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811.
by Cpoll 9y ago
Can anyone explain Google's rationale here? As I understand the US patent system, patent trolls can and do make these sorts of patent filings all the time, and the legitimacy doesn't matter, because their victims can't afford
812.
by Cpoll 9y ago
> I can have any person off the street ask me the right questions. I doubt that. "Asking the right question" really means being able to identify which problems exist. From the anecdotes I read on HN about dysfunctional companie
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by Cpoll 9y ago
I'll add an anecdote as a counter-example (I think the details might be a bit off here, it might not be VS): Visual Studio removed 'macro' functionality, and a bunch of developers went to the forums to complain and demand an
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> but is now one of the most popular online games and competitive e-sports Are there any numbers, I'm actually curious. I don't regularly see it on the Twitch.tv front page, so my impression was it was a bit behind the big name
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> In 1903, the average voter didn't know what the government was doing. In "Amusing Ourselves to Death," Neil Postman argued the opposite: In the 1800s, people would watch hours-long political debates for amusement and wer
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> WELL DAMNIT WHY AM I WASTING TIME REPLYING TO SOME BS ON HACKER NEWS‽ This isn't only a work-from-home affliction.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
To supplement this, the article says: > This particular mosquito species entered the area in 2013. Although the scientific consensus I usually read on the topic of eradicating mosquitoes is that it won't destabilize any ecosystem.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
?? > Verily’s male mosquitos were infected with the Wolbachia bacteria, which is harmless to humans but when they mate with and infect their female counterparts, it makes their eggs unable to produce offspring. > male mosquitos don’t
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by Cpoll 9y ago
There's a ton for "Peach Tree" and "Peach Tree" Edit: Misread, I thought you meant there weren't any results, not even in Georgia. The best I could do is "Peach" and "Peach Tree" for GA resu
820.
by Cpoll 9y ago
I'm not sure if it's a fair comparison. Walking to the line is far more pleasant than waiting in the line.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> Avoid: SMS has been at the center of a lot of two-factor hacks, most recently as a way to hijack Telegram accounts in Iran. High-security accounts are already moving away from it, but a frightening number of services still keep it as a
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by Cpoll 9y ago
They gave him a month, he already has access to any of those emails, and will continue to - nothing to clean, in that sense. In any case, it's not their stated reason. If they're sending emails using noreply already (which are bou
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by Cpoll 9y ago
I think a fair alternative would have been to make his email address read-only. It still would've been inconvenient for him, but he would have been able to control his internet legacy on his own terms, and it would've solved their
824.
by Cpoll 9y ago
The US exploits their disenfranchised as well: see the prison system.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> But as it slammed shut, Thevis realized the car keys were in the dead man’s pocket. Surrounded by blood, he’d locked himself out of the car, and the morning shift was about to clock in. Sounds like panic? It's not his car, he shou
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by Cpoll 9y ago
"It could be worse" fallacy. I don't think everyone has the luxury to philosophize about giving up material possessions and exiting the rat race, either. A lot of people are living from paycheck to paycheck (or worse), have d
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by Cpoll 9y ago
There's not enough info in this article, sadly. If an operator logs a bunch of practice hours but makes a mistake in a crowded area and collides with someone, is that negligence necessitating this sort of punishment? If the device isn&
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> isn't going to eventually drive people away from it? It's wishful thinking - most mobile developers can't afford to say no to abuse from their primary revenue stream.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11680013 "To start, I found the top address where this ticket were given: in front of 575 Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn, where over $48,000 in parking fines were issued in the
830.
by Cpoll 9y ago
Probably both. Locks are to keep honest employees from having sex in your anechoic chamber.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> they test to see if your database is decryptable with the password you entered (after it is hashed). At which point they have full access to your database, don't they? > And you can already read the Lastpass browser extension&#
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by Cpoll 9y ago
A year before that was Snow Crash, which described the dominance of corporate enclaves in a compelling fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash Of course, the earlier Neuromancer had many of the same themes. B
833.
by Cpoll 9y ago
I think a lot of the discussion gets wrapped up in the gameplay perspective, but it's trivial to make a "worst" game - maybe a text file renamed "worstgame.exe," or something I can slap together in JS/Canvas in
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by Cpoll 9y ago
I'm also confused by how things went down. Can't you ask your lawyer to contact someone for you? And why did you lose your things - can't your son collect the items that were in your apartment and arrange for storage? Did you
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> Worth sacrificing your childhood for. Is that specific to French immersion? I don't see what that has to do with the quoted text. If your child is already spending their childhood in school, you should at least try to help them ge
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> The shelves are tidy, because the books are placed with their covers facing out Spine-out doesn't facilitate browsing, so I can't see why this is a bad thing. More books doesn't equate more options or a better experience
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by Cpoll 9y ago
"Wooden shoe" is correct, but "kick with shoe" is the likely intent. I think the mill-works bit is apocryphal, in spite of Star Trek.
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by Cpoll 9y ago
Previous discussion on the man (different article): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12337073
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by Cpoll 9y ago
> It also had to be comfortable, so Ratti designed the seat shape around a 3-D scan of a human body. If true, it shouldn't be too uncomfortable, no more so than a wooden chair. The gap between the slats doesn't matter much (aga
840.
by Cpoll 9y ago
Not necessarily. You don't need to pay a lawyer too much to send a strongly worded letter, and that can be enough to scare a low grade scammer into paying back half of his earnings.

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