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by rudiger 15y ago
Technology reporting at the Economist can be hit-or-miss, but this was a surprisingly informative read.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Regarding the "decline" of Reddit: any site that gets 2 billion monthly page views is going to be wholly different from its incipient form of several years ago. Surely the users of Reddit who pine for its past have many alternatives today
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by rudiger 15y ago
There's evidence that "brain activity" can slow the progression of neurological disorders, particularly those that selectively affect motor neurones. I'd argue that Hawking's incredible utilization of his brain, staying active as a theoreti
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by rudiger 15y ago
In Java, LinkedHashMap[1] is well-suited to building LRU caches. [1] http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/LinkedHas...
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by rudiger 15y ago
Which of Sartre's book is he referring to?
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by rudiger 15y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. When buying antique violins, you generally ignore the labels on violins, as they're meaningless for determining authenticity. So being "counterfeit," as in not being what's written on the label, doesn'
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by rudiger 15y ago
What's so privileged about getting a MacBook 7 years ago? Why does it matter that a 9-year-old kid's parents handled the "funding arrangements" (ie. bought their son a laptop)? And clearly he could justify one: video editing and iPhone de
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by rudiger 15y ago
I'm not so sure it's an issue of respect for developers. It was a different time over 20 years ago...
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by rudiger 15y ago
I'm sure Google can come up with interesting ways to advertise through Majel. They'll probably use the unique voice data to profile users and target ads even more effectively.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Michael Bloomberg has advocated passing a law letting immigrants get a green card as long as they buy a house and live in it for five or ten years. That would probably work a lot better than paying a fee to the federal government, would fix
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by rudiger 15y ago
Guess I'm moving to Austin!
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by rudiger 15y ago
How's the performance of Redis when it's running in a Linux VM?
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by rudiger 15y ago
The fart app guy (his app was the #2 fart app in the app store) is retired with a $4-7 million bank account.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Great story, and I appreciate the lessons learned at the end. However... can you put the dates in? When you started working on your original product idea, when you bought the domain name, etc.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Who's the mystery investor from Sweden?
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by rudiger 15y ago
That was a chilling read.
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by rudiger 15y ago
The reason is they are more notable! As in, More worthy of attention or notice; remarkable. As a group, we certainly pass more remarks about pornography starlets than theoretical physicists.
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by rudiger 15y ago
What if you don't wish to introduce carbohydrates into your diet (à la Paleolithic diet)?
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by rudiger 15y ago
It's hard to find reliable sources, but there's evidence that the difference between grass-fed and corn-fed beef goes beyond just having lower or higher fat content to things like fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid. I don't know how m
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by rudiger 15y ago
Grass-fed beef is leaner than fattier corn-fed beef.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I didn't say anything was wrong with this, or that anyone was hurt. I simply answered the parent's question. It's a stretch, but you could argue that prices are slightly higher because Amazon has to pay the affiliates.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I didn't say it was a bad thing. I simply answered the parent's question.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I didn't say I considered it unfair. I'm just offering an answer to the question.
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by rudiger 15y ago
He gets paid if you buy anything after clicking the affiliate link, not just the books he linked to. A lot of people just happened to be buying stuff on Amazon over the weekend with his affiliate cookie set. Edit: I'm not saying I agree
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by rudiger 15y ago
This is already built into Bitcoin. Bitcoin's security can be upgraded if this were considered an imminent threat.
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by rudiger 15y ago
Reddit is this way: http://reddit.com
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by rudiger 15y ago
I think Netflix needs exclusive content to survive.
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by rudiger 15y ago
I like movie previews. Am I the only one?
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by rudiger 15y ago
Without criticizing Pulse, why are you all so congratulatory of this move? What does Pulse do?
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After Mitt Romney Deal, Company Showed Profits and Then Layoffs(nytimes.com)
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