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by ableal 13y ago
Anyone have a good link about what's up with the "Sponsored Content by Taboola" at the bottom of so many pages nowadays? To me, they seem to have come out of nowhere over the last six months or so. P.S: their own words at ht
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by ableal 13y ago
Something I wish I had in my (European) Amazon shipping a couple weeks ago - they used a package carrier instead of the postal service, which used to be the norm. I had to call to set up a new delivery to a work address a week later.
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BitTorrent Is Building An NSA-Proof Chat Product(businessinsider.com)
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by ableal 13y ago
I missed that one. The top comment on that HN discussion, by RexRollman, is right on target: companies shouldn't be allowed to use the word "buy" for this kind of thing
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Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers(yro.slashdot.org)
49 points by ableal 13y ago|19 comments
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French gov used fake Google certificate to read its workers' traffic(theregister.co.uk)
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by ableal 13y ago
"Nerd sniping", http://xkcd.com/356/
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See you on the golf course, John, Cisco is in trouble(cringely.com)
1 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
The anecdote I usually trot out is this: back in 1990, there was a company in Ohio, called Book Stacks Unlimited, if memory serves. They had the books.com internet address. Books.com sold books by allowing one to telnet to their server, and
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Freeports: Über-warehouses for the ultra-rich(economist.com)
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by ableal 13y ago
I don't find it weird. First, the probably insignificant numbers make the impact negligible. Second, it is fair that decisions made in good faith under the rules applicable at the time are not retroactively punished.
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by ableal 13y ago
If you haven't seen it, you should look up the "modus vs. volvo" crash experiment (videos come up top in search results). It is half-drowned in "breathless TV", but it's interesting. Car manufacturers did up t
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by ableal 13y ago
Quite a while ago, HP-UX (v9, if memory serves) got this balance wrong - the system was keeping files in RAM, and kicking active processes to swap. Much gnashing of teeth ensued until HP fixed that ...
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Paid Friends(observer.com)
2 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
On bad days, one can fear that AI will come out of spam systems ...
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by ableal 13y ago
> why would you still need a swap partition? You don't, but if something decides to grab memory, the OOM-killer will kill processes abruptly. Swap may allow the system to limp along until there's some solution. It's not li
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New Details From The Largest Asteroid Impact In A Century(businessinsider.com)
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by ableal 13y ago
> Hardly enough to make the $100k 54 kW system worth it Perhaps the operative bit is "California state incentives cover about 60 percent of that price."
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by ableal 13y ago
> the satirical political TV comedy Yes, Minister Actually a documentary, as someone pointed out years ago. Great quote. (Something else depressingly well along the way to being a documentary is Terry Gilliam's 1985 movie Brazil
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by ableal 13y ago
Incidentally, "relevant Dilbert" at http://dilbert.com/fast/2013-11-03/
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Was IBM's Watson a Publicity Stunt From the Start?(pcmag.com)
2 points by ableal 13y ago|1 comments
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Dead Man's Draw - A Card Game of Risk and Reward(kickstarter.com)
1 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
> 0.1542 g / cm3 An excelent flotation device, if a tad small ... I guess the volume is off by one order of magnitude - a paper notepad of 20 x 30 x 1 centimeters would be 600 cm3.
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by ableal 13y ago
Can't see the photo on mobile - Google tries to push some download, then muffs up the URL, resulting in a 404.
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by ableal 13y ago
1. Car design, interiors: get rid of pedals and steering wheel, have a touch screen (possibly your phone) for communication. Cross an elevator with a tiny lounge, have a single central sliding door or whatever. 2. Insurance companies: basic
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by ableal 13y ago
"[...] iPad 2 sticking around for another year, shamelessly at the same price as last year." I also found that a bit jarring. A 4-to-5 price ratio relative to latest model, which has much better processor, screen and weight ..
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by ableal 13y ago
To review a book it is not strictly necessary to have read it, at least according to a few targeted authors, including this case ( "I just wanted them to read my book all the way to the end" ).
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Stalin's Blue Pencil - The Tyrant as Editor(chronicle.com)
3 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments
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by ableal 13y ago
And, as usual, he's quoted for what he did not quite say (but the meaning is accurate): http://www.chesterton.org/discover-chesterton/frequently-ask...
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Hollywood: How do we secure high-def 4K content?(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by ableal 13y ago|0 comments

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