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From when Zuckerberg was 19:

According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

Seems to be the go to business model nowadays...

I have to say that I love the galaxy note 8.0 for note taking. So much so that I'm trying to buy up as many as I can find so that I will always have one. There are 2 main reasons for this:

1st: I love the size. The 10s are a little too big to cart around in a jacket pocket, and the note phones are too small to be a decent notebook. (I must admit though, I'm rethinking this point, as I used to be a huge moleskin fan)

2nd: The Samsung s-note app from that time is awesome! Honestly, every time samsung comes out with a new pen based tablet or phone, I always check it out. And I'm looking for 2 features: a: the ability to import a pdf file & b: goddamned smart shapes! I suck at drawing, and so I love that on my 8.0 I can draw a shitty square or circle and the software will make it look all ship shape. But they seemed to have removed that feature from newer versions of s-note, and I haven't found a 3rd party app that can do just those 2 things.

Any pointers to an app that will allow me to import pdfs and draw on them using smart shapes would be awesome!

For some reason this reminds me of that episode of Black Mirror where you had to pedal a bike or watch ads to get tokens.

Recently I was buying some gym clothes and wanted to buy Nike. I stopped to think about why, and traced it back to the early 2000s when I got into golfing, and Tiger Woods was a big influence for me. At that time I bought all Nike clothing.

After realizing that I just need some tops and shorts to sweat in at home, I ended up buying the store brand label, saving myself ~80% in costs.

It's funny how the mind works.

In the en version of your file I don't see any of the common c-level words: ceo, cfo etc...

I would propose that maybe they can't remember their membership number, so are forced to look it up on a piece of paper. Whereas they believe they know their email, and maybe make typos.

I know that whenever I have to contact a service for which I only have a long numeric number I have some reference handy to make sure that I don't fuck it up.

Xubuntu here too for pretty much the same reasons. Look and feel plus performance.

When were you a teen?

I remember having the exact same thoughts when I was a teen. I think it was in 1990 I was at college in the UK and I remember reading a Usenet thread about some student riots going on in Portugal. The media coverage at the time was completely off from what I was hearing from the students 'online'. I remember really believing that the internet really would liberate us all with unfettered access to truth and communication and so on.

Fast forward a few years to 1995 and one Christmas (I was in the US then) I decided to take a look at the 'web' and the liberation it had brought so far. I called it my deep dive into the dark underbelly of the Internet.

And what I found on that night over my dial-up connection stays with me to this day: facism, racism, gore, bestiality, hatred, child porn.

Yes, the Internet liberates us. It allows us to freely be the humans we are, on a larger scale. Unfortunately, humanity has a rather large dark side to it.

So this story doesn't surprise me in the least - but I still hold out hope that we may one day do better.

Maybe he was referring to this period:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Colombia#Pre-Colomb...

It could make sense in the context of the area of Colombia being a crossroad territory similar to the Middle East, plus the timelines match...

Maybe he is just lonely...

Happy holidays to you too! I am looking forward to neko 4.0

I think their history is this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_lantern

This brought back memories of Omega for the commodore Amiga I had way back in the day.

Not who you were replying to, but I helped a Luddite friend set up a wp blog 7 years ago and we had 1 minor hack about 6 years ago. It updates itself automatically so haven't really had to do much work with it.

I think the US is probably the most likely to require negotiating parties to change laws to benefit them, and because the US negotiates from a position of strength most countries have to bow down to it.

Do you not think that maybe, many millennia ago, some caveman may have thought the same?

"I'm less and less into speech.

I really believe the matter is just human. We just need to take time to grunt and mime to each other peacefully. Instead we delegate to sitting lazily and screeching loud sounds and noises"

Just as the spoken and written word opened up the world to us in new ways in the past, I feel that these new ideas may also lead us to new understandings.

