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by eurleif 13y ago
What if you've fallen asleep?
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by eurleif 13y ago
I'm confused about why this would be a good way to save bandwidth. The same number of pixels are still required to give you a smooth picture. So unless Skype adds more pixels to the zoomed-in area (which would presumably negate the ban
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by eurleif 13y ago
>If T-Mobile wasn't in a distant fourth place in the US market, or if they'd been acquired by AT&T we wouldn't be seeing this, nor would we see Verizon and AT&T introduce their own versions of T-Mobile's JUMP
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by eurleif 13y ago
The metro system in the DC area uses NFC (or something similar?) for its reloadable fare cards. I can just tap my wallet on the scanner, without having to take the card out. It's very convenient.
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by eurleif 13y ago
>I've seen the link. My comment wasn't about it. It was about what I commented about (comment-above). The comment was quoting the link...
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by eurleif 13y ago
I understand that "free software" is what RMS prefers, but why is it better to contribute projects using that terminology? Aren't most open source projects also free software projects, even if they don't call themselves
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by eurleif 13y ago
If they send a hash to servers, that still has privacy implications. Apple could build a searchable database of those hashes, and the government could issue subpoenas to search that database for particular fingerprints. Maybe that's no
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by eurleif 13y ago
>ChatRoulette and Omegle require you to actively participate. Absolutely -- they're not direct replacements. The problem is that a lot of what made Stickam fun is the size of its audience, and the demand for a Stickam-like site is m
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by eurleif 13y ago
> A replacement for http://stickam.com/ TinyChat is the closest one-to-one replacement, but it's not quite the same, and its business model is a little annoying (crippling the product for a paid upgrade). But ChatRo
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by eurleif 13y ago
This already happens at the library in the town I grew up in: http://brookslibraryvt.org/borrow/digital-media
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by eurleif 13y ago
>Tax bands certainly provide a big disincentive for bothering to get a better job/raise. You know that your entire income isn't taxed at the highest bracket's rate, right? So, for example, the highest bracket is 39.6% for
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by eurleif 13y ago
I started off with a sole proprietor account, and then converted it to an LLC. It was "pending" for months. During that time, my Apple developer registration expired, and I renewed it... but because I renewed it for the LLC, not t
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by eurleif 13y ago
In Wickard v. Filburn ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn ), the Supreme Court pretty much ruled that everything is interstate commerce. That case involved a farmer growing wheat for consumption on the farm
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by eurleif 13y ago
>It will not be long before all valid passports are chipped. What about other forms of ID?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Presumably there were many SELECTs for every INSERT.
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by eurleif 13y ago
The difference between RedHat and CentOS is basically just branding. That comparison doesn't make sense.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Why did Yahoo! care? Why did Yahoo! even have a seat at that table?
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by eurleif 13y ago
pyparsing ( http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/ ) is more object-oriented and composable, and it can parse recursive grammars.
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by eurleif 13y ago
In practice, is that likely to be a serious impediment?
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by eurleif 13y ago
In this context, I think "Amazon will have no role in the purchase" just means that Bezos is buying WaPo with his own money, and he will own it personally. I don't think it precludes him from making deals between the two comp
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by eurleif 13y ago
This was a hosting service for onion sites, not a tor exit node.
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by eurleif 13y ago
The allegation seems to be that he had actual knowledge of child porn being hosted on his service, and did nothing about it.
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by eurleif 13y ago
I meant, a legitimate customer -- one who has no link to scalpers -- might forget to bring the proper credit card.
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by eurleif 13y ago
So, when a legitimate customer doesn't pay attention to that rule, turn away business?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Or, since this is Hacker News, you can use ChucK, which is a realtime programming language for processing audio: SinOsc left => dac.left; SinOsc right => dac.right; 300 => left.freq; 310 => right.freq; whil
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by eurleif 13y ago
Would introducing probiotics after disinfection do anything?
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by eurleif 13y ago
>In Python, could you write `print` yourself? In Python 3, where print is a function? Yes. In Python 2, not with exactly the same syntax, but you could certainly write a function to provide the same features.
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by eurleif 13y ago
>In 2013, you most certainly do not have to pay money on or for Mac OS X. You have to join the Apple Developer Program, which costs $99/year, in order to distribute software that will run on OS X with default Gatekeeper settings. Th
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by eurleif 13y ago
You could still claim prior art if you used or published the idea before they patented it. The difference between "first to invent" and "first to file" basically only comes up when someone invents an idea but keeps it pr
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by eurleif 13y ago
sum(A) + sum(B) = sum(A ∪ B) sum(A) + sum({}) = sum(A ∪ {}) sum(A) + sum({}) = sum(A) sum({}) = 0

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