dan_the_welder

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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
The "Art World" has almost completely removed themselves from craft and have chosen to focus on ideas. The system is now that popular artists are management with a crew of lower tier artists who function as manufacturing. Artisans, includin
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Maybe someday your super sophisticated fraud detection software could be made to check and see if someone got slashdotted. I understand this would involve knowing the content of billions of websites and figuring out which ones link to each
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Lies! Facebook will never die, or be eclipsed like Myspace, or Friendster or Xanga or Orkut or.................
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Obviously the real concern is that "such machines that do the sort of jobs people find dull, dirty or dangerous." will get angry and unionize. We must prevent this or all is lost.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
In other news, use of Real Player has pushed the date of the Singularity back by 5 years.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Why is that? Is the video card optimized for a particular orentiation or the LCD?
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Right, that was my initial inspiration. I have a portrait tablet to my left I use for keeping documents and man pages off my main screen and I thought, "Why not both monitors portrait?"
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Ask HN: Portrait vs. Landscape monitor setup.
5 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|8 comments
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OMG the meatballs look like poop.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Print media begins its final epic but ultimately futile attack on the internet before it dies.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I meant certain people.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Wow.I am never playing cards with that robot.
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The real question is why are people so pissed off that Craigslist does it's thing and does it well. The noise seems mainly that people want to make more money on classifieds and they can't because Craigslist nailed it and you can't knock th
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I share my name with several more famous than me. However there was a certain point around the turn of the century when it was just me. Sucks to be eclipsed.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Because it's not 'you' it's every person who shares your name.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
According to the movie Food Inc. the nasty e coli in meat problem is from feed lots. It's a new acid resistant strain is harder to kill.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
This is retarded. It only discusses the swirling circle jerk of Social Networking LOL Cat viewing.
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You can still be an Anonymous Coward here if there is nothing in your user:about.
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I commented below that it is triggered by the age not brand of the browser. My bad. "Well my Firefox is current so perhaps the conspiracy is not as huge as I thought originally."
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Well then you are not explaining it very well. If you sell person.slate.com to someone when slate.com is already sold to someone else, that means who ever owns slate.com cannot have their own person.slate.com subdomain. Tell me how DNS is g
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
Well my Firefox is current so perhaps the conspiracy is not as huge as I thought originally.
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
If you go with IE 8 it has a download option for Google Toolbar
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by dan_the_welder 17y ago
I did not search for anything, just went to the homepage. So you tell me.
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Six
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Tell HN: Go to Google with IE, it offers Chrome DL, but not from Firefox
11 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|21 comments
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And now a cracked OS allows cheating since they have an approved 'test mode" to prevent access to stored files. http://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/homePage/ns... So blinking the led without any access blocking will be an ear
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Tatjana van Vark. Cryptographer, machinist, hacker(tatjavanvark.nl)
12 points by dan_the_welder 17y ago|5 comments
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If you think you've talked me into buying you "kiss under mistletoe" you're wrong.
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Heresy.
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Ugh. My lovely cafe is in an edge neighborhood. Things were looking up and then a day labor place opened up on the block. Not all day laborers are homeless but many are. Initially I was very laissez faire about them but eventually they bega

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