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by ristretto 15y ago
To be fair, you can find tons of kindle books for free in torrents and on the internet anyway, amazon doesnt stop you even from copying them to your kindle. I m sure amazon and even the authors are aware of those limitations and are focusin
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Gamification Is Bullshit(theatlantic.com)
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by ristretto 15y ago
At least this phrase is not true: "Most Facebook games of note cost at least $200k to get off the ground and many of the more famous ones cost $1m" Some very popular (not the most popular) facebook games started with $0 budget yet have mi
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by ristretto 15y ago
Does it help to think that they were both killed by his wife and her lover? What a family
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by ristretto 15y ago
that's not unrealistic at all. I carry my keys with me all day, yet i only use them for a few seconds per day. On the other hand, given the risks of interception, i think the best is to have a centralized password system that will require f
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by ristretto 15y ago
Well the bulb shape is really a relic from the past. The design has already been disrupted with fluorescent lights, that brought bigger cylindrical shapes that diffuse more.
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by ristretto 15y ago
Is there a similar extension for chrome / does chrome allow such modifications?
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by ristretto 15y ago
i would vouch for a "page-only" browser window with hover controls. like a video player
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by ristretto 15y ago
8 out of the 12 issues posed are about passwords. Clearly we need a better alternative there that could be incorporated into the browser. I think mozilla's browserid is a very pragmatic idea that deserves some attention.
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by ristretto 15y ago
Services like tourism and healthcare are in growing demand, however there is a shift going on there, too, e.g. airbnb, innovative medical devices etc. Unfortunately, an expensive services sector cannot sustain an economy on its own. It work
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by ristretto 15y ago
The 40 hour work week is a relic of the industrial age, right? Things are different today, and the technology sector is a good example: top talent produces a disproportionately large amount of work, while there are practically very few "me
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by ristretto 15y ago
Naive question: the money that gets de-invested will be reinvested where? France? UK?
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by ristretto 15y ago
I think there's a chicken-and-egg issue here, as most websites are designed with left or top navigation. It's also dependent on the subject matter and expectations of the subjects. Alfred Yarbus did eye tracking studies in the 60s that show
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by ristretto 15y ago
my bad. I meant "content of significance to the general public"; i assume your family could tell who you are just from your picture, the issue here is whether you should use your identity outside the social network when you create such "con
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by ristretto 15y ago
I think it's still open to interpretation. The world theft is much more common than "Scrolls" and it's all about the possibility of confusion.
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by ristretto 15y ago
I think the requirement is that it is not confused with an existing product, but confusion is open to interpretation.
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by ristretto 15y ago
I think minecraft is past the bar of a "small indy game".
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by ristretto 15y ago
Isn't that exactly the reason why there is a mandatory period for objections to trademark applications? In this case, both are in the same business sector and the names sound indeed confus-able to me. Bethesda is probably right.
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by ristretto 15y ago
Why don't they change it to "romantic interest"?
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by ristretto 15y ago
It's bad for them, because it breaks the whole concept. The concept is that if you start with requiring real name, you prime people to give you the "real" things you like, your "real" preferences etc. It sets the tone, you are not longer sp
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by ristretto 15y ago
1) Would you use it equally deliberately if your name was something like "Mustafa Al Zawahiri" in 2002? 2) Do you have any documented cases where using your real name had any advantage over using "reidmain"? 3) Social networks are not reall
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by ristretto 15y ago
I assume there's a flash app in the company intranet which checks if you're still hired every hour.
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by ristretto 15y ago
but you have to join the one your friends are in
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by ristretto 15y ago
I try hard to stick to XFCE, but after every update, ubuntu replaces thunar with nautilus
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by ristretto 15y ago
i think even a modest attempt would work; besides it's usually the newcomers who troll in a community
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by ristretto 15y ago
An important reason not to use it is that if your ad server goes down, you want to know.
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by ristretto 15y ago
no because most of the times you still see ads
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by ristretto 15y ago
Civility is really important if you want to have any meaningful exchange of opinions. However it is idiotic to claim that the only way to afford it is via real identity. I imagine an adaptible text algorithm that removes profanities and ha
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by ristretto 15y ago
The argument for political dissidents in nonfree countries is valid but old (in many cases the regimes will catch the dissidents regardless). The value of pseudo-identity is not just anonymity, but the ability to have multiple identities. W
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by ristretto 15y ago
It should have been buried by the ops. Most people don't come here to read such things, so you waste their time. What's more, the audience is not exactly sympathetic to sentimental pieces so it's bound to be treated harshly.

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