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Carbonite Stacks the Deck on Amazon(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Japanese studies have shown that chlorella is helpful for removing heavy metals, including mercury. I know people who don't eat sushi without a handful of it as well.
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
A few months ago we actually created a system that does exactly this, plugging into the Ganglia data visualization system many sites use. We have bindings for Perl and Python. Your app code just emits non-blocking UDP packets to a local c
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
I think of it as similar to a home security system. Of course there are ways around it. Chances are that the effort involved means that a burglar will go rob a neighbor's house instead though. Perhaps captchas make more sense in capital i
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so." Like everything else about building software, you have to test it. Watch the logs and see where people abandon the process.
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Indeed. It's a balance. Three failures is way too hard. Ours is a fairly simple captcha -- 5 letters/numbers, and our logs show that somewhere around 94% of attempts are correct, and we see few abandoned signups during the captcha answer
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
This is exactly why when we wrote the CAPTCHA code that protects the creation of SpiderOak 2gb free backup accounts (well commented GPLv3 code here -- https://spideroak.com/code ) we took the approach of not making them 100% human readab
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Strangely enough, sweet potatoes/yams break down much slower. Yummier too.
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
I switched to the dvorak layout in my early twenties and it's been well worth it. It's not so much about speed, as it is about accuracy, and especially about comfort. I would recommend in switching that you do NOT move your keycaps around,
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Some other healthy, high protein grains: Quinoa - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinoa Teff - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teff
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Absolutely. The trouble is mainly research funding, and then publishing and marketing the research that's already happened (there's more scientific research on alternative treatments than is commonly known.) Pharmaceutical companies aren't
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Relax -- it's not like I'm suggesting faith healing. :) Alternatives and choice are needed. Chemotherapy "works" by causing enough DNA damage that the body is better able to identify cancerous cells and destroy them. Hardly an elegant
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
I've informally (but seriously) studied natural health for several years, and the natural health community is really quite opposed to most of mainstream medicines approaches to cancer treatment. Depending on where you're located, you may be
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
It's ESR's "Threads: Threat or Menace" as a powerpoint... http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch07s03.html The conclusion is still accurate enough though, IMHO.
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
A common combination is to give some useful part of the subscription away for free (especially if this has little cost for you) and promote it. Getting traction for a free service is usually easier. Then charge something for more function
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
After 2 years building an algorithmically intensive desktop app in Python that ships on 3 platforms, my strongest recommendation is to avoid all of these fancy environments that change the way Python is used or internally works, including S
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by rarrrrrr 18y ago
Humans have a tendency to take the mental shortcut that scarcity implies value, and so I wouldn't be surprised if this were to actually increase interest in HN. HN might also be one of the few sites able to conduct such an experiment (most