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by zacharypinter 15y ago
It might have been the best decision for Iceland, but it's not all roses: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/04/13/150586792/should-i...
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
Yes! Thanks for the post. I really enjoy scifi books that focus on how technology can integrate and augment the human body. Though these books often talk of brain implants and genetic modification, the path to that destination (if we do ach
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
Yep. Imagine if it bugged out and broke all the infected machines. Even if the bug that broke the machines wasn't his fault, he'd probably still be in a grey area.
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
I find M-x rgrep extremely useful as well.
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Post-Scarcity Superstar(theultramods.com)
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The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ever read(arstechnica.com)
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As I understand it, there are at least 3 different ways SOPA can affect a person/company negatively: 1. If your site gets targeted to be blocked. 2. If you run an ISP and you have to manage the infrastructure to block websites. 3. If you de
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if every leading mobile device gets banned in at least one country or another.
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
Youtube continues to be one of the most frustrating sites to navigate, and this new redesign is no different. Take this query result for example: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=republican+debat... Every single video title get
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
What a weird way to start off an article. He tells the beginning of an interesting story not related to the article title, cuts it off, switches to the main topic, and then ends the article saying the original story is for another time.
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
And the related planet money podcast: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/08/26/139972557/the-frid...
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Whether it's math aptitude or an aptitude in some other tangentially related field, I think the idea is that men in general tend to have more variance in their distribution, though the mean ends up being about the same. "Small differences i
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
Sigh... I guessed even before clicking the stackoverflow link that the topic would be locked/closed. It seems like every time I find something really interesting on stackoverflow I can count on it being closed. I realize the moderators are
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
I just setup anything mode yesterday (textmate.el's find in project was too slow) with a gist I found that searches the current git repo: https://github.com/zpinter/emacs.d/blob/master/anything/init...
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
20 September 2011: The Diablo III Beta Is Now Live
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
I'm actually a little sad to see the demise of web plugins. Unity, multi-file uploads, webcams, voip, decent video, sockets, and many other web technologies first appeared in browsers via plugins. Then, once they're popular enough, the majo
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
Anybody know if using Google Wallet for a transaction still produces a paper receipt? I'd love to finally be done with those...
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Golden Gate Ruby Conference just started, livestreamed(justin.tv)
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
If we want to get ultra-technical, releasing the git sources of Ice Cream Sandwich will pretty much require releasing the Honeycomb source as a prerequisite. However, there's not much point of basing your work off of Honeycomb over Ice Crea
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
I've wondered the same thing. It's not necessarily an either-or situation. If Google's willing to spend X billions of dollars on defensive patents, why not spend even a fraction of that on lobbying for software patent reform. If any company
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
That's what I find interesting about this deal. It's still motivated by patent protection, but instead of putting it all in a defensive patent portfolio, they get a hardware company to innovate with as well.
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Here's an interesting article on that: http://hplusmagazine.com/2011/07/26/hear-that-its-the-singul... "A common misnomer about the Singularity and the idea of greater-than-human AI is that it will involve a conscious, self-reflective, an
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
For some extra dialog, this was touched on in the latest Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/29/138818388/the-frid...
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
Agreed, though I see a lot of people using AirBNB for guesthouses, rooms in their house (where they'll at least be at the place), or investment houses. Those scenarios seem less risky.
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
At the risk of it being slightly poor taste to go down this tangent: Given how rare this type of thing is, AirBNB could have a great extra source of income by offering optional insurance for an extra fee (similar to car rentals).
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This doesn't specifically answer your question, but the post does seem to mention that financial compensation from AirBNB was offered: "They have offered to help me recover emotionally and financially, and are working with SFPD to track dow
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Sounds more interesting than making a bid for Color :)
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Not every law is good, and just because something is written to law doesn't mean that you should blindly obey it. I think the grandparent post is right in that this is a nice way of illustrating that point. However, I definitely see your po
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by zacharypinter 15y ago
Google+ is likely built with GWT, which requires more effort than say Rails to get nice URLs. My guess is that nice URLs are in the pipeline, but they weren't an initial priority.
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Bitcoin definitely has problems it needs to solve. However, one of the coolest things about Bitcoin is that there are so few hurdles in implementing technical solutions to the problems it needs to solve. Worried about buying something and g

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