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by gbhn 16y ago
I heard on This Week in Tech that all the history they sent to Library of Congress was 4TB in size. So yes, the storage isn't the issue.
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by gbhn 16y ago
The original title: "Forecast for Plume's Path Is a Function of Wind and Weather" is much more accurate. The story explicitly says that this is a model for a continuous source (which the current accident is far from being). It doesn't mean
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by gbhn 16y ago
Thanks for this post. The suppression of bullshit is a glaring hole in our media environment. It's at least moderately plausible that intelligent and informed posts like Patrick's here can now get very wide distribution thanks to the intern
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by gbhn 16y ago
Anyone add up how many "fail points" the linux kernel gets? :-)
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by gbhn 16y ago
The trade-off question is whether these temporary monopolies encourage innovation and therefore improve overall utility. I think the balance right now is on "no," since the trade-off is predicated on the monopolist teaching in the patent ho
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by gbhn 16y ago
I'm happy to be able to say both that I realized how awesome Trumpet was back in the day, and that I made the choice to send Peter the $25 registration back when that was a harder choice than it is now. It's nice to be able to remember and
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The Truth About The iPad, Day 300: I Barely Use It Anymore(businessinsider.com)
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by gbhn 16y ago
How about an "hntopics.com" site where you collect these duplicates? Something merging comment threads would be interesting, but even just "here are wikileaks articles that have made it to the front page" kind of organization with links wou
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by gbhn 16y ago
That's a great precedent! I hope the US abandons winter time, too.
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by gbhn 16y ago
Of course. Protests and revolutions are dangerous business. It makes me thoughtful about whether I'd be brave enough to take advantage of these kinds of tools should the necessity arise.
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by gbhn 16y ago
Can somebody explain what I just read? I had a lot of trouble following it.
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by gbhn 16y ago
The article discusses this: it was the earnings collapse of the rest of the S&P500 during the deep recession. This collapse didn't hurt Apple proportionately, but since their stock dropped off quite a bit despite that, their P/E was way
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by gbhn 16y ago
Thanks for your endorsement. How do you square that, then, with the irresponsible attacks on Greenwald? Why don't they just come out and say precisely this? A response saying "Yes, it sucks that we're not releasing more, and we know why it'
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by gbhn 16y ago
This seems like a common excuse I see to criticisms of pair programming. If this technique is so fragile, perhaps its just better to admit up front that it is delicate and easy to get wrong, and only works in particular situations with part
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by gbhn 16y ago
Just like Yugoslavia? It isn't that simple. Guns come out when sovereignty gets threatened in this way, especially if things have deteriorated to the point that lots of people want to leave.
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by gbhn 16y ago
Another big problem in the Wikileaks case is the ability of adversaries to make it much harder for supporters to give them money or other forms of support.
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WikiLeaks App yanked from iTunes Store(technolog.msnbc.msn.com)
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What does tech say?(scripting.com)
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by gbhn 16y ago
I found the claim that RIM's market is saturating to be suspicious. What was smartphone penetration in the US three years ago? It is only about a third even today, after huge growth. In many parts of the world growth in the last three years
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by gbhn 16y ago
Not really. In fact there are lots of non-"Google experience" phones. Pretty much any phone with an OEM launcher and app package (i.e. HTC Sense) is not a "Google experience" phone. There are many devices, though, that don't use Google's ac
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by gbhn 16y ago
Yes, everyone uses this formula now. It's annoying.
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by gbhn 16y ago
The article doesn't imply he's astonished at all. It more paints the picture of a world-weary traveler recounting an interesting, harrowing tale about the time he got through a foreseeable but nasty experience.
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by gbhn 16y ago
bin Laden has been fairly clear on this point: he doesn't think the United States should be involved in the affairs of Muslim nations. He thinks its an outrage that US troops are stationed in the same country as Mecca. There are other offen
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by gbhn 16y ago
I was just told by the nice folks at CNN that 6mg of PETN is enough to blow through solid steel twice as thick as airliner skin. I'm afraid cavity searches are our only option here.
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by gbhn 16y ago
Yeah, we have no instruments to really get to that scale. Probably won't for some time, either.
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by gbhn 16y ago
How about calling it a "transaction-value-logging-data-store" and naming it TRVLDS? That ought to be good for something. :-)
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by gbhn 16y ago
Looking at Gamasutra ( http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/31045/Top_iPhone_Game_App... ) it would appear that top-10 == $0.99. I'd guess this is because, as has been speculated here, there is an enormous number of people who are simply goin
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by gbhn 16y ago
You can't do that (at least not with passive components). There's a famous optics result called the 'brightness theorem' that explains why not.
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by gbhn 16y ago
Digging a bit more into TrustTheVote, it looks like the project had serious reservations about this application from the start. From their front-page blog, for instance: http://www.trustthevote.org/d-c-resets-timeline-for-digital-... "Alt
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by gbhn 16y ago
In fact, it is pretty obvious that the developer's decision to write tests first is blinding him to the problem and seeing a solution. By whiplashing around tests rather than taking time to just think about what you want, it takes an hour t

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