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by yohui 14y ago
I suppose in the context of abraham_s's post "best" is in the eye of the selector: who is likely to be a benefit to the institution, including to their fellow students? "Should" high-achieving students and teachers be grouped together? I do
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by yohui 14y ago
I assume "1000 breeding pairs" means at least 2000 people. Elsewhere the article mentions an estimate of "3000 to 10000" survivors. Either way, if true, it's an fascinating picture. Most of us will have more people within a few miles radius
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by yohui 14y ago
Your curt replies would hardly give mikeash sufficient context to understand either your intentions or what your return argument was going to be. I presume he thought you were simply going to twist his words ("one person, one vote" -> "
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by yohui 14y ago
This suggests it was the address: "On the customs form, I put the value at $500 and the description said “cardboard art.” I’m not completely sure of this, but I think Nigerians have to pay a small percentage of the value to customs, so putt
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by yohui 14y ago
lmm is clearly thinking of the current situation, not historical score-keeping. The past can be a wonderful source of inspiration, but we cannot parcel out criticism and praise now based on events far past living memory.
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by yohui 14y ago
When I saw the title, I wondered how getting your laptop stolen could get you busted for drugs. I can only suppose that, while I don't expect the average cop is a jerk, I did reflexively expect the average cop story to feature one.
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by yohui 14y ago
I think it's "Windows 8 interface". Though I think I'd rather just keep calling it Metro. (Seriously, Microsoft should have told Metro AG to shove it.)
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by yohui 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand your response to zalew. You have an issue with how Google's private APIs are better than their public APIs, and argue that ultimately this hurts Google most, right? While that's a fine point, what does this have to
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by yohui 14y ago
> I'm not an SEO expert, but I believe the way it works is persons/entities/companies bid on keywords through Google Adwords. If they win the bid, their site will pop up first or closer to the top. I think dandelany meant organic result
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by yohui 14y ago
Gmail for iOS got an update last month that added push notifications, send-as, and persistent logins, FYI.
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by yohui 14y ago
Reasonable. But don't the participants choose the charities themselves? Other charities such as the Red Cross have been featured, after all, though Child's Play and the EFF do seem the "default" tradition. So while some sort of music camp i
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by yohui 14y ago
IIRC, whatever was behind that issue was resolved ages ago. Long enough that I can't recall any technical details, unfortunately. For what it's worth, the FAQ for AdBlock on Chrome claims that it does "actually prevent ads from downloadin
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by yohui 14y ago
Not a legal scholar, but isn't the US transitioning to first-to-file? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_to_file_and_first_to_inve...
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by yohui 14y ago
How much would an IBM 5100 in similar, functioning condition be worth, actually? I imagine the fascination with Apple alone would be enough to spark interest in the Apple 1, but is there mich of a collector's market for old computing anti
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by yohui 14y ago
But if the masses are made aware of the potential for a better deal, might not their willingness to accept such a price decrease? In a more competitive, transparent market, I would think others could exploit such dissatisfaction.
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by yohui 14y ago
Ask LastPass. That's copied from their current interface. And I imagine it could be useful if you knew another LastPass user and wanted to pass along an account. Though that's probably a fringe case, and I agree that it seems incongruous fo
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by yohui 14y ago
It's important to be right for the right reasons . All else equal, parfe's charges against Mueller suggest reason to discount Mueller's credibility despite occasional, coincidental victory.
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by yohui 14y ago
That whole affair sounds sordid. What was American Airlines thinking when they decided to detain, bribe, and extort third-parties in their private investigation? And kudos to Murkharji for resisting AA's attempt to press a confession out o
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by yohui 14y ago
From stuartmemo's comment, which you replied to: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms... > The Verge: "Is Google Drive worse for privacy than iCloud, Skydrive, and Dropbox?" Short answer: no.
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by yohui 14y ago
> - James Cameron (goog) I don't think Cameron is involved in Google, is he?
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by yohui 15y ago
To be fair, I'm not sure that "Spy on Everyone Always" is any more sensationalist than the original title, "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers", is it?
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by yohui 15y ago
It's still the same. The new Start screen doesn't explicitly show a search box, but it'll start searching as soon as you type something.
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by yohui 15y ago
Thanks. A comment from that discusion, by yanw, points out that this may be more accurately construed as an anti -censorship measure. http://support.google.com/blogger/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an... By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals
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by yohui 15y ago
As icegreentea noted elsewhere in the comments, The Economist recently compared Kodak to Fujifilm, which has done rather better at transitioning from film. http://www.economist.com/node/21542796 http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/
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by yohui 15y ago
All else equal, the difference is that taking drugs (may) harm the user, and only the user, while taking a slave obviously involves another person.
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by yohui 15y ago
Even if nobody's paying? Given the threat our lawmakers believe piracy poses to content-producers, and that they wish to suppress the production of child porn, perhaps they should actually encourage the piracy of child porn... (I jest, of
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by yohui 15y ago
Were you responding to the "Internet voting" thread? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221370 As for your question, I don't see a way to enact a plan to weed out "uninformed" voters. It'd be nice if all votes were cast on a rational ba
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by yohui 15y ago
The link is at the bottom; click either the icon or "free download".
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by yohui 15y ago
This must be sarcasm, but I don't understand what point you're trying to make.
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by yohui 15y ago
Funnily enough, the camera app was right there on the first home screen. He literally swiped right past it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6QbAX_E3-k&feature=playe... You can also access the camera from the lock screen. I'm not sur

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