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BitCoin could be more than just a currency(technologyreview.com)
2 points by caractacus 11y ago|0 comments
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by caractacus 11y ago
Less interesting to hear about the call from Twitter (hardly unexpected in the context) than about plans for the future. Given Twitter's dislike of external applications, giving Meerkat a decent API and dev platform could make a differ
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by caractacus 11y ago
Depends how you define it. O'Sullivan hasn't been consistent enough and simply attending enough Championships to win that many titles. But in terms of talent, no one really competes. O'Sullivan in his prime would have beaten
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by caractacus 11y ago
Quite. There's nothing quantifiable in what gaben said but a statement like this is more than enough to have that million dollar figure quoted and re-quoted in discussions about poor gaming company decisions, how to cut losses, the rig
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by caractacus 11y ago
Terrible website. Explains very few of the core questions people will have. Size of a default square? Where is the square I buy going to be on the billboard? Where in each city will the billboard be placed? Who are you people? Why should I
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by caractacus 12y ago
"I'm feeling lucky"? Pffft. They'd better be, trying to make a name in this space against Excite and Lycos and Yahoo.
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by caractacus 12y ago
Simply there to grab publicity. Someone in marketing this heard the word 'viral' and read about Goat Simulator and something clicked.
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by caractacus 12y ago
If security is that important to you, buy one. A cheap Android tablet isn't exactly going to break the bank, is it?
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by caractacus 12y ago
You forgot the pony.
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by caractacus 12y ago
When you say the matching is far from perfect, is that at your end or on the part of the echoprint / echonest code? You made tweaks because you found issues with what they were doing....?
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by caractacus 12y ago
Hahahaha. No. No, it doesn't. It once agreed to remove content when told (ie, adhere to the DMCA) many many many years ago (ten? more?) when it had a search portal on its own web site but if you really believe that bittorrent has some
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by caractacus 12y ago
(200m unique monthly users) * (even only a teeny percent of users accepting these offers) = considerable money for BitTorrent Inc.
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by caractacus 12y ago
There's a Tesco Express near me which is small but was okay until they redesigned it last year and did what I term a WHSmiths: put in shelves almost to the ceiling, thinned the aisles, packed in as much content as possible. It obviousl
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Ask HN: Easy to use service to handle applications
1 points by caractacus 12y ago|0 comments
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by caractacus 12y ago
IQ84 turned me off Murakami for a long time. Count how many times he recounts the same incident in almost the same words (narrator, mother). Count how many times he mentions breasts and the shapes of them (it's likely the same number o
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by caractacus 12y ago
They also refused to change their name. The founder wouldn't rebrand. They had a decent chance, if you think about it: storage know-how, a bunch of servers, some good techies, and - which could have been the killer - a Swiss location w
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by caractacus 12y ago
Gets the village blacksmith to quickly hack together a spear with which he takes revenge; a revenge that takes an hour and a half to finally kill the animal.
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Facing the crocodile that killed my wife(bbc.co.uk)
10 points by caractacus 12y ago|2 comments
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by caractacus 12y ago
Just what does the 'powered by Telefonica' bit mean?
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by caractacus 12y ago
White down to King, Black with Bishop, King, Knight, pawn promoted to Queen... but oh, the mistakes. White swept up piece after piece and could Black still take it with a King-Knight combination? No. No he couldn't. Stalemate.
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by caractacus 12y ago
Cost?
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by caractacus 12y ago
> It's a cute read That's all you needed.
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by caractacus 12y ago
1. Because he had a lot of money to spend on lawyers 2. Because there are some fundamental issues - slowly getting cleared - on issues of search, procedure, etc 3. Because the legal system can take a bloody long time to achieve anything
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by caractacus 12y ago
There was a typo on the homepage - 'a the' or 'the a' or something - but now I've played five levels I can't get back to the homepage to find it.
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by caractacus 12y ago
Okay, so installed and added today's KAT db in. A few initial thoughts: 1. It took 2-3 hours to add in the whole KAT db. No problems in parsing the data from what I could tell, but a long time to do it. Maybe that's my machine but
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by caractacus 12y ago
Is it really worth $129 so that you don't have to print out a paper copy of your boarding pass when your battery is low?
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by caractacus 12y ago
Thanks. I'll give this a go tomorrow and see how it looks.
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by caractacus 12y ago
BitSnoop has a db of 24m+ torrents available, though it's (i) badly categorised and (ii) offline atm. http://bitsnoop.com/api.html So if I installed this, I would (for the moment) currently need to grab the dump from K
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by caractacus 12y ago
> Valleywag is cynical and harsh, but it has done more good for technology and humanity than all of Sand Hill Road combined Ummm. What? Is there some secret Valleywag of which I'm not aware other than the one that is just a gossip s
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by caractacus 12y ago
Apparently, he founded the site, set it running very successfully, left, and was then cunningly lured back by those then in charge solely to be the fall guy for the Fed investigation.

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