IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
What happens when my family, let's say in Mexico, receives the $500 and needs to buy food? Is there any way, currently, that they can they do so for less than $20? (Seriously asking, I don't really know.)
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> most people(in western nations) learn about it and respond almost unanimously with 'Meh'. I have very mundane needs, and I've never figured out a compelling case for me to use bitcoin. In general, it's always been
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I always think about the tough state of existence for the "iTunes for Windows" and "Office for Mac" dev teams. I'm sure they get no support from corporate IT, their company's marketing constantly makes fun of t
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> if you get cell service through the ceiling, you'll get GPS signal through it. Download one of the apps that shows individual GPS satellite signal strengths and tell me if you still believe this. Definitely not true for my phone.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Religion is a collection of ideas. And bad ideas deserve to be criticized. It's as simple as that.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I always get tenaciously grimey hands whenever I put my wheels on and off.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
"Your minecrafters were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." P.S. Really, I'm just wowed beyond belief. This is amazing.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Including this link on HN and a few friends on facebook linking to the same article, I've seen five people talking about this hoax. And zero people actually spreading the hoax. Is this a hoax hoax?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Whenever there's one of these petitions that goes nowhere, there are a ton of, "I typed my name into a computer and it didn't make a difference! This country sucks!" responses. Look, I sympathize with this a little--the
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by IvyMike 12y ago
One argument I've seen: RISC is one way you can get an advantage of clock speed, die size, and power. But another way you can get an advantage in clock speed, die size, and power is to go to a smaller fab process. And given Moore'
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I don't understand why you are asking this, multiple times to boot. It seems unlikely to me. Do you have any reason to suspect that?
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I'm on 5.0.1 with nexus 4 and have this exact problem. So between you and me, we're up to 50%. I suspect neither one of us really have enough data to draw a statistical conclusion about how common this is.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
There's a story on the front page right now about writing a Haskell compiler from scratch. I don't mean to be an ass, but I will: there are a lot of programmers that would effectively never be able to do this. We're asking
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Is there any study comparing observant Mormons vs. a similar population showing better health? Likewise, is there any study comparing observant Muslims vs. a similar population showing better health? It would be interesting to see either.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The ominous part is that they blocked sites where you can easily share information in bulk. Is the intention to prohibit such sharing in general? Such efforts are doomed to fail, but that doesn't mean it won't be a hell of a ride
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> you should be ashamed for linking to it. He wrote the article, and that's his site.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Continuing the quote... "No serious for-profit site would consider giving up 50% of the page to an ad. It’s insane." No, the content-to-ad ratio on the screen of a commercial site would never be 50%. https://imgur.com&#
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> the research did uncover a few unexpected insights... Only 4 percent of those surveyed said social media like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn were “very important” to their jobs. I'm gonna guess that 96% of people would say that t
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> The guy isn't saying what they are doing is bad But he kinda is... > Such groups “are doing more damage than good; I want the world to hear it,”
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> (It turns out if you want to write one-sentence essays, you have to attribute them to someone else.) A concise summary of the use case for twitter.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
She can't come out and say that, because then there's even less of a reason to read the GvS twitter feed.
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Charles Bloom has been discussing PVQ and Daala over on his blog. I am not an expert nor have I fully understood these articles, but they definitely look like interesting related reading. http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com/201
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I am nearsighted, so I need glasses to see far. Anything over about a foot away starts to get blurry. But I have a second pair of "computer" glasses--basically, these are de-rated versions of my normal glasses. With these glasses
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Twilight Zone from 1986: The Misfortune Cookie, starring Elliot Gould http://youtu.be/7FlyNU9FpK0
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I supported a kickstarter to get these cricket protein energy bars manufactured. You can order a box now. https://www.exoprotein.com/ To me, they pretty much taste like any other energy bar--in fact, it's kind of a le
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Since there is 0 security at movie theaters, I as a moviegoer would be extremely scared to go to watch this movie in it's opening week. Think about what you are saying. "There is a group capable and willing to commit acts of
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Most numbers of this magnitude garner a few thousand hits on Google, but 25898913 gets 29,500,000. If you actually click through the results, on pages 1-34 you get "Page 34 of about 24,900,000 results (0.34 seconds) ", but on
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Has there been any announcement about the Google Earth Windows client being deprecated? I think it's been over a year since there were any updates. I'm guessing Google is putting all of their efforts into Maps, but it's a sh
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It may not be about sealing in the juices, but a sous-vide steak out of the bag is a very unappealing grey color. And the Maillard reaction is necessary for proper taste. You need to do something to it, be it throw it on a hot pan for a
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by IvyMike 12y ago
The comments aren't necessarily a random sample--a popular political site, blog, or twitter personality could have linked to the site, with an implied "Give 'em a piece of your mind".

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