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gabemart
14y ago
A consequence of only supporting Stripe is that this service is US only, which is a shame.
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14y ago
> Was the reddit group formed before 2007 ? In early 2011, /r/gaymers had a mere 600 subscribers [1] so it was likely formed some time in 2010. Custom subreddits were added in 2008 [2] which is thus the earliest possible point that /r/g
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14y ago
As someone with a little experience and some modest success in this area, a good full-service blogger would be expensive . Not only because it requires a cluster of skills that are only tangentially related to each other and so are relativ
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14y ago
> This seems true enough - from a (rational) game-theoretic perspective, > why should any victim really fight hard to overcome a troll, if in > doing so they risk big losses, and don't gain any advantage
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14y ago
>Carriers agreed to give you a shiny new smartphone for a massively subsidized prize in return for you being locked to their network. Another way to look at things is that carriers subsidize the cost of your phone in exchange for you si
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gabemart
14y ago
>To all the Unix shell critics: don't try to argue that writing a 173-line js script is "simpler" than learning 3 find options (-type -name -exec), the bang(!) 'not' operator in find, and 2 sed options (-r -i). In the context of discuss
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14y ago
Have you considered partnering with a company that would play off the kind of irreverent content IRC carries? The company TshirtHell.com came to mind as (IIRC) they've fostered controversy in the past. You do something like every xth image
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14y ago
There is, as always, a relevant xkcd [1] [1] http://www.xkcd.com/1138/
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14y ago
In theory, the acidity of the tomatoes breaks down the seasoning of the cast iron.
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14y ago
I'm also confused by the form factor. Presumably, one of the reasons it's so (comparatively) expensive is that it's an extremely small device (so a lot of R&D money has gone into it with lots of custom components). But does that really
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14y ago
My first thought was to do with the name - is 'SlowPal' at all at risk for trademark infringement?
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14y ago
I used a T60 as a second monitor for my main laptop and an X40 as my travel laptop. Together they cost well under $150 and I could probably sell them today for what I paid for them. Great machines (although the T60 has a fan speed problem t
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14y ago
I'm really, really interested in the future of content publishing and how things will look fifty years from now. There's a trend across almost all forms of media towards easier, faster, wider and less expensive production and distribution.
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14y ago
For Adsense, in contrast, the user is told: >We offer email support for our higher-earning publishers. To find out if email support is available for your account, visit How can I contact AdSense support? [1] Publishers who have access t
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14y ago
I think that you are correct and I am incorrect.
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gabemart
14y ago
C loses 2, not 3, when he loses (he gets one from AB at the start of each round). C's EV should therefore be -0.5
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14y ago
>I don't know what that means, but I'm pretty sure I haven't done it I suspect it's a daily deals site that doesn't charge. Groupon that's free for consumers. I completely agree with your remarks on the copy, it doesn't read like it was
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14y ago
>Why does using your own result improve the odds of winning the game!? I find the result very confusing as well. I suspect the source of this counterintuitiveness is that I over simplified the puzzle when I first read it. I simplified t
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14y ago
>Now I did a google serarch for Bingo Card Creator and kalzumeus domain came first in search rezult, you might consider working on it, it's still a few clicks away for customers. Google customizes results based on a bunch of user variab
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14y ago
>I view it as a Windows 8 ninja rapidly switching between all sorts of tasks I vaguely understand, and the relationship between the gesture and the computer's response seems hard to follow. I find this aspect of Win8 (switching between
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14y ago
I've been trying to avoid moaning about win8 too because I came pretty late to the party and I get the feeling it's talked out. But like you, I get more annoyed the more I use it . The start screen is tolerable (though I never use it), but
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14y ago
How does domain renting work? My first thought would be as soon as the party paying the rent achieved some measure of success, the party receiving the rent could essentially extort them.
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14y ago
Interesting! How often do you make a sale? What kind of process do you use for the exchange? Do you have some kind of escrow, and if so who do you use for that?
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14y ago
I would say that poker is one of the least passive "investments" one could make, unless you spend your time training a bot.
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14y ago
I guess you could hire someone on mechanical turk to write tailored survey questions? It's mechanical turk all the way down!
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14y ago
Isn't it extremely hard to get a visa to move to the US from the UK? What was your experience with that like?
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14y ago
The Legend of Korra , the new incarnation of the Avatar: The Last Airbender series. If you can get over the fact that it's a kids' show, it's one of the best-crafted series out there. I used to say it was the best animated series I'd eve
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14y ago
>Personal responsibility and the acceptance thereof is a major item on the checklist There are two separate things going on in this discussion. You have a personal responsibility to keep your data safe. I don't think anyone is disputing
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14y ago
>At best this is an unfortunate "pilot error" It is in no way "pilot error". If the post you replied to is correct, the dropbox software performed an action it should never perform - deleting files the user did not tell the OS to delete
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14y ago
I find it hard to imagine someone in the hacker news crowd rating 8 over 7 on developer hardware. From my limited experience, the only major improvement I noticed was the improved task manager (which is really nifty). What other substantial
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