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by biot 10y ago
The fact that it's niche means they ought to be able to charge more. If it were yet another Hulu clone, they'd either need to compete heavily on price or try to out-content everyone else.
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by biot 10y ago
A temporary tattoo is like dating somebody. A permanent tattoo is like marrying somebody. To me it's completely logical that you might want to try a tattoo on for a while and, if you like it enough, you can commit for life and make it
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by biot 10y ago
In the video he claims that he is the one known by the "monkier" [sic] Satoshi Nakamoto. A very appropriate misspeak of the word "moniker".
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by biot 10y ago
The article includes home chargers in its calculations. Even if everybody with an EV has their own private charger at home, some quick mental math indicates 1000 times more chargers (public + private) than gas stations.
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by biot 10y ago
And, as the article hints at, refuelling with gas takes minutes vs. hours for electric. It'll probably take a couple orders of magnitude more electric chargers than gas stations to support the same number of each vehicle type.
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by biot 10y ago
How large does a site need to be before render time becomes a significant issue? I can understand it being an issue for, say, Google News or some other highly dynamic site where the input sources are programmatic. But for sites where there
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by biot 10y ago
Feynman would have loved to see this. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McLellan_(nanotechnolo... Feynman was quoted as saying he was disappointed with the winning motor as he had hoped it would spur new fabri
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by biot 10y ago
Is it possible to transfer bitcoin from and to the same wallet? If so, why not do that for one satoshi worth from one of the earliest blocks and include metadata proving the claim? Unless the private key for the earliest mined blocks are ir
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by biot 10y ago
That's like saying every software engineer in the Bay Area should respond helpfully to every email from recruiters, directing them to more appropriate candidates rather than ignoring them.
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by biot 10y ago
YellowPages? The joke is they can transition Yahoo into irrelevance?
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by biot 10y ago
I've heard people say "I'm famished!" and I don't for a second think that they've been through a literal famine and are starving to death. Maybe GP used "ravenous" literally, or maybe it's just a
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by biot 10y ago
Of course, but both fall back to a plain old web search when the request can't be processed specially. In those cases, why not fall back to your search engine of choice?
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by biot 10y ago
> Of course the voice goes through each companies respective > search engines, they kinda have to to work unless there's > some standard for voice queries I'm not aware of. There is. Convert the voice query to
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by biot 10y ago
It's a charming story that ought to be read in its entirety rather than being reduced to a dry, Reuters-like press release.
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by biot 10y ago
From the fine article we're discussing: The Electronic Frontier Foundation has weighed in on the suspect's plight, telling the circuit court in a friend-of-the-court brief (PDF) that "compelled decryption is inherently testim
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by biot 10y ago
You can often tell when someone is being a wise guy in their application. Sometimes their application contains a virtual sarcasm tag when they self-identify as being a wise guy.
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by biot 10y ago
QueryWidget?
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by biot 10y ago
I don't see any evidence that those people are a sufficiently random sample of users vs. Trek nerds who explicitly search for the obscure reference. I'm sure I could find some obscure mathematical reference that 7000 math nerds di
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by biot 10y ago
From one obscurist to another, it's mostly water.
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by biot 10y ago
I never knew this existed. Not sure it's much easier than double pressing the home button and choosing the last app though.
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by biot 10y ago
If CloudFlare is friendly towards DDoS services, that's awesome. Maybe I'll do the reverse of this article: create a DDoS-for-hire site, have CloudFlare protect my site, I'll charge for the service in Bitcoin, then not launch
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by biot 10y ago
Didn't they already cover that in the article? "... we’ll make sure you hit the same stages of interviews at the same time, bring you all to the office on the same day..." Or are you saying even the initial intervie
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by biot 10y ago
> There does seem like some risk though - the team will > likely succeed or fail as a group. And the team may also leave as a group.
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by biot 10y ago
Here you go: http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
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by biot 11y ago
Portugal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_Portugal Since July 2001, all drugs are legal subject to personal consumption limits.
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by biot 11y ago
I saw that as well, refreshed a few times (thinking it was failing to pull in content via some over-complicated API call) and then saw the article appear. I gather this was just a stub to help the site's SEO rankings, sort of like how
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by biot 11y ago
Given that it's new technology and the applications that could make use of this don't exist, I think you have to give them a little more leeway with their marketing material. I agree that most of the "apps" are likely cu
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by biot 11y ago
Because it's good journalism?
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by biot 11y ago
I switched all mine to EasyDNS... a quick scan of their blog gives a good idea of their philosophy: http://blog.easydns.org/
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by biot 11y ago
I read it as "(not smart) is (not stupid)" and thought the article was going to be about how intelligence is overrated.

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