parallax7d

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by parallax7d 13y ago
Recently watched Gattaca. Found it interesting how in that world, DNA profiling for job placement was illegal, but because the technology was so widespread and available, it was easy to circumvent the regulations without getting caught. J
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by parallax7d 16y ago
Yes, I like margarine too.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
Govt will not take any action because Wall Street floods politician's election campaigns with dollars so they play ball. If they don't play ball, Wall Street funds a challenger to the seat.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
The profit motive should drive the use, not the implementation of a trading system that effects the world economy so directly. I've maintained that the standard increment for trades should be hours or days, not microseconds. This way liqui
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by parallax7d 16y ago
I too rolled my eyes until I saw that it was about vim.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
Well sure, but you seem to be scoping your statement down to recent events, in America, and only positive change. Before you were addressing any type of change in society as a whole, in the future. I was merely pointing out the vagaries o
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by parallax7d 16y ago
I doubt how we treat the young and the elderly will stop changing. Just look at child labor laws and social security, medicade/care in the US for one example of radical change.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
I'm not sure you understood my comment.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
I don't see anything wrong with these alleged agreements, per se, but it sets a terrible anti competitive precedent that is all manner of bad for employee marketability. It would be difficult to sus out the truth of what these types of agr
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by parallax7d 16y ago
Well good luck to you. Don't worry about the haters that say you won't make it because there is no trust built up like the trust users have for Paypal. Who trusted Paypal when they first got started? And many people certainly don't trust
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by parallax7d 16y ago
I doubt he will actually cough up the money. It's not based on any assumptions about his character based on that movie, just my sense of how much of a paper tiger his and facebook's financials are.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
The only reason I don't use Chrome is because of the Google info sharing. Chromium is unclear as to weather it actually shares data or not. I believe at one point there was a bug where it was definitely connecting to googles servers. I b
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by parallax7d 16y ago
Yeah, the survival aspect is the most appealing to me as well. Hopefully some more survival elements will make it in before the beta.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
The PR department exists to do PR. Irregardless of the motivations of the people who contact them, sending a few official comments should be well within their ability. That someone expressed interest in their products is something to be en
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by parallax7d 16y ago
no it's not, that's the first thing i checked. I'll remove the story though if no one else seems to be effected.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
Creating available, consistent and learn-able interfaces is not that hard. Making them completely ignorance proof may be though. Having to teach something is a reasonable part of any interface. Such as having a sign near elevator buttons
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by parallax7d 16y ago
The Mona Lisa looked a bit like Patrick Steward in a wig.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
Hey a search insider, cool. I want to thank your department for the advance search sort on the left hand side, totally non-distracting and much easier to drill through than clicking the tiny advanced search link. But please stop adding more
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by parallax7d 16y ago
I'm a Django fan, but in defense of this guy this is a pretty insignificant thing to post to HN.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
It sounds like they screwed you too, and your defending them? It sound suspiciously like they just want to keep the money for as long as possible. Collecting interest on your assets is a clear profit motive.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
We are all miserable, as we tend to focus on what's wrong in our lives. The rich simply have a less desperate set issues to deal with. This has a desensitizing effect on how they relate to the reality of peoples real pain. The less you r
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by parallax7d 16y ago
People often fall into the self deceptive habit that thinking about doing something is doing something. Such truisms merit being in a self help article. Do you really hate platitudes? Haters gonna hate.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
I'm not sure vertical integration is something to be inspired by. In fact, it tends to create a variety of conflicts of interests, and anti competitive environments. Both effects are generally bad for competition and consumer choice.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
From what I've read, Brits don't have the insane supermarkets we do here in the states.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
I used to do this every once in a while. One thing to be aware of, are large trucks behind you at the top of hills. They tend to want to increase speed going down hills to use their velocity to climb the next. It's probably a good idea t
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by parallax7d 16y ago
The information sharing agreement with the NSA?
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by parallax7d 16y ago
It's still true for the top schools. The rest, meh.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
Yeah, google could stand up to verizon if they wanted, they would just rather play ball now adays.
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by parallax7d 16y ago
yanw, the article points out what they had previously said before this comprimise. I like the old position, not the new "only partially completely incorrect" model. from a post on Google’s official blog in 2007: “The nation’s spectrum air
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by parallax7d 16y ago
And, generally Pythonistas are drawn towards Mercurial/Bitbucket.

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