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by seats 14y ago
>> Even if they started with an unsalted password system, users can be migrated to the newer more secure system on next login. In thinking about this, I wonder if in that scenario you'd even have to wait until next login. You could
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by seats 14y ago
I liked this part. What a great class, wish I could attend. "PayPal, at Luke Nosek’s urging, became the first company in the history of the world that had cryogenics as part of the employee benefits package. There was a Tupperware-style par
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by seats 14y ago
Really interesting article and absolutely a fair point, but from the article itself, pass phrases are still better. Just not a cure all. The title ("... only marginally better ...") does not match the body ("... vast improvement ...") >
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by seats 14y ago
Amazing to me that there was enthusiastic applause in that room. wtf. Say what you will about TED and TEDx being elitist and uppity, but I think it's fair to assume that was an educated audience. How was that not perceived as complete absur
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by seats 14y ago
What if we started saying 'passphrase' instead of 'password' and made the minimum be 4 words and 18+ characters. It wouldn't be overwhelming to new users if they had examples of what a memorable passphrase is. You'd likely need to disallow
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by seats 14y ago
If an application is not memory intensive, why would you care if there is 'waste'? Personally I wish everyone would just move to 64 bit all the time.
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by seats 14y ago
See this comment below. Also you could make the case that you are locking in the 15% LT cap gains rate, which could and likely will increase at some unknown point in the future. >> The numbers on and analysis of his tax liability in
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by seats 15y ago
I think of somewhere like DEKA as a small scale modern bell labs.
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by seats 15y ago
You could design a two balloon system with a secondary balloon that is nearly initially empty that will take over lift after the first bursts.
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by seats 15y ago
At the Alamo Drafthouse in San Antonio, they play a slightly modified version of this before every movie I've seen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo9v_GIuDBk Definitely a good place to watch a movie, and I think Ebert is spot on.
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by seats 15y ago
I wonder how possible it would be both technically and legally to use the audio from the various angles as inputs into an audio processing step where you distill just the true music audio and clean it up. Ideally you'd have one 'cleaned' ve
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by seats 15y ago
15 year old discussion, unfortunately. Makes it pretty likely this didn't stand up to scrutiny.
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by seats 15y ago
This is awesome, and I totally agree- "It’s like everyone fantasizes about… whatever… but once their fantasies start to become reality, they piss their pants and self-sabotage."
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by seats 15y ago
I once worked somewhere where we had a need to store and transmit lots of camera created jpegs in as efficient a manner as possible. When working on this problem, I noticed that all digital cameras create jpeg with 422 sampling. This might
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by seats 15y ago
>> The realm of human knowledge is simply too vast for anyone to have a broad command of, so we specialize. This statement could actually be used just as easily against voting for representatives as we do today. The real question is
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by seats 15y ago
>> there are many unimaginable things that can happen in 5,000 years and I can think of a few You must use a different definition of 'unimaginable' than I'm familiar with. Sorry, just thought that was funny phrasing. First thing I t
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by seats 15y ago
I thought Buffett was very clear - "But for those making more than $1 million — there were 236,883 such households in 2009 — I would raise rates immediately on taxable income in excess of $1 million, including, of course, dividends and capi
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by seats 15y ago
Only if you call it a donation instead of an investment.
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by seats 15y ago
Even better, sometimes google instant answers my question before I even see search results.
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by seats 15y ago
The pyramid in this case is that the people getting acquisition exits are becoming angels. Not really that different from your example of Sun/Oracle/Yahoo profitability help drive the tech bubble.
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by seats 15y ago
Right, but that's why I'd say it is a modern take on it. It actually makes the program more like an opportunistic specialized VC/investment bank combo.
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by seats 15y ago
>> If you want to create jobs, how about companies under 10 years pay zero taxes. Zero costs to incorporate, and all licenses are free. No costs to access secondary equity markets, and access to an entrepreneurship courses. I don't
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by seats 15y ago
Seems like a modern equivalent of the FDR work programs. What did it take for him to pull it off? EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration Looks like the executive branch should have enough power to do this on its
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Twitter takes 800 million in VC(online.wsj.com)
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by seats 15y ago
Maybe a slow night on HN, but still you were on top of all the answers, so it was worth it to me to get your take. Thanks for the answer. When talking about edge cases I could come up with ones that don't involve the cloud. And in those cas
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by seats 15y ago
djcapelis, Seems empirically like you are the most knowledgeable on the thread on this topic. Maybe you can help me understand the current state of this research a little better. I understand that there are reference implementations that sh
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by seats 15y ago
Reminded me of this PZ Myers post that really rips into Kurzweil. There are problems with too simplistically thinking of DNA as a program. http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/08/ray_kurzweil_does...
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by seats 15y ago
Best answer I'd say. I wonder how many people think they are running a 'startup' when it is actually just a 'company'?
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by seats 15y ago
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/franchise
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by seats 15y ago
My example is my own company, slicehost. I don't believe that we needed to find and/or prove the business model. It was a simple hosting model, we just thought we could do it more efficiently. Granted along the way new models arose from the

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