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by podperson 13y ago
I drink 2-4 cups of espresso per day (that's 4-8 shots) and would periodically switch from coffee to tea with no major ill-effects, and similarly would just not drink coffee some days, again with no major ill-effects.
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by podperson 13y ago
The problem is that while probably FEWER than 5% of attacks are technical, they generate industrial scale issues -- e.g. tens of thousands of stolen identities. Even so, while there have been high profile examples of encryption algorithms b
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by podperson 13y ago
So your problem is that the country doesn't treat people as guilty until proven innocent?
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by podperson 13y ago
In what way was Joseph Welch impolite? McCarthy was horribly rude, Welch patiently waited for his turn and spoke simply and eloquently. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po5GlFba5Yg
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by podperson 13y ago
No idea how accurate a depiction of the speech this is, but the article is -- contrary to the title -- portraying the speech as having been warmly received, applauded, with one lone heckler. Now, whether or not one agrees with General Alexa
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by podperson 13y ago
Their startup isn't putting someone in prison for posting an "offensive photo".
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by podperson 13y ago
Great article. Despite thinking I knew a lot about Pixar's life and times, for me the surprises were: * Pixar pioneered ray-tracing, but it just wasn't fast enough for production use. * The Pixar hardware (a) started out as a fram
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by podperson 13y ago
There's going to be some kind of bump though...
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by podperson 13y ago
Where's the bump for "kids go to college"?
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by podperson 13y ago
I'm not an academic so I can't reel off citations from memory (my wife can but I don't have her handy). Here's a quick example thanks to google: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news&#x2
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by podperson 13y ago
I published a book on Cheetah 3D (a nice 3d program for Mac OS X that conspicuously needs a manual). You can find out about it here http://loewald.com/c3dbook/ The main thing I learned is that if you need to sell your
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by podperson 13y ago
Or don't have a slider/carousel. Indeed, the website is pretty terrible, as is the icon/logo.
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by podperson 13y ago
Or maybe he's just so talented that he can carry a huge interpersonal handicap. Actually, this email is pretty polite and to-the-point. I don't know exactly what it is that he said that was offensive in private, but he's actu
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by podperson 13y ago
In particular the rocket system that landed was discarded and a new rocket system took off, so I don't think it's even "technical". It's like calling a car that rolls off a ferry an "amphibious" vehicle.
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by podperson 13y ago
One of North Korea's major exports is, apparently, giant statues of people. E.g. (sorry it's a WSJ link...) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870390620457502...
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by podperson 13y ago
Storage isn't so cheap when you consider that it doesn't last very long, so we're constantly having to move stuff to newer (thankfully usually bigger) storage devices.
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by podperson 13y ago
I think we should all just create random sized files of random numbers, encrypt them with reasonably strong encryption, and email them to each other. Asymmetric warfare can work in the digital world too.
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by podperson 13y ago
The original claim was electronic copies more expensive than HARD covers. I would cheerfully pay a little for an ebook over a paperback.
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by podperson 13y ago
Those may be walled gardens, but they're not very big.
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by podperson 13y ago
Seems to me like the emphasis is on XBox. "Terry Myerson will lead this group, and it will span all our OS work for console..." Interesting, because I think XBox One (from One Microsoft) is a bit of a Hail Mary. It's not clea
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by podperson 13y ago
Can you give some examples of hardcovers being cheaper than kindle or ibooks versions? I can see isolated examples but when I look for hardcovers on the nytimes bestseller list on Amazon, kindle versions are uniformly cheaper than hardcover
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by podperson 13y ago
"Here’s a fictitious example to show what I’m talking about." Yes, the author's fictitious example sucks. The chart I linked shows the data points as discrete, so it's actually the stacked column chart the author claim
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by podperson 13y ago
Another option would be a stacked area graph like this (the one on the right) http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Screen-Shot...
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by podperson 13y ago
You're referring to unemployment insurance, which is not the only equivalent to the Australian "dole". There's also "welfare" which (as of "welfare reform") is limited to 5y in a lifetime. (Getting we
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by podperson 13y ago
Nice link. The same article points out that greater benefits are available in some parts of the US (Massachusetts being cited). The thing in the US isn't so much the lack of such benefits, but the difficulty in obtaining them.
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by podperson 13y ago
The idea of a fixed income replacing welfare has been around a long while (I posited it in my role-playing setting -- ForeScene: The Flawed Utopia back in 1986 after reading somewhere that it would be cheaper to simply pay everyone a salary
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by podperson 13y ago
Aside from the fact that the solar tree was debunked (as someone else pointed out), Stanford students doing something with a high speed camera is somehow less heartwarming than a 13 y.o. kid doing it for a science project.
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by podperson 13y ago
Also: we're not asking for "perfect" just less bad.
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by podperson 13y ago
Proportional representation systems do give small parties disproportionate power, but the US system does that with States anyway. (Australia has a proportional system in the senate which favors small parties in small states.) But Australia
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by podperson 13y ago
An insurgency within one of the two big political parties is probably more likely to work than a third (or nth) party given how broken the US electoral system is. And of course it's the super-low-turnout primaries where we can really m

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