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by rfugger 15y ago
I doubt any major vendor will do this. First off, they don't want to be locked into selling Microsoft-only machines. If they can't pretend Linux is an option, Microsoft can charge them $1000 for a Windows license and there's nothing they c
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by rfugger 15y ago
Reminds me of the of the Boltzmann brain paradox: The Boltzmann brain paradox is that it is more likely that a brain randomly forms out of the chaos with false memories of its life than that the universe around us would have billions of se
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Ex-Apple designer wants to "kill math" with better UI(fastcodesign.com)
8 points by rfugger 15y ago|1 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
Lenovo's Thinkpad T420s does a pretty decent thin-and-light (under 4 lbs.) for Macbook Air prices, with a bigger screen: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/thinkpad/t-series/t420s
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Money arises when neighborly debts are combined with the threat of violence(nakedcapitalism.com)
6 points by rfugger 15y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
My take on this is that the ethic that enables credit to function sustainably is incompatible with the corporate culture we've created. Value judgements in our economy are increasingly made by corporations who can only value what they can
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by rfugger 15y ago
Django had a ticket for this, and it got closed as wontfix because 302 redirects are known to work fine: https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/13277
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by rfugger 15y ago
This is interesting to me. Maybe it's because twitter places much more emphasis on identity than HN comments? Twitter users are also more likely to be using that service to market their personal brand, rather than just to share whatever t
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by rfugger 15y ago
Seems more like he just didn't realize how much demand there was, and how little supply.
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by rfugger 15y ago
I'm not sure this was obvious until Friendfeed became so popular that Facebook acquired and integrated them into their redesign in 2009. It seems like a pretty recent innovation to me.
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by rfugger 15y ago
Nothing to do with RIM. It's marketing for paybuyer.com.
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The case for and against the Oxford comma(theglobeandmail.com)
34 points by rfugger 15y ago|18 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
Who doesn't encrypt their torrent traffic already? But this does nothing to prevent your IP address from being easily associated with the torrent.
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by rfugger 15y ago
I guess the real question then is whether the bitcoin equilibrium value is stable enough to be a price unit for real economic transactions, or whether it will fluctuate wildly as people jump on and off the bandwagon.
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International commission says war on drugs is a failure(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by rfugger 15y ago|0 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
Given the experimental evaluations to date, we have serious doubts about how well MapReduce applications can scale. Umm... Google search?
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by rfugger 15y ago
Brilliant. This is an equally useful application of the block chain concept as the Bitcoin currency, and should be much less controversial.
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by rfugger 15y ago
I would think that would raise privacy red flags, and those google wants to hire are some of the most privacy-sensitive people around.
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The three-day weekend: a dream deferred(theglobeandmail.com)
51 points by rfugger 15y ago|29 comments
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by rfugger 15y ago
Critique of Evans' article: http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/08/13/the-weekly-carbo...
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by rfugger 15y ago
Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance quite thoroughly describes the impossibility of ever fully defining what is good.
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by rfugger 15y ago
Paypal, credit cards, etc. have dispute resolution services. They don't just allow the buyer to renege arbitrarily. To be useful, it seems to me that an escrow service needs to offer a more robust dispute resolution mechanism, which will
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by rfugger 15y ago
When it's open, traffic is open to sniffing.
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by rfugger 15y ago
Dell did ship Ubuntu awhile back. Not sure if they still do.
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by rfugger 15y ago
My WPA2-protected router's SSID is 'Try "password"'. Guess what the password is?
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by rfugger 16y ago
Answering my own question: http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/whats-new-in-my... This appears to be a way to access InnoDB storage as a memcached-type key-value store using the memcached API. I didn't get that from the article.
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by rfugger 16y ago
Anyone care to explain what this accomplishes exactly?
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by rfugger 16y ago
If it could easily find a preimage for a given SHA-256 hash value, then yeah.
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by rfugger 16y ago
If you lowered your difficulty, other nodes who follow the prescribed convention for setting the difficulty will reject your blocks and any further chain built on them as invalid. Agreement on the formula for computing difficulty is requir
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by rfugger 16y ago
If an entity that could harness sufficient computing power like the NSA wanted to take control of the block chain by throwing more computing power at it than is currently devoted to computing the block chain, then, yes, they would be in con

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