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by zecho 15y ago
I grew up with a bi-polar dad. Netflix's actions lately reminded me of that for some reason. I expect we'll find Reed Hastings sleeping naked on the front porch soon.
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by zecho 15y ago
Way cooler looking than the LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick. I'd be interested in how customizable the base will be.
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by zecho 15y ago
Let's not resort to mob mentality, please.
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by zecho 15y ago
To be fair, it's more like saying you'd wait for Oreos to come to town, pay an outrageous sum of money to view them and then buy milk at four times what you'd normally pay for it. It's not that I think music piracy is justified, but let's n
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by zecho 15y ago
The legality of Grooveshark's business model is Groovehark's problem. Just using it passively as a music consumer is likely fine.
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by zecho 15y ago
Exactly. I've been using Assistly for about 3 months now and I can't imagine handling customer support without it.
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by zecho 15y ago
That may be, but Amazon has ridiculous options for turning off emails. For example, if you're a member of Amazon Student or Amazon Moms (which includes a limited version of Prime), you can't opt-out of emails about Student or Moms without a
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by zecho 15y ago
In this case, I wouldn't care much about the growth of the user base, which is pretty ubiquitous regardless of some dropoff or slow growth. Rather, the only number I'd care about is the growth of profits and advertising, which is relatively
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by zecho 15y ago
There's a lot to be said about super-node pattern analysis with TOR, as well as the flaws in the exit nodes with regard to unencrypted communications, but I couldn't get past the fact that Zed's entire post was a massive Godwin.
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by zecho 15y ago
The answer is, supposedly, data portability, which is a pain in the ass from hospital to hospital, or even doctor to doctor in the same hospital system. My wife, a nurse, has horror stories about how they sometimes have to fax info to other
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by zecho 15y ago
https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/health/hipaa.html
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by zecho 15y ago
I don't see printed media dying any time soon. Television never killed radio; radio just changed tactics. Every time a new medium came out, it meant the end of the others and it never really happened. That said, what I'm saying is essential
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by zecho 15y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, but I do disagree with this. Maybe 3-5 years ago I would agree, but for the most part the curmudgeons have left or been forced to leave the news business. That isn't to say that Luddites no longer ex
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HTML5 Magazine optimized for iPad(asidemag.com)
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by zecho 15y ago
Something Awful is also heavily, heavily moderated and it's a group of fairly like-minded people, especially in the subforums outside GBS. If I remember right, I think the $10 charge was more to recoup costs of running the site. Keeping out
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by zecho 15y ago
People will absolutely bother to hit and run. Requiring registration makes moderation easier and keeps spam out a bit better. Also, with voting systems, you run the risk of people using them as a bludgeon against one another. Sites like HN
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by zecho 15y ago
It has nothing to do with anonymity. It has everything to do with the content on which people comment. For example, political articles are bound to bring in opposing viewpoints. And if you allow anyone to comment, you're bound to bring in a
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by zecho 15y ago
The argument is to have local servers as failover (or cloud servers as failover). It's not either/or.
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by zecho 15y ago
What's the digital equivalent of tulipmania? If only there was a market to short the hell out of these.
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by zecho 15y ago
Very cheap eggs and humanely, sustainably raised chickens are possible. You can buy baby chicks for about $2 a piece and they'll produce eggs for years, but you need favorable local laws, time and expertise. Also, totally agree on fresh egg
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by zecho 15y ago
The short answer: Eat in season; grow your own; buy in bulk; plan better; reduce waste. The long answer: 1. Learn to cook well. Not like a few dishes well, which is what many people say you should do, but learn the basics of food science. M
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by zecho 15y ago
Buying clubs are surprisingly effective depending on what you're buying. I have friends in clubs that cut their non-perishable food costs in half.
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by zecho 15y ago
The rules in the US are similar. You merely have to have a door that the (often sick) chickens could theoretically leave through. I'm fortunate enough to live in the Midwest and I know all my farmers personally. I know what I'm getting, but
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by zecho 15y ago
This has been a huge timesaver. I look forward to it every week, Kale. Thanks.
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by zecho 15y ago
"Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process." — E. B. White I think that answer at Quora, while awesome, should sufficiently kill TWSS.
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by zecho 15y ago
I'm sure the same rules of networking apply anywhere, though, including Microsoft and Google. Degrees are an HR filter, but networking can bypass HR. So it goes.
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by zecho 16y ago
The difference though, is that usually the moderates have the pulpit and the radicals are ever marginalized. That hasn't happened to a great degree here. Stallman is still the front man for the movement.
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by zecho 16y ago
Dubious claim. There is no single argument against eating meat. I know vegetarians who abstain from eating meat on grounds ranging from waste of biomass resources to "I don't like the taste." It's a multifaceted belief system. Within the gr
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by zecho 16y ago
The risk is that you're on the hook for the book. You can certainly drop ship, and it's a common practice, but you have no quality control. For example, if you're drop shipping a book in "Good" condition and it gets to the buyer in "Fair" c
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by zecho 16y ago
My wife has experimented with that, sort of. She wouldn't not try to force the market down, but she'd occasionally find arbitrage situations on Amazon and exploit them. Buy a book placed at far too low of a price and then simply re-list it

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