Agathos

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by Agathos 9y ago
Those paint color names are an AI success.
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by Agathos 9y ago
There's one. Depending on who you ask, it's called surge pricing or price gouging.
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by Agathos 9y ago
> How did that work out for oil a couple years ago? Do you think there's a new technology on the way that will increase the supply of gold the way fracking increased the supply of natural gas and oil? Fun to think about asteroid min
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by Agathos 9y ago
Not a good idea. Elephants never forget.
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by Agathos 9y ago
If video games have taught me anything, they've taught me that I can find love by quitting my desk job and moving to the country to run a tiny farm.
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by Agathos 9y ago
That gave me the best bad idea ever: a four-legged robot. The front legs are controlled by Javascript; the rear by PL/pgSQL.
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by Agathos 9y ago
Raise your hand if you were excited when you heard Java 1.5 would introduce autoboxing.
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by Agathos 9y ago
After reading these comments, I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only one who owns an old-fashioned flyswatter. With a long, stiff handle and a flick of the wrist, it moves a lot faster than a fly. I've even stunned them by hi
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by Agathos 9y ago
Guar gum is also natural. It's extracted from guar beans. And it's widely used (and overused) in lots of US ice cream brands.
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by Agathos 9y ago
Explaining why they moved to San Francisco in the first place?
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by Agathos 9y ago
It runs hot and sucks a lot of power. Are miners going to be interested in that?
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by Agathos 9y ago
My father is red-green colorblind and he flies small planes.
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by Agathos 9y ago
Yeah, but none of those Democrats are running the Justice Department right now.
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by Agathos 9y ago
In Republican eyes, they are heroes for their Supreme Court victory over Obamacare. With that comes immunity from pretty much anything short of a dead girl or a live boy, as the saying goes.
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by Agathos 9y ago
I hate iTunes and I'm glad to be rid of it, but I really miss the iPod hardware. Driving that clickwheel by feel was so much more convenient than looking down at a touchscreen.
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by Agathos 9y ago
Computer programmer is fine. Software engineer... I think the argument about what qualifies you as a real engineer comes up every other day on HN.
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by Agathos 9y ago
That's the dream. But there isn't much evidence that new firms are being founded at a higher rate than the historic average, and there is some evidence that incumbent firms now enjoy increased structural advantages. https:/&
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by Agathos 9y ago
Who are the top three?
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by Agathos 9y ago
Yeah, maybe he died thinking he got his money's worth out of those 3 million dollars. Maybe.
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by Agathos 10y ago
At least two ways: scuba diving and skiing.
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by Agathos 10y ago
If you're a search engine and I send you a billion takedown notices, of which one is legitimate, and you don't comply with that one, then you will be liable for infringement. Is it worth the risk?
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by Agathos 10y ago
For example, https://imagetragick.com/ "One of the vulnerabilities can lead to remote code execution (RCE) if you process user submitted images."
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by Agathos 10y ago
I bought a new X1 Carbon six weeks ago. It came with the smaller brick in your picture.
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by Agathos 10y ago
RSI = Roberts Space Industries
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by Agathos 10y ago
> Putin hasn't been trying to increase his sphere of influence What a peculiar thing to say.
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by Agathos 10y ago
> Those who desire power make the worst leaders But bringing it up here diminishes the absurdity of this case. This line stood out to me: "Her corruption was not self-interested at all. If anything, her corruption was self-sacrifici
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by Agathos 10y ago
It's a surface ship, so it doesn't have a prayer against a submarine. Russia, China, and any hypothetical technologically sophisticated foe all have submarines.
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by Agathos 10y ago
They're throwbacks to classic Westerns where big ranchers try to force out small homesteaders. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County_War
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by Agathos 10y ago
It's also rough if you're a time traveler from the early eighties, hanging out with other time travelers. "Near as I can tell, all of popular culture and most of the English language gets taken over sometime in the early nine
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by Agathos 10y ago
Lawsuits are the continuation of flame wars by other means. -- Carl von Clausewitz (not really)

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