From pinot's links:

GOOG: $256K per employee

MSFT: $186K per employee

FB : $659K per employee

AMZN: $6K per employee

AAPL: $402K per employee

I believe that you don't rotate the screen around while it's attached, but you pull it off, flip it around and reattach it...

Some of these remind me of Chladni patterns.

Good points.

Side note: I am a US citizen, but I live in the Czech Republic at the moment, so I would be interested to see a system which would be flexible enough to allow any government to utilize.

This actually seems like an interesting enough problem that I may try to code up a website where people can anonymously enter how much tax they pay (in currency amounts) and how they would allocate it (in %). Then try to do some aggregates to see how countries would compare.

I wish that there would be an option to say how I want my taxes spent. For example, give 10 categories, like education, military, health, infrastructure, government etc. Require a minimum for each, say 2%. Then its up to me to allot the rest of my taxes. So if I am a hawk, I can dump 80% of it in the military. Or education if I have kids.

I think technically this could be done, but it would be interesting to see what the result would be, and if a country could run on this principle.

I don't know... I have been on Xubuntu for about 4 years now, and love it. Just got a new touchscreen laptop with win10 on it and hate the experience. Switched the wife over to Xubuntu as her win10 laptop was running like crap, and she barely notices any difference in the experience except the Linux system is faster.

I think for a lot of people who want to just browse the Web and watch movies, Linux is more than up to the task. And suit, recently even libreoffice is working fine for my simple needs for word processing and spreadsheet work.

Also "A vast" - a play on Avast.

Nice charts.

Just one idea, on your vegetable chart, you have onions as a red line and tomatoes as yellow. I would swap them around, as I automatically associate tomatoes with red.

But that might damage the Amazon rain forest.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/35172/20150225/how-the-sah...

I thought fraud involves intent to deceive. Seems like they made a mistake, and they aren't trying to avoid the bill.

I had an MBP for a little over a year, and after it was stolen I switched back to Linux - Xubuntu to be precise, I never liked unity, and I tend to go for a more minimal desktop on any system and XFCE has more than enough customization for my needs.

The 2 major issues for me with osX were:

1: Selecting icons to copy. I don't know if this has been fixed, but if you have a file browser window open and you want to click then shift-click to select a range of files, it would always just make a rectangle (graphically) between the 2 click points, not run left to right through the window and select everything in-between, (I don't know if I am explaining this clearly)

To select the range you wanted you would have to either switch to list view or cmd click any files which got left out. I really though it was a bug until I found this forum post https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/shift-doesnt-select-ran... where they defend the behavior.

2: And kind of a silly one, but when you plug in an hdmi monitor, you can only control the volume on the monitor itself. And as with the previous issue, I was surprised at the responses I found in the forums. Complete finger-in-ears-lalalalala "It's better this way, and impossible the way you say even though linux and windows can do it that way"

Anyway, for my personal use case, linux trumps both Windows and Apple, and, in opposition to most comments I see on this thread, I run Win7 and osX in VMs if I need specific software (SketchUp on Win and nothing really on osX, I just have the VM set up in case I need something)

I still remember installing Slack around the year 2000 and completely borking Xorg.

Luckily I had ethernet and a cable modem - Lynx to the rescue!!! A lot of the linux forums were very 'text' friendly in those days - I dread to think what it would be like nowadays trying to navigate a forum from the cli.

I left slackware about 5 years ago for Xubuntu, mainly because I needed to use my laptop for work and not just having fun tweaking and learning.

The whole "Apt get into it!" just really works for me now. I think the final straw for me was last minute trying to compile a video editing suite (Cinelerra?) on slack, getting frustrated and then finding out it was much quicker for me to nuke the HDD, install Ubuntu Studio and an hour or so later I was happily video editing.

Now nostalgia is knocking at the door so maybe I will make a new partition and see how slackware has developed in the last few years...

I don't know if its still available for iPad (I have the 1st iPad) but I used to use an app called AudioNote (I think).

With this app you could record audio, and any notes you took are synchronised to this audio. It was super useful...