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by zoomzoom 16y ago
What fallacy?
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
The kind of user who could modify chrome to subvert the will of administrators is the kind of user who could figure out a way around the root restrictions in the first place, most likely. If it is a virus/exploit issue that you are worried
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Right click, "view source", use webkit inspector/firebug/etc...
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Get alot of VC money.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
The golden rule is not about what you want, it is about something you could will as a universal maxim. So you must take the masochists etc into consideration when universalizing.
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Green heating in Sweden. (green.blogs.nytimes.com)
7 points by zoomzoom 16y ago|0 comments
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Interesting. I was under the impression on that Kinect tech came out of MS research. Is this a spin-off?
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
But is there any company over the last 100 years you would rather have owned, aside from maybe Standard Oil? I agree with the majority of threads that it seems unlikely, for a lot of good reasons. Just might be reward for the risk going for
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Ask HN: chances Apple buys a cell carrier in 2011?
5 points by zoomzoom 16y ago|7 comments
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
For an alternate perspective, read "the next 200 years" by Herman Kahn.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
What is the possibility of using these for space launches? edit: obviously would have to be slower then these for the sake of any fragile cargo (including people)...
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
I think that a relationship makes a difference in the lives of real people, at least for the two of you and those close to you. I would check it out. There is a reason that almost every human society ever has been focused on the idea of a r
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
The only legitimate forms of protest are the ones that will never work.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
who still does that anymore? how about google! look at sometime like GAE - constant stream on steady improvements, not great yet but still you must admit it is getting better. Same for gmail (still ahead of the competition), search, and pre
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Historically, optimism has won.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
I agree that our consumer culture is probably not a sign of enlightenment. But it is hardly true that most of the evil in the world stems from lies told by a conspiring and all-powerful elite. A lot of good has been done by cynical governme
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Depends what you mean. Some would say that we haven't gotten past pythagoras even with all we have accomplished.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Number one is probably not even so far fetched - social engineering is a more likely vector than an actual virus, though. Ie...bailouts etc.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
You are Not a Gadget, by Jaron Lanier.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Go somewhere you have never been, and eat something that makes you grossed out.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Maybe they will be announcing that Roswell has some secrets, after all.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
What does it mean to be chemically and biologically balanced?
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
The human body has more bacteria cells than somatic cells by about 10 to 1.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Yes, should have said that this was in reference to essays on academic topics, not all writing in general. Agree that it makes you sound dismissive, but also teaches you how to write objectively and that is a valuable skill, IMHO.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
i have seen that these huge deployments of git run into problems, that is why git is less than perfect as a system-wide backup tool.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
My writing teachers never let us use "I" in high school, because it is considered poor form by most grammar purists.
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
Sometimes I get hyperbolic. What I mean to say is that these machines are a symptom of a larger problem. The time that we spend trying to get rid of these machines is time that we don't spend on solving the real problems. I love freedom, to
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
I can't believe that even on HN there are so many posts about something so dumb. Our country is up in arms about some new X-ray machines that a corrupt defense contractor sold to an overzealous department of homeland security in a panic aft
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Users Don't Know What They Want...(rimmkaufman.com)
1 points by zoomzoom 16y ago|0 comments
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by zoomzoom 16y ago
That was true until this summer, when their leveraged position collapsed and Porsche was bought by VW, actually.

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