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by eupharis 14y ago
It makes a great deal of statements, and does take positions. Factual positions no less. For example: "At the onset of the 2008 crisis, some people very accurately predicted the type of crisis it was (a financial panic) and recommended poli
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by eupharis 14y ago
Exactly. The SSID proves precisely nothing. It is sad to see them to claim it "keeps people honest." This "Karma FirstName" scheme is going to alienate some potential customers. Also, I suspect the added advertising boost from letting your
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by eupharis 14y ago
YES! Bought. So disruptive. Goodbye dumbphone. Hellloooo karma. Skipped right over the buying smartphone "minutes" and "text" nonsense. Genius marketing model. If I get to customize the SSID it'll be something like: "yourkarma.com, use this
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by eupharis 14y ago
Ah, ok. Obviously you know the details of the situation far better than I. Just something I spend a lot of time thinking about.
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by eupharis 14y ago
Meh. But doesn't it make you throw up a little inside? Don't get me wrong. I want to make a ridiculous amount of money. But I want to make it by creating a ridiculous amount of value. Not because I figure out how to game lame, inefficient,
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by eupharis 14y ago
This diversity of opinion about what is and is not hard to tune out is fascinating. Also 26 here. One of the great shortcomings of youth is not being able to understand that other people can be fundamentally different . Not better, not wor
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by eupharis 14y ago
I wish I had some strong belief about how one side or the other was right, some plan to fix everything. But I don't. All I have is sadness.
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by eupharis 14y ago
Mine too :) To be fair, it would have required truly heroic fact-checking to catch this error. +cough+ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29 +cough+
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by eupharis 14y ago
BO did work very hard for the money, especially considering he was an incumbent president. I remember hearing some things about how this was the first time an incumbent president was outraised by his opponent. Incumbents have a staggering a
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by eupharis 14y ago
Interest compensation for risk is distributed, granted. X percent of creditors will default on their loans. You don't know ahead of time who will and who won't. So demand Y percent from everyone over and above what you would in a world wher
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by eupharis 14y ago
Expensive in this case (for the US) meaning $700 to $2000. Which is rather a lot for the insolvent. Not to mention the paperwork sounds like an ordeal. I think there is a psychological block for a lot of people too. It takes a certain point
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by eupharis 14y ago
Yep, no sarcasm meant. :) Now I just can't wait to actually have a touchscreen and have all my software work flawlessly with it!
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by eupharis 14y ago
Wow. This is mindblowing. I just went through the thought/body experiment: On your desktop/laptop, assume you already have a touchscreen and everything works perfectly. Assume every swipe interaction you have ever used works perfectly. Inte
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by eupharis 14y ago
Kim's personal vices/virtues aside, this seems like yet another iteration of a while loop that has been running for awhile: 1) A form of piracy exists. 2) Prosecute! 3) A faster, more secure form of piracy has been created!
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by eupharis 14y ago
Seconded! This looks perfect.
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by eupharis 14y ago
Nope, American comma. Now that you mention it, it seems high to me as well. I just figured out why: That is cached or buffered reads.[0] The buffer appears to be a small amount of memory that sits on the HDD. In addition to housekeeping, it
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by eupharis 14y ago
So this seemed insane to me. SSD stalking has become a bit of an obsession of mine, and the thought that an SD card could beat out an HDD was hard enough; that it could beat out an SSD bordered on blasphemy. But it has proved to be plausibl
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by eupharis 14y ago
Ah, good to know. Still, seems silly when you can just click link then type in a reply.
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by eupharis 14y ago
Well, I'm sure Norton will put out something. Of course, when running it, your ship's hyperdrive will become 50% slower. (Sidenote: Ah ok. So that's how to reply on HN once a comment thread has reached a certain depth: click link then reply
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by eupharis 14y ago
Reply to jiggy: A great point. I can't wait for the first trojan that takes control of your ship and transfers control to a different player. Will people be able to share binaries or just source?
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by eupharis 14y ago
There have been a few companies that have tried this with computers in the past: http://www.apple.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/ I think it just may work out!
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by eupharis 14y ago
Interesting. Would you say Topolsky's praise of the snappiness of the OS, the keyboard's usefulness, and the browser's handiness are overstated? If the Paperwhite had some of that tablet-like functionality, that'd be great. I initially dism
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by eupharis 14y ago
"Falcon 9 did exactly what it was designed to do. Like the Saturn V (which experienced engine loss on two flights) and modern airliners, Falcon 9 is designed to handle an engine out situation and still complete its mission. No other rocket
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by eupharis 14y ago
Hold the phone. It's Linux based, open source, and apps are written in Javascript, not Java? Down with Android. Long live webOS!
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by eupharis 14y ago
Ah. I was not aware of how much higher it was in 2000. Price per album was significantly higher as well.[1] Still, I take issue with your characterization of the big record labels as having "been mostly killed." $4.158 billion dollars in sa
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by eupharis 14y ago
No. The big record labels are not dying. Album sales are UP. And at least according to Nielsen, the big four record companies account for 90% of those sales.[1] Nielsen's methods of measuring probably favor established record companies over
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by eupharis 14y ago
AMD put a lot of resources toward the desktop. And from all the benchmarks I've seen they achieved their goal. Bulldozer is a pretty competitive desktop processor. Bulldozer is powerful. But not energy efficient. There can be no Bulldozer l
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by eupharis 14y ago
Regarding the speed, the website says it's artifically limited, so I don't think you'll see these flying around at ridiculous speeds. It sounds like just included the beefy motor to power up San Francisco hills. Here in Portland I think the
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by eupharis 14y ago
A great distinction. But I tended not to read it with physical goals in mind... I find it strange these days how many geeks seem to have heroic physical goals. "Like every other guy on earth, I’ve wanted six pack abs forever." I suppose I'v
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by eupharis 14y ago
The price of the Kobo goes down by $20 too if you throw in ads. Also, how do you search for words or phrases without a keyboard or touchpad? I find that a very handy ereader feature. Well worth $10. Oh remember the days of paper books and i

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