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by surrealize 15y ago
? Sucrose is sucrose. It's its own molecule. The only way you could describe it as 50% fructose 50% glucose is if you also described water as 66% hydrogen and 33% oxygen.
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by surrealize 15y ago
Of all your devices that have run out of charge, have you let them sit that way for months? If not, then you're making an invalid comparison.
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by surrealize 15y ago
Maybe google knows that you are personally interested in social games? Or perhaps they're just trying to reach people who are on the internet right now . Anyway, point is, the page isn't the only signal used for ad targeting; you (and y
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by surrealize 15y ago
Hollywood tried to get a form of content control into over-the-air broadcasts; they got a lot of pushback and ultimately failed. Now over-the-air broadcasts are done entirely in the clear. Requiring DRM for the web is ridiculous as long as
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by surrealize 15y ago
Part of the rationale for package management with dependencies in linux is so that libraries are shared (only loaded into memory once) between different executables. If OS X is giving up some of that sharing in exchange for simpler install
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by surrealize 15y ago
It's not that the NY Mag article was particularly pro-Wall Street. It's that it wasn't anti-Wall Street enough . The Wall Street types quoted in NY Mag blamed financial reform for their declining revenues, when (as Taibbi points out) it'
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by surrealize 15y ago
Netscape had a cross-platform browser. Fully implementing ActiveX in a cross-platform way was not feasible.
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by surrealize 15y ago
The problem isn't that one browser is dominant. The problem is when Apple develops a feature entirely in secret and then doesn't bring it to a standards body, forcing other browser vendors to reverse-engineer that feature. Apple is ship
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by surrealize 15y ago
Why are you comparing to Theora rather than webm/vp8?
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by surrealize 15y ago
My main problem with the way that copyright law has been "harmonized" between different countries is that the "harmonization" is always done by increasing the copyright restrictions of the freer country, rather than by loosening the copyrig
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by surrealize 15y ago
The overall point of the editorial might be right, but some of the metrics that it mentions are random or problematic. The number of high-rise buildings constructed? That says more about how little buildable land Japan has than it says ab
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by surrealize 15y ago
For me, it had a lot to do with how obnoxious their posts in support of SOPA were.
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by surrealize 15y ago
Part of the point of his blog seems to be to take the temperature of his community of readers on certain topics. Given that the USV investment thesis involves "large networks of engaged users", it's helpful for him to be able to see where
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by surrealize 15y ago
There's a difference between "in use, somewhere" and "almost universally used".
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by surrealize 15y ago
Autonomous cars aren't (just) a competitor to high-speed rail, they can also complement it. Autonomous (=> cheaper) taxis help solve the last-mile issues at the ends of the trip. I'd be surprised if an autonomous car could compete with
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by surrealize 15y ago
The assumption is that autonomous cars would decrease the cost of taxi-style usage to the point where it competes with ownership, since you wouldn't have to pay for a driver. When I buy a (non-autonomous) car, I size it for the maximum load
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by surrealize 15y ago
According to the narration (sounds like Brendan Eich?) it uses emscripten; googling "emscripten h264 decoder" gives as the top result this github project (with commits in the last hour or so): https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway Sounds
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by surrealize 15y ago
For human readers we use periods, not line breaks.
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by surrealize 15y ago
"The uptake curve got steeper between 5 and 6, which means more people are updating faster." You have to wonder how much of that is a selection effect. Since there was a change in the upgrade tempo in firefox, you'd expect to see the uptak
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by surrealize 15y ago
We've started to address some of these issues with GINA (the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act) which prevents insurers and employers from discriminating on the basis of genetic information. Time will tell if it's enough; we'll prob
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by surrealize 15y ago
There's a great, very detailed retrospective on Microsoft's STM implementation efforts here: http://www.bluebytesoftware.com/blog/2010/01/03/ABriefRetros...
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by surrealize 15y ago
It's great to let go of labels--it helps you stop worrying about whether you're being a good enough <whatever>. But saying that you're "nothing" isn't a good way to put it. You're still something, you just don't have to worry abou
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by surrealize 15y ago
If the way that Google shows ads was entirely driven by the needs/wants of the ad viewers, then it's easy to make a case that the ad viewers are being served. But Google doesn't only have the ad viewers in mind; the interests of advertiser