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by shiven 12y ago
Negative association arising from re-using the principal actor already associated (in the OP's mind) with a failed product? Perhaps, something akin to actors getting typecast into certain types of roles throughout their careers (grumpy
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by shiven 12y ago
Compared to numbers from earlier studies (0.6), the new number (7) looks suspiciously like a floating point error arising from software/hardware issues!
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by shiven 12y ago
One man's hubris is another's refusal to keep being bullied by other humans . It's sad that throughout history, most humans are just willing to let fellow humans lie down and die at the hands of a powerful few .
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by shiven 12y ago
Your last part sounds like one of Bruce Schneier's Movie Plot Terrorist Threats. Mainly in the sense that weaponized biologics (threat-du-jour: Ebola; Anthrax) could already be dispersed by consumer crap coming from anywhere in the wor
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by shiven 12y ago
Pray, share it if you have anything that can disprove the wild speculation. Hysterical speculation is to be expected when dealing with the doings of an arm of the government that is willfully shrouded in secrecy. The leaks so far have onl
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by shiven 12y ago
Perhaps proof to the contrary would be more useful than the veracity or logic of an argument? Unfortunately, with the NSA, independently verifiable proof of anything, especially doing the right thing, is impossible to attain.
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by shiven 12y ago
Not the "only" way to say though. Email, Twitter, FB likes, recommending to others, are a few amongst many other ways to say.
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by shiven 12y ago
Deregulated Wall Street Banks --> Products like CDOs --> Real Estate bubble --> average Joe's Retirement Funds investing in said bubble (via Wall Street Banks) --> Bubble burst (as always) --> Retirement Funds lose huge
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by shiven 12y ago
Only, the Swedes would have had a quick/sham trial and extradited him promptly to the US regardless of the outcome of the rape case. Not everything is as black and white as you appear to make it.
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by shiven 12y ago
Incredibly sad. Loved his performances. One awesome thespian in every way. Alas, my secret wish, for a performance I wish he had given, but never did, will forever be only a wish now: Khalil Gibran's The Prophet, Read by Robin Williams
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by shiven 12y ago
If it were me I'd rather be king of the hill in my home country over putting my life on hold like that. King of the hillock you mean? Seriously, why do so many people go through the utter shit that is the US system, rather than go&
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by shiven 12y ago
This one? http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/sao-luis-reggae
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by shiven 12y ago
I know! I was being hyperbolic, but you get the idea :-) Memory leaks are almost the same thing, perhaps worse. You can always change a stick of RAM, but chasing down memory leaks, that's more than a 5 min job!
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by shiven 12y ago
No, it is entertainment. It's not at all theft in any way, shape or form. You may not enjoy it, and that's fine. But other people do enjoy it. Can be said for many other things too. Including things that are outright illegal, he
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by shiven 12y ago
Might be the coffee itself. Some coffees are more acidic than others. Two things helped me greatly: (1). Try some milk/cream in your coffee, it helps cut the sourness. (2). If you get the chance, try the Honey Badger from Intelligentsi
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by shiven 12y ago
As kogir mentioned elsewhere in the thread, ImageMagick is not designed to be used as a long running process, it will destroy RAM and likely lead to stability issues. I think with OSX they used the right tool for the right job, because, as
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by shiven 12y ago
However if you want to write a deployment script, it also lets you, rather than fighting it kicking and screaming :) A thousand times this! I, personally, find YAML easier to grok than whatever Puppet was using (see, post-puppet PTSD sele
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by shiven 12y ago
Just wanted to say I love ansible!!! After the nightmare that was Puppet/Chef, ansible has been just what the doc ordered. I keep all my playbooks under version control (git) and deploy via ansible-playbook. KISS philosophy; it has w
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by shiven 12y ago
there's nothing worse than dying Donald Rumsfeld, the CIA and victims of "extraordinary rendition" would like to disagree. (hint: waterboarding) so at that point any experimental drug should be fair game with the patients
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by shiven 12y ago
So "Ninja" developer will now mean this? Next up, the 'Rockstar' framework to completely confound the job ad writers. Now all those highly sought after devs will be Java- ites !
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by shiven 12y ago
Don't conflate that sector of research with "mere academic interest", scientists on the public side are frequently even more motivated to find practical therapies. If motivation alone were enough for scientists, most dise
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by shiven 12y ago
To all those pulling out pitchforks and torches, how do they think these drugs get discovered and more importantly, proved safe and efficacious for a given human disease? Do they have any idea how much it actually costs? Sure, the Shylocks
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by shiven 12y ago
Troubadr, I have not downvoted you, but this being HN, I can tell you from experience that the tone of writing here is as important as your logic/idea. Your comments in this thread, although not fundamentally wrong or incongruous, appe
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by shiven 12y ago
What if I have a family, need my job, and don't have the luxury of being a Gandhi or an MLK? For the record, both Gandhi and MLK had families. They were NOT some retro-day techno-nomad free-agent dude-bro single males, with no resp
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by shiven 12y ago
Perhaps you'd prefer the tyranny of the minority ? Majority rule is a feature (or bug) of democracy. If you disagree with the prevailing views of the, in your words, tyrannical , majority, then you need to be more vocal, not less, in
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by shiven 12y ago
Amazon/Bezos are ruthless - they could not care at all what is fair I fail to see how the authors getting 35%, unhindered by the publisher's whims, can be unfair .
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by shiven 12y ago
Only in the US of A. Copyright, like the patent system and the roads and bridges, is broken.
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by shiven 12y ago
You forgot the </sarcasm> tag.
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by shiven 12y ago
Throughout this thread, your defense of Ed Catmull's actions has been nothing short of heroic. But, to what end? Why would he deserve such a defense and not some random other sociopath in a position of power? Or Rajat Gupta? Or Raj Raj
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by shiven 12y ago
Also, what about all the good things Hitler did? None of the good deeds matter anymore once the level of bad deeds exceeds a moral threshold. Just as there is redemption for exceeding your past bad deeds with present and future good

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