DanBC2

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by DanBC2 14y ago
There's a difference between "knowing" something and then experiencing it. Knowing that rent and taxes are high is one thing, but balancing the books really brings it home.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
>The most crushing aspect I saved for last though. Taxes here are significantly higher than I’ve experienced anywhere. This means you’re squeezed both on your take home pay and your expenses. ...and some weirdness means they don't spend
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by DanBC2 14y ago
It's an optional filter. People can ask to have it turned off. It's a voluntary filter that the companies chose to implement before government forced filtering on them. It's baffling to me to see this described as censorship. The content
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Deep Blue was one computer against one human. The comment you're replying to is suggesting teams with two members: Computer A and Human A VS Computer B and Human B. Thanks for the link to the Blondie24 book!
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by DanBC2 14y ago
I don't know if it's a law, but it's done differently to the normal filters. The Internet Watch Foundation provides a list of sites that are involved in images of child sexual abuse. While they're an industry group, they are a bit more ser
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Hardware incubator sounds like a really good idea. Many people are not interested in funding hardware projects at all - hardware just has a lousy reputation. But having a hardware incubator means you concentrate expertise in all the stuff t
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Have you written any blog posts about the process? I'm sure many people would be interested in what happens.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
I agree. One of the problems with the Kickstarter model is that companies were offering product in exchange for funding. They should have been offering stickers and mentions on a "Thank You" page, or tours of the factories, or some such. T
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by DanBC2 14y ago
"The Newtonian Casino" is about a group of hackers who build shoe-computers to cheat at roulette. It's a fascinating true story. A similar device could easily be built for chess computers. Especially since hardware now is much more powerfu
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by DanBC2 14y ago
All the mobile providers crunch images. T Mobile attempt it for all images. It's frustrating when HN page load is delayed because their stupid proxies are struggling to serve the tiny voting button gifs. I mentioned before the weirdly bro
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by DanBC2 14y ago
I'd be interested to see the results of two bots playing against humans. Bot One just plays the odds. Bot Two just plays the odd, but has a small chance of bluffing - it has a poor hand but plays as if it has a great hand. I'd be interested
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by DanBC2 14y ago
You know these filters are optional, right? Comparing these to the filters for images of child sexual abuse is bizarre - they're operated in very different ways.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
>First, because many people will be unaware that this kind of "mature content" censorship is taking place at all, and therefore won't ask for it to be stopped. You get a huge interstitial page telling you that the site is being blocked
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Maybe, if they can get access to a suitable display, keyboard, mouse.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Similar devices already exist. ( http://liliputing.com/2012/06/74-mk802-android-4-0-mini-pc-f... ) Dell probably have good deals with their suppliers, and are hoping on volume, and so could bring the cost down to something where $50 makes s
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> And this is going to be a serious problem for Google, in the long run. Once you lose reliability and accountability, people start looking elsewhere. Google's customers are advertisers. They get personal support, with real people. It
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by DanBC2 14y ago
We used to have a right to silence in England. Our current Miranda equivalent police caution says: > You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> makes me pretty weary of trusting anything I read on TheAtlantic ever again I agree. It's a shame. Sometimes they have great content. I'd be happy to pay for that content. I even post links to that content in various places. But t
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> Every so often, the Church of Scientology gets its ass handed to it. They get a few wins too. ( http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1997/sep/helmers.html )
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Nice. Everyone knows about algorithm, right? From Wikipedia: > The word "Algorithm", or "Algorism" in some other writing versions, comes from the name al-Khwārizmī, pronounced in classical Arabic as Al-Khwarithmi. Al-Khwārizmī (Persian:
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> The key though is that once mental illness occurs, rationality goes out the window. A minor nitpick: In UK law we have the Mental Capacity Act. People must not be seen as lacking capacity to make decisions just because they have a m
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Congratulations on this. I particularly like the clear straightforward wording on your website, which lets people know exactly what they can expect.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> the fact is that suicide is simply a symptom of mental illness, and nothing else. This is simplistic and wrong. Mental illness is a factor in some attempted or completed suicides. But is mental ill health the only factor? No. There
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> But there's a question as to whether it's advisable to allow citizens to consume drugs that [...] The current approach is very expensive, and very harmful to individuals and to society. Someone injecting heroin will do so whether it's
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by DanBC2 14y ago
> It is worth reminding everyone that a vanishingly small number of criminal defendants in the US commit suicide, despite whatever injustice they feel about their charges and despite any accusations of prosecutorial overreach. That's in
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by DanBC2 14y ago
>whereas earlier hackers often worked with people. There's a book detailing the rise of hacker culture. There's a bit about hackers 'borrowing' tools from someone. The contempt they showed that man, and his tools, shows that working w
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Suicide is still a taboo for many people. Reporting a death as a suicide is still problematic for some people. Not that long ago the common practice was to record deaths as accidental or misadventure rather than suicide unless it was uneq
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Yes, of course you're right. I was sloppy with my words.
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by DanBC2 14y ago
People want to eat meat. Pink slime is a small amount of meat with large amounts of the bits you'd normally leave behind. I'm not against mechanically recovered meat. But I'd prefer children to get chunks of real meat cooked well than a s
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by DanBC2 14y ago
Oh! That was posted here very recently. It's going into production with a few small changes. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033328 )

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