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by req2 17y ago
I emailed a small online vendor that their creditcard field was being cached like this, and I was told it was a 'browser feature' that I had to turn off. It almost makes me regret making my purchases there.
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by req2 17y ago
A fair coin is one on which p = 0.5. A coin that has a 51% chance is clearly not a fair coin. This isn't even what I was talking about, but is still equally easy to turn into a fair coin. In this case, caller calls in the air after flipper
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by req2 17y ago
Ah, oops. That's not what I'm saying. If you disagree with the basis of the hyperbole (i.e., that Gimp's UI is bad), the rest of the conversation derails, as seen with a few comments posted here. If you agree, then it fits and nothing goes
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by req2 17y ago
You're mixing theoretical odds and practical odds, which might be considered sloppy. Additionally, unfair coins can trivially be used as fair coins, but unbalanced roulette wheels cannot easily be used as fair roulette wheels.
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by req2 17y ago
I think I view the emphasis as a substitute for reason. I (perhaps unnecessarily) reason that a reasoned opinion would substitute that reason for the emphasis, e.g., "soccer is boring because of [example of slow play], although [concession
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by req2 17y ago
UI friendliness on the scale of perfect vision to blind. The more unfriendly Gimp seems, the more natural the hyperbole.
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by req2 17y ago
> Why would an irrelevant over-statement discredit the other points? It's a literary device. As someone who doesn't use Photoshop or Gimp, I can't comment directly on how hyperbolic the comment is. That said, overblown hyperbole sometim
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by req2 17y ago
There's a fine line in play here. Websites are opt-in, as are OSes, but I don't think many people think of Firefox as 'Ubuntu Firefox', and rightfully don't expect that their OS is going to tamper with the expected behavior of known, third
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by req2 17y ago
If the site charges per ad served and you never click, you merely shift the 'ethical burden' of 'stealing from the website' to '"stealing" from the guy who paid for ads'.
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by req2 17y ago
Code in hand goes further than request in hand.
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by req2 17y ago
I'm not sure what's up with that deaded comment. Most 'outlying opinions', when reasonably defended (e.g., with paragraphs and citations) seem to do pretty well. There's a clear 'winner', in that one set of responses will have scores that d
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by req2 17y ago
I haven't had time to look it over in full yet, but I will respond when I can.
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by req2 17y ago
You could fork the source and run your own A/B testing.
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by req2 17y ago
Categories just invite meta posts of the 'not <category>' type. Articles that fall into multiple categories are another problem, and tags don't quite solve that one either. They also inorganically split the community and add an extr
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by req2 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English gives as an example the one word haiku 'tundra'.
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by req2 17y ago
I don't think either of those are terribly good metrics. Using two of my own submissions... Compare Google's blog post on robots crawling news articles: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=708417 to an inflammatory post about Techcrunch:
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by req2 17y ago
Any 'solution' to the 'quality problem' that fails to acknowledge that some people are obviously voting up the (politics|techcrunch|zed|etc.) articles you perceive as low quality is going to fail. You need to account that some people love t
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by req2 17y ago
A playful response: http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/05/09/japanese-rush-hour/
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by req2 17y ago
Click on the detail you want to track.
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by req2 17y ago
He's saying that there's no material implication. Fast food doesn't make you fat, and it's no silver bullet to health. The typical fast food reliant diet (more calories than you need) makes you fat. Ceteris paribus, skinny tends to be healt
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by req2 17y ago
Words aren't language; an example of a "natural" languages invented today can be found in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Sign_Language . Many creoles follow the same pattern of spontaneous development. This is a distinct differenc
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by req2 17y ago
Thanks for providing a more interesting response than GP. In the absence of 'textbook' science citations, I'm going to have to rely on 'pop' science that does provide citations to respected scientists at accredited institutions who have per
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by req2 17y ago
Did you notice the link and decide to respond with a non sequitur, or just miss the link?
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by req2 17y ago
Saturated fat? http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&#38...
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by req2 17y ago
Length is a red herring; compare the copyrightable poetry in 'Haiku in English' (e.g., "tundra", in full) with signature dishes, like sachertorte or Waldorf Salad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by req2 17y ago
Going by the law, that's true, but what makes a recipe distinct from sheet music? They're both simple printed instructions informing appropriately skilled personnel how to produce a piece to be consumed. "Substantial literary expression" is
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by req2 17y ago
Could you elaborate on your claim of abusiveness? I'm not sure such an unsourced rumor is sufficient evidence, nor am I aware of Groupon having such Walmartian clout that it can bully vendors into deals. Surely the spa signed its own end of
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by req2 17y ago
Then why don't I get an electronic version when I buy a physical copy?
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The Mechanical Turk Diaries(mechanicalturkdiaries.com)
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by req2 17y ago
"Depend on? The very phrase is anathema to the dogma of a universal human nature." It's unfortunate to find such a simple misunderstanding in the middle of the article; as Robert Wright explains in "The Moral Animal", it is not necessarily

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