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by shardling 13y ago
Also, it seems borderline crazy to think you can judge how well the colors will work from a screenshot. I've never thought a screenshot of a mobile device's screen felt even remotely like holding the thing in my hand.
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by shardling 13y ago
That actually is pretty weird from a trademark point of view. (Things called maverick which are not operating systems are irrelevant for that!)
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by shardling 13y ago
Perhaps he thinks that revealing technical details would actually hurt national security? (And I could easily see that.) His goal wasn't to tear down the NSA, but to reveal what they've been up to domestically.
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by shardling 13y ago
Yet there are some universal EU privacy rules.
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by shardling 13y ago
Ad hominem attacks are when you imply that someone's argument is invalid because of their background. That's what makes it a fallacy -- the validity of someone's argument is completely unrelated to their personal qualities
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by shardling 13y ago
Please look at the definition of ad hominem before tossing the term around. You also seem to have read a personal opinion into my post that simply isn't there!
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by shardling 13y ago
I wouldn't bother mentioning it if I didn't see people claiming otherwise.[1] :) 1. Not necessarily in this thread, but in general. (I live in KY.)
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by shardling 13y ago
I think that, if someone asks for a level-headed analysis of grad school, it is totally worth pointing out that an anecdotal response is from someone that has highly charged and divisive opinions about many things, especially institutional
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by shardling 13y ago
To be fair to Paul, this is his first term -- he's been in the Senate for a bit longer than 2 years now. So he certainly wasn't involved in decisions made "long ago". That said, I generally disagree with many of his sta
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by shardling 13y ago
Probably worth pointing out that this particular poster has an extremely negative view of many of their life experiences! (e.g., look for their comments about working for Google.)
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by shardling 13y ago
I don't really understand your question. It seems like you're asking why several groups, under attack in the same way, might get together to defend themselves, but I'd have thought that self-evident so -- what are you sayi
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by shardling 13y ago
I believe they indicate for sure that the atmospheric pressure on Mars used to be greater. Below a certain pressure, liquid water simply can't exist, and the existing atmosphere is below that point.
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by shardling 13y ago
Also, is it such a crazy idea that Facebook, Google, etc. would get together and come up with their own talking points? That was my first reaction on seeing the similar statements -- that they're acting with a common purpose and age
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by shardling 13y ago
You've get some editing errors that make your comment hard to parse.
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by shardling 13y ago
Read more carefully -- they're talking about the administration, not the person. There's no reason that this diminishes their credibility on, say, health care reform. It's a totally different set of people, and a fundamentally different ag
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by shardling 13y ago
And it would have somehow been worse if they'd paid you? Not everyone has the luxury to work an unpaid internship, so if they're necessary (or even just helpful) to get into a field that's actually a pretty huge problem.
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by shardling 13y ago
They're also generally quite illegal for exactly that reason. There's a list of requirements you need to meet to not pay an intern, and it's actually pretty stringent. The problem is most interns feel they're not in a position to actually
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by shardling 13y ago
It works fine in FF 24 on a mac.
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by shardling 13y ago
Notably, the designers of KoL have also abided by that -- your actions per day are limited, but there's no way to directly turn real world money into more turns. (There are indirect ways, but you can almost always get them cheaply with in-
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by shardling 13y ago
The Kingdom of Loathing's model seems to do pretty well. (And they've been at it for 10 years now, well before "free to play" was a thing.) You can pay for in-game items, but you can also buy them with in-game currency[1]. So you could le
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by shardling 13y ago
OTOH, I genuinely stopped playing because of Zynga. Not out of some reflexive hatred, but because they started using push notifications to advertise upgrades/other games.
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by shardling 13y ago
>This is true. However, are you actually arguing in fact? The whole point of arguing in fact is that you can prove someone wrong! The poster makes specific claims and you rebut them -- if I cared enough, I could do some investigation a
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by shardling 13y ago
Perhaps you're unaware that Zynga explicitly treats games like skinner boxes? Their whole deal was using metrics to manipulate the feedback loop to maximize profit. Even the most mainstream traditional games were designed to be fun -- they
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by shardling 13y ago
I think it would be interesting for Facebook to allow the user to set/select additional interaction verb-names. So you could have "dislike" button if the poster wanted it there. My local newspaper often has stories that say "small child
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by shardling 13y ago
Since they announced they'd been using Blink literally the same day Blink was announced, you should start listening to better sources. :P
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by shardling 13y ago
>It paints the screen bright red and then hangs. Well, it's a start, I guess. :) (The project is literally only half an hour old.)
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by shardling 13y ago
>I think you've misunderstood how scale works. At scale, problems do not shrink, they grow. I think they meant the scale of Google (total) compared to the scale of just messaging. i.e: If you could spend a year's worth of working cuttin
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by shardling 13y ago
Well, the New Yorker has been printing exactly your stance on this, so at least some elements of the media care. :)
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by shardling 13y ago
> I DO think it's wrong to target bona fide journalists for criminal prosecution based on their reporting. I'm not sure there's any indication that they were really going to prosecute a journalist, though, was there? I know the way the
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by shardling 13y ago
It's actually pretty damn common in the US these days, too.

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