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If those are your measures.

But a car can very easily beat a bicycle on time efficiency, assuming you're going more than half a mile.

A car can also beat a bicycle on opportunity exposure.

Both statements are illustrated by mine and many others' commutes. I drive 40 minutes each way, because I couldn't find a job here, but I could find a job there. I'd love to have found a job here, but at the moment my job is there. The job there would have been unthinkable without a car. Yes, I could ride the bus - train - bus, but it would take hours. For me, a bicycle would never get me there.

One of the many things that's holding back a national economic recovery is that some people can find jobs but can't sell their house to move to the new job. There's not enough movement and flexibility.

In my metro area, I have the opportunity to take any job that I can find, from ten to sixty minutes car radius. That means I eat. That comes from flexibility.

Writing prompts.

V1: click the button, and get three words that a writer would use to kickstart a daily writing exercise.

V2: choose which parts of speech are delivered: noun, verb, etc.

V3: display a creative commons licensed photo (from flickr, e.g.) relevant for each displayed word.

V4: Take your experience developing the early versions and figure out what V4 should be.

What a world. I don't trust this announcement.

no gravity smelting would be difficult

I know nothing, but I would think gravity smelting and related operations would be much more technically difficult and risky than gravity based operations on the moon.

The results were as intended, the business was destroyed. Bonus: the govt doesn't have to spend money on a trial, and risk an innocent verdict.

Mission accomplished.

I doubt if it's make-up corruption to apologize for SOPA, it smells like mere corruption.

A very lucrative 1996.

He's using something tab-like, the task bar or whatever it's called on Mac. I use my (linux) task bar to see my separate apps (like everyone does), with sub-"apps" in Firefox tabs. His "tabs" are just migrated up to his task bar as separate instances of Safari. Same thing, different implementation. They both bookmark locations of concentration. The difference is that, on the Mac, for jwz, it works well with Safari and not with Firefox.

So then it's not so simple. Some commerce wins, some lose.

Gov enacts a law, but says don't worry they won't enforce it in some cases? Ludicrous.

If shopping cart-type cookies are excluded, then I'd say this law favors FB et al.

"It's also a bit rich saying that tracking cookies are bad whilst trying to pass a law attempting to track almost all communication:"

Governments hate competition.

They say they took the server for investigative purposes. If true, all they needed to do was take a copy of the disks. At worst the service might have been offline a few hours.

The purpose was to disrupt and stop the service with minimal effort and without having to wait for a trial. They were able to judge and punish a business without trial.

Why would they do that? In this case it might be the very common law enforcement motivation of doing something, anything.

Ah, best of both worlds. I'll have to try that.

Would be cool to have a single window of image, and a separate single window of tools.

Then don't do that.

Edit your code block over at the left margin as you would normally edit any code. Then do a block insert of 4 spaces down the left side of your code block. That's how I do it.

    line of code
    line of code
        indented line of code
    line of code

In vim, after editing your code like you usually would:

    Go to the front of the top line,
    Ctrl-V to enter visual block mode (Ctrl-Q on windows),
    jjj to the bottom line,
    I (capital I) to insert at the front,
    space space space space,
    escape.

I did exactly that to create the above two blocks.

Assuming honest research can achieve any of this in the foreseeable future, does anyone expect DHS to conduct or oversee research honestly and competently?

I was an agent a few years ago, side trip from my career.

Agents eat this kind of thing up. If they think it will help, they'll buy it or something like it (and there are somethings like it).

Selling pick axes in Denver is a great business to be in.

Work: same people every day (nice though they may be).

Everywhere else: everyone else.

They're billion dollar companies, they can't be trusted.

"I --and I am sure others-- have exactly zero interest in touching any Google product other than Analytics because it can all go "poof" overnight if an algorithm doesn't like something you did somewhere...and you'll never know why and never have real recourse to attempt to fix it."

We who recognize the problem are in the minuscule minority, and those of us who don't use their services because of that are in the unmeasurable minority. Google won't lose a measurable cent over it.

"Why should 'I' make a job my primary focus?"

"You" shouldn't, but there are plenty of people who will. Everyone wakes up most mornings, and you have to do something until you go to sleep. For some people, this is it, but it could be anything else. It doesn't really matter what, unless that matters to you too.

I think in this day and age business casual is appropriate anywhere you want to be.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_casual

Shirt with a collar, slacks, belt, non-athletic shoes.

"Clive's Parking. 1/2 mile from the Olympic venue."

"Half Mile Parking."

And now I looked. ;-)

"You do something so clever that you somehow beat the system, that’s called a hack"

"After completing the test project, although the employer commending on the effort I put on, he couldn’t take me as he is looking for a permanent fulltime remote employee, not a part-timer. And he doesn’t have the budget to match my current fulltime salary.

"I tell him frankly I might not have a lot of real world rails experience, but I really like web development and would love to have the opportunity to work on the project. So we discussed about the possibility of a part time arrangement on hourly rate. We come to a rate that is much lower than if I were to divide my fulltime salary by the hour. But heck, I am starting out and just glad to get my first freelance rails gig.

"So far I have been in it for about 2 months, I work on the project by waking up early at 4 or 5 a.m. before going to work on weekday, then a total of 8-10 hours on weekend."

You hacked your freelance gig.

Congratualations on opening your eyes to something bigger. Thanks, and good luck.

Unless you're internet famous, you have to tell me what "this" is in the title or I'm not going to look.

I think your first reference is generally correct. Email the protocol is mostly not broken, and the most fruitful improvements to email are in the client, not the protocol. An RFC can be improved (and most have), but that should be a matter of tweaking, not replacement.

I would like to see an additional kind of email built on RSS or something like it. I only get your "r-mail" if I both subscribe and poll. Maybe that can be had right now with better/different rss clients, and make (virtual) rss servers more available at an individual level.

The benefit is that I only get what I want, when I want it. Although a roughly similar result can be had through email whitelisting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format#Code_example

From their example:

    $ echo "{\rtf1\ansi{\fonttbl\f0\fswiss Helvetica;}\f0\pard
    This is some {\b bold} text.\par
    }" |wc -c
    86
    
    $ echo "This is some bold text." |wc -c
    24

Also see cd34's comment.

If you're going to add information, that has to be a higher byte count.

Not exactly the focus of the article, but maybe taxis and other commercial vehicles are the use case for flying cars.