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by sorbus 15y ago
Try emailing pg - that's the main way most things not supported by the web interface are dealt with (deleting accounts, password recovery, and so forth). I'm not sure if he's able to change account names, but it's possible, and it wouldn't
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3 Labs graduations, 1 retirement(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
I completely forgot to consider that, so thanks for pointing it out. Personally, I would feel much less safe 10 feet away from someone with a gun than 10 feet away from someone with a knife, so I suppose that that and popular culture were b
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by sorbus 15y ago
It takes far less effort to kill someone with a gun than with many other weapons. They also don't need to be close to the victim: being shot from 10 feet away is just as bad as being shot from 2 feet away, while being 10 feet away makes all
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by sorbus 15y ago
Any method to do it without surgery would be even more invasive than surgery. Off the top of my head, the only thing I can think of[1] is inserting a long flexible tube down the urethra, hoping that it ends up in the right place (it's not v
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by sorbus 15y ago
Sadly, they get around all the regulation by not making specific medical claims. If they did, then regulation would come down on them like a ton of bricks (as it did to producers of Cherries at one point). It's the difference between saying
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by sorbus 15y ago
On the other hand, the only way to get programming experience is to program. Expect to write code that you'll be ashamed of later, but write code! Just don't expect to amaze people with whatever you create.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> The only thing that worries me about this product is build quality and the user experience coming from an interface that should scale from small to big. Asus tends to have really good build quality. Anecdotally, the two Asus netbooks
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Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter(foxnews.com)
2 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
Why? If computer-driven cars are much less likely to crash than human-driven cars, it would be entirely appropriate for there to be a social stigma against humans driving cars (because it would show disregard for the lives and safety of oth
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by sorbus 15y ago
There's another risk, actually: government legislation/intervention.
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by sorbus 15y ago
The purpose of diversification is in case your insight is wrong. In case bitcoin crashes faster than he's able to pull his money out, or in case demand slackens and prevents him from pulling his money out (being able to transform money from
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by sorbus 15y ago
If so, combine it with either a short take-back period for votes or separation between the up and down arrows. Using a laptop, I've occasionally accidentally upvoted when I intended to downvote, and I understand that it is much more common
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by sorbus 15y ago
That's what would happen if they did the normal thing. If there is any evidence that they did, the article does not present it. Of course, there's also no evidence that they did something different - but the fact that of the three versions
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by sorbus 15y ago
Potential problems: 1) people would set up two accounts, one to look at points and one to vote (and then log into both of them on separate browsers). It would be possible to modify the site to detect this, but that would be extra work for p
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An Open Letter To Texas Instruments(blog.makezine.com)
3 points by sorbus 15y ago|0 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
> 93.4 % of pages in certain categories (primarily dealing w/ philosophy) Per the article, this was from an entire database dump of wikipedia. > Beyond that, are "sense" or "Perception" the name of a category of pages and the percen
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by sorbus 15y ago
> But, more ominously, they can also have it changed for them by a website: "It is likely, if not inevitable, that infringement sites would use the same strategy, allowing a single site to instantly, silently, and permanently change a
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by sorbus 15y ago
In exactly the same way that a brick and mortar store which happens to sell software can be called an app store, yes.
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by sorbus 15y ago
While I'm unsure of the details, I recall that Microsoft claims that Linux infringes upon many of their patents (don't remember the exact number). Therefor it is not unlikely that they would license out those patents to other companies who
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by sorbus 15y ago
A checkbox during registration wouldn't do anything for current users, though, so it would have to be in the settings page as well. Which wouldn't help with getting lots of people to opt-in, as you point out.
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by sorbus 15y ago
As of 2009, it was 0.743%. In 1999, it was around 0.7%, and in 1989 it was 0.426%. So expecting it to hit 1% sometime this decade might be a stretch, unless the trends accelerate - it seems that the rate of increase is leveling off a bit, a
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Introducing the people widget(gmailblog.blogspot.com)
40 points by sorbus 15y ago|9 comments
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by sorbus 15y ago
I doubt that there is any correlation between search engine and decision quality; the more logical (at least to me) conclusion from that sentence is that he is actively avoiding understanding competing products.
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by sorbus 15y ago
I didn't even think of that - I was considering each crime as being a distinct entity (eg, robbing a group of people counted as only a single crime). By counting victims, which probably makes more sense, financial crimes would more than mak
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by sorbus 15y ago
In space, there's no interference from the atmosphere - no clouds, nothing blocking portions of the spectrum. You have constant sunlight whenever you're facing the sun. The difference between getting 12 hours of light unless it's cloudy and
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by sorbus 15y ago
Well, yes. The article is talking about the drop in violent crime, not total crime. On the other hand, I doubt that financial crimes made up for the 5.5% drop in violent crime. There are probably no conclusive figures for non-prosecuted w
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by sorbus 15y ago
It's possible to play FPSes with touchpads, though probably not good for your hands and definitely not as easy as using a mouse. Using Caps Lock to shoot instead of right-click helps.
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by sorbus 15y ago
> They failed to take a stand because it was cheaper not to. Does that look anything but revealing? Apple is a corporation. That is exactly how corporations behave: they do not take a stand unless they see material benefit in doing so.
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by sorbus 15y ago
This is one of those things where it would be much, much easier to explain with images, but bear with me. Draw a circle. Within that circle, with the same center as the first circle, draw a smaller circle. Choose a point on that circle, and

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