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by quoderat 18y ago
The more I read about it, the less I am convinced that capitalism is all ponies and manna from heaven, like some here believe. And it's close to its end, anyway, at least as we know it. No, I am not some raving conspiracy theorist. Automati
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Norms, Minorities, and Collective Choice Online(cceia.org)
3 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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The globalization of addiction(nthposition.com)
4 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
2.5TB is definitely amateur-level. I am not even sure how many hard drives I have.
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by quoderat 18y ago
The backup strategy, in my experience, is the first or second thing you need to be thinking about when you set up a server, service or anything IT-related. The first thing I ask when my boss tells me to set up something new: how are we goin
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by quoderat 18y ago
They always say this, and always release at least two. We'll see, but I don't believe it.
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Terrible GUI design ideas(michaelalanmiller.com)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
Strange -- it seems faster in Linux to me than in Windows, though I've never done any formal benchmarks. Haven't had any crashing problems, either.
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by quoderat 18y ago
I use Firefox 3.0.5 on Linux. I have 10,000RPM drives in RAID 0, so my computer is always faster to open a local app than to open a webpage.
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by quoderat 18y ago
This is a well-known psychological bias, though I forget the name of it. Blaming external factors on your failure, but blaming internal characteristics on the failures of others -- conservatives seem to be guilty of this more often than oth
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by quoderat 18y ago
Windows 7 seems like warmed-over Vista to me. The days of Microsoft innovation -- if they ever existed -- are over. What's most notable about Windows 7 is the ideas they've taken from Compiz, which are certainly great on Linux.
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by quoderat 18y ago
I have difficulty using web-based apps because they are just too slow for me. I am a bit of a speed freak, tweaking and overclocking, etc. -- but I do value my time and I've never used a web-based app whose speed pleased me. If I have a cho
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Site and MySQL backups via cron(lunarforums.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
You're right. Most journalism is template articles (said as a former journalist).
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From $80,000 a year to eviction(cnn.com)
13 points by quoderat 18y ago|22 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
It's going to be interesting to see what's the next step when the stimulus doesn't work -- which I doubt it will.
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by quoderat 18y ago
I tried switching to a laptop-only existence several years ago. Didn't work for me. I have an Apple 23" Cinema Display as my primary monitor, and a 19" Hyundai as my second monitor. I'd be lost and be much less productive without this scree
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by quoderat 18y ago
At least it'll solve the financial and economic crises. At this point, I am not sure it matters what destroys the world, as we're bound to do it one way or the other. If not the actual world in toto, then at least ourselves.
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by quoderat 18y ago
I find any computer without at least a 20" screen unusable, so no notebook as a desktop replacement for me. My custom-built desktop is also about 1.5-2x faster than any laptop currently made, so also no thanks in that respect.
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Bring back the unions?(latimes.com)
1 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
You're right. Only about half of credit card debt is securitized, while about 90% of mortgage debt was. However, the banks are in much, much more fragile condition than they were before, and this will have a disproportionate impact right n
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by quoderat 18y ago
Like mortgages, credit card debt that has been securitized has leverage on top of leverage, so even an 8% default rate will do very bad things to banks and other companies who have purchased it using leverage. (Often, the securitized produc
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More info leads to less knowledge(wired.com)
4 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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by quoderat 18y ago
I don't know about Canadian ISPs, but most so-called bandwidth caps in the US -- such as the one Comcast implemented -- are designed to ensure future profits for the ISP as internet usage increases and more and more folks use online video s
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by quoderat 18y ago
Ebay is going to be the perfect illustration of what happens when suit values take over a company. Years ago, I used Ebay all the time. Now I won't go near it. It's beset by fraud, lack of care or concern for its customers, it no longer all
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by quoderat 18y ago
As long as large conglomerates with oodles of cash and lawyers control the debate, the system will get worse. How to change that? I haven't a clue.
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by quoderat 18y ago
This is a naked money grab by Comcast, but geared more to the future than now. Now, most people won’t use 250GB a month. In the future — say 10 or 12 years — most people will use ten times that. This gambit is just to get people used to met
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by quoderat 18y ago
The way the system works now, is if some large business interest says you're infringing, you won't have the power or money to fight them. Great system we got going here.
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What we don't know we don't know(michaelalanmiller.com)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments
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Remix by Lawrence Lessig reviewed(whimsley.typepad.com)
2 points by quoderat 18y ago|0 comments

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