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by tyree732 14y ago
47 points and no comments? How can this be such an important story if nobody has anything to say about it?
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by tyree732 14y ago
> Also that only really works once. If spent 40 years, doing 10 4 year degrees, by this logic, I'd be a multibillionare right? Something is wrong with this theory. I can't imagine that the authors claimed anything more than that.
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by tyree732 14y ago
How is the government incentivized in any way to do that? Politicians in the US receive substantial campaign contributions from established military suppliers who would stand to lose a lot from said laws. I don't see any rallying cries from
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by tyree732 14y ago
Are you so sure about that? excuse-me's comment, right above yours in my view, talks about how the government has anti-competitive arrangements with big military contractors. How would the situation be different with healthcare?
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by tyree732 15y ago
Google having Android guarantees a large percent of mobile searches go through Google. It also means that Google has to pay Apple significantly less to be the default search provider for the iPhone. If these were the only accomplishments of
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by tyree732 15y ago
To be a pedant, I can't imagine the coiner of this phrase or really anyone who has ever thought about it uses the term in the sense that something or someone became successful because of actions taken over a proverbial overnight. The exampl
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by tyree732 15y ago
Any business that would be running on linode could be worth potentially far more than that. What your saying here is that no one should put anything of value into a VPS, which I imagine is not something linode itself would say.
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by tyree732 15y ago
I mean, I didn't read it, but I'm sure somewhere along the way of my signing up for Google+ I agreed to their terms of service stating that they could remove whatever content they deemed unacceptable that I post or create. As for your addit
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by tyree732 15y ago
Many of those departments are completely unnecessary. Was the US really at risk before the Department of Homeland Security came around after 9/11? Did we learn nothing in school before the Department of Education came around in 1980?
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by tyree732 15y ago
I can't imagine that Facebook regretted PHP until it was too late for them to do anything about it.
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by tyree732 15y ago
I believe this is the wrong approach. The law is mostly unenforceable, and I imagine it won't lead to a significant reduction in disposed rechargeable batteries as most people won't encounter the law on a regular basis. A better approach wo
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by tyree732 15y ago
This works and is very intuitive, but loses quite a bit of the coin flip's entropy in the process. There are more efficient algorithms, such as http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~qstout/abs/AnnProb84.html , which better use the entropy generated
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by tyree732 15y ago
That works to level out the playing field so to speak, but falls victim to countless spam and useless comments clogging up the comments page.
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by tyree732 15y ago
> The websites, however, will remain separate, so that we can start giving these different worlds the unique attention they deserve. Sounds like they are being separated to me.
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by tyree732 15y ago
I don't think any of the serious complains about the letter had to do with the new name or the tone in which it was delivered. I don't think anyone would cancel their service over the name Qwikster or because the CEO is a jerk. The real com
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by tyree732 15y ago
Google did not have a warchest of patents until they purchased Motorola's mobile division.
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by tyree732 15y ago
I think this goes without saying, but product announcements are not the only indication of successful R&D. A company can also do serious R&D and gain value from any patents acquired or products they didn't ship as a result. If anyth
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by tyree732 15y ago
While I agree with your initial arguments, that last sentence doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
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by tyree732 15y ago
I was less referring to the security issues, as I'm familiar with Google's efforts on those fronts, and more referring the lack of cross browser support. ActiveX sucked for a number of reasons, but one reason in particular was because it fo
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by tyree732 15y ago
Preferable for some, but many see NaCl as another ActiveX.
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by tyree732 15y ago
I think a better comparison is with airplanes. You don't have a any real chance of being killed in an airplane, but if you were to be in a plane crash it would be horrifying and violent and you would die.
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by tyree732 15y ago
> (2) one student cheated off of the other You might believe that it's morally wrong to penalize the person who did the work, but I would have to disagree with you. Both Cheating and giving others the ability to cheat undermine the cred
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by tyree732 15y ago
Isn't that always the theme? The little guy starts losing market share so he has to disrupt the Status Quo in order to attract new customers. Between this, Google Voice integration and better pricing, Sprint is looking to be an appealing op
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by tyree732 16y ago
It's easy to point out Google's mistakes and point to their engineering culture, but look at Microsoft as a counterexample. Microsoft has more or less the same story as Google; one or two wildly successful products supplementing the rest of
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by tyree732 16y ago
This is incorrect. The company I work for has a legal department that reports to upper management.
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by tyree732 16y ago
The problem with C++ casting isn't that there are 4 different typecast operators. On the contrary, that allows you to more clearly state your intent to the compiler and prevent unexpected bugs. The problem with C++ casting is that they allo
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by tyree732 16y ago
Another case of technical people assuming all business failures are technology related. Just like Digg failed because of NoSQL even though Reddit is frequently down due to technical issues.
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by tyree732 16y ago
Logged in to check the area I live only to find out that no places deliver to me. Given the plethora of places that do, I hope their funding goes a long way towards changing that.
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by tyree732 16y ago
When I started reading it roughly 2 years ago it was mostly fine. Nowadays I wish I could filter content from users by how often they read the articles posted, whether or not they find 4chan inspired comics to be useful or funny and whether
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by tyree732 16y ago
If you read and understand the article, you see the Sony did nothing wrong in it's implementation. The hack involves installing custom firmware with bad root certificates, which is hardly Sony's problem or fault.

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