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by anywhichway 12y ago
Stephen King seems to disagree: "Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule."
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by anywhichway 12y ago
What did you do to work on your social anxiety, if you don't mind my asking.
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by anywhichway 13y ago
No. Since asymmetric encryption is slow the standard strategy is to generate a random symmetric key to encrypt your file. Then you just encrypt the symmetric key with your asymmetric key. This has the added benefit of each new encryption
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by anywhichway 13y ago
What controls? I see some empty reassurances, but nobody that I see is proposing controls. I doubt controls for existing monetary systems would work for bitcoins anyway as it requires a central organization that has power, like printing mon
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Great example to bring into the conversation. One complexity to consider is that the long form versus the smiling person may have retained completely different user demographic. To me, the smiling person may represents an easy, idiot proo
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by anywhichway 13y ago
I'm currently using an android app to browse HN which uses the hn api. No matter how you change the api there would be no real way of preventing app makers from allowing upvoting from their main story browsing page.
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by anywhichway 13y ago
The venture is putting amazon in the news so it also has PR implications for the rest of their business. It isn't clear yet if it will be a positive or negative impact on their reputation, but perhaps they are using this as an icebrea
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Put it in an egg drop style container that will protect it from a large impact, the drop it off a building our launch it from a trebuchet.
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by anywhichway 13y ago
A reddit/HN clone that customizes the content you see based off your voting history. This has been tried a few times before, but I've just never seen one take off. In fact, reddit had this feature when it started but couldn&#x27
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Many people use Amazon's mechanical Turk for this. It allows you to make automated requests like this that are processed by real people. Perhaps it is not the easiest service to dive into, so I wonder if their terms of service would
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by anywhichway 13y ago
You could come at it in a similar way to how the real second was developed. Initially the second was defined as 1/86,400th of a day, later narrowed to a mean solar day, but that still wasn't specific enough so they switched it t
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Committing an illegal and regularly enforced crime of driving with an obstructed license plate seems like a poor plan to try and defend your right to an abstract sense of privacy.
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by anywhichway 13y ago
I understand that the limited amount of data can make for some easy false positives on trading algorithms, but how relevant do you really think market movements from over 11 years ago really apply to today?
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by anywhichway 13y ago
> A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. The only part th
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Plus aren't statutory damages based on the degree of harm? I think it would be hard to show 150k of harm if this was just a side project for the author.
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Sony playstation division only makes up about 10% of Sony's overall revenues (7.2 billion out of 68 billion) so it doesn't make much sense that an announcement from just one of their competitors would have such a large impact on Sony's tota
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Feynman may have found the arbitrary nature of syntax for a new language a tedious learning exercise.
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by anywhichway 13y ago
The way the system is proposed is that each user would have an exclusive list of honey words for just them. Each user would have, say 10 possible passwords. The password system would recognize all of them as correct for that user, but only
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Snopes investigated this case and determined it to be false: http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Could you imagine the reviews about draining battery life?
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by anywhichway 13y ago
This feature was a Gmail labs feature for quite some time before being fully implemented in March of 2010. This feature is old news (though not as old as claw mail), but I can understand why people just discovering it would be excited abou
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by anywhichway 13y ago
I thought the whole point of the post was the analyses and methods and that the outcome was of little importance, but was only there to make the subject more interesting, gripping, and relevant.
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by anywhichway 13y ago
Check again in October when the health care exchanges go live. Maybe you will see some doesn't prices there.
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by anywhichway 13y ago
I believe your tax would be based on billing address, so vpns wouldn't help. And no, this isn't a new tax, just one that virtually no one pays. When you buy stuff online from a company with no physical presents in your state they aren't req
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by anywhichway 14y ago
If I download offline software and opt out of any sort of online registration or reporting I would hope it wouldn't even report my opt out. I don't want it to go any calling home. The key that people are missing is CM is trying to get this
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by anywhichway 14y ago
To index to a fiat currency it requires a market maker. Some person or group that will guarantee that if you have $1 they'll give you a unit of currency and if you have a unit of currency they'll give you $1. To meet the demand for this cu
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by anywhichway 14y ago
Seems to me that it is more likely that Samsung, who he is an official spokesman for, told him to post that as part of his duties as spokesman. Also it seems more likely that Samsung is behind the CCTV campaign as they are the ones that wou
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by anywhichway 14y ago
Yes. The math is much more subtle than people realize. Bayesian (meaning conditional) probability is required for any solution to be passable. The problem that needs to be solved is given the number of upvotes, downvotes, and views, what
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by anywhichway 14y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but violating terms, conditions, or other contacts in non malicious ways generally aren't going to be criminal offenses. They are civil offenses for which the main recourse is only for the company to sue.
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by anywhichway 14y ago
Could you explain to me why the SimCity launch was any worse than Diablo 3? Seems like apart from initial instability and some people making a lot of noise the resulting sales numbers were still fine.

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