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by sprout 16y ago
How can you find 10 people willing to pay for something that doesn't exist, has no analogue, and will have no understanding of what it is until they use it?
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by sprout 16y ago
The logical conclusion I get from this article is that if the government wants to improve hiring, they should remove all income taxes on people making <$100k a year, and tax business profits to compensate. Also increase taxes on those m
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by sprout 16y ago
I've gotten to the point where I'd rather use vi than MS notepad, but I'm still better with vanilla Emacs.
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by sprout 16y ago
I'm addicted to Swing Dancing.
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by sprout 16y ago
I do this when I'm forced to work at a desk. Though presently I'm sitting- well, reclining across two chairs, my keyboard in my lap. My mouse is sitting on a table to my right, so I actually raise my arm so it's at a 90 degree angle from my
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by sprout 16y ago
I said he did more. His views are irrelevant. Obviously in principle the British paid lip service to a caste-free society, but in practice they were the authors of apartheid. Also when you look at his views closely, especially after 1925
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by sprout 16y ago
Ghandi did more to defeat the caste system than the British Empire ever did. The British Empire was quite content to be the Brahmins to the Brahmins.
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by sprout 16y ago
From a Buddhist perspective economic growth is an evil. I suspect that Hindus (Ghandi definitely) would speak similarly. Certainly if it increases meat consumption it would be an evil to many Hindus. Using our societal mores to judge the be
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by sprout 16y ago
I've found Hulu to be an increasingly effective TV-replacement. TV gives a temptation to just sit and watch whatever comes up with no end in sight. It's a lot like going to one of the higher-traffic Reddits. It's a ton of least-common-denom
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by sprout 16y ago
That sort of thinking is really stupid, and much as I dislike Apple I do believe their management is smarter than that.
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by sprout 16y ago
>It seems like a world w/o patents would simply strengthen MS and IBM. How so? One company off the top of my head is TomTom that would benefit to Microsoft's detriment (VFat patent litigation; TomTom lost, MS won.) IBM's hegemony is lar
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by sprout 16y ago
I realize her argument was not a cut-and-dry evo-psych narrative, but she came close, and this paragraph in particular felt suspect: >For thousands of years, men look for beautiful and young-looking women to bear their children and wome
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by sprout 16y ago
One of my bigger uses for private browsing is online banking, and I think it's a use that a lot of people would benefit from taking. Sort of like hashing the entries in your .ssh/known_hosts, it's better that someone who has access to your
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by sprout 16y ago
I suppose, but it will cause deflation, and whatever you want to call that deflationary pressure, we're getting dangerously close to it.
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Nuclear Reactor Renaissance(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by sprout 16y ago
Curious that xkcd commented on this sort of thinking just Wednesday: http://www.xkcd.com/775/ Though most of the article remains very relevant when you take it out of the "this is the way it has been for thousands of years" mold which doe
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by sprout 16y ago
>Those of us who remember looking through Duke Nukem 3D fan pages for a new, great map to play and share with friends know what we've lost here, and, to put it bluntly, it sucks. Every now and again you'd trip over a swastika, but the S
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by sprout 16y ago
You have to understand, we've lived and worked on the web our entire adult lives. We don't necessarily know what href stands for any more than we know what 'goodbye' is a contraction of. But we know what it means.
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by sprout 16y ago
From a legal standpoint that makes sense, but from a technical standpoint I just tunnel whatever I want over $SECURE_PROTOCOL and at that point all they've done is specified data latency/speed tiers. Unless they're specifically looking at d
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by sprout 16y ago
Google docs you can regularly backup to a shared drive, translating tags to folders. Gmail you can back up over IMAP. Maps and search, yeah, we're dependent, but those are ongoing projects. Neither as they exist today will be much use in th
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by sprout 16y ago
The way I see it, there are only two possible ways to implement that kind of speed throttling: 1. Protocol filtering. This is basically the status quo with wireless. Voice/Text is separate from Internet data. 2. Deep-packet inspection. I'm
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by sprout 16y ago
>But it’s OK to discriminate across different types, so you could prioritize voice over video Sounds like selling Internet priority to me. In fact, if you can prioritize voice over video you can likewise prioritize http over bittorrent,
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by sprout 16y ago
Wave may have been an idea whose time is yet to come. When I played around with the beta my brother and I agreed that it was too slow to be useful. That was the last time I touched it. This was mostly because I was working in a company wher
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by sprout 16y ago
And? Why would anyone other than an art student want a body scan of every person going through Chicago on a busy day? What is the horror that will befall me if someone sees me naked?
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by sprout 16y ago
If there's anything that's clear, it's that no one is masterminding the design of the US Education system.
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by sprout 16y ago
Usually you just don't know. I got shamed in front of a prof once by saying that a given paper title was a good way to make people not want to come to your talk, and he responded by explaining why he thought it was an interesting talk. Ther
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by sprout 16y ago
Large-scale cooking though is a more modern innovation. Especially canning.
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by sprout 16y ago
I was speaking primarily about modern day and the future, not antiquity. Though that paper makes some difficult-to-verify claims. It might be less a result of the diet's intrinsic problems and more a result of evolutionary pressures favorin
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by sprout 16y ago
Large-scale agriculture and cooking made us even smarter. A good pot of rice and beans will net you even more energy with less work than meat. It's also less likely to spoil and give you any number of diseases.
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by sprout 16y ago
Yes. I think I came off as more negative towards Perl than I meant to. The point is that they are far simpler than ascii. They are quaternary data, and as such Regexes aren't really a good tool for modifying them any more than Regexes are a

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