coopdog

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by coopdog 14y ago
I like the idea of a binary tree Would it need to be balanced? It might be better to have to play 100 questions instead of 20 rather than pay O(n) in legal fees multiple times
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by coopdog 14y ago
The litigation is very damaging, it's also true however that research is being doubled/tripled/etc as it's done in private by multiple organisations and kept as trade secrets, which is inefficient when you consider the world as a whole. It'
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by coopdog 14y ago
Plus IPv6 could drastically reduce the need for NAT (particularly in mobile where they're basically out of IPs and basically NAT the entire mobile network)
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by coopdog 14y ago
As much as I dislike the idea of new government departments, it sounds like they do need some kind of 'evil' department who's only job is to think up ways to abuse proposed new laws and regulations before they go into effect. Similar to how
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by coopdog 14y ago
Not necessarily if you're going into a pickpocket dense area like Rome
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by coopdog 14y ago
Interesting, it looks like they're trying to become app.net and not twitter, for all the right reasons.
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by coopdog 14y ago
That's one thing I've learned from Hacker News, that the ability to identify the right people to hire and promote is the lifeblood of an organisation. It seems like such a crime that big companies would delegate these to central departments
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by coopdog 14y ago
I think it's more about trust. The TOS might have been more permissive before but we trust instagram not to do anything too crazy. The new TOS, although less permissive overall, signaled a specific intent to do some crazy things. Especially
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by coopdog 14y ago
The scariest thing about regulating 'the internet' is, what is the internet? If I object to how they've done things and decide to build my own internet by setting up a mesh network, which then connects to someone who has/shares access to t
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by coopdog 14y ago
Did I just.. appreciate modern art for the first time?
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by coopdog 14y ago
Here in Australia I'm quite bullish about commercial property. The residential market is garbage because people buy emotionally, and the market is therefore full of irrational actors. But the commercial market is boring and therefore full o
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by coopdog 14y ago
I think they're assuming that the simulators don't have infinite resources, so eventually we'll find a 'wall' in the simulation. "With ﬁnite resources at their disposal, our descendants will likely make use of eﬀective theory methods, as is
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by coopdog 14y ago
I wonder how this will effect the Google Apps Marketplace https://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/?pli=1 At the very least there will be less potential customers now. I imagine some people would have been willing to pay $0 to Google
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by coopdog 14y ago
How about where troops are pinned down in an extremely hot firefight and running low on ammo. The commanders aren't going to risk letting a human piloted black hawk land because it's just too damn risky, but a drone might get the go ahead.
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by coopdog 14y ago
I don't know, I think the second one could be true. I imagine it's quite likely that someone involved with this is also a hobby drone builder that also contributes to open source. If they've created some new algorithms or made some existing
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by coopdog 14y ago
I'd stick one on my phone! Wait...
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by coopdog 14y ago
Bitcoins (no chargebacks) and a preference for buying through friends of friends on social networks (almost like a darknet) could be worth looking into.
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by coopdog 14y ago
No idea if you should sue or not, but surely in this case it would be the credit card company who didn't investigate the chargeback who is the culprit, Paypal is somewhat beholden to their investigation. By just approving any chargeback and
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by coopdog 14y ago
I think his call to action at the end is too abstract. It's important to understand that there is a problem, but the solution lies in understanding why the government is the way it is and why people vote to have such a government (fear). Th
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by coopdog 14y ago
Will work for: less confusing landing pages
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by coopdog 14y ago
I actually think some TLDs like .book, .app, .movie, could be useful. Often for movies you see they've used domains like reavingzombiesmovie.com, which would be better as reavingzombies.movie, and would let someone else buy reavingzombies.a
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by coopdog 14y ago
1) The typing isn't actually optional, you just don't have to write it as long as it can be inferred, which is the best of both worlds. If you're ever unsure of which type it is just mouse over in the ide, or specify it and wait for an erro
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by coopdog 14y ago
It's true, the motto of HN is that ideas are nothing, execution is everything. Yes the Samwise brothers outright steal ideas, but if you object then go and out-execute them in Europe. If you can't do that and the competition was fair, then
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by coopdog 14y ago
That's the same realization I came to, that it's actually less risky to be a contractor than an employee. Better to be paid more and have a nest egg for the rainy days than live day to day on a salary and always fear the entire department g
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by coopdog 14y ago
I like that you can use their API keys for low volume/one-off queries, then add your own on an as needed basis as your volume increases
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by coopdog 14y ago
I think it's misleading to say 'smart', as intelligence is context dependent, so its probably more useful to say skilled. The people we need to worry about then are the ones who don't have the motivation, environment, resources or courage t
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by coopdog 14y ago
It's true. Is it so strange that people would be nervous around a culture where even drawing a picture can get you in trouble? People who know that they don't know enough about the culture are probably right to be cautious until they can l
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by coopdog 14y ago
Hell yes. Cases in point: - Accidentally opening all profiles up, causing users to have to reset them. - Accidentally setting all photos to public, causing users to have to reset them. - Syncing many peoples contacts to @facebook email addr
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by coopdog 14y ago
I was amazed they offered him the consulting role and full retirement, although I suspect that the 'polygraph' clause might have been the real offer, lure him into that to get evidence then charge him and cancel the deal. You can see the mi
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by coopdog 14y ago
Actually the people who installed the last motorola patches actually had the ability to flash their phone removed with that patch, so they can't even install cyanogenmod.

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