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by sprout 16y ago
Generally the ideal is co-op; that's what my parents did. I know it's somewhat a radical idea, but you can make friends with other parents. Even with two or three families your individual responsibilities become much more manageable. Each p
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by sprout 16y ago
Essay implies you follow some actual style guide, even if it's unwritten. Blogs require no structure.
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by sprout 16y ago
Backups? I'm less concerned about my Facebook pictures leaking out than I am that I don't have easy access to the metadata they're storing about me, and can't browse it locally. (In some simple open format.)
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by sprout 16y ago
>that's going to be at least $150 per month in rentals. That's the kicker right there. At $1/episode they're practically charging the cost of buying a DVD, except for all you're getting is streaming or crippled DRM'd 640x480 video -
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by sprout 16y ago
I think it's fairly uncontroversial, especially in this forum, to say that I'm sick and tired of subsidizing a race to the bottom. Food network has increasingly stopped showing cooking shows, and I'm ready to vote with my wallet. The same g
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by sprout 16y ago
It sounds like they didn't get funding in the corporate world of 1976. >Although we attempted to address the last question by applying Moore’s law to our architecture (15 to 20 years to reach the consumer), we had no idea how to answer
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by sprout 16y ago
I don't think I would undertake a 48h programming contest with a single screen.
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by sprout 16y ago
I thought it was clear from my post when I said "Mars-like" that excluded Mars. (Since the subject of debate is extrasolar planets.) And I was speaking in reference to traveling to that planet, which is virtually impossible with current tec
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by sprout 16y ago
The creationist pseudoscience tries to demonstrate that radioactive decay is variable here on Earth. This seems to be another case where our standard laws of physics break down at massively high temperatures and pressures. And of course, ra
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by sprout 16y ago
Well, if you have the resources to get from here to a Mars-like planet, turning it into a habitable world should be trivial, so Mars is Earth-like enough for colonization purposes at least.
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by sprout 16y ago
>Desirable and necessary resources are different. That's a bit of a retreat from where your argument was. But yes, I'm sorry HN is becoming such an echo chamber with no regard for honest discourse. In a lot of ways I prefer Reddit, sinc
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by sprout 16y ago
You're being downvoted purely because people disagree with you. HN is supposed to be above that.
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by sprout 16y ago
I was a student (now graduated). And I was not alone in lacking needed resources. I had numerous friends in other departments who complained of lacking needed journal articles.
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by sprout 16y ago
I went to a ~3000 student private liberal arts college and we subscribed to a handful. 90% of what I needed was out of reach. I suspect there are some economies of scale, but those economies are completely artificial; there's no reason the
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by sprout 16y ago
>On your first point. I was a student and during that time I had access to all the papers I needed, sufficent papers to get the top grades. Where did you go to school? From my experience yours is most atypical. I don't sell applications
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by sprout 16y ago
>Common. You probably are a college student, or the original poster is, or both were thus know full well that you get free access to the journals you need when you are a student. That's entirely false. If there was a single distribution
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by sprout 16y ago
Most researchers haven't really chosen to charge for their papers. It's the only way to get published in the journals, and it's based on an old scarcity where the distribution of quality journals was a difficult task. Now a social network o
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by sprout 16y ago
For me, I tend to read on a high-resolution monitor, a few feet distant from the thing, so I'm always at high magnification, and image-heavy layouts like that really bog down the page magnified on a 1900x1200 screen.
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by sprout 16y ago
How much money does Gmail actually make? Whenever I open up Gmail, I am way too busy to be looking at ads. I'm sure there's a non-zero number of people clicking on ads, but as far as I'm concerned Google is mostly providing free IMAP servic
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by sprout 16y ago
No... You can put all sorts of shit on there, but give me an easy way to install my own ROM, and don't put on impossible to uninstall apps.
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by sprout 16y ago
Most people have 'likes' that years ago were groups that were silently transmuted into pages by the group owners, and since then silently turned into public 'likes' by Facebook. In other words, it's a very poor trust network, because no one
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by sprout 16y ago
What scares me is the other week I sent a Facebook message that should have been an email, largely because a different friend in the same social circle had sent me a Facebook message on a similar subject. It's really hard to use Facebook wi
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by sprout 16y ago
The segmentation between voice, sms, im, and video is obnoxious. Some sort of open XMPP is ideal. I don't want a different contact name for every medium. (I may want separate contact info for other purposes, but not for something that's a t
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by sprout 16y ago
Because the alternative, that the parents of these students drummed up a flurry of Internet rumors over nothing, is impossible.
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by sprout 16y ago
Apple doesn't want innovation on the iOS platform that doesn't come from their halls, because other people might screw it up (or worse still, do it so well that it outshines areas where iOS is only mediocre.)
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by sprout 16y ago
>ceases it's development. s/it's/its/
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by sprout 16y ago
In addition I'd just say read up on Latin American history in general. Slavers and missionaries worked all over the continent for centuries. It's hard to imagine that any society survived unchanged in that environment, especially as new soc
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by sprout 16y ago
I think the first calculator I used was one of those. It took me till college and programming before I really properly learned precedence because I never trusted any calculator I was using, and always used parentheses. This also kind of inf
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by sprout 16y ago
I've always felt neglected trying to find tutorials that will actually help me as a programmer learn a new language, as opposed to tutorials that spend a lot of time teaching how to program.
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by sprout 16y ago
The curious thing about the Amazonian peoples is that a lot of them are refugees on the run. We don't really know a lot about what the continent looked like before the European conquest because most of the indigenous peoples were slaughtere

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