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by ajays 14y ago
Let's not forget: AirBnB isn't helping either. No, not the AirBnB employees; but the loads of people renting out their spare rooms, when earlier they would have taken in a roommate. I just checked, and 2300 listings came up for San Francisc
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by ajays 14y ago
Anyone else remember OpenMoko ?
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by ajays 14y ago
Google 5-0 Google's strength is not in searching for head or torso terms like "facebook" or "2013 calendar". It is in searching out tail terms; those obscure terms which might include a typo or two, and the phrasing may not be correct. Unfo
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by ajays 14y ago
Upon some searching around, I found this person is selling a kit for running a Pi from solar power (with battery backup): http://cgi.cottonpickers.plus.com/~cottonpickers/forum/viewt...
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by ajays 14y ago
Do you have a description of your setup? It sounds interesting.
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by ajays 14y ago
What's an easy way to figure out the UDID of a device (without hooking it up to a Mac to sync)?
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by ajays 14y ago
I have a 3GS, and let me tell you: there are times when I am typing 5-6 characters ahead of the display. The camera freezes all the time. It looks like the new iOS is not designed for the 3GS and older versions. Things will only get worse o
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by ajays 14y ago
I wonder if the device will start showing up in the logs of mobile sites?
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by ajays 14y ago
I'm clueless about the underlying legalities/politics, so was wondering: could something like this be used to provide connectivity in an area without 4G (but with an Internet connection)? In other words, could I (an average Joe) set up my o
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by ajays 14y ago
There may be some truth to what she's saying. I was living in Buffalo, and my neighbor was a young inner-city school teacher. One day we were chatting, and she mentioned that she had been giving talks to soon-to-be teaching graduates, tryin
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by ajays 14y ago
I have a dumb question: who took the video, if Neil Armstrong was the first person on moon? The video looks like it's taken from the side; and unless they had cameras in the legs of the lander, how was the video taken?
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by ajays 14y ago
The sad part is that on the consumer side, we are still paying what we were paying in 2005, for roughly the same amount of bandwidth. If consumer-side speeds kept a similar pace, either the costs should be halving every 18 months (modulo a
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by ajays 14y ago
The power of Facebook advertising is not on showing ads on their own pages. Very few people look at the ads on FB's pages, and many (most?) people browse FB on mobile devices, where advertising is very hard. No, the power of FB (and its fut
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by ajays 14y ago
If it can do 0-60 in 3 seconds, I'd bet that it could do 0-124 in much less than 18 seconds. Heck, my 330i can do 0-120 in less than 18 seconds... (or so I've heard ;) ).
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by ajays 14y ago
They mentioned the race to Pike's Peak in 2010; apparently the Audi did it in 27 minutes (whereas the record is close to 10 minutes): http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/11/audis-robotic-car-climb... The car sure has made a lot of progress
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by ajays 14y ago
Whenever there's talk of veg*anism, many people automatically think of 'extremists'. Why is that? As a vegetarian myself, I know I'm not an extremist; neither are all of my vegetarian friends. Some of them are repelled by meat, but that is
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by ajays 14y ago
So are we going to hate on Google now, like we hated on Yahoo suing Facebook?
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by ajays 14y ago
The associated Wired article: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google-dremel-v... and the ensuing HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4395164
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by ajays 14y ago
The people who would be interested in buying FB shares.
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One of the best programmers I have known was a CS theory guy. We were working on these tightly-coupled multiprocessor machine which was quite unstable, and would hard lockup if something went wrong in the program (requiring a walk over to t
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by ajays 14y ago
I'm curious, and would love to hear FBers comments on this: how many shares do employees typically have? At what price point (or were they RSUs)? What's the vesting period?
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by ajays 14y ago
The "shared limited resource" is the pool of buyers.
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You are really clueless, aren't you? The problems that you see on reservations are the direct result of centuries of oppression. It may look different to you than the situation in India, most likely because you're probably white and male,
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by ajays 14y ago
"One is the result of millenia of systematic oppression, while the other is the result of people refusing to get help for themselves even when it is offered for free. " Have you wondered why so many of the homeless are people of color? I us
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by ajays 14y ago
My point was: the OP took one negative fact ("young girls carry feces") and proceeded to paint the whole country of 1.2Billion with that. That game can be played by pointing out the homeless in SF too. See how silly it looks?
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by ajays 14y ago
It's still peanuts: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096628/British-fore...
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by ajays 14y ago
You keep bringing up "whilst taking state aid", despite the fact that India does NOT take much of state aid from the US: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid
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by ajays 14y ago
As I walked out of the Van Ness MUNI station in San Francisco last night, I walked by at least 20 homeless people, just lying on the street. A couple on wheelchairs, the rest just lounging around. A few of them reeked of urine and feces. An
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by ajays 14y ago
Thank you for coming here and clarifying. I hope this only encourages you to take more photographs, and one day soon you'll have a new species named after you!
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by ajays 14y ago
I can see drone delivery to be quite useful in far-flung communities (Alaska, Australian Outback, Africa, etc.), to deliver critical stuff (medicines, critical components, etc.). Assuming the drone doesn't use a ton of fuel, it could litera

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