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by biot 11y ago
Points 11 and 12 of the article contrast chat with email, along with various other minor references.
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by biot 11y ago
In other words, declaring your lottery number picks prior to the drawing results in fewer winners than being able to pick your numbers afterwards. Ergo, pre-declaring your picks causes lotteries to stop working. I really hope the article is
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by biot 11y ago
Nice. On mobile, tilt your device.
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by biot 11y ago
Your summary is incorrect; the 30 second delay was six years ago and was caused by selling access to real-time data vs delaying the data for the public. Quote stuffing resulted in delays of hundreds of milliseconds: > Once again, we
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by biot 11y ago
Just like how AltaVista beat Google to the search engine market by several years? :)
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by biot 11y ago
Much like a man-hour is a measure of one human working for one hour, a drive day is one drive operating for one day. So a million drive days could be a million drives for one day, a thousand drives for a thousand days, or any combination.
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by biot 11y ago
If Samsung distributes Android in their devices, they can be held responsible. Were companies not responsible for third-party products they distribute, Ford could include infringing patented Tesla technology in its products by buying from s
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by biot 11y ago
There is one thing that Skype is particularly good at that other VoIP/messaging clients aren't: talking to users who have Skype accounts. Your question is little different than suggesting there are many alternative social networks
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by biot 11y ago
Not sure if this has changed in the last few years, but Khan Academy heavily invested in App Engine: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/4/1/khan-academy-checkb...
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by biot 11y ago
Do we know enough about physics at the atomic level to be able to predict and simulate these combinations of materials? Or do we still have no clue and it's left to experiment to be able to validate material design?
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by biot 11y ago
Or just write mirrored text, a la da Vinci.
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by biot 11y ago
As long as the insurance agent selling you a policy has adequate insurance to cover any liability that arises due to their lack of training and experience, it's all turtl^H^H^H^H^Hgood.
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by biot 11y ago
Particularly on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=polish%20enigma&sort=byPopular...
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by biot 11y ago
The article explains why: What one will see, very quickly, is that the new SKUs generally offer slightly lower clock speeds to maintain a 45w TDP. Maintaining this figure while adding 50% to 100% more cores and cache is no small fea
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by biot 11y ago
Any chance you'll also have a Markov chain generator? Bonus points if you can pick your subreddit, give it a starting topic, and let 'er rip.
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by biot 11y ago
So his prediction is that some will adapt to computers and some won't? And that computers, like other automation technologies of the past, will result in some jobs being obsolete? Not exactly bold predictions.
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by biot 11y ago
I wrote that mostly tongue in cheek, given that I suspect more than a few people here on HN would, if made CEO, shut the whole thing down as a public service.
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by biot 11y ago
If you were made CEO of SourceForge, what would you do to make it relevant again? Assume shuttering the site isn't an option and you have to do your damnedest to make it work. What would it take? Beyond just pure, clean code and projec
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by biot 11y ago
Speaking of odd language, it's always struck me as quite old-fashioned when kids these days say things like "video isn't working on my Facebook". To me, it's equivalent to an old person saying "where did my int
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by biot 11y ago
In Vancouver, property tax is based on calculating the cost of the provided services, then dividing the cost over all the homes based on home price and adjusted for and a few factors such as location. Every home is assessed annually, which
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by biot 11y ago
I could sign up to get email notifications for replies to your HN account or any other. Though it's a good point that in the majority of cases, it'll be the account owner signing up.
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by biot 11y ago
Upvoted as this comment at least attempts to be informative.
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by biot 11y ago
There was a good discussion on this as part of the LinkedIn stock price 40% drop: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11042278#up_11042899 Many of the comments for the article discussed LinkedIn's dark patterns.
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by biot 11y ago
When P is $1M, as the article describes, I (putting myself in the seller's shoes) am not getting market value for the property; I'm only getting about 80% of market value. That's the problem I see and it really has nothing to
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by biot 11y ago
My understanding of flipping was what I thought to be a common-sense one. However, upon researching it further I stand corrected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipping#Wholesaling_and_assig... One part of that article
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by biot 11y ago
What's happening is that the house is not being resold. The sale isn't complete until the property is transferred to the new owner, who assumes the title. I explained this elsewhere [0]. If I were selling my place, I'd be hap
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by biot 11y ago
It's not flipping. Flipping is where Bob fully completes the purchase of a property from seller Alice, Bob pays the property transfer tax [0], Bob takes possession of the property as the new owner on the title, and then Bob re-lists h
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by biot 11y ago
It sounds to me like the solution is to introduce legislation where the seller receives the final closing price (minus fees and commissions), not the pre-close sale price. Assign as many times as you want prior to closing the deal, but if t
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by biot 11y ago
> I have configured the DD-WRT router to drop and log all > connection attempts via iptables... I'd be more interested in seeing the result of letting the connections succeed while timing how long they stay open and how
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by biot 11y ago
As someone posted in the comments: http://markrifeprivate.tumblr.com

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