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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The altitude is the curious part to me. 37,000 feet is right in the commercial aviation region, though it sounds like they were staying well away from established corridors.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
But the basis of decisions like Citizens United is that corporations have rights (free speech and so on) because they're just collections of people, who have those rights as individuals. The key idea behind CU is that people don't
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
He said what he gets from it- a list of links. I mostly agree. I come here for the links, and HN does deliver some quality links each day. I've lowered my expectations for discussion to "mediocre subreddit."
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
They're really just hitting their stride in content production. There's plenty of room for them to grow making stuff for their global distribution platform. They're in 190 countries and can exploit their productions worldwide
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
2% seems too low to me, but I'd be surprised if it was much over 20%. Professional level bitcoin mining has been a thing for 5+ years now, and it's highly optimized for efficiency. Hydroelectric power is often where the best deals
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
This is one of the best summaries of software development practices I've seen. It's maybe even the way it should work.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
But the coins stay in the system. They are transferred from one party to another party in exchange for a service.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
What percentage of mining energy comes from burning fossil fuels?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The case was real, dunno about the new tools part. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorena_Weeks
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
"Over the last week, Kotaku interviewed 12 of Atari’s earliest female employees, in the hopes of hearing their stories—good or bad—about working at Atari in the ‘70s and early ‘80s. The culture they told us about was certainly, as Play
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Yeah, hard to see how this could possibly go wrong.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I think this is more or less how it is. I don't think it's mutually exclusive though. Tux was an awful coder and Mt. Gox was a scam at the same time.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I used them as my sole source of groceries for about 3 years and had no problems with products or deliveries at any point. I do agree about the fees, which I always unchecked and I always tipped the driver in cash despite Instacart urging m
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
If you're interested in this, I highly recommend the book The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics Of Contemporary Art. As the promo blurb says, it's a Freakonomics-style look the art world, covering artists, deals, co
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I don't know if it's still true, but it used to be the case that if your reply to a comment your downvote to that comment does not count. It was a pretty clever mechanism in that you could be certain any downvotes didn't come
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
An average smartphone contains sensors that can detect any emissions of in wifi and infrared, as well as inaudible audio. While only a portion of what you describe, it's not difficult to imagine an app that could recognize and warn of
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
When you ask for a source and someone provides it, any further rebuttals on your part really should include a source of your own.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I wonder what ever happened to that idea of a PAN (personal area network) that was touted a few years back.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
You know, I was going to respond. I produced multiple million plus views comedy videos. I raked in those fat 4 figure paydays. Heh. But then I realized that was all a decade ago and I have no idea how to do that today. Or if it's even
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Maybe there's some accounting thing where each download helps them meet a charitable requirement or something. Or maybe they take their educational mission seriously and this is a really low marginal cost way to do it.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The Bulletins are nice. I particularly enjoy the "recent acquisitions" Bulletins they put out to showcase the highlights of what they've added in the last couple years. Those cover objects from broad swaths of history, from a
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
This is more accurate. There was a relatively lengthy period before the collapse when you simply could not withdraw.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Yes, they're an excellent venue for ads on insurance, loans, mortgages, and mesothelioma. So like the badly made ads you see on local TV. What an odd business.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I spend about 10 minutes a day on instagram and come away thinking how amazing the world is. You have to curate your feed. Curate curate curate.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
It's both a product of crypto-hype and one of several futures of art collecting.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
This looks infinitely better than the Facebook industrial-esque spaces, but then this is for a tiny portion of the company's employees.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Cryptokitties might be seen to have continued that trend on an even faster scale!
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
So where do you go instead?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I must be weird. At no time has the idea of a line ever influenced my decision to go into a convenience store.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I dunno how it works everywhere, but when I worked as a busboy and then later as a barback (similar job), I was paid a percentage of the tips from each waitress or bartender, directly from each individual to me.

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