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by waqf 15y ago
Chrome has almost this, it's called "Duplicate Tab". It does what you'd hope: gets you a new tab which is a copy of the old one including its history. I agree, it would be better if you could combine that with "Open link in new tab", sinc
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by waqf 15y ago
If you work in the US, you tend not to have that luxury with your 401k. Your employer picks the financial institution and you're stuck with it. See also health insurance.
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by waqf 15y ago
Getting free copies of copyrighted stuff over the Internet is often not illegal. For example, my Debian update does exactly that every single day (and sometimes I download FOSS manually). If you are going round advising people to the con
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by waqf 15y ago
Well, your example's from Chrome which has the worst options management ever. Quick, is cookie management part of "Basics", "Personal Stuff" or "Under the Hood"? Or maybe it's not in any of those at all, but in the spanner [wrench] icon d
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by waqf 15y ago
You took as axiomatic that if government makes a profit of $X then an equal value will be returned to the people through lower taxes or higher spending. If you believe that , then a government can never steal [from its own people].
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by waqf 15y ago
I am indeed thinking of the British Isles (glad you spotted that: I suspected I needed to qualify that claim somehow). I'm convinced that Americans spell their own language better than the British (or the French), who can misspell any han
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by waqf 15y ago
Your ideas intrigue me ... seriously, I'd like to know more about this. Which nationalities are you speaking for, and in which contexts? For example, I believe Americans think Brits are very odd for having fitted carpets in bathrooms.
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by waqf 15y ago
High salaries; cheap consumer goods; teenagers on the street are polite, and shop assistants can count and spell. But that's all I can think of. And you missed "slow broadband".
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by waqf 15y ago
I'm confused, you seem to be assuming that my favorite state is democratic somehow? Otherwise I can only deduce fuckedupness of the politicians, which is not in dispute.
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by waqf 15y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but have you considered how you would disprove the alternate possibility that the "easily-persuaded majority" is a bogeyman conjured up by the media to explain why the candidate that everyone you know voted fo
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by waqf 15y ago
Based on the title, I was hoping to learn from this article why the PC industry was out of touch, but I only learned that it was, which I already knew.
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by waqf 15y ago
Not just "not enough people flagging": I have an idea that there's some rule that discounts flags from users who flag too many stories. If that's true, then when the number of political stories reaches a certain critical mass, everyone who
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by waqf 15y ago
I think your rant is slightly misplaced. I agree that it's a huge problem that the US employment-related healthcare system prevents a free or fair market in health insurance. But the specific problem you describe (and other fixed per-empl
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by waqf 15y ago
If your thesis were correct, then if employers freely offered 4-day weeks for 80% pay for everyone, then no-one would take them up. I don't believe that: but in any case, there'd be no reason for them not to try the experiment.
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by waqf 15y ago
Now a followup question, and it shouldn't be taken as a hostile one because I agree with you entirely: Would you like the taste more or less if it didn't cost $2 a can?
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by waqf 15y ago
Right, the efficacy of GR was being tested, and the control was Newtonian dynamics. GR was found to successfully predict the results observed. The control is to attempt to predict the results with Newtonian dynamics and check that that pr
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by waqf 15y ago
I think it's just a question of the bar being too low (though being so much so as to make patents that are found acceptable qualitatively unlike patents that I consider acceptable). For example, I think the LZW patent was deservedly admissi
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by waqf 15y ago
I agree. I think a sense of community is the main driver of quality comments: that's why news sites and YouTube have such poor comments, because most people followed a link to that specific article/video and have no long-term relationship
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by waqf 15y ago
_Olent_, optiones facultatum non _olent_ . Stock options are plural.
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by waqf 15y ago
They should (in advance) post the exact algorithm by which they choose the pseudorandom results, and (on lottery day) post a truly-random seed selected by a process performed in public or verified by independent observers. Then anyone woul
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by waqf 15y ago
I like those ideas a lot. I hadn't thought about it in enough detail to come up with similar ones, but that's exactly what I was hoping for. The problem, of course, is that it's hard to find a metric for "close enough" that works for every
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by waqf 15y ago
This reminds me of my idea for a compiler that guarantees performance but not correctness, instead of the other way round.
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by waqf 16y ago
True, but it certainly is a dimensionless number that you can't get rid of (and that actually shows up in physical formulae, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%27s_law ). Come to think of it, so is 2. I guess if you tried to mea
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by waqf 16y ago
Pi being another.
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by waqf 16y ago
The EFF is trying to propose a technical solution, not simply to change people's attitudes by an appeal to greater good.
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by waqf 16y ago
Cellphone-based systems are an inefficient use of bandwidth, as is explained in the article. This cost is passed on to you as poor data rates and unbelievable roaming charges (compared to the cost per gigabyte of home internet). Is that r
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by waqf 16y ago
In a world where it was understood that everyone ran free wifi, the courts would stop accepting that illegal activity from your IP was a reason for the cops to break down your door. Just as it's obvious today that illegal activity from a S
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by waqf 16y ago
If your wifi is to an internal network firewalled from the internet, then yes of course you'd want to secure it. But most home wifi (which is what we're talking about here) is routed more or less directly to the inherently untrusted interne
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by waqf 16y ago
I was thinking about an essentially identical system to yours some years ago and I came up with an amendment to prevent direct democracy (if desired): nobody can vote for themselves unless they have at least X votes; if not then they must
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by waqf 16y ago
I agree and here is my solution: two axes of moderation. The big, conspicuous, open-to-everyone up and down vote arrows feed into an agree/disagree poll whose total (agree votes minus disagree votes) is displayed by the comment. Meanwhile

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