickets serve "justice"? and again: http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/12/05/aaron_swartz_k
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by pinaceae 12y ago
hope the movie is not as one sided as the long version trailer. aaron knew about the current laws. aaron decided to break the law, absolutely no grey area there. trespassed, hooked his machine physically up where it did not belong. aaron tr
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by pinaceae 12y ago
everything always needs to be illegal. ban this, ban that. not exactly a libertarian, but man, is there no other way in your little world? what if i enjoy driving a car? what about motorcycles? you want to ban them too? oldtimers, just for
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by pinaceae 12y ago
sure, but i do it once and then i have peace of mind. i have a car at my disposal, 24/7/365. should i book a car for the weekend? a last minute shopping tour? etc. etc. etc.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
sure, but this why ownership as a concept is actually quite nice - i can decide right now to do something with my car. i don't need to plan ahead. i am not dependent on anybody else. i gladly pay for that luxury.
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by pinaceae 12y ago
because it is a multi-purpose vehicle. i drive a car to work, single passenger. i drive the car to buy stuff, with my wife, 2 passengers, plus hauling stuff in the trunk. i drive the car to various places on the weekend, wife plus kid plus
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by pinaceae 12y ago
problem is that privacy/anonymity runs counter to the core Google business with is advertising and collecting personal data. so for Google, they would need to find out what could be a defining feature that would move people off FB. wha
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by pinaceae 13y ago
Very cool stuff, but need to satisfy my OCD: It's spelled Naphtha ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naphtha ). And for the HN hordes - read the bottom of the linked project page, it is supposed to be a reference to Nap

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