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by buugs 17y ago
I don't have a primary source so I'll take your word the only reason I said this was because of a few articles submitted like: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=553254 ( http://www.chriskopec.com/blog/2009/apr/08/great-students-ar...
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by buugs 17y ago
I think this is a good point and think it has been brought up with google many times here on HN such as why google recruiters look for As in all their subjects. Employers want someone who will follow the rules and follow them well, especia
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by buugs 17y ago
When you see things like these you have to think that we are not the only life in the entire existence and it is highly doubtful we are the only 'intelligent' life in existence just by probability alone.
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by buugs 17y ago
I don't know about that ,but there are so many laws where I live in the U.S. preventing smoking such as: close to buildings, in restaurants, in many bars, within 200 ft of health based buildings (hospitals and the like), at parks/public pla
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by buugs 17y ago
I'm sure everything would be different considering cloning products and ideas would be free to do which would require innovation to occur extremely quickly or products to be mostly staple goods.
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by buugs 17y ago
Yes but cancer education and the costs of smoking are more recent. Now smoking is shown as a very deadly habit and many commericials (mostly from philip morris and their new requirements) on quiting and destruction caused by cigs.
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by buugs 17y ago
I'd like to see someone make an international model of such a site and gain a large backing with some popular tv show or movie content providers and beat hulu at their own game. It would be interesting to see how their revenue model changes
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by buugs 17y ago
I agree that a screenshot of some sort would be nice even if it is just generic links posted by celebrities and the such. Another interesting feature to implement if it isn't already (I don't use twitter so I can't really try this out) woul
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by buugs 17y ago
Maybe your missing the point and the youth are convinced of something you don't understand. There a plenty of cases of radical shifts in government and views because of what seems like simple actions and mistakes by a previous government. T
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by buugs 17y ago
Couldn't you just click on your username and change your password which would allow you to directly log in?
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by buugs 17y ago
this may interest you: http://prgmr.com/xen/ as well as: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=590993
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by buugs 17y ago
I don't like the credit card info required but if they can offer 512 for 20 bucks a month they will have an up on some companies. Someone will have to report back if they try it.
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by buugs 17y ago
nvm I answered my own question with some checking this is interesting: http://www.clickpass.com/docs/privacy-policy and this http://blog.teampatent.com/2009/03/30/clickpass-harvests-add...
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by buugs 17y ago
I was expecting a list with techcrunch on top was just surprised they didnt make it.
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by buugs 17y ago
There must be an awful lot of compression taking place and then their is still the market left for the low connections higher standards for operating systems and programs such as photoshop. This would have to outperform faster and better t
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by buugs 17y ago
I was thinking the same thing especially with the tie in to walmart's music sales and the questionable safari application bundled with the iphone :)
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by buugs 17y ago
It is not dominated by casual games it is now dominated by latest and greatest. It is still hard to find a computer at the store that can play games well without any additions for cheap by the relative consumer. Just the other weekend I h
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by buugs 17y ago
Because the pc game market has always been a smaller crowd than the console market, console is a cheaper solution as well as an established solution. You won't ever see a release like halo 2 or halo 3 for a pc game because not everyone has
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by buugs 17y ago
They released an update to allow adblock users to see adds on their site enabled by default.
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by buugs 17y ago
The cool thing about linode is that they hand out free upgrades often, usually ram and storage. I think the storage was 12gb before march for a 20 dollar linode and it got upped and if you look at their blog you'll see a large history of th
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by buugs 17y ago
When a goat can build a house he can stay in one. I'm all for treating animals well and not keeping them caged in small areas and abusing them but to be honest PETA seems so over the top to me all the time and then they go out and release h
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by buugs 17y ago
I had an advisor once tell me something similar. The classes that are core for a university should be utilized by engineers because we are taught to think one way if you learn another way there will always be a place where you may be able
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by buugs 17y ago
I think it is considered higher level just for the sake of how much work is already done for you similar to a program like matlab with many many already compiled functions and algorithms. It probably isn't so much higher than python when yo
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by buugs 17y ago
Usually you can find some humor in chuck norris jokes the first time you hear them I never liked the rickrolling phase of the internet.
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The Secret behind the Computational Engine in Wolfram Alpha(blog.wolframalpha.com)
2 points by buugs 17y ago|2 comments
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by buugs 17y ago
It doesn't surprise me the extent some people go to to generate revenue in what I must think is a small market. I am an adblock plus user and I must say it enhances my browsing a noticeable amount that when I am using a different browser or
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by buugs 17y ago
I wasn't very impressed it looked like a postmodern house with a concert hall added in. Was expecting much more from the title and came out disappointed.
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by buugs 17y ago
I don't know if they still do this but in the past dropbox did close down public transfers for people who overused or misused it (probably more a bandwidth issue such as sharing large videos).
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by buugs 17y ago
There are actually plenty of businesses that rent goats for clearing property
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by buugs 17y ago
EDIT: [Last Sentence] >So, if your question is physics or math (maybe other sciences?) use Wolfram Alpha. Anything else, stick with Google. You pretty much just summed the point of alpha in your last sentence, only people who don't unde

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