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by eurleif 14y ago
The two-connection limit is a guideline in the HTTP standard ( http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.1... ): >Clients that use persistent connections SHOULD limit the number of simultaneous connections that they mai
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by eurleif 14y ago
>why would I pay someone a certain amount in bitcoins, when it'll probably rise up to 10 times the current value in a few weeks? Why would you pay someone a certain amount in USD, when you could buy Bitcoins instead and they would proba
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by eurleif 14y ago
>was the internet ever actually this bad? Yes.
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by eurleif 14y ago
22. I started at 7 or 8 with Stagecraft Creator, which is a visual programming-ish thing. Then I moved onto to BASIC with Learn to Program BASIC. I have a friend who started with LTPB too.
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by eurleif 14y ago
I wonder to what extent it may contribute to BitCoin's deflation: drug dealers make money on Silk Road, can't readily transfer it out of BitCoins, and probably think there's a good chance BitCoins will continue to become more valuable anywa
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by eurleif 14y ago
There will always be ways to monetize malware. I'd rather they monetize it by mining Bitcoins than by doing something more destructive.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Where do you see that in the open source definition ( http://opensource.org/osd )?
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by eurleif 14y ago
What users do is not necessarily the same as what they should do.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>So the new tarantula they discovered yesterday didn't exist until it had been measured? "Can be measured", not "has been". But if someone had claimed to know of the existence of a tarantula with the specific characteristics that specie
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by eurleif 14y ago
>At its core, karma is the idea of cause and effect. Actions have consequences. This is entirely consistent with much of what we think we know about the world. At its core, a unicorn is a mammal. A warm-blooded animal which nurses its y
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by eurleif 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_infringement_under_Unit... 'If an infringer is found to have deliberately infringed a patent (i.e. "willful" infringement), then punitive damages can be assessed up to three times the actual damages. L
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by eurleif 14y ago
>you have to remember that Google is merely the middle man for every $1 they're paying out they would have to at least be making $5 - $10 more so they're always ahead. Google pays 68% to the publisher. http://adsense.blogspot.com/2010/
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by eurleif 14y ago
Would hacking it count as "downloading a car"?
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by eurleif 14y ago
>Are the user's IPs or other connection information being exposed to one another? So what? If I wanted to get a bunch of random IPs to attack, I could host a picture of a cat on my server, log IPs, and post the link on reddit. Or I coul
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by eurleif 14y ago
>I bet Formspring STILL, TODAY, weeks before shutting down, has more DAUs than Quora Of course, Alexa numbers require a grain of salt, but it looks like Quora's traffic has been higher for a while: http://traffic.alexa.com/graph?w=400&
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by eurleif 14y ago
'if not value.strip():' is a more thorough check that I think is better in most cases.
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by eurleif 14y ago
I (American) have heard "doodle" used that way occasionally, but it doesn't make me think of that at all without the right context. Here it makes me think of silly drawings.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Turbotax has a smartphone app which does that, at least for W2s. I've seen TV ads for it.
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by eurleif 14y ago
It might be that they don't need every peer to play nice, but a quorum of peers. If that were the case, a client with a buggy implementation could easily gain popularity quickly and mess things up, but it would take an attacker with a bot
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by eurleif 14y ago
"Forever remain so"? It's impossible that the infrastructure you describe could eventually exist for another database?
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by eurleif 14y ago
But most people don't use 100 tea bags a day. Low levels of fluoride aren't going to kill you.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>Tea is one area where I go for the expensive stuff. It has to be pure. Drinking green tea with impurities like fluoride may or may not be killing me, but the thought of it sure kills the experience. My Monster cables may or may not pro
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by eurleif 14y ago
Oops. Thanks.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Neither is TextMate.
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by eurleif 14y ago
Hypothetically, I wonder if there would be legal issues with running a bot to scrape data from Gulf Air's page. They don't seem to have a ToS which prohibits it, as far as I can tell; and I would expect the data itself to be non-copyrightab
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by eurleif 14y ago
The fact that -40 C = -40 F is a random bit of trivia that not everyone can be expected to know. If it just said -40 degrees, it would be confusing to anyone who wasn't aware.
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by eurleif 14y ago
>given that they discussed the termination in the public (disclosing an opinion that he is guilty) The actual wording is: "The result of this investigation led to the unfortunate outcome of having to let this employee go." It's not expl
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by eurleif 14y ago
Interstate markets always existed , despite being less convenient and less popular. If you chose to buy from a local vendor, you were implicitly choosing not to buy from an interstate vendor, which means you were having the indirect effe
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by eurleif 14y ago
The argument in Wickard is that growing wheat on your farm is interstate commerce because if you grow your own wheat, you won't buy someone else's wheat, which affects the interstate market for wheat. How does that depend on technological
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by eurleif 14y ago
How does "You have enough saved up so that even if things blew up you could last a year or more" not cover that option?

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