tatterdemalion

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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
Email and WWW provide everything proprietary services are providing people now, but with less flash. The problem is that so many people are moving to these proprietary services that it becomes very difficult to organize and communicate peop
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Though lynch mobs were unofficially sanctioned by municipal authorities, they were not paid for by grants from the federal government. I don't think the United States is a Stalinist police state, but there is a qualitative difference b
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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
Police militarization is largely driven by grants from the DHS. The way American municipal police forces have been turned into a (poorly controlled) internal military is the blunt end of the same force that drives NSA mass surveillance.
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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
My experience is that the scroll effects do not negatively impact readability and are mostly nice. I like the magazine effect. The intro effect w/ the fade in I don't like so much because it creates a sense that your scroll isn&#x
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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
Nano also uses Ctrl+X to exit.
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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
There is an excellent book about the history and anthropology of sugar by Sidney Mintz called Sweetness & Power . It documents the connection between the consumption and production of sugar by the West and the development of capitalism
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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
I think equity is the hardest concept in accounting for people to intuit. It's easy to understand what Assets and Liabilities are, and what Revenues and Expenses are. It's not even that hard to understand accrual concepts of depre
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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
I don't understand why the author is so fixated on the idea that "a business owns nothing for itself." The statement doesn't seem to mean anything, its just a confusion about what equity is. Equity is the value of the po
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Japan to set up space monitoring force by 2019 'to track debris'(scmp.com)
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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
I had hoped from the description this would be more like the latter, with vulnerabilities you had to exploit to advance to the next level. As a format, multiple choice quizzes are not that interesting.
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That is what a hierarchy is; a way of storing data about which fishes are stronger and weaker.
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by tatterdemalion 12y ago
It has been my experience that "non-tech people" do complain about their internet speed because the major ISPs actually don't provide good enough service for them to play Netflix and get on Facebook as consistently as they wa
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I think because it masks the "tiny purchase -> giant purchase" signal that is used to detect fraud?