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Exchange rates: Inside the Bitcoin economy(economist.com)
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by pseut 14y ago
Maybe we disagree on what "fault" means; I think (and I'm pretty sure this is common usage) that if a person takes an action and a predictable bad outcome ensues, that person's at fault. It doesn't make him or her a bad person. One last ex
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by pseut 14y ago
355687428096000?
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by pseut 14y ago
Oh, just, wow.
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by pseut 14y ago
Go back later and see if it sticks :)
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What's especially frustrating is that for a while, it seemed like this was the direction Google might go; mash together google reader + gmail/contacts + (optionally) blogger and you have a pretty good open-web social network.
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by pseut 14y ago
> Google's character was obvious to me when they insisted their slogan was "don't be evil" and not "do no evil". I thought the consensus was that "don't be evil" meant "don't be Microsoft" (of the 90s) which makes it a pretty easy slog
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by pseut 14y ago
It's not "opt out once," it's opt out and monitor that your decision isn't "forgotten" at any point in the future in which case you need to opt out again. So, yeah, "continuous hidden opt out" is annoying.
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by pseut 14y ago
I think it's more like leaving your wallet and laptop on the table at a cafe while you go to the bathroom, then getting upset that they're gone when you get back. In that case, yeah, it's absolutely your fault. Put it another way, if you l
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by pseut 14y ago
tl;dr: "most journals are sold under “big deal” contracts in which publishers in effect give libraries all or nothing offers to subscribe to their whole catalog in a given field rather than allowing librarians or consortia to chose their su
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Low acceptance rates, commercial publishing... scholarly communication [pdf](accessecon.com)
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It's funny, because reading that made me think, "and thus, Twitter added the only good thing about Myspace." Myspace had problems, but I never thought that their music offerings was one of them.
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by pseut 14y ago
The obvious counter is that Git is like a dvcs designed for maintainers and only incidentally for developers. I started out using bzr and eventually switched to git, partly to try out github, and things like rewriting history have become a
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by pseut 14y ago
FYI you can get xmpp through fastmail too. That sounds almost exactly like my experience too.
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There used to be an icon in the address bar letting you know the website has an RSS feed and that's been removed from Firefox.
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E-commerce: Quickly does it(economist.com)
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The promise of ripple(blogs.reuters.com)
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Different fonts, right?
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My point is only that these are cultural issues, not technological issues; I agree that it might be useful to see referee reports.
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> Provide for the papers a system of transparent reviews... [snipped] I don't think this is a technical issue. Journals make mistakes on which papers to publish all the time, even when the referees work hard and take the review serious
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by pseut 14y ago
I think SO is the wrong model and that Hacker News is a better one. There's already reputation/badges/etc for the sort of academic tasks you're describing: look at any CV (eg: conference presentations, referee assignments, etc, and the obv
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by pseut 14y ago
For most scientific fields, the last decade's research is much less important than the next decade's research. New research is much less locked in than stuff that was written before the internet became ubiquitous, so I'm not as concerned a
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by pseut 14y ago
An anecdote: I finished a decent draft of a paper two weeks ago and posted it to my website an hour before submitting it to a journal. The code to replicate it is on github available to anyone who wants to look at it, and the statistical m
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by pseut 14y ago
Serious question: why does this need a technical solution? Researchers comprise the editorial staff for these journals, conduct the peer reviews, and submit the papers, all for free (or nearly so). They (we) universally want the papers to
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http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...
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All of the articles I've read about Summly have a bit at the end where the author bends over backwards to not appear to be crapping on a 17yo. I read that passage the same way.
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A new punctuation to highlight sarcasm¡(pseudotrue.com)
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Yes, that's literally correct. But I read it as him also implicitly telling Michael to STFU. Interpretations can differ, but that's part of the point: one can be unambiguous by not writing 'STFU' anywhere in the message and since not be
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by pseut 14y ago
I sort of hate to continue this thread, but that is definitely my rule for email. I decided a few years ago that, if it came down to it, I'd rather come across as an over-exuberant (can't think of a polite word for 'idiot') than come acros
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What generation were they? I'm thinking of recent PhDs and I know only one or two people working in technically difficult areas that don't use LaTeX. It's possible that Word's equation editor has improved a lot since I last used it, but t

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