IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
I have another OS installed in a VM, an admittedly ridonkulous number of open tabs (that's just how I work) and an IDE, and that puts me at around 11GB in use.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Presumably we have the fourth amendment in the first place because we saw the dangers of living in a surveillance state. Now that technology has given us multiple end-runs around the fourth amendment, it would be to our benefit to look how
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by IvyMike 12y ago
My theory: during the cold war, there was "America is the best" propaganda which even though it was really anti-Soviet, ended up discouraging people from travelling anywhere . Berlin wall fell in 1989, the cold war propaganda ta
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I've been a ThinkPad customer for ages, and have recommended them to others many times. I'm fuming mad over this. What's the best way to tell Lenovo they fucked up? I mean, I can vent over social media all day but will they
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by IvyMike 12y ago
If any of the TrueCrypt forks gain traction, this will be useful as at least it establishes an audited baseline. (TrueCrypt had a weird license that makes forking a little strange; more here: https://security.stackexchange.com&#x
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by IvyMike 12y ago
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8850059
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by IvyMike 12y ago
He mentions both Canada and Mexico in the article.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I don't know exactly what's going on, but I'm on a mediocre Obamacare plan that costs less than the author's plan. Even though it's in the most expensive drug tier, as far as I can tell Abilify would cost me $70 a
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Molyneux has a personal brand that he has damaged through this kickstarter. If you don't consider your reputation to be valuable, it soon won't be.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> While jurors sided with Intellectual Ventures, they awarded the patent holder less than six percent of the $299 million its lawyers sought, according to a Symantec spokesperson. The verdict form indicates the company was also asking fo
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The filled pause is actually sending you information; specifically, "this thought is not complete, but I'm putting a lot of thought into choosing the right word". It's a verbal "hourglass" icon. I agree overus
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I'd argue that most human diet and fitness results aren't even 'science', simply because you can't treat humans like lab rats. The "experiments" we do are extremely limited in scope, and thus the results a
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> still missing the one key feature that I really need: offline In general, Google has disdain for the very concept of "offline", so I suspect this feature never happens.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
This is super nitpicky but I feel bad for OP. Just in case you missed his comment: technically, the submitter did use the original title as marked by the <title> tags. It's just that the headline (as marked by <h1>) is dif
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I'll agree we usually don't like changed headlines here on HN. But on the other hand, when you say "title is misleading", well, I'm not sure how--in the end, both the original and the revised headlines mean the sam
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Imagine getting into your car and having it say “Oh! Hey. I’m faster now than I was yesterday. You’re welcome!” Because that’s what’s happening. Yes, that is awesome. But on the other hand, in the past I've had updates to my TiVo
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The whole herd immunity bit of vaccines requires that people understand just a tiny, tiny bit of very easy math. So we're probably fucked.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Not sure on iOS. Here it is on the web interface: https://imgur.com/O1DaihN
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The Netflix UI is not completely consistent, so on some screens the option is not available, but in theory you can rate a movie as "Not Interested" for these cases.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
It's almost like he mentioned it because he realized it was silly after the fact and wanted to share that bit of mirth with us.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I dunno if I'm gonna change my tires but I imagine if I didn't want to be tracked it would be not too difficult to smash/electrocute/burn the tags into nonfunctionality.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Back in 2000, Austin Meyer simulated Mars in X-Plane, his physics-based sim. (Nitpickers corner: some people don't like it, but it's good enough for this kind of a thing) His summary is kind of over-the-top but interesting noneth
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Going back to ratification of the California Constitution in 1879, the beaches belong to the people. > Article X, Section 4: No individual, partnership, or corporation, claiming or possessing the frontage of tidal lands of a harbor, bay,
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Making fun of your own culture is very different than making fun of a different culture.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Somewhat interestingly, this would do pretty well, as the semi-fictional [1] Weissman score takes into account both compression speed and ratio. [1] http://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/soft...
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Deutsch discounts the possibility that we create AGI the same way the universe did: as a sum of emergent behaviors honed by an evolutionary process. Nobody developing an AGI is going to code every behavior, line by line. They're goin
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by IvyMike 12y ago
As an Android/Maps/Chrome user, Google answers all of my questions, tells me what to buy, tells me where to go, and directs and monitors all of my communications. I think the only question left is: did you notice? Edit: Dear immed
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Comedian Pete Holmes' take on this from a few years ago: http://youtu.be/PQ4o1N4ksyQ
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That might work on the moon, but on Mars... http://www.universetoday.com/14892/mars-dust-storms/
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I have a friend who used to be a "Private Eye", just a few years ago. I suspect the kind of work he did will never fully go away. Most of his cases were workman's comp fraud--he basically sat in a van all day, waiting to ca

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