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Tipzntrix··on Einstein's list of conditions for staying together with his wife
That is what he is saying, in a sarcastic manner
Tipzntrix··on Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system for women
This was when the Pakistani girl was shot for displaying "Western beliefs" by going to school
Tipzntrix··on Student Suspended for Refusing to Wear a School-Issued RFID Tracker
To some people, religion is more important than privacy. In fact, in all religions I can think of, it is taught that religion is more important than privacy.
Tipzntrix··on Parent Over Shoulder: Apps Help Mom Snoop Online, But Should She?
I always find it interesting that parents committing acts that would be illegal for other, less related adults get the bye. I mean, if you worry about Big Brother, why are you being Big Brother?
Tipzntrix··on The Downside of Social Media
If you're interesting enough, you can find something more interesting to talk about!
Tipzntrix··on Show HN: Algorithmic Music Generation - Computoser
Your algorithm learns by rating? How does it learn?
Tipzntrix··on Low-cost Solution to Clearing Afghan Landmines
I hope they wouldn't start making land mines to farm.
Tipzntrix··on Entrepreneurshit? Please.
That is true for most environments, but not necessarily all of them. I was going to bring up examples, but I found it funny that the only ones I thought of were probably NSFW. The work environment isn't really a place for either though.
Tipzntrix··on Entrepreneurshit? Please.
"friend", "person" (of any race), "black person who I look down on", for starters. The simple fact that the word is popular all over the Rap and Hip Hop scene suggests that its racial connotation is not the only meaning for it anymore.
Tipzntrix··on The State of Windows 8
Personally, I have used Soluto to see what's going on during startup, and then removed it after. They do provide certain services like the ability to move programs to and from your startup more easily than through Windows Explorer if you keep it installed though.
Tipzntrix··on Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict
You called it. Well, you called it after Anonymous released their own twitter account proclaiming their intentions, but you called it.
Tipzntrix··on Social Media Companies Have Absolutely No Idea How to Handle the Gaza Conflict
I think it's more that Israel and Hamas have no idea how to handle the Gaza Conflict. Using "official" Twitter accounts to announce invasions? These are meant for small status updates of 140 characters or less, not full-scale assaults.
Tipzntrix··on "Why don't you sell Triple Town for 99 cents and make tons of money?"
The reason people argue about balance is because they think weapons completely outshine each other. It's subjective, but you do have tournament results and other metrics to look at.
Tipzntrix··on Supreme Court of Canada Voids Viagra Patent for Insufficient Disclosure
Personally I think a lot of software patents explain well enough that I could implement their "invention".

It's just that the invention is so simple/obvious to us that I wonder how they got a patent and no prior art was found.

Tipzntrix··on Microsoft turns spoken English into spoken Mandarin – in the same voice
Sounds like taking on interns or co-ops. Pretty nice idea.
Tipzntrix··on You Can’t Put A Price Tag On A TechCrunch Post
I'm not so sure; it says he's writing regularly, but that's his last post on the website.
Tipzntrix··on For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change
Interesting. That also seems to back up my point that languages just make words sound masculine or feminine, even if not explicitly defined like in the Romantic languages (French, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, others of similar origin). The fact that they are in a footrace seems to suggest they were lifted from their original myths though.
Tipzntrix··on For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change
Ridin on the coattail of top tier posters is a surefire way to get your comment noticed.
Tipzntrix··on ChesSMS: Using Unicode to play Chess over SMS
That is some fancy stuff.
Tipzntrix··on For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change
If you are talking about the Tortoise and the Hare, I personally also identified the tortoise as a male, but the hare as a female. It's just how the words sounded in my head.

I have not read GEB; perhaps it's a different tortoise you are talking about.

Tipzntrix··on For Zelda-playing daughter, Dad gives Link a sex change
I enjoyed the Circle of Magic series too.
Tipzntrix··on Photo of a Nuclear Explosion Less than 1 Millisecond After Detonation
I am also wondering how we can blow up something 3 times hotter than the surface of the Sun so close. Then again, the "surface" of the Sun is orders of magnitudes cooler than its center. The "surface", which is kind of hard to define, is about 5778K, but the centre is about 1.571 x 10^7 K. [1]

[1] http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/sunfact.html

EDIT: If it was 3 times hotter than the centre of the Sun...yeah, the Earth might be done for at that point.

Tipzntrix··on The Best
Thanks to the Internet there is not a consensus behind what is worthwhile because you can't fact-check the credentials of the massive amount of opinions on any topic.
Tipzntrix··on How would you design a chicken?
"How would you avoid the impeding PETA backlash" is another good question...
Tipzntrix··on Obama's Secret Weapon In The South is 129 Million Years Old
I find it pretty funny that it sounds like the author's implying black people will vote for Obama.

Then again, he did win somewhere from 90% to 98% of their vote [1], so the assumption is based in truth somewhere.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2229225/Presidential...

Tipzntrix··on This service lets you use Netflix, Pandora, Hulu, and Rdio from any country
Are the users of this service technically performing illegal activity? After all, the reason we're not watching Hulu is because it's licensed only for certain areas. I don't know the law pertaining to this case itself.

EDIT: Obviously using a VPN isn't illegal (in most first world countries, anyway), but the actual access of Hulu from an unlicensed area is what I mean.

Tipzntrix··on A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance
So this is an algorithm to determine what another algorithm will determine will be popular? Meta.
Tipzntrix··on Why it is Awesome to be a Girl in Tech
The whole idea that it's a bad part of town is already an assumption that you're playing to make this decision. Like it or not, you're right that these judgments do happen all the time.
Tipzntrix··on U.S. Arrests Paul Ceglia for Multi-Billion Dollar Scheme to Defraud Facebook
IANAL, but don't those have a maximum of life (25 years)?

To threaten defendants, they also stack each single charge one on top of each other to make 5 cases look like a maximum of 125 years too.

Tipzntrix··on How I automated the boring parts of life
I think delegating is a little different than automating. Granted it's out of your hands either way though.
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