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Mobile Phone As Home Computer(philip.greenspun.com)
2 points by tc 17y ago|0 comments
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by tc 17y ago
3 years, $300M acquisition. As noted below, there was quite a bit of investment in the company. Breaking into the retail payment processing industry is definitely not an easy task. Still, the relatively quick acquisition shows there is va
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by tc 17y ago
Does seeing the results affect your belief? If you take as a given that the HN population is not representative of the population at large, then it is clear that Myers-Briggs measures something , as it correctly identified that. If you'd a
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by tc 17y ago
Most significantly, 502 out of the 660 respondents (76.1%) are type NT (11.5% expected). With a single significant exception (INFP), every non-NT group is underrepresented. Conversely, every NT group is overrepresented, even the extrove
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by tc 17y ago
Hong Kong is perhaps the best modern case study of relatively free capitalism in action. In just a quarter of a century, a poor country with few natural resources raised its standard of living above that of the UK, its colonial parent. The
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Verizon confirms Droid tethering option ($30 for 5G, $.05/MB overage)(networkworld.com)
1 points by tc 17y ago|1 comments
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by tc 17y ago
Sure. If you were to publish neutral research showing that, were the US were to draft all men 18-35, then the US armed forces would grow by X% and we could fight Y major wars at once while occupying Z square miles of foreign territory, then
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by tc 17y ago
That assumes you want the benefit. If living a 'natural' life is higher on your value scale than preventing a possible infection, then you wouldn't want the vaccine even if no one else was getting it either. Let's say your neighbors want to
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by tc 17y ago
If Paul Offit just creates vaccines and publishes factual research, then all the anger directed at him seems completely absurd. But if he or RotaTeq advocates or lobbies for mandatory vaccinations, then it is at least fair to criticize h
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by tc 17y ago
While we're rethinking the human interface, could we please stop staggering typing keys and put frequently used keys like carriage return and backspace under strong fingers? [1] I was disappointed to see at the end of the 10gui video a conc
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by tc 17y ago
Having spent time on both sides, I'll offer one pro-tip: Never comment on how difficult something should be. Just don't do it. Physically restrain yourself if necessary from saying, "but it's only doing X, it shouldn't be that diffi
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by tc 17y ago
Of course that wouldn't work for a rich or famous person Martha Stewart might disagree. In many ways, the rich and famous actually make perfect targets. Prosecutors and politicians can stir up some of the general contempt that many peopl
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by tc 17y ago
That would be the West Virginia Supreme Court, not SCOTUS. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/state/090605-rutherford-statet... And in any case, arguing around the edges of self-defense is a far cry from the sort of felony paperwork violatio
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by tc 17y ago
I would refer back to my grand-parent post. The hard, borderline cases that you mention are relatively rare. No matter how complicated your system of laws, these cases tend to require humans, either judges or juries, to make a careful deci
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by tc 17y ago
I believe I addressed that with the note about criminal intent. Common law has tended to focus obsessively on mens rea . Statute law has tended to disregard it. The difference probably has something to do with having to make a judgement
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by tc 17y ago
I take a false dichotomy charge seriously. I think you misunderstand me. I'm certainly not defending the FLSA's farm exemption, which was clearly just a bow to a powerful special interest group [1]. Of course children don't want to work on
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by tc 17y ago
Some brilliant thinkers centuries ago developed an ingenious technology for constraining judges: juries . Of course, juries work better when they are able to find on both the facts and the justice of the law. We've deviated from this at
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by tc 17y ago
What people forget is that child labor on farms was just as oppressive and dangerous. Just like we see in the third world today, children work in factories because it is their best option (as compared to starvation or farm labor) rather th
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by tc 17y ago
There's a legal scholar (and I'm blanking on the source at the moment) that makes a very convincing point that a small handful of laws (against violence, fraud [1], etc.) covers 95-98% of all cases. The other 2-5% of cases are necessarily
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by tc 17y ago
That's a good idea, though the constant should be lower. Human societies survived for thousands of years with on the order of 10 ( very popular) to a few dozen criminal statutes.
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by tc 17y ago
the CEOs of major ISPs will...maximize short-term profit I think you may be unfairly maligning a bunch of folks who do actually care about their customers, but in any case, the correct answer is to enable competition, not to add regulatio
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by tc 17y ago
wouldn't a dedicated private ethernet network With appropriate capacity, a VLAN/QoS configuration is functionally identical to having physically separated networks. On an abstract level, if you object to provider prioritization, you shou
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by tc 17y ago
That may be the intention [2], but it isn't the effect. Prioritizing EBS as was suggested above is prioritizing by server . But let's say that there was some reasonable way to priority-queue EBS-like traffic regardless of the provider (
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by tc 17y ago
Wait! What about Network Neutrality? Using QoS would de prioritize other traffic. In particular it would unfairly advantage EBS over other cloud storage solutions you could be trying to access from EC2. In all seriousness, I agree tha
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by tc 17y ago
The problem with zero-tolerance is that it too often equates to zero-thought. It drives out space for humans to exercise good judgment . And since rules often replace judgment, I think they should be evaluated in the same way we evaluate
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by tc 17y ago
The story unwittingly demonstrates a case where zero-tolerance policies could have created frighteningly different results. In some alternate universe, the story reads: The librarian noticed Olly tucking the book under his jacket. Followi
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by tc 17y ago
I take happiness, and the pursuit thereof, as a constant. Happiness is something that you find within your circumstances -- it comes from within yourself. When we talk about success we are referring to a sort of deeper satisfaction with
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by tc 17y ago
I use a simple metric: How will my autobiography read? If I'm improving the quality of my autobiography every day, then I'm probably doing something right. If I'd be too embarrassed to write down some aspect of my life, or if it would ha
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by tc 17y ago
When I read this line, Prosecutors identify defendants to go after instead of finding a law that was broken and figuring out who did it. I thought it made the whole piece. It's quite clear to anyone who follows federal cases that this is
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by tc 17y ago
Somehow I feel more connected to the community here when I can see the scores. It's like the online forum equivalent of being able to read facial expressions.

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