Crito

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by Crito 12y ago
That is only for smartphones specifically though, as I understand it.
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by Crito 12y ago
Correct. However: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680780 or: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337001 Another law of successful (or at least apparently effective) "law hacking": http:&
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by Crito 12y ago
s/longer/more expensive/
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by Crito 12y ago
Incandescents tend to be cheap enough that nobody cares. Even if they are longer in the long run, the per-burn-out cost is cheap enough that it will rarely hurt somebodies wallet. Easier to stomach 10 $1.00 burnouts than 1 $10 burnout. Se
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by Crito 12y ago
Brigading is not IRC slang. It is web forum slang, perhaps reddit specific. I've only heard it in the reddit/HN context, never in IRC. IRC is nevertheless a popular way to 'organize' such 'brigades'.
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by Crito 12y ago
You think people like Boris Johnson don't receive the occasional death threat? Laughable.
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by Crito 12y ago
> "date with a price" Freudian slip? ;)
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Second, he is not Aaron Schwartz, who the community rallied around" That's not how I remember it going down on HN. Not while he was still alive anyway. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5056279
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by Crito 12y ago
I would say that maybe they are needed to keep pace with all the Lambos the locals have, but I think we all know the police there are not particularly interested in enforcing the law when rich locals are involved. It is pure fashion.
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by Crito 12y ago
Because the product does not yet have significant traction, and they believe enough bad press could kill the product completely. Facial recognition is something that they fear would invite bad press. Honestly, I think the product has been
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by Crito 12y ago
> "it doesn't give them any capabilities they didn't already have" Quantity has a quality all of it's own. While currently the police can attempt to observe and memorize every face they see during their patrol
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by Crito 12y ago
> "The only effect that can make quadcopter stable is having centre of gravity below centre of lift just like normal helicopter." This strikes me as incorrect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_rocket
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by Crito 12y ago
> "And essentially all adoption in Sweden is international - only about 100 adoption cases a year involve Swedish births." Why is that? A lack of Swedish orphans? Red tape that exists locally but not internationally? That
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by Crito 12y ago
Stop thinking like a crab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
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by Crito 12y ago
I'd post my rant about teamsters here, but I'm afraid I'm not a teamster so I'm not allowed to do that.
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by Crito 12y ago
So really: Anybody with more than two braincells to rub together. Impeding the development of a vaccine because you fear that you personally will not be able to afford it is the worst kind of stupid. The kind of stupid which leaves you fe
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by Crito 12y ago
Nobody but a fool would ever mistake a poll on HN for a poll of the general population. The entire point of a poll on HN is to poll HN users, not the general population.
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by Crito 12y ago
Feminists calling other people "not _real_ feminists" is a full-time hobby for some people. Some people even consider watching the drama to be a spectator sport of sorts. There are entire subreddits dedicated to just observing
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by Crito 12y ago
I take half-hour showers; longer on the weekend. It's a decent way to unwind. Don't worry, I'm not using Californian water. ;)
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by Crito 12y ago
Whenever syntax highlighing is being discussed, I like to plug Linus Åkesson's 'A Case Against Syntax Highlighting' : http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/syntaxhighlighting/ Personally, I do
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by Crito 12y ago
The Edmund Fitzgerald ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald ) has a similar diving ban, although in that case the family members of the victims support it.
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by Crito 12y ago
You, a freshman, got a chemistry department shut down because a professor pulled the battery out of your laptop? Bullshit. Which university was this?
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by Crito 12y ago
But this conversation isn't about being rich. It is about not being poor. There is a world of difference between the two.
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by Crito 12y ago
What do online gambling websites have to do with empathy, or lack of it? I mean, I guess in some jurisdictions it is illegal, so it would be a risky move, but what does that have to do with empathy? Lack of empathy for your future, potenti
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by Crito 12y ago
> "Don't use shell for data transmission." Shell != Environmental variables.
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by Crito 12y ago
Bend a phone once, shame on the phone. Bend a phone four times ...
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by Crito 12y ago
Do all your chips/crisps come unsalted or something?
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by Crito 12y ago
> "jesus when the fuck is HN getting a real quote tag" I just do this. I think it works well enough.
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by Crito 12y ago
Since other people are reporting that their copies of bash 3.2.51 are vulnerable, I suspect that the version of bash that is currently running in that terminal is 3.2.51 and vulnerable, but the version of bash that you are invoking from t
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by Crito 12y ago
I have never heard of a landlord in the US that does not accept checks. Many only accept checks (or probably cash if you offered it), particularly non-corporate landlords. My current (corporate) landlord accepts checks or direct deposit, b

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