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by fryguy 15y ago
Part of the problem I think is that when you got tagged, it showed up in your stream. If it were federated, their server could say "hey, I tagged you in this picture", and then it wouldn't show up in your stream, or when you look for photos
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by fryguy 15y ago
That's not really true though. When you buy things on walmart.com, you can pick them up at the store. The same thing with the sears catalogue. In theory, because they are already submitting sales tax to the state, it's no additional burden
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by fryguy 15y ago
That's the avenue I came up with as well. I hated running out of hard disk space, and the HD PVR kept overheating and not recording stuff. Of course, I kept the htpc, but moved to netflix and cough .
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by fryguy 15y ago
The problem isn't that it can't compete on a level price playing field, but a level tax-reporting playing field. When you live in Sacramento, and go to San Francisco and buy a sandwich, you pay the local sales tax. A store has a physical
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by fryguy 15y ago
The problem with your analogy is that once spent, your bits become worthless. If for instance, I made a song and then you pirated it and then I no longer had it on my hard drive any more, then that is what's happening here. Similarly, my pa
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by fryguy 15y ago
Didn't the Hauppauge HD PVR do that like 5 years ago for $250?
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by fryguy 15y ago
I was shocked that it was MG was writing it, since I scrolled up to the top about halfway through the article to check out who wrote it. There weren't any rabid apple fanboy comments, and it was somewhat well-written, and usually it's Micha
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by fryguy 15y ago
He is not saying what you think he's saying for #1. He's saying that if in 10 years or whatever, 1 bitcoin is worth $2M, why would you ever spend your 1 bitcoin now when it's going to be worth so much money in the future. This means people
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by fryguy 15y ago
Why are "alternative currencies" illegal under US law? AFAIK the only thing that's illegal is refusing to accept US$ as payment if you accept something else. For example, people can spend foreign money (GBP, Euros, etc) inside the non-inter
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by fryguy 15y ago
Were the patents issued for using that form of electricity, or rather for the contraption built to harness that electricity?
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by fryguy 15y ago
Well there is a fundamental difference between the two. The light bulb was invented, was lightning was discovered. It already existed, and was merely discovered. It was discovered that there are are infinite primes. It was discovered that f
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by fryguy 15y ago
The problem is that math isn't "invented", it's "discovered". Hence why it's traditionally been un-patentable.
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by fryguy 15y ago
I don't understand why the author needs to bring FOSS into the discussion. The same argument could be made for regular patents in as much as someone could invent something like a way to make water potable, and then a charity wants to mass-p
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by fryguy 15y ago
You can take slightly larger leap, and program the Arduino processor directly, without using the Arduino abstraction. It's the next logical leap, as "industry" doesn't really use the Arduino platform.
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by fryguy 16y ago
I'm surprised there aren't more comments on this. The fact that he was arrested for it that shocked me, as if it's his completely his fault his gun went off.
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by fryguy 16y ago
I work at a non-"startup" company, and I really appreciate the t-shirts my company gives us. When I joined the company, I got a plain white one, and every so often they sell the "generic" shirts for fairly cheap (at cost I believe). At some
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by fryguy 16y ago
What I usually do is have multiple repos, one per machine I'm working on. This way they are write-once, read-many so you don't ever have dropbox merge conflicts. It's a bit more overhead, but safer. It's even "easier" to get the semantics r
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by fryguy 16y ago
I've always wondered why they continue building submarines instead of ROVs. I'm a little bit biased as I work for an ROV company, but it seems silly that you'd go down so deep (somewhat "dangerously" as well) for the experience of breathing
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by fryguy 16y ago
It's not necessarily true. There are a lot of people that take mainly "general education" classes that are required to graduate during the first two years, or alternatively get an associates degree first. Also, given that you're not in a pa
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by fryguy 16y ago
Do you remember go?
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by fryguy 16y ago
Here's an explanation of the quake's inverse square rule describing the relationship of the force experienced to the distance away from it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2332793
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by fryguy 16y ago
Same thing with Trillian, which I use. I won't be using a standalone Twitter client for windows, so I guess it just means I won't be using Twitter if they remove the API access for them.
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by fryguy 16y ago
There may be a 160 byte block of space in the normal traffic your phone makes to the towers in order to let it know where you are. Maybe they should look into using that for something like this.
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by fryguy 16y ago
Well the odds are somewhat high that if one has a patent on something in h.264, they would have joined the consortium and gotten royalties for it already. Plus there are a lot of patents that already exist in the patent pool that MPEG-LA ha
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by fryguy 16y ago
There is no doubt in my mind that someone has a registered patent that the VP8 codec infringes on, due to the terrible state of the patent system as a whole. Now whether that is a valid patent is something that lawyers and lots of money w
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by fryguy 16y ago
I agree that it's a bad graphic. I think this is what the numbers mean: On map: percentage of people in that country that use IE6. If there were 300 million people in USA, and 30 million people use IE6 means 10% would show up for USA On rin
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by fryguy 16y ago
I think you gravely misunderstand the patent system. When you can get a patent on drawing a line onto the screen ( http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=KYwhAAAAEBAJ&dq=r... ), it means that anything in your codec might be patented b
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by fryguy 16y ago
Exhibit B: In order to do things with your iPhone (like download podcasts, or update firmware), you need to plug it in to your computer and have it do a sync. The phone is on the internet, why do you need to plug it in? Google got this co