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eightofdiamonds··on Sorry, everyone: The future of sex is total apathy
I think they are just saying that until we can treat sex like the things you mentioned, biking, gardening or watching a movie, then it will be viewed differently.

And we are not going to do that any time soon. You're right any experience can be special. But they are saying special treatment, we handle sex differently as a society. And while I think openness and education about sex is great I don't want my kid to walk down the street and see people having intercourse.

I think it's like how we sexualize breasts. Other cultures do not to the extent we do because they are just treated like another part of the body. They are not covered, they are always there. We hide them and show them off to get a glimpse, but for the most part they are censored in most situations in the U.S. That makes them not "just another experience". It drives curiosity.

eightofdiamonds··on Karma-Duped: A Cautionary Tale About the Murky World of Venture Lending
I think they mean after work hours, not actually quitting the job.
eightofdiamonds··on The Bike Wars Are Over, and the Bikes Won
You really believe that?
eightofdiamonds··on Ten years on LinkedIn
So they hopefully stop getting it.
eightofdiamonds··on How a car works (2012)
Just a heads up. While it may have changed Google is pretty strict on publishing Adsense income with traffic figures. I'd just read up to make sure so you don't run into troubles.
eightofdiamonds··on For Cinephiles, Netflix Is Less and Less an Option
Roku does this. They have a universal search and any channel on the device that the movie or show is available on will come up with the pricing.
eightofdiamonds··on Little Free Library
Someone built on in my neighborhood and it stood for about a year before someone lit it on fire. It was rebuilt, hopefully it was just a random act of destruction and it will stick around this time.
eightofdiamonds··on Netflix's Ken Florance: The Man Who Keeps the Video Streaming
I wondering the same thing myself. I did a bit of searching and found this: http://allthingsd.com/20130514/netflix-still-eats-a-third-of...

According to that article it does mean all HTTP traffic other than the specific sources listed in the chart.

eightofdiamonds··on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will
They can lock down the listing so that only you can edit them with their partner sites. But it wouldn't work in this case since they are not partnered with Google. We just had a presentation from them at my work a few weeks ago.
eightofdiamonds··on How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will
Yext can't manage Google listings though which is important to note. No 3rd party is able to directly manage Google listings.
eightofdiamonds··on Collaborative international cost-of-living index
You do get some strange differences. For example I compared Cincinnati to Savannah Georgia. It says a TV costs 2x as much in Savannah and that a $129 microwave in Cincinnati costs $500 in Savannah. Odd numbers like this throw off the total.
eightofdiamonds··on London Taxi Challenge
I don't often use taxis and I've never used Uber so I'm not specifically cheering for one side or the other. I know this isn't presented as an exhaustive study but basing the "results" on a single trip by each service doesn't prove much.
eightofdiamonds··on U.S. announces first criminal charges against foreign country for cyberspying
Also Wang Dong
eightofdiamonds··on Amazon, AT&T, Snapchat rated among the least trustworthy with data, EFF finds
Advertising.
eightofdiamonds··on Game of Thrones author George RR Martin: 'Why I still use DOS'
Yes he's slow, no doubt about it. But if you had read any of the books he's written you'd see he's a legitimate author.

Quality of writing, to me, is a more important trait of an author than volume of output. It would be nice if he got moving though.

eightofdiamonds··on The Story Behind the Worst Movie on IMDb
I found it odd that the article makes note that 36,000 ratings come from outside the U.S. Maybe I am missing something but wouldn't it be expected that many of a Bollywood movie's ratings would come from outside the U.S.?
eightofdiamonds··on Driver caught using cell phone jamming device
There are a lot of people in New York that don't live in NYC.
eightofdiamonds··on Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?
Do you know what AdSense is?
eightofdiamonds··on How to Make Money from Spotify by Streaming Silence
Sounds like a great way to scam the advertisers. I doubt this will fly if it catches on since advertisers will be coming back at Spotify citing a big decrease in ad interaction.