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by rosser 8y ago
No, it's specifically what this thread is about. The thread-parent absolutely cast a wider net than warranted, but everyone in this discussion who has experienced this problem knows exactly which one we're talking about, and the
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by rosser 8y ago
> I agree it's pretty stupid, but it works. As capricious as markets are, that's a pretty loose definition of "works". All too often, equity markets are just a force multiplier for herd mentality, and end up being a
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by rosser 8y ago
This specific problem is one of those exceptions. This is a known issue, and has been around since at least v57. There are multiple Bugzilla issues on it. The cause is known. It isn't extensions. The fix is just invasive, and apparentl
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by rosser 8y ago
Exactly this. I run at 1920x1080 effective resolution on my 15" rMBP, and 1680x945 on my 13". I see the issue on both. When I switch to the "default" scaling (1440x900 and 1280x800, respectively), it stops. Only the 15&q
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The Empress of Facebook: My Befuddling Dinner with Sheryl Sandberg(wired.com)
5 points by rosser 8y ago|0 comments
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by rosser 8y ago
If that shareholder elects instead to sue, they will almost certainly lose, absent specific evidence of bad faith or of breaches of the duties of care or loyalty, for example. The "business judgement rule" [0] compels courts to de
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by rosser 8y ago
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is busy doing it."
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by rosser 8y ago
> ...which is legally required to put shareholders profits as a higher priority than everything else. Please retire this egregiously broken misconstrual of fiduciary duty. I promise you, this is not the law, and you sound a fool for
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by rosser 8y ago
The included adapter only works for listening to audio. If your earbuds offer a mic or inline controls, those don't.
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by rosser 8y ago
It does, but packages aren't obligated to provide sysvinit scripts for your non-systemd-using convenience. Over time, the number of packages that do will fall, because engineer convenience and cognitive bandwidth are incredibly high pr
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by rosser 8y ago
In Arizona, at least, I'm pretty sure you could use a simple, passive (and, relatively, very cheap) evaporation-condensation cycle to radically cut down on almost any contamination, but that's almost not even the point. What is
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by rosser 8y ago
> Sure, if it's easy and cheap to test and sterilize irrigation water, then let's do so. The figures I've repeatedly seen say that ~$10-15mm worth of testing would have saved > $100mm worth of medical and related expe
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by rosser 8y ago
Skimming those links, I think the position is that people are already being judged on their identities before they're judged on the merit of their contributions, not that they should be. The extent and congruence of the findings rega
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by rosser 8y ago
You don't see any growth in the local economy that would result from HQ2-A (or is this one -B?) as an "economic [or social] policy" worth supporting, for its own sake, or that it's not somehow "advantageous to the p
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by rosser 8y ago
You seem to be asserting the unsubstantiated, and until now implicit premise that "subsidies" are necessarily somehow "charitable." I don't find that to be at all supported, whether in the literature, in the behavio
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by rosser 8y ago
> Thus, it is better to call these deals incentives rather than subsidies. Note the added emphases: "A subsidy or government incentive is a form of financial aid or support extended to an economic sector (or institution, busines
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by rosser 8y ago
Is it laziness or efficiency? It's, in my read, a heuristic (he even uses that word) for deciding whether it's worth spending time reading the docs before looking at the actual code, to see if it does what he wants. It's ab
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by rosser 8y ago
The Concorde is a bit inapt of a comparison; it had only one class of seating, and was targeted towards business-class travelers. A comparable seat on a modern, slower jumbo would also be in the $2-5k neighborhood, versus sub-$1k for econom
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by rosser 8y ago
Are you using a "scaled" resolution? If so, there's a bug in redrawing that pegs a core, and kills battery life. It can be mitigated by setting gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque = true in about:config, but the fix is inv
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by rosser 8y ago
Interesting that we both posted the same quote within seconds of one another.
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by rosser 8y ago
"You understand what I'm saying? We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both
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by rosser 8y ago
I'm not talking about scanning your passport when you hand it to the customs agent. I'm talking about scanning the photo you gave them to make your passport with . Why, for example, do you think they've started rejecting p
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by rosser 8y ago
> e.g. can anyone create a photo database and publish it like wikipedia? I believe there's a site somewhere on the internet that was originally premised on being "a book of faces"...
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by rosser 8y ago
How do you imagine they aren't scanning your passport and driver's license photos, which you also need to fly/drive, and are also "100% verified" — because they are people's IDs — already anyway ? EDIT: Re
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by rosser 8y ago
Leaving the fallacy entirely aside, this is hardly "the first step". How many people are paying for Global Entry, for example?
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by rosser 8y ago
> I am failing at life, apparently. Insofar as you seem to be "keeping score" against anyone but yourself, maybe a little. Otherwise, not really.
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What Ecstasy Does to Octopuses(theatlantic.com)
3 points by rosser 8y ago|0 comments
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by rosser 8y ago
That depends. If you're a sufficiently valuable target, it's actively worse, because it creates a false sense of security.
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An Oral History of Apple's Infinite Loop(wired.com)
92 points by rosser 8y ago|21 comments
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by rosser 8y ago
> What matters is whose idea it was to slaughter Jews and other civilians and also who forced who to do what. Committing genocide is always just an idea, until you leverage the state to make it happen. That takes complicity, not coerci

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