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by biot 5y ago
Which model vent is it?
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by biot 5y ago
My understanding is that stem cells are special because they have the potential to turn into any type of specialized cell the body needs, whereas regular cells have already turned into specialized cell types and there's no un-frying th
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by biot 5y ago
It's even worse when you're on an active phone call (the standard iPhone phone functionality, not third party meeting/voip app) talking to another human being and an alert sound plays on the computer, stealing the audio from
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by biot 5y ago
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. You are receiving a > 50% discount for 3 years after which you pay the non-discounted price. If you'd prefer to pay full price from the start, I'm sure they'd be happy to
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by biot 5y ago
Did you also consider the horse depicted below the fish?
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by biot 5y ago
> Being able to detect forgeries requires some pretty intense domain expertise, and that tends to come with a lot of experience and schooling Does it really require that? Perhaps for some items expensive enough to have expert forgeries (
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by biot 5y ago
From 2018: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2018/09/17/apple-res... tl;dr: once downloaded to a device you have it until you delete it. It’s not ideal and I do wish they would retain the righ
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by biot 5y ago
> "And I can't find a single person on this planet - and I've tried - to replace him." I’ll do it for $10M/year, paid in advance of course due to the company’s financial situation. Oh, he probably means for whate
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by biot 6y ago
This is nearly a few decades old (2004): https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
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by biot 6y ago
A surprising number of people don’t understand the difference between copyright and trademark.
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by biot 6y ago
The distinction here is when it’s a marketplace. You buy a product from a third-party vendor on Amazon. Amazon sends details of your purchase to the third-party vendor for fulfillment. Cool.
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by biot 6y ago
Yeah, I also don’t understand some of the responses here. An analogy would be that someone has a problem with some software they are using, so they do a bit of research and find a possible answer on Stack Overflow, and they hire a software
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by biot 6y ago
So it's a bit like the realization of this insightful comment? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16242224
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by biot 6y ago
From the GitHub source, it connects to the mail server for the domain’s MX record and issues a “RCPT TO:” command and looks for a non-rejection. Back when I was managing email servers, this option was typically disabled to prevent address e
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by biot 6y ago
Likely a casualty of copy and paste that left out the superscript formatting. 1GB is 2^30 bytes.
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by biot 6y ago
Let’s say you’re creating a presentation builder app and one of the requirements is that it work in airplane mode since people are likely to use the app to put together presentations while literally on an airplane. Having all the logic serv
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by biot 6y ago
That tends to not work very well: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html
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by biot 6y ago
I think I misread and assumed it was to pay the legal costs of the winner. But that would be the responsibility of the client, not the lawyer.
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by biot 6y ago
The insurance payout doesn’t go to the lawyer who lost.
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by biot 6y ago
Are there any audiobook subscription services which aren't purchase-oriented but work more like Spotify or Apple Music? Just as I don't want to purchase individual albums or songs, I also don't want to purchase one single aud
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by biot 6y ago
If I've understood the intent correctly, the individual investor side of LTSE is only a small part of the picture. The biggest part is that the company itself is setup for long-term focus via its principles[0] -- as one example, compen
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by biot 6y ago
I guess that answers the question: he would download a car.
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by biot 6y ago
While true, it just doesn’t really seem like a challenge to run Node and Redis and do a bit of web scraping on that. So nothing against Raspberry Pi but I interpreted the spirit of the question as asking about the really long tail of low en
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by biot 6y ago
Does a 1.2 GHz 64-bit CPU with 1 GB of RAM really qualify as low end these days?
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by biot 6y ago
Agreed. The semantics should be like <input type=file> and let me pick one or more each time.
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by biot 6y ago
RDP is more suited to text as it renders the screen pixel perfect. VNC, on the other hand, converts the screen into a lossy compressed video stream which is why it’s often slow and fuzzy until the image stabilizes. Night and day difference.
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by biot 7y ago
I’m fascinated by what this might look like. Have you written anything on this concept?
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by biot 7y ago
Streak is 100% built on top of this (source: I work at Streak), so maintaining this is essential to staying in business.
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by biot 7y ago
Or leaving the .docx file was intentional and by opening it, the guy triggered a hidden payload which installs malware which the police use to monitor him.
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by biot 7y ago
> If you start something new from this code and it becomes successful, guess who is going to come out of the woodwork and want a portion of it? This is literally the reason lawyers exist. It’s not hard to draft up an agreement where th

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