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by wdr1 12y ago
> The only thing that brought them to the table was the idea that their enemy possessed a weapon where a single bomb could level a city, they had no idea how many atomic bombs existed. I agree with most of your post, but not this one. Th
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by wdr1 12y ago
> we cannot afford to waste any of the limited attention on non-critical problems like landfills. As an environmental, this type of attitude is one of the things that concerns me most about the alarmist attitude on climate change. Climat
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by wdr1 12y ago
This makes me wonder if raising the cost of domain registration would see less domain parking.
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by wdr1 12y ago
Rate limiting alone would still leave open many categories of abuse.
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by wdr1 12y ago
View Source was there in even early versions of browers. Mosaic had it. And lynx had the ability to dump the raw HTML. Most people on the web at that point also knew you could just telnet to port 80. I would go so far to say that viewing
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by wdr1 12y ago
No conspiracy. They were going to use it for something else. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3AjPUYS...
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by wdr1 12y ago
> So, disable it. I don't understand everybody's fascination with voice recognition. I don't find it more convenient at all. If you have small children, it's incredibly handy. Even with Chrome, it's much easier
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by wdr1 12y ago
That's more or less the only way to justify an infinite P/E ratio.
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by wdr1 12y ago
> I don't know why people would suggest that Microsoft fork Android. I think the most obvious reason is lack of adoption, both by users & developers. There are lots of apps out there for Android & iOS. Microsoft has such a
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by wdr1 12y ago
As others have pointed, it doesn't look like this a Google ad. However, as a publisher, you do have a fair bit of control. You can choose to only allow text ads, and you can also block specific advertisers, categories & the lik
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by wdr1 12y ago
Michael Moore needs to read this book.
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by wdr1 12y ago
They power a lot of creative ecosystems that enable creators to provide their content without charge. I love that the Green brothers could quit their jobs & make quality content full time, and make it available to everyone. I fully di
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by wdr1 12y ago
> That's pretty surprising given how incredibly conservative/Republican the state of Utah is Isn't Ted Cruz held out as incredibly conservative/Republican? He voted "Yes" on the recent NSA reform: http:&#x
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by wdr1 12y ago
How is this deceptive? They never intended it for external release.
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by wdr1 12y ago
> Knowing the U.S. military, rather than addressing the root cause of the issue (namely: the totally senseless cult of sleep deprivation in the armed forces I believe the root cause is that the military prepares for war, and in war you c
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by wdr1 12y ago
It's far from zilch, but year, I agree this is very frustrating.
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by wdr1 12y ago
I'm not okay with it, but still use Verizon for broadband. I basically have no other choice. This is why, despite being a big fan of NN, I wonder if it's going to be enough. We need more competition in markets, so when ISPs do c
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by wdr1 12y ago
> 1. Performance improvement plans are not for performance improvement. They are for firing employees. Management already formed an irreversible negative view. It is too late. As just about any manager on here will tell you, this is comp
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by wdr1 12y ago
> Just for the sake of argument, why rent when you can own? For $99 a year, you can buy a 2-TB external drive (Seagate's is $90 on Amazon at this time) and keep backing up your stuff to fresh hardware. I do this (home backups), but
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by wdr1 12y ago
BTW, if you haven't seen it already, you should check out his YT channel, Healthcare Triage: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage He does a great job covering a variety of subjects & explaining res
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by wdr1 12y ago
> One thing I haven't seen the popular media take Home Depot to task on is: Why didn't they review their security after the Target breach? ? It's right there in the article: "After the Target theft, Home Depot’s chief
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by wdr1 12y ago
Beautiful visualization! I really like it. Only semi-related, but something I've always wondered: Like a lot of other sources, this graph shows us running surplus in '98 & '99. At the same time, the federal debt increas
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by wdr1 12y ago
Not to defend the guys at Snapchat, but can we stay away from second-hand rumor & innuendo?
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by wdr1 12y ago
> You should also remember that he was hardly in the majority with those comments. Further he was technically correct, and the iPod succeeded because of a synergy with other parts of Apple's empire (notably iTunes). I think that&#x2
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by wdr1 12y ago
I like to believe this happens fairly often. It's just in the heavily politicized fields it becomes toxic to say "I was wrong." Another reason I like to keep politics away from science.
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by wdr1 12y ago
> I've been mystified how Uber's kept up their "Underdog" mantle for as long as they have. I see them as the "underground." Granted they have gotten a lot of funding, their primary opposition -- taxis -- ar
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by wdr1 12y ago
To me, there's a world of difference between sharing my personal commute between home & work, and using my drive to show traffic patterns.
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by wdr1 12y ago
You're conflating several concepts with conservatism. Sure, there are branches of Conservative thoughts that intersect with National Socialism, but the very same thing can be said about social liberalism. In reality, however, neither s
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by wdr1 12y ago
I'm not defending Ticketmaster, but I just return a rental car to Hertz. The one-day charge was $36. Yet my total bill, after all the other charges, was $54 -- a full 50% markup. http://imgur.com/FWiEGIQ
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by wdr1 12y ago
Is this true even for school teachers?

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