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by biot 10y ago
Reminds me of that Feynman story where he had the strongest impression that his grandmother just died. Just then, the phone rang. He tentatively picked it up, to discover that it was for his roommate. His grandmother was fine. People strong
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by biot 10y ago
If one interprets the graph as "derivative of transaction growth" instead of "number of transactions" then it makes perfect sense. The derivative of linear growth is a horizontal line, whereas quadratic (edited, thanks a
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by biot 10y ago
Is this something Wikileaks requested but Google turned them down? I'm wondering if there's some context to your comment or if you're just being dismissive.
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by biot 10y ago
Blues News? You mean you didn't finger his account directly from a shell prompt?
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by biot 10y ago
"sadly they're killing the last GSM network in Canada next year" Source?
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by biot 10y ago
Clickable version, as I had a hell of a time selecting and copying that link on mobile: http://25thandclement.com/~william/projects/hexdump.c.html
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by biot 10y ago
"Though most tags in an AMP HTML page are regular HTML tags, some HTML tags are replaced with AMP-specific tags" If Microsoft were introducing this, I suspect we'd see a lot of "embrace, extend, extinguish" comments
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by biot 10y ago
To save everyone from looking this up themselves: 1985 - 1997.
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by biot 10y ago
The title is misleading. Actual text: "Rolling out now: photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets no longer count toward your 140 characters." Otherwise you could post a tweet with 141 URLs separated by 140 spaces, and only th
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by biot 10y ago
A dozen different varieties exist in foreign supermarkets whereas in North America unless you go to a specialty shop you're limited to crappy fat-laden bacon and, if you're lucky, back bacon.
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by biot 10y ago
I'm speaking more to the ethics than the legal technicalities.
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by biot 10y ago
How about: don't? Your time to report on it was when it was online. If someone has something removed under a right to be forgotten, reporting on that pretty much violates that right, no?
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by biot 10y ago
The moderators were making judgment calls on which drugs were not high quality enough, keeping only the drugs that met some minimum standard.
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by biot 10y ago
You seem to harbor a bit of negativity towards some HN commenters... :)
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by biot 10y ago
Sounds good but lacks the management that Azure provides. For example, running SQL Server in a VM means you're taking on all the responsibility for uptime, redundancy, backups, security, etc. Whereas Azure SQL abstracts all that away a
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by biot 10y ago
Perhaps you could form a community of like-minded developers. Everyone pools their resources together, contributing to the pool according to his ability, and each person shares those resources according to his need. That way, nobody will be
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by biot 10y ago
After using HN search, I suspect you're referring to the comments in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1679956
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by biot 10y ago
Looks like they found the dark matter.
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by biot 10y ago
Sure, every online property is a place for ads. However, in this case content producers don't have to say "Subscribe to my YouTube channel for new videos. Oh, and if you want updates follow me on Twitter. I also share pictures on
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by biot 10y ago
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/lavender-tea-t... “The results of our laboratory studies confirm that pure lavender and tea tree oils can mimic the actions of estrogens and inhibit the effects of and
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by biot 10y ago
Thank you, I appreciate the links. So triclosan is: not (safe and effective) || insufficient data From a cursory reading, I gather that it can/does cause harm during developmental years, making it unsuitable for children or preg
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by biot 10y ago
Sure, but if that were the case one should provide evidence of these harms instead of making statements that contradict what the FDA's own site claims.
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by biot 10y ago
Your comment sounds like the FDA declared triclosan in Colgate Total to be harmful. That is not true: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm205999.ht... "For some consumer products, there is evid
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by biot 10y ago
If the main light pulse is traveling at the speed of light and the vortex travels with it, that implies that the vortex must have one edge traveling at 2x the speed of light... but that's not possible. How does this reconcile with rela
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by biot 10y ago
By that line of reasoning you could publish a website with information on hitmen for hire and put their phone number beside each listing. After all it's just a sequence of numbers and the user has to manually call or configure their de
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by biot 10y ago
"Golly, your honor, I had no idea that magnet links could be clickable and that, if people clicked, they could download the file, thereby facilitating copyright infringement..." Good luck selling that line of argument. You might h
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by biot 10y ago
Torrent sites merely hosting an ID that describes a file? You say that as if they are publishing UPC codes. The problem with that description is that clicking the ID launches an application that connects to other peers and proceeds to downl
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Royal Canadian Mint to sell advertising space on currency(cbc.ca)
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by biot 10y ago
In other words, it's the Sieve of Eratosthenes implemented via regex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes
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by biot 10y ago
It's open source. Make the change and use it yourself, then submit as a pull request. [edit: link removed; see Tyriar's reply for correct repo]

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