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by flashman 10y ago
Well, radar will get you a location, but lacks detail. Russia's Krona system[1] apparently uses radar to find the satellites, then illuminates them with a laser so that optical telescopes can get imagery and precise measurements. [1] h
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by flashman 10y ago
I liked how this show was set in the eighties, but wasn't about them. It could almost have been made thirty years ago. One of my other recent title sequence favourites is 'Halt and Catch Fire'[1], again set in the 80s, in no
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by flashman 10y ago
Um. Yes. I did actually describe the opposite of what is in the articles didn't I?
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by flashman 10y ago
I find it's useful to stick to cash as a budgeting measure. It's too simple to lose track of how much you're spending when the amounts are effectively invisible. I'll make a cash withdrawal and then try to make it last w
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by flashman 10y ago
edit: this is all wrong: The Australian banks make a lot of money off interchange fees. Apple wants a cut of the interchange fee to get access to Apple Pay (which is what ANZ did recently). This has slowed the Apple Pay rollout, but not bec
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by flashman 10y ago
I'm generally sympathetic to descriptivism, but I encourage people to stick to prescriptivist rules in situations where departing from them would lead to reputational damage. (Then again, it's probably worse to be branded a pedant
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by flashman 10y ago
> Replace every even frame with a copy of the subsequent odd frame I think this is supposed to be previous odd frame, given that 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 becomes 1 1 3 3 5 5 7 7 9 9.
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by flashman 10y ago
Botters aren't as big a threat to Niantic's business as the shortcomings of their own technical infrastructure. When that changes, watch out.
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by flashman 10y ago
Why are we all on HN and not Usenet, the original distributed link-sharing system?
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by flashman 10y ago
Look at the URL slug: edward-snowden-is-a-russian-agent.html Someone had second thoughts on their original title: http://web.archive.org/web/20160722125335/https://www.pastem...
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by flashman 10y ago
Even patenting a formula's application is becoming more restricted. In Australia and the US, the two relevant tests seem to be whether the formula does something a human can't, and whether the formula is used to 'improve&#x27
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by flashman 10y ago
This is what I detect in Reddit's new ideas: the fear that the existing site is good enough for most people and its population has therefore stabilised... which would be pretty bad for certain kinds of investor looking for a big one-
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by flashman 10y ago
To the extent that I'm xenophobic, I recognise it as something to be challenged, not indulged.
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by flashman 10y ago
Interesting argument I heard last week[1]: the "penalty of perjury" applies to the statement "I have the authority to act on behalf of the stated copyright owner", not to the statement "This content belongs to me.&q
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by flashman 10y ago
Can you explain why you would record an infringement before the three day window for counter notices has expired? You have no section for decrementing/annulling infringements or re-enabling accounts, so if you follow this process, I ca
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by flashman 10y ago
Because we're believers! And there's no subscription cost and we've already paid, and all our friends play it too, I guess...
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by flashman 10y ago
It may be an urban myth, but somebody told me Amazon tweaked their recommendation algorithm to occasionally provide random items, the thinking being that people might be persuaded to buy something on the mere suggestion that they would like
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by flashman 10y ago
> It's built into humans to prefer people like ourselves. That's like saying it's built into humans to murder and rape. Some 'innate' human behaviours are actually based in circumstance. And even if our xenophobi
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by flashman 10y ago
You're extrapolating current trends as if they won't change in the future. Who is to say the Amish will continue to have as many children in the future? What if it turns out that reproduction is intrinsically tied to economic succ
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by flashman 10y ago
It may gratify curiosity but will it make HN a better site? Genuine question, in case the tone comes across snarky.
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by flashman 10y ago
I guess the company that makes it easy will win.
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by flashman 10y ago
Whoever comes up with a way for furniture and homewares retailers to demonstrate their products in your home is going to make a fortune, whether it's an open system or a whitelabel platform for scanning rooms, ingesting models and inte
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by flashman 10y ago
I'm curious what percentage have never done so, but would still recognise: > 10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD" > 20 GOTO 10
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by flashman 10y ago
I wrote a script that finds pictures of celebrities mentioned on Google Trends, and swaps their faces. Here are Jimmy Fallon and Jada Pinkett Smith: https://twitter.com/faceswapbot/status/731075094739476481 Not en
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by flashman 10y ago
People have thought I was a wizard because I could GTFA (Google The Flaming Answer).
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by flashman 10y ago
In my experience, it's been the source of some serendipitous discoveries. On microfilm or microfiche, you might catch a glimpse of something really interesting on the nearby pages, which sends you down a completely different track. Jus
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by flashman 10y ago
Microfiche also greatly democratised pre-digital genealogical research, as it allowed massive amounts of family history data, birth and death notices in newspapers, and so on, to be copied and distributed around the world.
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by flashman 10y ago
The excellent thing is we have fund size as a scoring system.
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by flashman 10y ago
It's interesting that Reddit-hosted images have been averaging fewer upvotes than Imgur-hosted images, on /r/pics at least: http://i.imgur.com/91qkas5.png One postulated reason is that browser plugin Reddit E
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by flashman 10y ago
I don't think so. Tor could make the address bar red when you're on a non-HTTPS connection, for instance, warning you that any information transmitted can be sniffed by the exit node.

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