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10y ago
They could just do buybacks until no one else has any shares left? http://seekingalpha.com/article/1725412-buyback-apple-could-...
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It's interesting that this story sounds far-fetched but if you told it about a chimp no one would bat an eye. I think we can accept how intelligent chimps are more easily because we can understand their body language and facial express
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10y ago
But they also don't ask why she chose a male protagonist.
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11y ago
Mentioned in the article: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lonelywhale/help-us-fin...
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11y ago
It's a great game, but a little misleading to use as a proof of concept since presumably they trained it with google streetview data.
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11y ago
Except people prefer to text these days.
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Nadim Kobeissi on why he left Peerio
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11y ago
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11y ago
Onewheel is Future Motion's product, not the Chinese company. The kickstarter was in Jan 2014 so that's how long a copycat would have had.
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11y ago
A bit sad because I thought Talko had some great ideas. I hope some are picked up by Slack or Telegram as well as getting worked into Skype.
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11y ago
If the rules are that you have to use a human body, good luck computer. Considering what our brains were designed for, you could make the argument that chess is just as unfairly biased in a computer's favor as controlling a human body
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11y ago
It wouldn't be fun at all if he didn't have to call him "the space doctor".
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11y ago
What if it's in a "secure element" whose hardware and firmware make it provably incapable of divulging the private key?
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11y ago
Pre-paternity leave
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11y ago
The main problem I've seen with Objective-C is due to the fact that nil has truthiness, so this code is dangerous: if (input.isInvalid()) { reject() } else { accept() } If input is accidentally nil, it'
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11y ago
The Facebook Instant Articles thing is in a good position for this. Move content to special-purpose browsers controlled by the company serving the ads.
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11y ago
You're talking about light mixing. The red/blue/yellow color wheel is based on pigment mixing: green + blue = cyan, red + blue = magenta
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11y ago
She specifically says that she only told friends about the bonuses being withheld
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11y ago
That combo has been used as a homonym for "piece of shit". See http://🍕💩.ws/💩📦🐱🍅👊🐌
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11y ago
It's a joke. It has an inside as much as any bottle does, but the only point of a Klein Bottle is the topological form so they're using topological language to talk about it.
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11y ago
I think the rhyme definition is wrong. To me a rhyme has to be have the same phonemes from the coda of the last accented syllable to the end of the line.
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11y ago
If so it might be what he wanted. There was speculation that the buyout was a way to get rid of managers without having to fire them.
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11y ago
The search doesn't actually find pages with x * sin(y), though. Even on verbatim mode the best it does is x = sin(y).
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11y ago
In this case there's someone else who paid for you not to be able to stream it: Apple. HBO Now is Apple TV exclusive for 3 months.
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12y ago
What if you put a receiving antenna in every power outlet, light switch, and light fixture – then you could use these throughout the building.
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12y ago
He didn't say it was advice on how to become a huge company, he said it was how to _maybe_ become a huge company. They're going for high returns on successes, not high chance of success.
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12y ago
Good question, let me cuil it.
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12y ago
That's what I thought at first too, but the data makes it clear that it isn't just based on votes weighted by subscriber count either.
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12y ago
Just a PSA for mac users: Keychain Access.app has a command line interface: `security` . I use a special keychain for some of my TrueCrypt passwords, so I can mount them all with the same password via the command line via `security find-gen
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12y ago
I wouldn't say floppy ears and mottled fur are baby-like.
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12y ago
But if you start leaving commas out of your JSON, it's no longer valid YAML.
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