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by smcnally 10y ago
"space takes time" is pretty good. Understood they could miss the date, but that's what Elon said they're targeting. If the first re-use is October 2017, I'll still be impressed as I'll bet the timeframes compr
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Elon says first reflight's targeted for Sept/Oct. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/740296489532948480
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AOL worked actively to stop third-party AIM clients in the same ways as mentioned above from icq through WhatsApp -- changing protocols and central auth mechanisms. http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/06&#x
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To your point, Kepler's recent announcement suggests the probability of tens of billions of Earth-like planets "just" in the Milky Way. http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/kepler/briefingmaterials1
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HT's hired Bruce Upbin (@bupbin) as head of Comms. Bruce was Managing Editor of Tech at Forbes for years and is a good, smart guy. Also means we'll be hearing a lot from HT beyond this MIT Tech Review coverage. They've got US
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Milwaukee PD fire GPS units onto fleeing vehicles to track them(jsonline.com)
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> I don't think Tesla will be suffering with more people looking at and buying electric cars. Agreed - Especially if Tesla's selling batteries, operating systems, and/or infrastructure services to other EV manufacturers. W
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> If you want news, you have to not only pay for it but, pay for independent 3rd parties to vet it so that over time you have media that you can trust. General skepticism, independent vetting, and referencing multiple sources are good id
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They've done Buzz! (very Digg/reddit/HNews-like) and a handful of other social net products since their founding. Executing that well -- like with most things -- takes focus and willingness to get behind something particular
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Interesting, as "content" on its own has been / can still be a somewhat dirty word in this context. Some folks who write stories, take photos, or shoot video don't appreciate their works referred to as content. Some stil
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Mute sounds great. It also aligns interests: if you want to be heard, you won't want to act like too big a jerk. Be interesting to see how the mutes are manifested: is it quiet -- you know you've muted me but I don't -- or m
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understood. though, there are different rules of engagement for potential friends and a bunch of mostly random people with whom you're playing a game. Still, agreed, there may be place for offense. And offense can enter even without an
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Interesting: In World Series of Poker, "Thanks!" is one of the permitted auto-texts. I find it annoying when people say "Thanks!" immediately after winning a hand / before anyone compliments them on their play or wi
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Interesting posts from Avast explaining how they supply data to their marketing analytics product from their AntiVirus products: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=171725.0 https://blog.avast.com/2015&#
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> I can't say I think that people should be recommending psychedelics because the experience is so extreme and so personal, it can be life altering. Any thoughts on microdosing as it related to your vitamin and meditation suggesti
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Who has trusty kits? And would please explain more about 2C-I?
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Got it. Your point was about randos, general editorial quality and caliber, and being taken seriously. Specific decisions were made a few years ago about adding a distributed editorial workforce -- a Contributor network -- to the full-time
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(wow are there a ton of distracting ads on that article ...) Is this an example of conflict of interest? Or just of less-than-substantial "personal finance" content? The Contributor's bio has her bona fides and point of view.
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100% understood mine is not a popular position. The consensus from journalists and readers re advertorial is generally the same as yours. "Nobody wants them or has ever wanted them" is not a true statement: people buy and sell adv
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> I'm glad Forbes does have disclosures although I'm not sure how useful they are to casual readers to discern biases of one sort or another. I agree with you that transparency is paramount. The FTC agrees with you and is regul
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There are many more writers on Forbes now than 5 years ago. You might not like them all. They may not all be of the same, high caliber. None of them are "randos" as the parent comment noted; they all come in with a body of work an
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vermocharen -- certainly works in some contexts. A coffee roaster, e.g. no small feat to get even marginally-euphoneous words from an open, available code base. Next up came tintilu picolera fangon
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There is only Zuul?
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XEDIT was still the primary editor for OV/VM at IBM during the early/mid 90s. Our PCs essentially booted into 3270 emulators -- via Windows or OS/2 -- and from there to OV/VM for most inter-office communication.
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Any place we can see some of your research? And any chance non-PhDs will be able to understand any of it?
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This is interesting to hear from science's PoV: > "First, emotions organize — rather than disrupt — rational thinking. Traditionally, in the history of Western thought, the prevailing view has been that emotions are enemies of
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Slashdot's metamoderation achieves this well. http://slashdot.org/faq/metamod.shtml It's not fully transparent -- not to the moderators and meta-moderators, at any rate -- but it's an effective check and
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I disagree with the question's premise. Most of the "terrible" referenced is likely in code outside WP's core. There's cruft in in core; rectifying that's an ongoing process. With CMS tech, I've seen even
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Many of the people involved are doing more than rich text editing. They're curating and packaging stories. They're promoting these packages within and outside of their site. They're enriching stories with images and meta da
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And, in 1849, he predicted modern cosmology? "In the last year of his life he wrote a prose poem, Eureka ... Eureka describes the origins of the universe in a single particle, from which “radiated” the atoms of which all matter is made

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