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by acobster 9y ago
I also see it like a credit report, but for a different reason: some companies make money by recording your activity and selling your data. They use their profits to corner the market and create an oligopoly so powerful that people just acc
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by acobster 9y ago
> The Friday before I started, my wife, my assistant, and I came in after everybody left and worked all weekend. We ripped everything off the walls, painted, cleaned the carpet, emptied cupboards, put new art on the walls... Based on t
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by acobster 9y ago
Despite the requisite HN cynicism, this is really, really cool. This is a bland marketing demo of course they're not going to get to the really interesting parts. Oh, this combo of instruments didn't really sound that good...yea
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by acobster 9y ago
As someone who lives with two teachers, I find this hilarious and awesome. :D I still haven't played Minecraft, but this makes me want to learn how from a kid.
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by acobster 9y ago
Yeah, I had a similar thought. I think the author was being deliberately modest, prepping the reader by getting their guard up for a big assertion and then delivering a relatively unsurprising point.
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by acobster 9y ago
That is some of the best handwriting I have ever seen. Just beautiful.
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by acobster 9y ago
> mailed 23000 private keys I had a similar thought. My thought was: "HOLY SHIT!"
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by acobster 9y ago
My favorite video about observing black holes: https://youtu.be/iphcyNWFD10 Enjoy :)
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by acobster 9y ago
This is really exciting and has a lot of potential. The pause button is broken on Android Firefox, though. :)
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by acobster 9y ago
Great article. On a side note, I took five years of French and never learned that si is specifically for contradicting a negative. Sup with that.
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by acobster 9y ago
This. ;) I think what tickles me about it is that they clearly know what they're talking about, but they're also actively setting themselves apart from the Ivory Tower and signaling that their interest is one that brings them some
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by acobster 9y ago
The text in the first example, "bolder not bigger," is quite obviously bigger.
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by acobster 9y ago
I find it much more plausible that Ayoub, the bank agent, simply took the fall for a handful of other people who were also conned. The more elaborate explanations smack of mistaking ignorance for malice.
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by acobster 9y ago
As a vegan myself, I find it laughable that someone could somehow elude the notion that the vegan "lifestyle" is "restrictive and bland" until they fortuitously discover this GitHub repo, or a tool that uses it. People a
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by acobster 9y ago
Clearly there are elements that we're lifted from anime tropes, including the age-play suggestive voice and costume, but I think what's novel about this is the format of the presentation. Poppy's not just a character that exi
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by acobster 9y ago
I found out about this thing a while ago from Vsauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDrBIKOR01c That video is still one of my all-time YouTube favorites.
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by acobster 9y ago
This is the best resource I've found about making your own grid goodness, if that's what you're after: http://j4n.co/blog/Creating-your-own-css-grid-system This tool seems oriented at abstracting away a
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by acobster 9y ago
> Sebastian Tomczak, an electronic musician from Australia, uploaded a ten-hour white-noise video to YouTube, and was promptly walloped with five infringement claims. YouTube’s automated Content ID system scans all uploaded videos again
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by acobster 9y ago
I have had lucid dreams, but rarely. In "ordinary" dreams, yes, I am myself and also not myself. I often feel like a character in a movie that I'm watching passively at the same time. The degree of compulsion vs. agency varie
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by acobster 9y ago
I took a basic falconry lesson with my dad last year. Besides being one of the coolest things I did all year, I got to learn all about the species we worked with: the Harris hawk. Native to the Southwest region of North America, they are of
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by acobster 9y ago
Me too, but it's still possible to encounter conflicts during rebases. This tool might help with those.
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by acobster 9y ago
uMatrix is also great. It does a lot of the same things NoScript does, but at a greater granularity. I still use NoScript for its XSS protection features but have the main JS-blocking feature disabled because it's redundant.
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by acobster 9y ago
Also this: https://harc.ycr.org/project/realtalk/
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by acobster 9y ago
Absolutely wonderful. I had an idea that I have never acted on (yet) to create in-c.net, which I imagined as a fully randomized performance/arrangement of the original Riley piece. This feels much more at home on the internet though. I
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by acobster 9y ago
Here's a fun one for all you *nix experts out there. Need help debugging the strangest bug I've ever personally come across. Thanks!
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Ask HN: owner/group getting set to `82`(unix.stackexchange.com)
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by acobster 9y ago
More advice from a guy named Jeff: "Listen to your users, but don't let them tell you what to do." -- Jeff Atwood
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by acobster 9y ago
"Science is not and cannot be a quest for a complete knowledge of the universe. Rather, it is a process whereby certain information is selected as being more relevant to human aims and understanding." - William Poundstone, from T
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by acobster 9y ago
Holy crap! 9 compiler passes? How can anyone reason about such a process? Was this tool, like, actually popular?
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by acobster 9y ago
Right. Good thing they do that. Every time. Yup.

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