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by temphn 16y ago
Obama is a government official increasing govt power. That's easy comparatively, govt has the guns and the pulpit. Going against the flow is hard.
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by temphn 16y ago
or VOIP, ER imaging data, realtime video... Also, Google has its own fiber which carries only Google packets. Not exactly net neutral there. And Google's control over site ranking in search results affects traffic prioritization on just as
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by temphn 16y ago
ESR wrote the Art of Unix Programming and the Cathedral and the Bazaar. Both definitely influential, so props where it is due. Any org needs both dev and sales people to function, and ESR was a really good sales guy who was a pretty good de
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by temphn 16y ago
She writes well because of her DNA. Both directly (because of her brain itself) and indirectly (because she's innately curious and was hence driven to seek intellectual stimulation just as a beaver builds a dam).
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by temphn 16y ago
Among other things, they could easily blackmail any public figure who used Google search (or mail, maps, etc.) There are various ways they could frame this to retain their image...one would be to announce a campaign to crack down on the use
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by temphn 16y ago
The most informative thread on the Internet on this subject is probably this one: http://www.plos.org/cms/node/75 That's an extremely informative, citation dense conversation which took place in the aftermath of the Summers/Barres imbrogl
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by temphn 16y ago
Were the coworkers who thought there might be bugs in his code called "deniers" and accused of being funded by outside interests? And did he stonewall their efforts to look at the source code? because then you might have a closer analogy.
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by temphn 16y ago
The Burford guy starts out hysterical and continues hysterical. I think it's bad policy for the CEO to respond personally to the most crazy and unreasonable of customers. Much better to just let them rant on the web rather than giving them
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by temphn 16y ago
Little known thing that shocked me when I read it: credible reports (including that of the external investigator) concluded that Bhopal was sabotage, not negligence. A disgruntled employee backed up a tanker and dumped water into a chamber
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by temphn 16y ago
Just take a look at this silly hand wringing editorial about the innovation described in this article http://plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pge... When the response to new and cool is "you didn't do it according to prot
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by temphn 16y ago
Interesting parallel: a while back there was an outcry over the military ousting gay translators who were fluent in Arabic. The point was that in a time of exigency, it was silly to let a mere sexual orientation issue take precedence over s
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by temphn 16y ago
1) If you look at the total public monies paid in vs. out, illegal immigrants are definitely (on net) tax recipients. You need look no further than California's budget crisis. Please do drill down if you wish, but a back of the envelope est
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by temphn 16y ago
So this guy was an undocumented Harvard student without papers. Sure he received funds from Harvard and may have falsified a few documents/ID cards, but what's the big deal? He came there to work. (Seriously -- the analogy to illegal immigr