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by vbo 10y ago
Actually, TFA makes the case that people living in developed societies are not infected early enough in life, which makes their immune systems vulnerable in the long run.
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by vbo 10y ago
This brings about an interesting ethical problem. Should we get to the point where we can simulate life and consciousness to a level that is indistinguishable from the original thing (as perceived by the simulator), do our standards with re
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by vbo 13y ago
Prior art much? It's fascinating how the system feeds on itself and frivolous "inventions" are patented to protect companies from similarly frivolous claims (and also that the patent office grants them). Of course, none of th
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by vbo 13y ago
That's fine, irrelevant, and expected. At least free speech is still around.
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by vbo 13y ago
Previous instances of abuse don't legitimise abuse.
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by vbo 13y ago
Which is why the government should not have broad access to your records and why "I've got nothing to hide" is a wrong attitude even for "good citizens": the government's definition of good and bad may shift (or become arbitrary).
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by vbo 13y ago
The authors could also be hoping the "leak" itself, without actually executing the plan, causes panic sells by becoming a sort of self fulfilling prophecy. Also, it seems last night's ddos on mtgox didn't impact the price that much, at leas
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by vbo 14y ago
I suspect reading TC and the like satisfies ones entrepreneurial drive through a false sense of being "in the game" and actually leads to less (or no) effort being put into building something. I've noticed this on myself in the past as well
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by vbo 14y ago
I don't think it's for privacy, unless you're in a situation where social interaction is expected (you don't expect much of it on a daily commute, for example). Music adds comfort to an environment which is usually quite hostile: traffic no
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by vbo 14y ago
I keep bumping into this reference to facebook acknowledging only 15% of "fans" will see a given post, but I've never found an official mention of this. Where is this information coming from and what was the context in which it was mentione
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by vbo 14y ago
Amazon is giving away free stuff in order to get you to subscribe. There's nothing novel in this. It gets confusing when you consider the number of businesses Amazon is into and the way they interact. Does Bezos know what he's doing? Yes. A
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by vbo 14y ago
I stopped reading when I got to that term, thinking "what's a materialis... oh, right, it's a REAL scientist". Other than that, a fascinating article, I might finish reading it now.
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by vbo 14y ago
I don't find this disruptive at all. It's an average TV and a TV stand. Most of the features they show off are features of the stand. What's interesting (and smart) here is that IKEA is selling TVs. I expect an Apple TV would be more innova
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by vbo 15y ago
Using Lion, but I recall doing this for some time (Tiger?); I may be wrong. Do you have tap to click enabled?
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by vbo 15y ago
You can drag windows by double tapping the titlebar, then dragging.
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by vbo 15y ago
Cheers for that, I've been mildly annoyed with the resize button for years but never enough to look for a solution. This works great.
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by vbo 15y ago
Yes, fighting piracy is the wrong way to go about increasing sales, or at the very least a half assed solution. What's needed is a proper alternative to the convenience offered by piracy (in terms of effort, not price, as argued in the arti
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by vbo 15y ago
We do this to invalidate multiple keys at once. All related keys are created based on a master key (well, the value of that key). Once that is changed, all keys are invalidated.
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by vbo 15y ago
Why don't the shareholders fire these guys out of simple self-interest to protect the value of the stock they're holding? Because malignity is obvious in hindsight, not so much though when you're chasing short term profits and looki
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by vbo 15y ago
Any different from chartbeat?
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by vbo 15y ago
I've been struggling to come up with a good cross-browser(ish) solution for gradients that doesn't require external images or extra markup, and indeed SVG + CSS3 + IE's filter is the best I've found. It means IE9 (via SVG) renders the page
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by vbo 15y ago
While I agree there's room for innovation of other, non-distribution aspects of the music industry, it is precisely distribution that is most obviously broken and thus prone to be tinkered with. No DJs? Why, there's plenty, they just don't