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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Until your significant other gets injured and you try to show up at the hospital to make the decisions any married couple is allowed to make. Sure, it depends on the law in your local area. As non-married couples gain rights, it remove
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by ronaldx 13y ago
My housemate works as a marriage registrar. I just asked him what percentage of marriages in our local area are primarily for visa exchange purposes. He said "a majority". I think this article makes an assumption that it's no
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Is it justifiable to use the service of a possibly great startup, knowing that there's a real possibility that it might be sold soon and just be a gear in some other company's product? Asking this question plays into the hand
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is not a problem with the professors. It's not about their age either. It's a problem with Blackboard. Blackboard creates a lot of potential work for professors which often has unclear educational value (or is expected in add
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The concept is great and should be promoted: so many times I've just needed a basic example and been unable to find one. Man pages are often not fit for purpose and fail at basic pedagogy. Poor man pages (alongside poor UX generally) r
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The conclusive headline (use of the word will ) is the Guardian's editorial decision, not used by the scientists, if that's the main objection. The article has a more measured statement: "Extrapolating the best fit model int
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Why do you believe this analogy will not apply to Facebook? Social media is called 'viral' for a reason: because its spread is apparently analogous to infectious disease. This analogy certainly does seem to apply to other memes an
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Very little else has moved: it should therefore be simple enough to deduce which direction the rock came from? Actually I can't immediately identify any other difference. Very weird!
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Furthermore: By making transactions in Bitcoin, you lose legally-mandated formal protection such as chargebacks and FDIC insurance. Despite what Marc says in the article, I find this is a big minus for Bitcoin on a day-to-day transaction sc
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by ronaldx 13y ago
$100,000 (net) household income would get you comfortably into the World 1%: http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/why-give/how-rich-am-i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I note this, but don't find that it absolves you of personal responsibility.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
A fair point, thanks.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You have personal responsibility for your actions as a developer. If you are using your skills in a way which primarily benefits the super-rich and is a net negative to society, you should take this opportunity to reflect on that: yes.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Tau version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circle_radians_tau.gif
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is by LucasVB, who is prolific at animating math for Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:LucasVB/Gallery His other works are also worth checking: http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com/ (for exa
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If you don't want to compare to Walmart, compare to a mom-and-pop store who stock products that they know local customers will buy, sometimes down to an individual customer level. This is traditional stock management, pure and simple.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> he no longer does this because he had issues with people not cashing his checks. Slight correction - he had issues with people attacking his checking accounts: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html
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by ronaldx 13y ago
This is awkward, but I disagree. HN pages are very well structured and are probably an ideal case for an automatic scraper. If your automatic scraper doesn't work on HN, it is unlikely to work generally.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> At least two of those are crimes, so yes they are criminals. You have made some logical errors here. The fact that there is a hole in the wall is not ascribed to squatters and could equally be attributed to general disrepair. I accept
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When Did We Start Trusting Bad Code? Silent Circle Vulnerability Handling(blog.erratasec.com)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
IMHO Venture Capital is supposed to escape us from that type of ruin: that's where I would accept it to have some value.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You should care. If you genuinely forget the password for any data you encrypt, you are now (by precedent) committing a jailable offence. This may extend to holding random data. Since ideal encrypted data is indistinguishable from random: p
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Evidence, please? I understood the opposite: even if they live for a shorter time, smokers tend to have more costly chronic illnesses.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
What you are doing is great and I hope you'll find success with it.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> This may be a subtle way that older founders are discriminated against. I would prefer to say that this is a way that younger founders are exploited. And, it illustrates a bigger problem: If startup founders cannot afford to pay themse
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I'm sorry that you've been downvoted - because you are right. This is a tax on poor people that won't affect the majority of readers... it increases the minimum cost of producing meat. If we can't figure out high-product
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by ronaldx 13y ago
RTA yourself (and then I'd appreciate an apology). The article is proposing that the tax be applied to every use: "But why limit it to farms?".
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The primary use-case of antibiotics remains: curing bacterial illnesses. We should not seek to increase the price of this for the least well-off in society. This would potentially have a net negative effect as it allows bacterial infection
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Why is W3C involved in this? Not only does this create a lack of openness and transparency in the core of the web, but "big content" creators get to pass on the costs of DRM that nobody else benefits from, including to people who
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I think the purpose of the rating system motivates how people rate. Since the App Store appears to give importance to mean average data, I am given motivation in that direction: If I think the app is good, and other people should download i

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