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by rev_bird 12y ago
This is why I'm especially skeptical of her assertion that is "has nothing to do with you." It _does_, because if/when she needs help, of course you're going to want to be there. Still I can't think of a way to
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Took a look at what it was doing, but recently it seems to mostly be engaged in ongoing conversations with other bots spitting out nonsense images.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
> What if your cloud provider is down? Use DATAPATH.IO to route your users to a healthy location while keeping your IP addresses. Call me crazy, but I'm not sure I really care about keeping my IPs. Route 53 seems as close to bulle
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Glad I'm not the only one. The most relaxing way I know of to open up strange, frequent security vulnerabilities.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I'm with you on the first point, but your second seems to undermine the first. The argument isn't "$70 per hour is reasonable, and a 10-minute call takes an hour." As far as I can tell, it's whether "Fixing the
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Time to break out some napkin math: 627,000 malaria deaths * 90% in sub-Saharan Africa[1] = 564,000 malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. 564,000 deaths / population of Africa (~815 million) = 69.2 African malaria deaths per 100,000
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by rev_bird 12y ago
> How can libre software have evil intentions? This might not be a particularly nuanced view, but I'm totally fine with non-libre software being used to make a profit, if there's a market for it and there isn't some kind o
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by rev_bird 12y ago
It may sound dumb, but I'm absolutely fascinated looking at the desert in Google Maps. It's just so... empty. Mysterious little dirt roads, unexplained (but very square) patches of cleared area, and every once in a while, boom, a
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I think the idea was that if Disney can get the government to essentially destroy the idea of 20th century work entering the public domain, they could probably get the government to act against an open internet.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
One of the main points of this thread is that Apple specifically targeted people who _weren't_ trying to install it.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
As far as I know, the biggest reason not to rely unconditionally on AWS-specific offerings is the same reason to avoid vendor lock-in elsewhere: They've got you over a barrel when it comes time to re-negotiate pricing. Amazon has a pre
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Please excuse my late reply, I've spent the last week deleting EVERYTHINGGGG
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Which, to me, is the scary part of this whole thing. Before, it was only implied that the police weren't accountable to anybody -- now they're literally turning their back on the head of the municipal government.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I think the thing that bothers me (and, it seems, lots of other folks) most about this is the feeling that the daughter had very little say in the matter, when by that time, if you're presumably mature enough to start working toward a
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by rev_bird 12y ago
The general theme of the conversation down here seems to be around how "high school online" is a very, very different experience than "high school in high school." Socially, in particular.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I'll give it a shot: I wouldn't say useless at all, but the main reason I won't be homeschooling my children is that I don't think I'm smart enough to do a better job than an entire school full of educators. I'
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by rev_bird 12y ago
This is what I was thinking. And they wanted even more than that! I can't fathom what $900 million would buy, but it seems like at a certain point, it'd be in their interests to stop giving away equity, no? $900 million is a big c
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by rev_bird 12y ago
But it's been 2015 since Monday![1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Aaron hits on an interesting point pretty much in passing: Gmail's UI is pretty encouraging to the archiver vs. the deleter. The Gmail Android app, for example, has a "swipe to archive" feature that lets me push the message b
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Huh. And now I've learned about British that/which! Thank you.
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I've been all worked up about this story since I first read it, but yours is the first comment to make me actually understand a potential, non-bullshit argument from the airline side of things. Thank you. That said, I think I'm st
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I'm perpetually torn about this -- on the one hand, the way they want to serve relevant ads is by knowing everything about my life, even if I don't want them to. On the other hand, I'll get really relevant ads. That's ki
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by rev_bird 12y ago
I would love to have remote work, but I am honestly unsure about whether I'm good enough at my job to enjoy it. My concern isn't with performing my current job, but every promotion/job change I've had has been because
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by rev_bird 12y ago
That. Things _that_ aren't magic. On a more relevant note, thanks for sharing this. It's always nice to read an explanation from somebody patient enough to not skip over a bunch of steps in the middle and avoid losing newbs like m
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Seconding this recommendation, and not just because I suspect YesThatTom2 is Mr. Limoncelli. It might look at first like it just goes over the basics (what a load balancer is, what config management is, etc.), but it covers a huge amount of
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by rev_bird 12y ago
> He didn't hurt anyone except himself. I'm not sure which side of this I'm on, to be honest, but I haven't seen any evidence that there isn't _any_ economic damage done by illegal downloading. > Sunde went to
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by rev_bird 12y ago
So it becomes a question of whom copyright is supposed to protect – I like what the U.S. system _used_ to be, in that it was protective enough to allow creators to reap the economic benefits of their work, but was liberal enough that there
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by rev_bird 12y ago
> The actions of media corporations, the use of DRM, these things (amongst others I'm sure) act to prevent entry to the public domain. DRM in particular breaks the copyright deal, if we the people aren't going to get our side o
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by rev_bird 12y ago
>someone asked if you can do these without a math degree. The short answer is probably not. YOu'll need a math, engineering, or physics degree, unless you really are driven to learn hte math yourself. This is interesting, but I have
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by rev_bird 12y ago
Wouldn't the characters have to come first, in order to be referenced in the first place? I.e. "DOG" would read "GDOG," no?

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