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by yakiv 14y ago
Perl: "There is more than one way to do it." Some ways Excel lets you organize data: (1) chaotically on one worksheet, (2) with different data sets in different worksheets, (3) in tables ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/overvi
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by yakiv 14y ago
> Advantages of this proposal > * Preserves the historic structure and function of the Electoral College. I think we may be sort of putting the cart before the horse here. The purpose of the electoral college was to get the states t
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by yakiv 14y ago
Related: "flammable" and "inflammable". Either means that the object in question can be set on fire. The second word is an abomination that should never, ever, ever appear on warning labels. However minor an abomination it may be, it is an
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by yakiv 14y ago
Wow. I'd heard about this, but I had no idea it had made so much headway. From the website: "The National Popular Vote law has been enacted by states possessing 132 electoral votes — 49% of the 270 electoral votes needed to activate it." Fr
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by yakiv 14y ago
Small comment: I dunno about wheeled animals having mobility superior to that of legged animals. How much naturally-occurring flat terrain is out there? How well can wheels drive over rough terrain?
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by yakiv 14y ago
> The point of patents (at least in the US) is to benefit society. The question is if granting a monopoly on ideas is actually benefiting society. Yes. > And having it ripped off within the first year of commercially using it becaus
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by yakiv 14y ago
I don't really know anything about this story, but do you have any guesses as to why they did go after him?
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by yakiv 14y ago
From Wikipedia: "Osmosis is the net movement of solvent molecules through a partially permeable membrane into a region of higher solute concentration, in order to equalize the solute concentrations on the two sides." ( http://en.wikipedia.o
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by yakiv 14y ago
Should that be a 256x256 box heatmap?
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by yakiv 14y ago
I've heard that Steve Jobs hated Flash (or Adobe). Whatever his reasons were, a techie's opinion maybe did help bring Flash down a few notches.
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by yakiv 14y ago
However much or little humans may be contributing to climate change, if it affects us we might want to look into doing something about it.
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by yakiv 14y ago
I doubt it. If you don't ban monopoly power, people sometimes get it (like Rockefeller sort of did). You don't get all of the nice properties of free markets unless some conditions are met, like the absence of monopolies. Edit: That being s
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by yakiv 14y ago
Github is maybe lacking for a semi-major free software project looking to create a web presence. It does have source hosting, projects pages, and a bug-tracking system, but it doesn't let you upload builds for downloading any more (without
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by yakiv 14y ago
You know, that might actually be a good idea. Sounding more hip (without sounding stupid) could actually help. gnu.org could also use some serious redesign. Brand is important. Also, fsf.org doesn't immediately scream at you what the FSF i
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by yakiv 14y ago
Another possible way of looking at things: Everyone has access to all of your data if it would be problematic for you.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Don't sweat it. Getting the word as best you could was a good thing to do.
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by yakiv 14y ago
What is the target market? Would most of the customers likely be governments?
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by yakiv 14y ago
The cryptographic thing might be a good idea, but we would need to consider not only current computers' ability to crack it but also future computers' ability to crack it. Much faster computers will probably get here eventually.
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by yakiv 14y ago
HN headline: "The only way to make the HN front page is to make incorrect generalizations."
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by yakiv 14y ago
One possible backup would be Bitbucket ( https://bitbucket.orghttps://bitbucket.org/ ). (I'm not affiliated Bitbucket in any way. I don't profit from them doing well, aside from them sticking around to keep providing free hosting for me.)
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by yakiv 14y ago
It might be an admission of defeat that leads to victory. "DOS was popular because it had software from day one. And it had software because Tim Paterson had thought to include a CP/M compatibility feature in it . . ." ( http://www.joelonso
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by yakiv 14y ago
Emacs may be great on desktops, but it probably isn't on hands or smartphones.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Is "jotdot@somedomain.com." actually invalid? My understanding is that something like "example.com." represents the same domain name as "example.com" does. I don't know if things work differently for email addresses, though.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Sounds like a good plan. There's probably more that needs to change than just the length of copyright terms. Registration should perhaps be required to get copyright. I don't know if having copyright at all is a net benefit. Whatever is b
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by yakiv 14y ago
I'm not sure that base 10 is wired into our brains. It's probably the case that we're just used to base 10. The reason why it's can be so hard to read numbers in base 8 or some other base out loud is that you have to convert it to base 10
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Shorten excessive copyright terms(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
70 points by yakiv 14y ago|19 comments
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by yakiv 14y ago
DDoSing D.C.'s mail system might get some attention. What we (read "I") want is for a lot of people to do this.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Discussion (if any happens) on /r/PoliticalDiscussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/15qfi7/...
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by yakiv 14y ago
Well, we can at least try to do something. If we could get millions of Americans to do this (though that seems a little far fetched . . .), it could make a difference. We have to fight back.
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by yakiv 14y ago
If each congressman got enough letters, we could see some response. I don't know if we can get that many, but we can try . . . Snarfy wrote that "even all of hacker news combined" wouldn't do it; I'll post this on Reddit, too.

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