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by ubasu 14y ago
That is true - I was thinking of places with a functional government where the people have participated in its building. ;-)
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by ubasu 14y ago
This is like scrapping old code and starting from scratch, the problem of course being that all that cruft in the old code was there for a reason.
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Using nginx with redis and lua(mikeferrier.com)
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by ubasu 14y ago
For website scraping, something like casperjs/phantomjs or selenium are more suitable, since they emulate a browser and evaluate javascript, which curl cannot, and it is not clear if this tool can. What are the use cases where curl is more
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by ubasu 14y ago
This is the NYT equivalent of blogspam. Also comes with standard patronizing rhetoric about how today's uppity nouveau riche elites cannot compare with what he knew when he was growing up (as others have also pointed out).
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"Cannibalistic Culture" of Microsoft applied to school teachers(dailykos.com)
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The complete list of problems with high-stakes standardized tests(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ubasu 14y ago|1 comments
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by ubasu 14y ago
Nitpick: creep is different from relaxation. Creep is when you apply a constant load on the material, and the material elongates (creeps) gradually, keeping the same stress. Relaxation is when you apply a constant extension to the material,
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by ubasu 14y ago
Snarky response of the day: Seems like quite the trend to compare the poor and unemployed to children and animals. ;-)
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by ubasu 14y ago
Of course, I am sure many realise that this is applicable to visualising anything of a fractal nature, e.g. plotting stock price history at various zoom levels.
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Ring-of-fire solar eclipse this weekend(boingboing.net)
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Recording police with your smartphone is a Constitutional right, says DoJ(digitaltrends.com)
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by ubasu 14y ago
nginx has a ppa: http://wiki.nginx.org/Install#Ubuntu_PPA
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If We Told You That, We Would Have to Shoot You(whattofix.com)
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by ubasu 14y ago
There's also the issue of enforcement. If a company gives you false information, you may not have the resources to sue them if it's only a civil matter, or if the local prosecutor declines to prosecute.
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by ubasu 14y ago
It's called information asymmetry. As an individual, you do not have the power to get all the necessary information to make a sound decision, but working through the government - which in a democracy ideally represents you and others like y
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3 million bank accounts hacked in Iran(zdnet.com)
2 points by ubasu 14y ago|2 comments
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On the invention of money(nakedcapitalism.com)
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A Russian City Always on the Watch Against Being Sucked Into the Earth(nytimes.com)
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How do you prevent people from using chargebacks as a method for refunds?(quora.com)
3 points by ubasu 15y ago|0 comments
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The Star Trek attraction that almost came to life(thegoddardgroup.com)
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I, Luddite(salon.com)
12 points by ubasu 15y ago|2 comments
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Are We “Meant” to Have Language and Music?(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by ubasu 15y ago
Small nitpick: what does it mean to say "...search queries to be Turing complete"? I didn't think that the SERP defined a set of rules. ;-)
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Turning cartilage to bone could replace grafts(sfgate.com)
1 points by ubasu 15y ago|0 comments
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The Truth About Online Privacy: Who Cares?(businessinsider.com)
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How to fight cheating by promoting authentic learning(21k12blog.net)
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A computer program for discovering laws of nature(haaretz.com)
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The difficulties in opening science(blog.ted.com)
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The only primate to communicate in pure ultrasound(newscientist.com)
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