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by sprout 16y ago
Credit cards have stiff fees? Seems to me it's pennies per transaction. I really don't believe it's a ruse, or even that the fees are that large. They're large for small businesses - and that's far from the only place where small businesses
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by sprout 16y ago
"Make payment easier" is a bad idea. The difficulty is designed to make it easy to track. Making it easier makes money harder to track, which is a Bad Thing.
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by sprout 16y ago
That was more a hypothetical.
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by sprout 16y ago
Actually he uses it, I imagine, so that he will be able to read it next year. I haven't even tried to use any todo apps, (the text file has always served me well) but what experience I have with proprietary formats is that they're a poor ch
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by sprout 16y ago
Wow, that's a load of non-sequiturs. Monopoly is a side effect of the massive corruption plaguing Mexico. Microsoft doesn't even come close. As for aid in Africa, that's a specific charity you worked with in Africa. There are people who do
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, in contrast to the second theory, there's the possibility that open source commits and closed source commits look pretty much the same. They're mostly done by people looking to get a paycheck, and without a paycheck the quantity drops
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by sprout 16y ago
Seems to shadow the recession. I wonder how this compares to closed-source commits.
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by sprout 16y ago
Enumerating a list of successful people who didn't attend public school doesn't say anything about the utility of the public school system, especially without looking at the people who did. It also ignores the armies of undergraduates and c
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by sprout 16y ago
That's incorrect. Their position is that there's not a significant amount of CC licensed music without an NC attached, and it's too difficult to tell the difference, so they're banning all CC music regardless of whether or not it's CC-NC.
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by sprout 16y ago
It's a completely unfair expectation. Yes, in some users' mental model, when they delete something it's gone for good. That mental model is objectively wrong. If you share something on the Internet, it is fundamentally impossible to ensure
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by sprout 16y ago
I always defined success at the game as growing your city while all power sources were renewable and you had ample schools, colleges and trees. It's a sandbox game, the cost function you try to optimize says more about you than it does abou
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by sprout 16y ago
If you've bought a G2, you are a copyright holder for the code in question.
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by sprout 16y ago
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10393136-37.html You'll note it only hit jailbroken iPhones.
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by sprout 16y ago
10.04 here... split panes work great.
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by sprout 16y ago
Why not _why?
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by sprout 16y ago
Have there been any surveys done to see what CC licenses are in use? I mean in any case it seems a little silly that one would ban all of them and not just ones marked "noncommercial."
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by sprout 16y ago
I read the emails that supposedly show fraud. There's nothing indicative that it's systemic. Furthermore, the 'ClimateGate' emails only barely show fraud. No, I haven't read them all, but every source I saw pointed to the same exact 'trick'
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by sprout 16y ago
The offense taken at this article is intentionally undertaken to change the norm, to encourage men to take more responsibility for their children and for women to take more responsibility in society at large. The offense is not at the sta
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by sprout 16y ago
>I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends. This guy has a lot of gall to end with that after making such flimsy allegations of fraud against an entire academic d
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by sprout 16y ago
Consumers aren't going to tolerate that kind of lock-in, and in many cases will use Google just the same. In order for Microsoft to actually get anything out of this, they're going to have to treat Android as a first-class platform, and bea
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by sprout 16y ago
Firstly: America's airports represent a minority of the daily commutes in America. In order for America's airports to be police states, they would have to be states. They're not. They're airports. Secondly, while there are 'checkpoints' of
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by sprout 16y ago
No, a police state has checkpoints and men with semiautomatic weapons clearly visible during most daily commutes. This is a very bad thing, but it is not a police state. Nothing was done.
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by sprout 16y ago
Not at all. Dbingham identified a possible root cause that is more specific and actionable than the originally stated problem. You took a qualified hypothesis and claimed it was stated as the totality of the situation. More importantly, the
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by sprout 16y ago
Windows XP has a broken security model. Age has very little to do with it (aside from the fact that support ends in 2012, so it's only worth using for another couple years.)
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by sprout 16y ago
A VM is a constant time investment, doing it for every language is linear with the number of languages. Unless there's some serious increases in clock speeds, I'm not sure doing it for every language is worth it. As it is, VMs are a great,
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by sprout 16y ago
If a six character variable name is a real word and the 5 character variable name isn't, in my mind you've increased the number of objects in every statement that variable appears in from 1 to 5. Now, there are some really common ones that
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by sprout 16y ago
Do you remember what Zuckerberg said with this announcement? The 'pristine' social graph? That's the whole point. He's trying to restore the meaningfulness of saying someone's a friend. Friends don't enroll friends in NAMBLA. I have to say,
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by sprout 16y ago
I think the author means to say that a minimalist lifestyle does not make him a better person. He really has no idea who any of us are, or what our goals are, or more importantly what our vices are. Some of us probably would benefit from a
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by sprout 16y ago
Sure, but presumably the 737 would not be getting its optimal fuel efficiency if it went slower (every vehicle has some sort of a target speed that it's optimized for.)
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by sprout 16y ago
Possible, but not trivial as Jess considers it. Furthermore, politesse is not a lingual phenomenon. The politesse of a Texan is different from a New Yorker is different from a Minnesotan is very different from a Londoner.

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