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by afro88 12y ago
Wow, you think you know pretty much all there is to know about The Beatles and then someone posts this. Very interesting read, thanks!
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by afro88 12y ago
Anyone know how this would work in Germany? They're incredibly strict on torrents here (you can torrent one movie and get a letter in the mail 2 weeks later). This seems like it would be a nice workaround... While it lasts
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by afro88 12y ago
Because the US isn't the world police
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by afro88 12y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link!
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by afro88 12y ago
Marketing like this is supposed to form a link between the context (Brooklyn hipster lifestyle) and the product. So next time you hear about Inbox you'll think of the lifestyle and subconsciously go "maybe if I have inbox my life
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by afro88 12y ago
I know you posted tongue in cheek, but that's genuinely not that bad with nice colours
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by afro88 12y ago
> The second reason that such systems are extremely unlikely to emerge is that even if it would be doable technically, it would be extremely expensive to a company. And there would be literally no demand for it, because the overwhelming
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by afro88 12y ago
I literally went the opposite. I switched to OSX soon after the Intel transition and loved it, after a decade in Windows land. I honestly just much prefer the look and feel of Apple products and software. I find them more enjoyable to use,
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by afro88 12y ago
When your eyes look at an object in 3D space, they not only swivel so both are looking at it at the same time (convergence), but your eye muscles manipulate the lenses so the object is clear and not blurry (focus). Think of how a camera foc
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by afro88 12y ago
>The insider trading seems much the same. The sheer volume of those trades, coming less than a week before significant announcements of previously-secret information, was bound to throw up red flags. Did they have to short the stocks as
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by afro88 12y ago
Feel a bit misled by the site. I assumed this was just launched the way you phrase everything until the sentence at the very bottom of the page.
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by afro88 12y ago
> His advice gave no specific information on what angle the bow should describe, or how to move the fingers across the frets to create vibrato And it's a good thing he didn't - violins don't have frets /nitpick
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by afro88 12y ago
It is more dangerous to not look at the road than to look at it. Surely. This is safer than looking at a phone. I agree that it has the same inherent problem of distracting the driver with other tasks and making it easier for your mind to w
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by afro88 12y ago
If there is a concrete correlation between trace amounts of Lithium in the water supply and lower suicide rates, surely there are other effects? The studies done seem quite one sided to me (or more likely, this article is). For serious cons
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by afro88 12y ago
I don't see how that's an obvious argument either. Psilocybin isn't being used here as a substitute for nicotine so it shouldn't be compared to it as such. It's being administered once as part of an intensive CBT pr
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by afro88 12y ago
It's a bug in the indexing system, exploited by hostgator for (I'm guessing) SEO purposes. There are other people doing the same thing, and they're all spammy (viagra sales etc.) I reckon this will be fixed in a matter of day
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by afro88 12y ago
This trend of social networks turning to shit when investors run out of patience for their returns really sucks. It was bound to happen with Facebook and Twitter, and seeing it with Soundcloud (when they already had a revenue stream as well
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by afro88 12y ago
Not so fast - who says you become a "replica" in the first place? Assuming time travel replicates things, then yes, what you said holds true. But as I understand it you don't replicate, your time just loops back on itself. So
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by afro88 12y ago
In Berlin it's very close to the cost of a taxi anyway (you can check it on the Uber app, it's pretty funny). I really don't see what the fuss is about, in this context. If it were actually much cheaper then yeah sure, but as
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by afro88 12y ago
My issue lies with the content weight on hacker news - a lot of posts require 3 mins+ to read and grok, potentially explore related concepts/sites, and maybe even try out a product. I'd say about 50% of the posts on HN interest me
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by afro88 12y ago
Interesting no one mentioned Huginn [1]. It's open, and perfect for "internet of things" stuff. I've done some of the basic IOT stuff that's mentioned in the article with Huginn (open doors at specific times, turn o
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by afro88 12y ago
I think balls187 left off one important point as a VC: make it clear that you aren't interested in investing in their company, but want to go for coffee/lunch/whatever on a purely personal basis. As a founder, the discomfort
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by afro88 12y ago
>> pass annual maintenance checks > Not just any car can be an Uber. It’s a title reserved for safe, high-quality vehicles that are in exceptional condition. In the U.S., the average model year for vehicles on our platform is 2008,
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by afro88 12y ago
Awesome, love what you've done with the front page so looking forward to the comment pages. Thanks
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by afro88 12y ago
Looks nice on the front page, but doesn't work on the comments pages for me. Also, is there a reason why the HN guys haven't done any css for mobiles yet? Seems odd that a community of forward thinking developers and entrepreneurs
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by afro88 12y ago
Sorry to burst the bubble but you can't rely on the result of this kind of analysis. Identifying people through their writing style isn't new, and you don't know they haven't already done a prior analysis and ensured the
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by afro88 12y ago
The are very good. Knowing they're renderings though, you can see it in the face and hair. DanBC made an interesting comment - it would interesting to see renderings like these in a double blind test with photographs and see how well t
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by afro88 12y ago
I stand by that what I've mentioned looks fake (especially the strawberries and the sauce) but I think that would be a great exercise. Your brain believes what it expects. I had the expectation that these were renderings so it was easy
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by afro88 12y ago
Still not there for me. The devil is in the detail - the sauce and the strawberries in the food picture, the books in the desk picture. Also, I still haven't seen a rendering of a human being that looks genuinely photorealistic. I used
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by afro88 12y ago
In an 8 hour day I can do 5 hours productive programming, using the pomodoro technique in 4x30min blocks followed by a 30min break. Keeps my head focussed and fresh all day, and I'm not wiped out at night. There's a huge differenc

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