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by cryptoz 15y ago
I imagine the idea is that this system should eventually lead to ads that the community actually likes - but I'll admit that doesn't seem to be happening. However, I think that most ads that reddit rages about are pretty terribe ads. For ex
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by cryptoz 15y ago
I can't tell if you're serious or not. In case you are...what makes you think reddit is dying? All indications point to continued explosive growth. I've been on reddit for about 5 or 6 years and it's pretty clear the site goes through growi
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by cryptoz 15y ago
This looks awesome! However, it doesn't address the only problem I have with browsing HN on my Xoom with the regular browser: accidental votes. Is there a way you could add voting arrows larger than the ones on the web page?
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by cryptoz 15y ago
What's going on with Apple and shady legal dealings recently? It appears they are faking evidence in European courts; that should be a criminal offense. It appears they are impersonating police officers - that IS a criminal offense. Is the
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by cryptoz 15y ago
I was specifically referring to their installation of rootkits on consumer PCs through the Sony BMG CD channel. Also, their attitude about it. From Wikipedia: > Thomas Hesse, Sony BMG's Global Digital Business President, told reporter N
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by cryptoz 15y ago
"It’s not about who makes them first, but who [spies on you the most].” I love Android and I'm so happy for its success. But I cannot recommend these tablets to anyone due to my boycott of Sony. Their lack of moral values and the way they t
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by cryptoz 15y ago
Misleading headline. Google+ traffic down 27% in the last two weeks [ among Alexa toolbar users ].
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by cryptoz 15y ago
Depending on your OS and browser, sometimes all you have to do is mouseover it to lose all focus, both keyboard and mouse. This used to happen to me a year or two ago, with Firefox and Linux I think.
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by cryptoz 15y ago
That's awkward. Welcome, defend, Android, partners, ecosystem. It's all the same quote. Edit: But assuming they all mean it, this is actually fantastic. It's good to see that they aren't afraid; they don't seem themselves in a weakened posi
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by cryptoz 15y ago
In 9 years, we'll look back on today with 2020 hindsight.
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by cryptoz 15y ago
First, most of the serious arson and crime in these riots seems to be committed by adults. > 14-18 year old punks do exactly that... smash things just because they want. Second, if that's the case then why aren't 14-18 year olds smashin
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by cryptoz 15y ago
There are deeper issues. There's a big difference between excuses and explanations: there are no excuses for the behavior, but there's plenty of reason to search for explanations. Why are the riots happening? People don't smash things j
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by cryptoz 15y ago
In my personal experience, non-native English speaks are far more well-versed in grammar than native speakers.
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by cryptoz 15y ago
The International Space Station is the most expensive object humanity has ever built. You think that the reason we are slow at terraforming Mars is because we're debating about life there?! No. The reason we're slow is because it would take
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by cryptoz 15y ago
I would guess that consumers kept it. Watching 10 movies using Blockbuster could cost the consumer around $50 (in Canada, anyway, where Blockbuster is still thriving because Netflix took more than a decade to get here). Watching 10 movies o
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by cryptoz 15y ago
What if your researches had been looking at only 100 cells of the billions/trillions of cells in the lungs (for example), and they said they'd like to expand to 200 of the maybe 100,000,000,000 cells available. Do you still want to disconti
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by cryptoz 15y ago
SETI has scanned the tiniest fraction of the nearby places to look. We're still in the first 30 seconds of couch-looking. It'll be centuries before we're at the 2 hour mark. Also, as the exoplanet hunt gets better and better, SETI gets more
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by cryptoz 15y ago
"only"? $1,000,000,000,000 is a lot of money, even in the context of $14,300,000,000,000. Also, do you have a source for that $1 trillion figure? I think it's higher than that. Not to change the debate, but if Obama really cared about savin
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by cryptoz 15y ago
> It's not like he has a magic wand or is a dictator. He does have a magic wand, in the form of a pen that he can use to veto new military spending. He hasn't used it. > If the large banks, oil companies and corporations thought it
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by cryptoz 15y ago
Why aren't the wars mentioned under Obama as well? He actively chose to continue fighting both of them, spending huge amounts of money. Sure, he didn't start them but he's had plenty of opportunities to stop them and he hasn't. It's clear
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by cryptoz 15y ago
Last time I checked (a few months ago), every large carrier in Canada charges 15 cents for each incoming SMS. That's Bell, Rogers, Telus...maybe some others. Many people have a plan addon that includes receiving some SMS for free, but the b
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by cryptoz 15y ago
Some users are uncomfortable with the idea that even if they avoid Google entirely by not using their search, OS, email, or maps, that Google can still have a profile of them and which sites they visit. If you don't like the company and wan
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by cryptoz 15y ago
If someone creates an account but never posts, will there ever be a public-facing link the the userid page? If not, then Googlebot could be doing its job perfectly but have a totally inaccurate number of registered users using this method.
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by cryptoz 15y ago
The text on that site is so damn large it's actually hard to read.
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RIM to cut 2,000 jobs(cbc.ca)
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by cryptoz 15y ago
30km up is not "to space". Not even "near space", if we take the Kármán line at 100km to be the generally agreed upon definition. The balloon is amazing and impressive but this headline is misleading.
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by cryptoz 15y ago
Yep. I'm aware that you're supposed to scale with size nicely in order to make an app work nicely on all screen sizes. But there should be more than that. My Xoom's camera is far better than my desktop's webcam, but the app lacks the Hangou
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by cryptoz 15y ago
I would be surprised, actually. Their Android tablet app is absolutely terrible (I think it's the same as the phone app, which is what makes it terrible). I hope they do put out tablet apps, and soon , but given that they could have launch
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by cryptoz 15y ago
> I still doubt G+'s ability to make a significant impact. That's a mistake. I think it's pretty clear that Google+ is already a successful product that's making an impact, but let's pretend for a second that it isn't. When Chrome launc
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by cryptoz 15y ago
It doesn't need to be 100% if the atmosphere of the planet could keep enough heat for the remaining 26% of the time, which is entirely likely. This find is awesome, but it's not what the headline describes. The planet is no "ExoEarth". It's

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