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by read_wharf 14y ago
If those are your measures. But a car can very easily beat a bicycle on time efficiency, assuming you're going more than half a mile. A car can also beat a bicycle on opportunity exposure. Both statements are illustrated by mine and many ot
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Writing prompts. V1: click the button, and get three words that a writer would use to kickstart a daily writing exercise. V2: choose which parts of speech are delivered: noun, verb, etc. V3: display a creative commons licensed photo (from f
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by read_wharf 14y ago
What a world. I don't trust this announcement.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
no gravity smelting would be difficult
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by read_wharf 14y ago
I know nothing, but I would think gravity smelting and related operations would be much more technically difficult and risky than gravity based operations on the moon.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
The results were as intended, the business was destroyed. Bonus: the govt doesn't have to spend money on a trial, and risk an innocent verdict. Mission accomplished.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
I doubt if it's make-up corruption to apologize for SOPA, it smells like mere corruption.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
A very lucrative 1996.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
He's using something tab-like, the task bar or whatever it's called on Mac. I use my (linux) task bar to see my separate apps (like everyone does), with sub-"apps" in Firefox tabs. His "tabs" are just migrated up to his task bar as separate
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by read_wharf 14y ago
So then it's not so simple. Some commerce wins, some lose.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Gov enacts a law, but says don't worry they won't enforce it in some cases? Ludicrous.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
If shopping cart-type cookies are excluded, then I'd say this law favors FB et al.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
"It's also a bit rich saying that tracking cookies are bad whilst trying to pass a law attempting to track almost all communication:" Governments hate competition.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
They say they took the server for investigative purposes. If true, all they needed to do was take a copy of the disks. At worst the service might have been offline a few hours. The purpose was to disrupt and stop the service with minimal ef
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Ah, best of both worlds. I'll have to try that.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Would be cool to have a single window of image, and a separate single window of tools.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Then don't do that. Edit your code block over at the left margin as you would normally edit any code. Then do a block insert of 4 spaces down the left side of your code block. That's how I do it. line of code line of code
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Assuming honest research can achieve any of this in the foreseeable future, does anyone expect DHS to conduct or oversee research honestly and competently?
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by read_wharf 14y ago
I was an agent a few years ago, side trip from my career. Agents eat this kind of thing up. If they think it will help, they'll buy it or something like it (and there are somethings like it). Selling pick axes in Denver is a great business
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Work: same people every day (nice though they may be). Everywhere else: everyone else.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
They're billion dollar companies, they can't be trusted.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
"I --and I am sure others-- have exactly zero interest in touching any Google product other than Analytics because it can all go "poof" overnight if an algorithm doesn't like something you did somewhere...and you'll never know why and never
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by read_wharf 14y ago
"Why should 'I' make a job my primary focus?" "You" shouldn't, but there are plenty of people who will. Everyone wakes up most mornings, and you have to do something until you go to sleep. For some people, this is it, but it could be anythi
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by read_wharf 14y ago
I think in this day and age business casual is appropriate anywhere you want to be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_casual Shirt with a collar, slacks, belt, non-athletic shoes.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
"Clive's Parking. 1/2 mile from the Olympic venue." "Half Mile Parking."
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by read_wharf 14y ago
And now I looked. ;-) "You do something so clever that you somehow beat the system, that’s called a hack" "After completing the test project, although the employer commending on the effort I put on, he couldn’t take me as he is looking for
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Unless you're internet famous, you have to tell me what "this" is in the title or I'm not going to look.
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by read_wharf 14y ago
I think your first reference is generally correct. Email the protocol is mostly not broken, and the most fruitful improvements to email are in the client, not the protocol. An RFC can be improved (and most have), but that should be a matter
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by read_wharf 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format#Code_example From their example: $ echo "{\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}\f0\pard This is some {\b bold} text.\par }" |wc -c 86 $ echo "This is some bold
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by read_wharf 14y ago
Not exactly the focus of the article, but maybe taxis and other commercial vehicles are the use case for flying cars.

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