IvyMike

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by IvyMike 9y ago
You think this roulette is mean spirited you should see the Russian version.
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Also, direct link to intro video: https://vimeo.com/234014335
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Back in the dotcom craze, there was a company trying to promote their internet currency. Think Flooz or Beenz, although it was neither one of those. Let's call it iDollars. To promote their currency, they had a variety of games you c
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by IvyMike 9y ago
Yes, I'm thinking of the moral question rather than the legal one. Other commenters seem upset that Dr. Lui didn't get his credit, but it seems to me the next level of credit is equally interesting. (I'm getting off topic, b
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I keep wondering: If one thinks that Netflix ripped off Dr. Lui, do they also think that Dr. Lui rip off the manufacturer of the VHS tape? I mean, some designer spent long hours thinking about the many specifics of the tape design; do they
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by IvyMike 9y ago
> And second, who cares what his motivation is? Knowing his motivations (is he simply misinformed? is he corrupt? does he believe in strict libertarianism?) has a big impact in shaping a winning strategy to oppose him.
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If I were the LA Times, every Disney movie review would be replaced by text saying "Disney has blacklisted us from early screenings as a retaliation for an article we published on them. When our reviewer has a chance to attend a norma
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I want a reddit (or hackernews) with this style voting. The longer you've been a member, the more your vote counts. There would probably be unintended consequences galore but it would interesting to see if it helped preserve culture a
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> They've proven useful for buying drugs, but beyond that they've not created many new business opportunities. The Ransomware business model has really taken off as well.
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As others have mentioned, the watches are customized to the owner's preferred location. https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/vacheron-constantin-les-ca...
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Explain Comcast.
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My concern is it made 0xABCDEF turn into 0xAB_DE_F. What happened to the "C"?
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Remember, "exotic" depends on where you live. If you watch Iron Chef, the original one from Japan, you'll see whenever they have a dish with avocado, the guest judges always proclaim "Avocado! How Exotic!" Even wi
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My ISP (Spectrum) only enables IPv6 to a subset of their "supported" cable modem list. In other words, if you don't have the right cable modem, you may get IPv4 but don't get IPv6. It's possible your provider may d
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by IvyMike 10y ago
A couple of years ago, I walked the entirety of Wilshire Boulevard, from One Wilshire in Downtown all the way to the beach in Santa Monica. It's about 16 miles, and it takes all day, but you can do it. Breakfast at Eggslut, lunch at t
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by IvyMike 10y ago
Hangouts, Talk.
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by IvyMike 10y ago
Note that JWZ blocks links to his site from HN; if you click on the link in the parent, dnalounge.com redirects you to a childish NSFW image with an insulting phrase about Hacker News. Cutting and pasting the URL into another tab works.
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"Have you heard the good news about our lord and savior K'Xthkapatykak?"
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Change into running clothes, go to a trail/track, and shower afterwards and you easily add that much overhead.
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Discussed three days ago, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13092944
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A tiny bit more information here: https://www.greatagain.gov/serve-america.html "If Senate confirmation is required for the position you are nominated for, the Senate committee that reviews those nominations may ask yo
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by IvyMike 10y ago
Perhaps since English was not his first language he meant something closer to "Russian mobster".
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Technically it's "Los Angeles Plays Itself". This may seem pedantic, but it's a point made in the movie itself: "The acronym functions here as a slightly derisive diminutive. Now it’s become second nature, even to p
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by IvyMike 10y ago
The only good news is that I'm so dead inside I don't think it even matters. "That's the thing, Will. Americans are optimistic by nature. And if we face this problem head on, if we listen to our best scientists, and act
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by IvyMike 10y ago
Whatever happened to Tim May? The wikipedia page says "he retired in 2003", but did he really just drop off the net completely? Cursory searches turn up very little. Edit: of course as soon as I post I then find some recent(ish)
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by IvyMike 10y ago
I think even families may be shedding cars. Maybe not BOTH cars, but I know at least two families that have gone from two car households down to one car households.
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Neat. I currently use setlist.fm's "I was there" feature for this; an import feature could be cool.
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From the article: “Personal visits and telephone calls reduce recidivism." If "chit chatting" all day means they don't come back why would anyone be against it?
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> (To the anonymous downvoters, note that it is illegal (and not just a civil issue) to falsify this kind of statement in some states.) Can you say more about this--can you give some example state laws? Note that Google apparently is com
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> A flexible decentralized autonomous organization leveraging the wisdom of the crowds to benefit the DAO Token Holders [...] The DAO is a for-profit DAO that will diligently use the ETH under its control to create value and provide bene

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