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by deftnerd 10y ago
App doesn't appear to work for me. I downloaded the precompiled windows app, and it loads a window that says "Hello React" and gives error popups too.
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Is there a recommended place where geeks in need can apply for donated laptops? I took a year off with my wife in kids in the cheapest US locale I could find (agricultural area of Puerto Rico) so I could survive on my passive income project
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Possibly for polls during the campaign's, but exit polls, where people interview random samplings of people leaving the place where they cast their votes, have historically been very close to the actual vote results. In some areas of t
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Another reason this will accomplish more in comparison to Arecibo is that the National Science Foundation just ordered the environmental survey of how a full shutdown will affect the local environment. It is believed in the astronomical com
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Sunk cost fallacy. I find myself doing that with TV series too. I'll binge watch a few seasons and then it gets bad. I also know that sometimes better writers come on during different seasons so I'll slog through the bad ones in t
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by deftnerd 10y ago
That's not true. At most, the amount of data in a block stays the same but attaches an associated data structure to the block that is estimated to equal, at most, 1.7mb. That's a best case scenario once every piece of software tha
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by deftnerd 10y ago
There are lots of mechanical options available for the purpose of mounting laptops in cars. The mounting hardware can easily be re-purposed to bolt to a piece of furniture or some kind of rolling cart. For instance: https://www.a
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by deftnerd 10y ago
It might be easier than that. Data Broker companies are the ones that run those stupid "Which LOTR character are you" or "What color are you" quizzes that are popular in some social media circles. They do it to slowly bu
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Interesting idea, but I think a slight modification is in order. Like you said, if someone buys and domain for $5 a year and holds it for a few years, and then someone offers $1000 for it during a renewal auction, the owner could pay $100 t
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by deftnerd 10y ago
With all due respect, this wasn't very constructive. HN is full of new and strange acronyms. Most of us either skip the article about it if we're not interested or simply google the term. Ethereum is a blockchain based cryptocurre
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This is fascinating! From what I can understand with my poor chinese, This is a news portal and forum just for Chinese expats in Vancouver or Chinese citizens who have an interest in Vancouver. It's such a niche topic and community, bu
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by deftnerd 10y ago
I cross posted this to /r/china to get some input from a different community and this comment was made. Thought I would replicate it here in case anyone else finds it interesting -------- From /u/ThomSEN1 Honestly the on
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Ask HN: Where do Chinese property investor hang out online?
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I'm a big fan of aquaponics too, but I've never seen numbers on the energy required to source, process, and transport the fish food. It gets even more complicated if you include the energy required to raise the fish that get caugh
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Wouldn't the embedded aluminum particles cause a risk of shorting out the electrical connections?
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If someone invents something that gets classified as secret and then a decade later another inventor invents the same thing, but by then the government doesn't feel the need to classify it anymore, would the original inventor have any
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by deftnerd 10y ago
I read a trio of apocalypse short story collections earlier in the year and one of the ones that stuck in my head the most was a trio of stories... "Spore", "Fruiting Bodies", and "Resistance" by Seanan McGuire
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by deftnerd 10y ago
I think that Slack being down is related to this: Watchdog: 18F's Slack security exposed GSA data https://fcw.com/articles/2016/05/13/slack-security-18f.aspx It was enough of a problem that the reac
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by deftnerd 10y ago
This is exciting to me. About 3 years ago, I won 250k at the Texas Bitcoin Conference hackathon for this basic concept. I built the platform but then the angel investor that was funding the award changed his mind and backed out because he s
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by deftnerd 10y ago
I found this article talking out what someone has to do to secure the rights to make a remake of another work http://www.movieoutline.com/articles/how-do-you-secure-the-r... It basically points out that even shot-for-s
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by deftnerd 10y ago
That response is crazy. If he's so set at keeping the homepage http, then make a download.keypass.com site and keep the downloads on there, with https required.
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https://LowEndTalk.com - Message board for cheap VPS fans https://laracasts.com - Video tutorials for Laravel
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I'm excited that they're now based on a Firefox branch that supports Subresource-Integrity. This allows websites to add hashes of externally called resources, like JS or CSS files, to let the browser determine if they've been
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Dug up this link because of a casual interest I had into Iraq's Project Babylon [1] that was deemed by the UN to be a weapon, even though it wouldn't have been able to aim at anything. It would have just been useful to put payload
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Space Guns – A history of the least subtle way of getting into orbit (2014)(medium.com)
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I must admit that I think that more clarity is a good thing. Would asking someone on a date be considered an "unwanted sexual advance"? Also, the term "unwanted" makes me wonder about the existence of a "wanted sexu
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by deftnerd 10y ago
My father-in-law has the unfortunate name "David Duke" AND lived in Texas. He always gets asked if he's the leader of the KKK. He tries to take it in stride and not let it affect him.
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> Also, I still don't understand why I'd want a programming language in my currency. Actually, I think you're looking at it wrong. It's not a programming language in your currency. It's a currency in your program
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by deftnerd 10y ago
This link was originally dead but I vouched for it as I was just a few paragraphs into reading it. If I read all the way through, I would have left it dead. The content started just fine but progressively gets worse and worse with the autho
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by deftnerd 10y ago
I'm rebuilding an old hackathon project, ChainProof, to use Ethereum. It's basically a service that lets people submit facts about themselves and automated or trusted notaries verify the information and vouch for it. DAOs and smar

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