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by gibybo 15y ago
I don't know the context here (full audio is not loading for me), but doesn't it seem reasonable that it was just his way of congratulating her for recently getting married? I could imagine a similar intro being used for a guy that was just
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by gibybo 15y ago
The Dow doesn't get to drop GM after it goes bankrupt and then not count its losses. The decline of GM hurt the Dow index just as much as it would have hurt anyone else that bought and sold GM stock when the Dow index added/dropped it. It a
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by gibybo 15y ago
>Gold is up 87 fold over 90 years or so. There is no way to capture that kind of return out of stocks, other than to buy one stock $1 in gold 90 years ago: $87 today (by your number anyway) $1 in a basket of stocks that were traded to m
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by gibybo 15y ago
Couldn't someone do the same thing with existing radio navigation tech? I suspect they just track the source of the signal down and arrest them.
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by gibybo 15y ago
I also just won (gibybo) and am pleased with the process. Overall it was smooth and what I expected, although it would have been cool if the challenge problem I got had sample input/output like some of the practice ones. My strategy for tho
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by gibybo 15y ago
It's not quite what you're asking for, but OpenCongress.org seems to have a pretty relevant list of the money various reps have received from groups supporting and opposing the bill: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h3261/money
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by gibybo 15y ago
You give Dwolla your checking account and routing numbers. They make two random deposits of a few cents within a few days, then you go back to Dwolla and tell them how much the deposits were for. Once your bank account is linked to Dwolla i
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by gibybo 15y ago
[Cryptic spoilers] The first stage seems pretty luck based - you either recognize it pretty quickly as the type of code it is, or you're stuck there for days trying every interpretation you can think of. It doesn't help that a portion of th
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by gibybo 15y ago
Seems to me this one button would serve both purposes. Or is that your point?
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by gibybo 15y ago
I see this pretty often with people who haven't spent much time with relational databases. I suppose it's understandable since thinking in sets with SQL is a different paradigm than they are used to, but I even see tons of PHP/MySQL tutoria
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by gibybo 15y ago
Hmm, how about sketching the pattern of stars you see on the horizon along with a date and (approximate) time?
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by gibybo 15y ago
It might be useful for retention in some form. If people are earning badges they are probably more likely to retain the membership for longer so they end up spending more in the long run.
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by gibybo 15y ago
I like the idea, but I'm not sure if I can trust this level of sand-boxing. Does it also use a separate cache (web history, etags, image cache, web cache, etc)? a separate Flash storage? Silverlight storage? HTML5 storage? If any of them ar
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by gibybo 15y ago
50,000 writes/sec seems insanely high for a flash game, would love to hear more about what those writes are doing.
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by gibybo 15y ago
It's a public post, anyone with a Facebook account can reply.
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by gibybo 15y ago
Kelly and Jeremiah appear to be friends. Kelly works at Facebook and explained she had Mark's stories in her feed, so it seems reasonable she is friends with Mark and he found out that way? EDIT: Err, I'm a bit late I guess :/
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by gibybo 15y ago
At the time of my comment, it's 2:48 PM at MIT so it has a couple hours left.
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by gibybo 15y ago
Hm, I think you can still invoke it jsonp style and overload the Object constructor in older browsers though, right? This would not only tell you whether they were a FB employee, but perhaps more importantly, their facebook UID without need
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by gibybo 15y ago
I got 17,200. I'm 22 with a Bachelor's degree and I was pretty surprised with how low I scored. Anyone in a similar category?
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by gibybo 15y ago
I find it really irritating for query refinement. Often I will do a broad search and notice a new term in the result snippets that I want to use in my search. When the term is a name or some other hard to spell word (or phrase), I like to b
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by gibybo 15y ago
While making the world a better place may not be sufficient to build a successful business, I don't think it's fair to say only organizations focusing on the third world are improving quality of life. Companies usually don't make money unle
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by gibybo 15y ago
It may be worth noting that Bitcoins are also uniquely identified and can be traced back through all transactions.
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by gibybo 15y ago
If you take the output of the Closure compiler and run it through the compiler again, it will almost always be smaller the second time. However, the second will also likely produce javascript that doesn't work because it renames things that
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by gibybo 15y ago
I don't think the fundamentals are sound here. Advertising spurs commerce, which creates value. This wastes electricity, slows down users' computers, and does no valuable computation. It seems closer to stealing from your users (with enormo
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by gibybo 15y ago
Even closer to a powered parachute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_parachute
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by gibybo 15y ago
What are the similarities?
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by gibybo 15y ago
Perhaps a clever way to give Bitcoins as a gift?
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by gibybo 15y ago
Previous comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2541671
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by gibybo 16y ago
I'm also interested in the long story :)
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by gibybo 16y ago
Except now he has five copies to sell instead of three, and he can sell them for much more than he paid for the two from the automated sellers.

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