fl3tch

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by fl3tch 14y ago
If you want to make a difference, quit trying to cash out as a 25 year old millionaire. Get a PhD and do research. That's the real risk in life, that you might work your ass off for little pay, spend 30 years chasing a dream, and fail in th
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> I think the idea is that instead of using the current journal system...professors will post straight to Academia and bypass publishers altogether This might work in fields where there is more collaboration than competition, such as mo
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by fl3tch 14y ago
The cost of hosting someone for a year is pretty high. If you become a yacht salesman, are you expected to sell one on the first day? Are you a failure because someone else sold a hundred hot dogs?
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by fl3tch 14y ago
It's important to point out that he wasn't arrested merely because he posted a message on Facebook. That was just a tip that lead to concrete evidence of the crime, namely his damaged vehicle. Cops follow leads all the time, and Facebook is
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Do you have an email address?
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Depends on the filter list. EasyPrivacy is designed to block trackers, and if you look at the list https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easyprivacy.txt you'll see that Demandbase is there.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
G+ has 135 million "stream active" users. Those are people who really meant to go to plus.google.com, not click something in Gmail.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
It certainly isn't trademarked. :)
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by fl3tch 14y ago
One way to look at is that there were only about 6 states that could go either way, so he picked 6/6.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I saw one that said, "I would have voted for Obama if he had accepted my Farmville request", and it ticked up for Obama.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
It may be different for different cohorts, but for my social circle, SMS is the de facto communication medium. I deleted my Facebook account over a year ago and still keep up with friends, plan events, etc., all via text message. Thus, ther
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Reminds me of the Mac Mini colocation, but more extreme. Just want to throw in that I have a KVM with Edis and they are a solid hosting company in that price range.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
No, I had several options on the page linked by OP. When I went to the locationmanagement.vzw.com page, it says, "There are no services available. A location service must be downloaded on the handset to be listed here."
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by fl3tch 14y ago
> Simply choose multiple choice questions and stack the answers in the right order (people usually click in certain pattern when doing it at "random"). Ideally, you could randomize the order of the answers for each person, and later div
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by fl3tch 14y ago
It should be noted that Mike Elgan is a prolific user and advocate of G+ with a big following. https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts
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by fl3tch 14y ago
That last point is interesting. There's already a burgeoning industry for companies that protect privacy, keep you off Zaba Search-type sites, etc. There are a few "reputation management" companies that try to get negative information remov
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I'm guessing it's because a culture and expectation of using real names had already been established on Facebook by the time the masses arrived, while privacy-conscious techies were the first G+ users.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I think judges have more to fear than prison guards.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
I going to guess that referring to inmates by numbers would be widely criticized as inhumane by many human rights groups. It would be an uphill battle to keep something like that going.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
"This is my eye, captured by a mini TV camera mounted inside the machine. This camera isn't a normal fixture but was installed by the TV production company filming the experiment for a documentary. The pupil is widely dilated, one of the ou
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by fl3tch 14y ago
They have much better granularity than simple domain blacklisting. Take a look at a filter list. https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/easylist.txt
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by fl3tch 14y ago
It seems to me that things like "intuition" and "instinct" are just subconscious algorithms that you can't articulate (example instinct: I pull my hand away from a fire; I can't tell you why, but it isn't magic; somewhere in the wiring of t
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Proper care of the elderly is another problem that society should address without racking up insane health care costs just so a little old lady has someone to chit chat with. There are certainly more fruitful (and cheaper) ways to solve tha
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Linux from Scratch. Build it for the ones you love.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
You know what's interesting? The immediate follow up to that first message, by Richard Chimera, mentions Randy Pausch. Does anybody remember him? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo Small world.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
The Wayback Machine only displays sites after 6 months have passed.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Yeah, but if they had no choice but to use Linux, they would make sure their hardware worked with it. Can't really compare to the past, when Microsoft essentially got a 10 year head start on Linux and was a monopoly by the time it arrived o
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by fl3tch 14y ago
After YouTube auto login was implemented, I started using a cookie manager. With one or two clicks you can enable or disable cookies, which logs you in or out. I don't want every random reddit video that I click on to show up in my YouTube
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by fl3tch 14y ago
A lot of those accidents happen in rain and snow, which the Google folks admit are not as well tested. Under clear conditions on open roads, humans probably do better than 300K miles too.
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by fl3tch 14y ago
Good luck getting 900 million people to fill out consent forms to satisfy your IRB. Academic research follows actual ethics rules. :)

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