cosmotron

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Choon: a music streaming and royalty platform built on Ethereum(choon.co)
4 points by cosmotron 8y ago|0 comments
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by cosmotron 8y ago
Here's a link to when this was first appeared on HN (March 27): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688681 The comments have input from the add-on's author (groovecoder).
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by cosmotron 8y ago
I agree in that this doesn't really take conscious thought anymore. However, the article had the following: > How can a = a + 1? That’s like saying 1 = 2. It looks like a lot of us don't have (never had?) trouble accepting a st
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by cosmotron 9y ago
I actually rationalized the '=' symbol in assignment into the following statement, "Let 'left hand side' be equal to 'right hand side'". Using this wording resolves some dissonance around its overload
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by cosmotron 9y ago
I believe this is the article: http://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation
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by cosmotron 9y ago
Yes. If you're curious what the present-day FB settings are that control this sort of information sharing, see here: https://i.imgur.com/6fyLx18.png It's located in the user's "Apps" settings [1] un
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by cosmotron 9y ago
If the person appears in your Google Contacts, are you able to to clear the birthday field?
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by cosmotron 9y ago
There's another neat example of this: asking someone with years of car-driving experience to hold their hands out as if gripping a steering wheel and mime the motions necessary to change lanes. [1] The steps are: 1. Turn the steering w
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by cosmotron 9y ago
I have Maps version 9.69.1 running on Android 8.1. I see the following options in Maps' "Notifications" menu: Traffic, Commute, Transit, Navigation, Your contributions, People & places, Ride services, Offline maps, New on
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by cosmotron 9y ago
Thanks a lot for this answer -- the real-world scenario including your thought process is very insightful.
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by cosmotron 9y ago
> [...] only to eventually encounter all the issues that floating point was invented to solve. When they encounter those issues they then end up having to adapt their code only to basically re-invent a broken, unstable quasi-floating poi
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by cosmotron 9y ago
According to glassdoor, an Apple Genius working in NYC makes approximately $23/hour [1]. [1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Apple-Mac-Genius-New-Yo...
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by cosmotron 9y ago
For those hitting the WSJ paywall: https://t.co/6jFYZkEC6V It'll give you a Twitter referral which should bypass it.
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by cosmotron 9y ago
Mods, consider adding (2014) to the title as this was presented at USENIX '14.
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by cosmotron 9y ago
See my reply above, it's Google Flights: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14134580
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by cosmotron 9y ago
Google Flights tells you how much leg room you will get. For example: https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=BOS;t=SFO;d=2017-05... Boston (BOS) – San Francisco (SFO) JetBlue 833 · Airbus A320 Above average l
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by cosmotron 10y ago
Thing in transit are not invulnerable to tampering; see the story of NSA intercepting Cisco networking hardware and implanting beacons. [1] [1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/photos-of-an-nsa...
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by cosmotron 10y ago
Isn't a different interpretation that a fork is, presumably, their software _plus_ your modification(s)? Thus, a fork is not "solely" their software anymore and is allowed.
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by cosmotron 10y ago
> I find the doctor's requirement a bit unrealistic. The article states that these items (airways, nitro, ...) were not just her requirements, but rather FAA mandated [1] items that did not appear in the flight's medical kit. [
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by cosmotron 10y ago
> Why would you confirm something with the screenshot of notepad "officially" when you have a twitter account? I figured it was because they didn't want to be constrained by a character limit. It allows them to use very sp
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by cosmotron 10y ago
Perhaps you accepted the new terms more than 30 days ago and instead of showing a greyed-out checkbox, they simply hide it altogether.
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by cosmotron 10y ago
> guy in SF who lost his phone at a bar and it ended being used by an orange farmer For those interested: https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/i-followed-my-stolen-iphone-...
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by cosmotron 10y ago
To give a concrete example, OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) has `/usr/bin` listed before `/usr/local/bin` in `/etc/paths`. This was flipped in 10.10 and up.
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by cosmotron 11y ago
I believe the "weeks" figure is related to this quote: "Without fresh clues, the hunt should end about June, when four ships are due to finish combing the seas off western Australia, Dolan said."
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by cosmotron 11y ago
Hah, this happened to me once. Turns out the email validation was occurring client-side though... so a quick edit later and the server still gladly accepted my '+'-enabled email address. :-)
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by cosmotron 11y ago
Design question: why is the "☰" (hotdog / hamburger button) migrating into desktop versions of websites?
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by cosmotron 12y ago
What's the plan for the Android version of the app?
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by cosmotron 12y ago
I don't think they'd ever switch to that logo specifically... it's too easy to confuse it with "bp". It does look slick though!
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by cosmotron 12y ago
I'm guessing that JetBlue allows people to log into their account via telephone. They could map your alphanumeric password to the series of numbers you'd punch in on a phone. Example: the password 'foobar9' could be mapp
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by cosmotron 12y ago
Here's a direct link to the scene: http://youtu.be/zJer9aivOrA?t=23m50s

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