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by flashman 10y ago
Posting via Tor now. I had to complete a reCAPTCHA before I was allowed to see the page, but no problems on logging in. Exit relay 89.234.157.254. I don't usually use Tor but I thought I'd test what OP's saying.
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by flashman 10y ago
> it's then probably not possible to review the images you've taken to ensure that you got the shot you wanted Well, photographers in the film era managed to get by.
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by flashman 10y ago
You're right, I mistook the Oculus number for his wealth. Nevertheless I think he's still probably in the realms of what they call "fuck-off money".
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by flashman 10y ago
It can be both; one good reason to make something cool is to make money from it.
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by flashman 10y ago
It's possible we'll stop buying earbuds in pairs, and start buying them in ten packs. Some for your pocket, in your desk at work, at home, spares in the car... maybe some genius will figure out a design that fits in either ear, an
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by flashman 10y ago
But AirBnB and Uber require the owner to invest effort: cleaning the house (or arranging the cleaner) and driving the car. If you could hire your car out fully autonomously that changes the equation. It's like you're saying I sh
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by flashman 10y ago
Iribe is thought to be worth $2bn. He doesn't need CEO money, he needs something that he's passionate about.
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by flashman 10y ago
Without odds, players can't make informed decisions about their spending. They have no idea whether a rare drop is 10%, 5% or 0.002% of the time. So this regulation will help them calculate the probable cost of acquiring the item. Exam
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by flashman 10y ago
> have to pay a greater percentage of our salaries for water That would be ironic, because 'salary' was originally money given to soldiers to buy salt, not get rid of it.
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by flashman 10y ago
I'm interested why you think this is a moral question. I don't have a moral responsibility to accept internet ads any more than I have to avoid changing the TV channel during an ad break, or to read instead of flipping past the ad
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by flashman 10y ago
Publishers get to try sending whatever they want to my computer. I get to accept or reject the parts that I want. Based on whether I accept or reject ads, they can refuse to let me see content. This is business, not morality. I have no mora
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by flashman 10y ago
Microsoft (not being dependent on ad revenue) could make some big strides by incorporating UBlock into the browser and marketing Edge as "the internet, without ads." 'A faster browser' is why Internet Explorer lost users
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by flashman 10y ago
Yet if your Google account gets suspended for some reason, you'd better have a contact at Google or you're in a world of pain.
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by flashman 10y ago
What seems more likely to me is that the "decompressing a large number of small archives" task is so rare that Apple hasn't optimised it. More likely than "Apple added an arbitrary delay to make the interface more satisf
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by flashman 10y ago
> the number of legs per day flown by regional aircrews may be an issue More take-offs and landings, more human and equipment fatigue, more opportunity for mistakes and breakages?
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by flashman 10y ago
There is also a fair bit of "systems thinking" in aviation, which focuses not on who to blame when things go wrong, but how were systems set up to permit failure. Barring gross negligence or malice, most things go wrong for reason
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by flashman 10y ago
Pass it off as Morpheus not understanding the machines' true purposes. He believes it, but we don't have proof. Perhaps the machines use human brains as cloud infrastructure, for storage and highly parallel processing. (I also lik
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by flashman 10y ago
I have a 2004 Gmail account which people like to use as a fake email address when signing up to things. So my address is in the Ashley Madison leak. This is not something I'm comfortable with people knowing without context, so even if
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by flashman 10y ago
You know, this is exactly where my mind went, too: http://i.imgur.com/fME7MK7.png The difference between your first draft[1] and mine is that I've only included links where each site had at least 1% of users in the oth
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by flashman 10y ago
I'd wager that we're all more qualified to talk about tech topics than political ones, which is what leads to emotion and bad arguments.
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by flashman 10y ago
Not to mention that "can we please stop with all the politics" is not political neutrality , it's a position that supports the status quo. Silence assists certain forms of repression.
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by flashman 10y ago
> it shows us once again how clustering algorithms fail What do you mean by 'fail'? It looks like the algorithm ultimately did what they wanted it to, so do you mean some sort of relevance or practical failure? All clustering a
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by flashman 10y ago
I would guess fake ringing tones, because the victim would think the phone hasn't been picked up yet. Animal Farm might work once or twice for curiosity's sake, but eventually people will cotton on. With a fake ring tone, they&#
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by flashman 10y ago
Did you submit this because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13100910
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by flashman 10y ago
This is going straight into my favourite bug-hunting stories, along with the 500-Mile Email: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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by flashman 10y ago
Someone's going to hack this into a doorbell that pushes the visitor's name to their phone.
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by flashman 10y ago
If there was a simple all-in-one device you could buy to become part of IABAK, I'd probably do it. Embedded firmware, off-the-shelf terabyte hard drive... they could double or triple their userbase.
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by flashman 10y ago
Pass youtube-dl the -F parameter to see all the video formats available. In this case: [info] Available formats for 0_gaag5ixq: format code extension resolution note hls-meta mp4 multiple Quality selection URL
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by flashman 10y ago
This looks really great, well done. I used to use EasyMorph[1] for similar tasks but your interface looks a bit easier to use. This could replace some of the work I currently do in pandas. [1] http://easymorph.com/
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by flashman 10y ago
The Internet Archive is a modern Library of Alexandria. The latter was destroyed intentionally or accidentally, nobody knows for sure, but the point is that we have the technology to ensure it doesn't happen again. Jason Scott has more

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