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by polemic 12y ago
So SoundCloud users had a good run, but now the popularity of the service reached critical mass and raised the ire of the labels so they're knuckling under like every other provider. SoundCloud (sensibly) doesn't want the burden o
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by polemic 12y ago
Hate the word "target" in the title. It seems to imply that Wolfe could have chosen some other company to sue.
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by polemic 12y ago
That was my thought too. I guess OP was trying to distinguish between debt deliberately incurred vs wasted. But maybe a better way to think about it is "leverage" vs "debt". Leverage is something you use to improve the p
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by polemic 12y ago
This is a good starting point. One thing I'd add is the need to consider the effects of table locks during changes. It's a nasty surprise when you've tested your multi-stage process in dev, only to find during production upda
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by polemic 12y ago
I was trawling through r/personalfinance and it doesn't take long before the above starts to ring true.
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Eurogamer Editor's blog: I am sexist(eurogamer.net)
4 points by polemic 12y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 12y ago
> It's only sending a message if you're looking for one. Conversely, consider that you don't see the message because it's inclusive (I assume ) for you. It's interesting that you also said: > The kind of p
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by polemic 12y ago
I'm suggesting that he should be mindful of what he's saying, and how that impacts his staff, and the message that he's projecting to future hires. I really don't mind if people roll their eyes at me :) just that they
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by polemic 12y ago
The company is a family of "brothers", hundreds of friends but only a few "brothers". Consider how that sounds to a woman considering a position there. I'm not saying it's deliberate, but it's sending a me
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by polemic 12y ago
"...I only consider a couple of them close enough to call my brothers... ...My “brothers” know all about me and I them, just like my real sisters do..." Subtle sexism aside: hanging out, enjoying being together and having nickna
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by polemic 12y ago
Did you know: as pointed out here, "mana" is used in New Zealand (not just by Māori) and means something like "status" or "honour" (to drastically simplify a nuanced and powerful word[1]). Its also the name of
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by polemic 12y ago
Incidentally, the large rear wheels in drag racers is an example of a variable torque wheel design: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ug6w4ZjwVo#t=55
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by polemic 12y ago
Compare the sort of user hardware that a botnet will typically control, vs the hardware that specialist miners run, and you'll see why botnets don't have much chance of upsetting the network. You might earn a few coins, but you&#x
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by polemic 12y ago
This is an ideological argument rather than a practical one, but the usual counterpoint is that even pure leeches of OS development contribute to its success by displacing competitors, training users and developers, and there is always a ch
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Reality Distortion Field(rowansimpson.com)
1 points by polemic 12y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 12y ago
I suspect the "plank" is actually a wood veneer glued over a set of blocks. The veneers are extremely flexible (you could roll them up) and would look like this once carefully assembled. A side view of the 'plank' would
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by polemic 12y ago
In New Zealand the 2013 census had 40% declared No Religion. Just under 50% are Christian, a full 12% were undeclared.
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by polemic 12y ago
A canary that no one knows about is a <understate>little</understate> pointless... nonetheless it feels like a lavabit-esque shutdown. The intrigue continues.
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by polemic 12y ago
> "I hate that we're still talking about this..." Well me too, but I hate it because people are still shits to each other, and we need to keep talking about it so that we're not sending the message that it's ok
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by polemic 12y ago
Those answers are great, but they're also very high level and general. One of the best pieces of advice, badly paraphrased below, I've heard from a military context. "Any time you instruct a subordinate, you must be
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by polemic 12y ago
Detect features instead of browsers?
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by polemic 12y ago
On that topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles "In the British model of policing, police officers are citizens in uniform. They exercise their powers to police their fellow citizens with the impli
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UK police ask blogger to remove UKIP tweets(axeofreason.blogspot.com)
93 points by polemic 12y ago|37 comments
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by polemic 12y ago
Good analysis. I like to think that it's a bit like investing in a vehicle that may or may not be a ponzi scheme. It's worked so far, but that doesn't mean you bet the house on it.
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by polemic 12y ago
Hah, well there are national DEMs available, and land use datasets - you could generate a natural landscape minecraft map quite easily. > Is this something that can be (has been?) incorporated into the likes of OpenStreetMap? It's w
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by polemic 12y ago
Not just small companies - the highest users of this data are large engineering consultancies, research institutions are various central and local government agencies. Then GIS firms, architects and planners. Hobbyists use the data, for sur
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Aerial Imagery of 95% of New Zealand released under open license(data.linz.govt.nz)
126 points by polemic 12y ago|15 comments
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by polemic 12y ago
Thanks! I think most people equate "medium rare chicken" with food poisoning, so it was interesting to see that used in the video. Never knew that you could actually cook it safely that way.
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by polemic 12y ago
This has some similarities to recent high-profile "hacking" cases: "Other claims are interrelated, which is to say that certain claims depend on the success of others to survive. And, at core, most of these lose all oxygen i
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by polemic 12y ago
IANAchef but the video has the user selecting a "medium rare chicken breast". Is that a thing? =D

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