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by ulysses 16y ago
Original title is "Hacking the CEV for Fun and Profit".
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Subverting a friendly AI(lesswrong.com)
2 points by ulysses 16y ago|1 comments
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On Enjoying Disagreeable Company(lesswrong.com)
1 points by ulysses 16y ago|0 comments
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by ulysses 16y ago
ARCO gas is negligibly cheaper and less convenient. AM-PM hot dogs are considerable cheaper, and more convenient.
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Pro-China Astroturfers(arstechnica.com)
53 points by ulysses 17y ago|40 comments
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China censorship leaks outside Great Firewall via root server(arstechnica.com)
7 points by ulysses 17y ago|1 comments
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by ulysses 17y ago
The article doesn't seem to have a link to the research. The journal: http://spp.sagepub.com/current.dtl The abstract: http://spp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/57 The paper (pdf): http://spp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/1/57
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Neither Neanderthal nor sapiens: new human relative IDed(arstechnica.com)
37 points by ulysses 17y ago|6 comments
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by ulysses 17y ago
I love working on a production line. The only reason I moved out of it was money.
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Outsourcing Life(getrichslowly.org)
18 points by ulysses 17y ago|15 comments
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by ulysses 17y ago
Your crontabs (as well as all other config files) should be under some form of version control.
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Chris McCandless from Another Alaska Park Ranger's Perspective(spartanstudent.blogspot.com)
5 points by ulysses 17y ago|0 comments
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by ulysses 17y ago
The Pandora should be shipping soon, though it may be a bit bigger than what most people would want in a phone. It has (will have?) a usable but small screen and keyboard, but it also has USB and composite and s-video out. http://openpand
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by ulysses 17y ago
3 years is a short time. 2 months is almost nothing. You're already making close to 100k, by that account -- that's your hard work paying off after only one year. The time to get a bump in salary is when you switch to a new job -- it probab
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by ulysses 17y ago
I haven't dug into it yet, will try to tonight, but one thing struck me. When I run across any sort of site like this normally, one of the first things I look at is news items (in this case the blog) and the forum. If there aren't any post
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by ulysses 17y ago
Really? Contradicting something another company has said is "A Nuke"? A nuke would be Google search blocking iPhones.
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by ulysses 17y ago
I've never set up Cygwin on a USB drive, and then tried to transport it between computers, but that's the first thing I'd try. Then you could write a simple script to do an rsync-over-ssh to your server, and just run it directly from the US
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by ulysses 18y ago
I use Slicehost, after looking at Linode's pages these features seem to be missing: Bandwidth is pooled between all of your slices. Money is pooled -- if you pay a certain amount, you get the "annual discount", but then you can use that for
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by ulysses 18y ago
What people like the author of this piece don't get is that security isn't the end goal. The job of an IT professional is to insure the availability, usability, and safety of services to his or her users. Security is a very important part
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by ulysses 18y ago
It's "Will Felps", not "Wil Felps". The paper itself is in "Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 27", Google Books preview of the paper is available here: http://books.google.com/books?id=RKkxJnn73UoC&printsec=f...
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Using Captchas to help OCR books(features.csmonitor.com)
3 points by ulysses 18y ago|0 comments
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by ulysses 18y ago
Two relevant Wikipedia links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiduciary http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_of_directors Summary of fiduciary duty as I understand it (IANAL): An agent has a responsibility to act in his or her client's best
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by ulysses 18y ago
You could cache or replicate the database for reads. When a post comes in, insert it into the master database, then sleep for a preset amount of time, then have it start checking the local database copy to wait for it to show up, then run
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by ulysses 18y ago
Also, that poll had much fewer choices. For that matter, this one doesn't have plain old RCS, which is what I use.
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by ulysses 18y ago
'Netflix cannot be the first word in the application name. It can be used in the naming of an app as “x for Netflix” or “x with Netflix”, “x’s Netflix Manager”, etc. This makes it clear that the offering is not from Netflix.' http://devel
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by ulysses 18y ago
As opposed to what, our gut? If I got a nickel every time someone died of cancer, I'd be rich. And probably have a massive guilt complex.