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“The Internet would be better if we had an accurate notion that you were a real person as opposed to a dog, or a fake person, or a spammer.” - Eric Schmidt

There are no dogs posting on the internet and there's no such thing as a "fake person". That leaves real people and spammers. There are lots of tools to filter out spam and you mostly see spam on websites that are just not using any of them.

So, if that's really the argument Google's chairman has for abandoning anonymity and pseudonymity on the internet, can't we all just move on now and not pretend that "real names" policies are anything other than sheer demonstrations of dominance by these services and politicians?

This might be characterized as a bribe, but how could it be blackmail?

This isn't "pre-cognition" any more than when Wal-Mart's supply-chain management software is.

It sounds like having a boss helps you navigate the perils of a large organization. It feels like a problem posing as its own solution.

It's a part of formal debate procedure. This blog post was taken from a debate in The Economist magazine.

Why are people on HN who are critical of articles so quick to tell everyone precisely the sentence at which they stopped reading an article? If anything, criticism from someone who stopped reading mid-stream should be taken less seriously than criticism from someone who managed to read the whole thing. Lots of worthwhile articles have foolish sentences in them.

I think it's less useful, when picking a strategy, to know what percentage of great successes were caused by obsessive focus than to know what percentage of obsessive focuses caused great success.

Supposedly, OS X ran on intel chips for years before Apple made the switch for their products. I've got to imagine that Apple has been running OS X on their own chips, even if they have no specific plans to make the switch.

Thinking that "problem X" is "problem Y" is one way to not understand "problem X".

If you don't have a backup of your data that is in your physical control, then you are at risk. It doesn't matter if you're using "the cloud". By all means, use "the cloud" if you like. But keep a copy of your own data in case the service you're using stops working the way you'd like it to or loses your data entirely.

Not that your response is condescending, or anything.

In the US, it's standard to have a fixed rate for the entire life of the mortgage. It's my understanding that this state of affairs is due to US laws and that most other countries tend to have floating rate mortgages.

Gerhard Schröder, former chancellor of Germany, had a similar situation with Gazprom a few years back. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der#Gazprom

Can anyone explain why Microsoft uses a "Promise" instead of a "License" as seems standard in the industry?

"And that I'll be totally dependent of my children, since it's unlikely I'll ever see one cent of my pension."

Have you considered saving money in addition to your ephemeral pension?

I think one of the premises of the OP was that mail volume will be declining over time due to digital communication.

And maybe the broad stroke here will be their Cloud Player/Drive, which has no download step.

No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

I think you've got a bit of a surprise in store for you, too, when you find out what Matt does for a living.

In the last 30 years, has the president of any university introduced significant changes that the faculty supported?

If there's no place like home for math education, why are they giving money to schools?

After seeing that House of Representatives chart, I can sure believe he's in marketing.

I hadn't really noticed before, but USV has put together a really strong portfolio of companies. I'm usually somewhat skeptical of bringing on investors, but USV seems to be doing something right. http://www.usv.com/investments/

Which part was the abusive part?

It has nothing to do with those companies deserving anything. The problem that is being solved is that if Twitter or Zynga leaves San Francisco and continues to grow and hire people in their new location, that will be used against the current politicians in upcoming elections. Challengers could point to the new jobs being created in another Bay Area city and say, "San Francisco could have had those jobs, but Politician X let them leave. I will make sure we keep the new jobs in San Francisco." On the other hand, if the current politicians give Twitter or Zynga too big of a tax break, they'll get challengers claiming that they gave away the store to these rich companies, along the lins of what some politicians are already saying about any proposed deal. Hence, the negotiations.

I think aside from whether this problem was intentionally created by Apple (I don't think it was), I think it does show that Apple considers these web apps to be second class citizens. Making sure the new JS engine worked for these web apps apparently either was not on the list of things to test before shipping 4.3 or it was something that was allowed to slip. Either way, web app performance was not a release blocker for 4.3.

Works fine for me on Chrome 9 in Snow Leopard. What problems are you seeing?

"There are thousands of schools that certify medical doctors, but only one certification agency for medical devices."

Somewhat amazingly, there are only 133 schools in the united states that award MDs - https://www.aamc.org/about/medicalschools/

This blog seems like a parody of western civilization.

I'm asking how the police knew it was him before they grabbed him.