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by pj 17y ago
and google also has perhaps hundreds of thousands of servers and tens of data centers. His point is just to provide some measure of scale against a "known beast".
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by pj 17y ago
What you say is echoed by, Every incorrect assumption in this post seems to think that 1 tweet on twitter = 1 database row = "So easy!". You've left out the user fanout! One Obama Tweet = 1M database rows, someplace Assuming that is true,
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by pj 17y ago
abundance creates scarcity. Now there are horse and buggies in tourist destinations providing nostalgic tours for couples in love.
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by pj 17y ago
Tiffany and Thad arranged the moon rocks on a bed—and had sex amongst them. That's the hottest scene in a geek movie ever .
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by pj 17y ago
I agree that they are over priced, but they aren't commodities. Commodity products are indistinguishable, but there are definitely different qualities of healthcare and higher education.
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by pj 17y ago
I'm not sure it is destined to fail. Do you think search can't be done better than Google can do it? I am certain it can.
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by pj 17y ago
When I viewed the examples at http://raphaeljs.com/ I noticed that Opera has the smoothest graphics rendering, followed by IE, then Firefox. Didn't test safari or chrome. It's especially noticable on this one: http://raphaeljs.com/chart
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by pj 17y ago
I expected this to be some kind of sick morbid dead pool kind of site, but it's actually kind of interesting...
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by pj 17y ago
Yeah, this has been said for well over a decade now.
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by pj 17y ago
Well, considering electromagnetic's numbers and insightful comments, perhaps it isn't that these species have greater moral sensibility, but that they haven't evolved the ability to disregard morality. It may be my perception that people
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by pj 17y ago
I frequently hear the statistic that communication is 10% verbal and 90% body language: touches, glances, winks. There is information in these gestures as well. Of course this very conversation is an example of how much we can communicate
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by pj 17y ago
If you "view source" for the web page, you can see the responses in there. I wish google had a "never show results from website" option, because of that website.
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by pj 17y ago
Self-reporting is notoriously bad. Also, through my studies of autism, I am keenly aware of the problems of associating physical gestures with internal emotions. If it weren't possible, there'd be no actors. But no, it wasn't facetious.
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by pj 17y ago
Second reaction... If there is a range of moral "quality" so to speak of decisions made by humans, and animals also exhibit morality in decision making, then why might there not also be a range of moral quality in animal decisions. Perhaps
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by pj 17y ago
I'm not suggesting "supernatural" but rather, "superobservational." For example, due to our use of human range sound recordings, we had studied elephants for a very long time before understanding that they use low frequency communication
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by pj 17y ago
Makes me feel a bit better about WP. They are still storing the passwords temporarily in 2-way, so it's less of a hacking risk for the new account, though potentially a hacking opportunity for other websites used by the same user. I still c
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by pj 17y ago
Yeah, that's a good point. Kind of contradictory of me to say humans are arrogant to pretend to know what animals are thinking and then say myself that animals don't kill for sheer pleasure. So I can't say this for sure, because I don't k
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by pj 17y ago
Nice one! I love this stuff. I suppose more powerful tools of battle increase accidental death in all species. I can see an evolutionary rationale for cuckolded violence. Unfaithful mates introduce other genes that take resources the cuck
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by pj 17y ago
Ah... that is interesting! I wonder why that is. My first reaction is to think that perhaps the behavior you describe and that behavior in humans is the result of surplus supply of prey. In the wild, prey are difficult to find and so they
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by pj 17y ago
I like that idea.
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by pj 17y ago
What is a better method? I'm not disagreeing with you. I am encouraging you to share better ideas.
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by pj 17y ago
I think this is a really important study. Humans are so arrogant to believe that other species of animals, (humans are animals, don't forget) do not have emotions or thoughts or communicate with each other in a manner more complex than w
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by pj 17y ago
There is an economic law called Gresham's law. It says in a scenario where there are two coins with different intrinisic values, the coin with the higher intrinsic value will disappear from circulation. http://chestofbooks.com/finance/bank
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by pj 17y ago
aditya, from a developer perspective, I cannot think of any reason to ever store recoverable passwords in a database. It's just too easy to do a one way hash. Okay, there is only one reason, if you are building a system that allows the stor
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by pj 17y ago
In this example, it was "just a blog" but there are serious sites that will email you your plain text password too. Verio stores two way encrypted passwords and domains are important to some people and they do get stolen and they are valua
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by pj 17y ago
Ecrypted wireless connections also help. I'm always very cautious about the kind of wireless link I'm using. You have to be conscious on the internet, that's the moral here. I have stopped using websites that sent me my password in plain
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by pj 17y ago
If you look at the actual WP create account page here: http://en.wordpress.com/signup/ You'll see that there is a box for your password and a confirmation of the password, so that leads me to believe that they are actually sending the use
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by pj 17y ago
In this case, you introduce the concept of the "secret question and answer." But then sometimes users forget those too. There is no perfect scheme, because there are no perfect memories...
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by pj 17y ago
It is impossible to store passwords in a one way hash and also email it to a user and show it on a web page at some point in the future. That's the point of a one way hash, it can only be encrypted, not unencrypted. No one should ever be
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by pj 17y ago
I think it is okay to email the user a new randomly generated password. There's not much difference between that and a link the user can click to create a new password. I suggest not putting the username and the password in the same email

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