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by showerst 15y ago
You can't, because that work can't be done here economically, we've moved further up the value chain. On the flip side, let's say you want to manufacture a new custom processor for your ipad competitor, or turbine for your new 787 competito
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by showerst 15y ago
Those words have slightly different meanings in England vs the US I think. In the US upper vs middle vs working class is related to income and lifestyle. If you're a coal miner who somehow makes 80k/year (i just made that up, who knows if i
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by showerst 15y ago
That's an interesting point, and one that further suggests that we're better off shifting to more services and less manufacturing for the low-end stuff. Eventually automation might replace the bottom level of nurses and plumbers, (more so n
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by showerst 15y ago
As long as you have enough low skilled people to fill the jobs (ideally, teenagers and depending on your politics, immigrants), this is absolutely true. The problem is when you fall into a situation like the one we have now, where you have
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by showerst 15y ago
It's not that they necessarily want factories, it's that they're looking for stable career for life jobs for people with _low skills_, which is the difficult part. There are tons of openings in the US for plumbers, and (i believe, not sure
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by showerst 15y ago
_You_ might not need a CMS, but I guarantee that the vast majority of content sites that pull in 10MM visitors+/day have a cms. You make a good point that if you're just a simple blogger firing off posts in a defined layout, you may as well
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by showerst 15y ago
The thing is this - configuring a server is one set of problems, building a decent CMS database/backend is another set of problems, and building a decent browser-based UX for content authoring is a third set. Very few people have all three
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by showerst 15y ago
DSC's was so successful when it came out it crashed their servers until the next morning. I signed up shortly afterward and am on the wait-list until May. Talk about successful marketing!
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by showerst 15y ago
Honest question, not trying to start a political argument - Isn't the research that leads to these patents fully funded by the US government? If so, shouldn't they really be freely licensed to anyone who wants to use them? I know this is ho
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by showerst 15y ago
I usually skim a number of reviews on Yelp/Amazon, so that I can get a feel of the reviews for people who have similar taste to me. If someone gives a decent restaurant in DC or NY 1 star based on the price and then suggests I go to the App
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by showerst 15y ago
Actually, according GINI coefficient (going by the World Bank numbers), China has about the same overall wealth inequality as the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ... and is actually on par with such relativ
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by showerst 15y ago
Then he should Colo with a hosting provider with a contract provision that specifically holds them liable for any losses related to problems caused by the host, and enumerates those possible losses beforehand.
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by showerst 15y ago
I believe he's referring to the part about employees (at least the ones that have access to the customer dashboards) being able to run a script to scan for bitcoins.
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by showerst 15y ago
That article was awesome, thanks. It's worth adding that all charges against Drake were eventually dropped.
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by showerst 15y ago
In some cities (including Washington DC) the public transit systems offer incentives for staggering your commute times. (Peak/Peak of the Peak/Off-peak fares). I imagine something similar would crop up with self-driving cars to alleviate th
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by showerst 15y ago
This looks great, but it really annoys me when Javascript/CSS plugins don't explicitly state their browser support. 'Gracefully degrades in older browsers' means different things to different people, and without a quick chart I'm much less
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by showerst 15y ago
CLRS (the Cormen tome) is actually on its third edition now, with some updates/additional content.
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by showerst 15y ago
That's what I learned it as years ago, in hindsight it is an odd phrase. Wiki calls them 'Conditional or questionable fallacies', which is a bit less punchy. Do you have a better name?
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by showerst 15y ago
Sadly it's not that simple. Even if that were the only rule, illegal where? The rules aren't even uniform among the 50 US states, not to speak of city/county level, or other countries. I think that the (unique?) problem with child issues is
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by showerst 15y ago
Remember, slippery slope is a fallacy. I think the admins are sending the right message - This subject is blanket banned because it's too hard to sort out the shades of gray, and it brings a unique risk to the community that other things (d
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by showerst 15y ago
The problem is that the 'community' is now so large that you have a subset that considers things appropriate that the wider group doesn't. So either the small group gets to do things that may damage the larger site (and be illegal), or the
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by showerst 15y ago
There are actually pretty strict rules for the high-altitude balloon people in terms of payload weight/volume, and being visible to aircraft, both visually and on radar. http://www.eoss.org/pubs/far_annotated.htm Basically they have to be
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by showerst 15y ago
Site is bouncing up & down for me, here's the scrib'd document he links to: http://www.scribd.com/doc/80949907/TOC-ML4Hackers Exciting!
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by showerst 15y ago
Just a quick note if you're interested, this book is similar and is an absolutely fantastic 'applied beginner' ML book "Programming Collective Intelligence" http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Collective-Intelligence-Bu...
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by showerst 15y ago
Please keep your comments civil/constructive. Calling someone a douche because you disagree with their materialism does not add to the discussion, and is frowned on here.
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by showerst 15y ago
I've always thought that for many people, the social respectability factor goes hand in hand with the money. One thing I've noticed is that the children of people who were successful in some risky endeavor (entrepreneurship) tend to be much
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by showerst 15y ago
You're not the market for this car. Right now that market is upper-class commuters, who mostly go < 50 miles round trip and would likely use it as a second (or third) car. I could see a decent market for these things from people who liv
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by showerst 15y ago
The first case is why we have data retention laws. On the second, I _think_ that in most jursidictions in the US the moment you're arrested you have an impetus not to destroy evidence that probably extends to not allowing evidence to be des
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by showerst 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, what's the case-law like if she had encoded these documents and stored them on paper? I certainly don't want to see mandatory decryption, but at the same time it doesn't make sense to let an accused completely skip ou
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by showerst 15y ago
I also run smack-dab into a 'create a popvox account' box. Nothing on bugmenot, and definitely not something i'd bother to create an account for.

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