Goronmon

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by Goronmon 14y ago
First of all, how do you know phones are the cause of this? And secondly, if this is true, then how come people are even allowed to board flights without their persons and bags being searched for electronics that are turned on? I've flown c
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Aside from spam and pages that exist merely to advertise products/companies/etc, it seems like most are those examples aren't necessarily bad, and if no one is using the articles, it's not like a huge number of static text/image pages are g
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The problem is not that the Wikipedia community was curating their content, but that that batch of content was not being actively curated by someone. This is how history works. Someone has to determine something notable and worth preservin
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by Goronmon 14y ago
My point was that it sounded like you were basically saying that only popular articles should be allowed on Wikipedia, regardless of whether that meant anything older than a few years old should be deleted. Since I don't agree, I was pointi
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Plus the big problem of sources curation, those are more unreliable in unpopular articles for the lack of eyeballs on them. The amount of work mods have to do would grow exponentially if they didn't take notability into account. Maybe you
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by Goronmon 14y ago
while I'd like the "everything inside wikipedia" approach to work, the problem with it is that every new page makes it less maintainable, disambiguation pages grow larger, category listings grow larger, search results and suggestions multi
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by Goronmon 14y ago
>Microsoft's overall profit numbers still look pretty strong to me, and their product portfolio is as diverse as ever. They've got 6 different products in their server and tools division alone that generate more than a billion dollars e
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by Goronmon 14y ago
and it is the Obama administration that has set the record for "most paramilitary raids on medical marijuana dispensaries." Have many presidents been in a position where raiding medical marijuana dispensaries was an option?
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by Goronmon 14y ago
If only they supported Android, I could find myself being interested in this news.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Their campaign should be called "Defend our profit margins", Google is no better than the publishers pushing in favor of this legislation, their interest just accidentally happen to coincide with ours. So is your argument that it's not in
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The section labelled Changing the magnitude of units at different x-values seems to indicate an actual error rather than any true 'technique' as only the last value doesn't match up with the axis labels. Though, it seems unlikely that it
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I use an adblocker because most sites I visit that serve ads do not personally vet the ads that run (with the great exception I can recall being 4chan, of all places!), they use an unfiltered third party network, which generally are great
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by Goronmon 14y ago
This is the internet not television. I'm not obliged to see their ads. I don't think anyone is really saying that. But I agree with criticsquid in that if I think a site has content worth viewing, I want to do what I can to support that s
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by Goronmon 14y ago
It could also be that my circles and I are outliers against the norm, but I very much doubt it. This seems likely. I personally don't know anyone who doesn't own a TV. In fact, I'm one of the rare few who doesn't have some form of cable o
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by Goronmon 14y ago
That quickly died down. Not really. Host advantage is still a thing that happens in a lot of multiplayer games, and peer-to-peer multiplayer has never come close to the same experience as a dedicated server.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
A better analogy is airplanes and air travel. An even better analogy is that the companies that build airplanes also build cars. They have a decent margin on cars but a much lower margin on airplanes. So, even if they could make planes th
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by Goronmon 14y ago
I've used Paypal in the past. Bitcoin is like cash (pseudo-anonymous, nobody can technically interfere with your transactions...) except it is digital while preserving these advantages. This is why it cannot be compared to Paypal. So, Bit
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by Goronmon 14y ago
>I'm willing to bet that I have more protection securing the contents of my Bitcoin Wallet than Wells Fargo has protecting my account at any level. Would you say this is true for most users?
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by Goronmon 14y ago
>I think the correct response is asking how they would get back their money if cash was stolen from their house. But stealing Bitcoins doesn't require physical access to your property. That seems like a pretty big distinction to me. Edi
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by Goronmon 14y ago
If a lay person were to ask how they get back their Bitcoins if they are stolen from their account, say due to a person gaining access to their computer, what do you tell them?
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Then he happened to be having breakfast with Sting, a friend from his days in the music business. Mr. Jahnigen told him how soccer helped the children in Darfur cope with their troubles and his efforts to find an indestructible ball. Sting
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Yeah for instance when Apple did this design a few years ago it was mostly unacceptable among Fandroids and HN crowd. Now its good, because its Android. Or the people who disliked it when it Apple did it are a different group of people th
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by Goronmon 14y ago
It all depends on whether you take "make it look pretty" as an insult or just a simplified statement of what a front-end person does. I, for one, read "make it look pretty" as "make it look like something people would want to use".
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by Goronmon 14y ago
If hitting monsters with an axe sounds as appealing as bashing your head against a wall, I guess I can understand why you wouldn't enjoy gaming.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The seemingly commonplace idea that popular american liberals are somehow less evil than the GOP is dangerous poison. What does this statement have to do with the topic being discussed? Other than just being the usual political flamebait
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The title makes a clear statement, and the article itself questions whether a Google dominated smartphone landscape is a good thing. I'm not seeing the "cheerleadery" side of this.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
Some of those people are really maladjusted, but I suppose that's to be expected from a subculture based around endlessly celebrating childrens toys. I guess there always has to be a group of people for others to look down upon.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
This is actually linked in the article.
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by Goronmon 14y ago
The point of the order was the court felt that Apple should dispel their previous public accusation that Samsung copied their design. So when Apple issues a statement that says "Court X ordered us to tell you that Samsung didn't copy us, bu
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by Goronmon 14y ago
>Yep, Ads in Google search, ads in Google Maps. Ads in apps is a lot different than ads built into the OS. What are your examples of ads built into Android itself?

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