greatreorx

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by greatreorx 13y ago
100 - 21,000,000 is a much, much larger range than 90-99.999.
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by greatreorx 13y ago
> But in this case, setting up a mining business is trivial. Not exactly. I'm not exactly sure on the up front cost to develop ASICs, but it's definitely well into 6 figures. BFL sold millions of dollars in pre-orders 12 mont
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by greatreorx 13y ago
> Nowhere is there any express private right of action that gives any private citizen the right to file suit complaining about alleged violations of these laws. I thought California 17200 allows for private citizens to sue on behalf of
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by greatreorx 14y ago
> It seems this database has a limit on the size of the modification it can make atomically to the database. If this were an unlucky edge case, I could understand. But it seems like they allowed larger block sizes without testing them
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by greatreorx 14y ago
"If they condemn the sales, they strike down the first sale doctrine " ...only for goods manufactured outside the US and not authorized for import to the US by the manufacturer. Most electronic goods in the US that are made overseas are a
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by greatreorx 14y ago
From a Reuters piece... "Mission control contemplated sending Curiosity one last "parameter update" on Sunday, hours before atmospheric entry, giving the vessel an exact fix on its position in space. But NASA engineers said they would likel
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by greatreorx 14y ago
Sal is right but I understand the critique... which I might clarify as the importance of understanding the larger concept that slope is a comparison of the rate of change of one variable to another in specific order. To take the example of
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by greatreorx 14y ago
So your argument is: Ideas/products with excessive speculation have failed in the past. Therefore, this product will fail. I disagree with that. It suffers from survivor bias (or actually non-survivor bias). Mackey doesn't discuss ideas
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by greatreorx 14y ago
> Expressing passive skepticism and slow-rolling an invoice you don't believe you should pay is not a bad strategy. Do you not believe the vendor's story? or are you saying it's okay to be a dick as long as you delude yourself into thin
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by greatreorx 14y ago
Every 210,000 blocks the mining reward is cut in half. At current rates, the mining reward will drop from 50 to 25 btc around December 2012. This is separate from the difficulty updates that occur every couple weeks.
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by greatreorx 14y ago
What are the privacy implications of a teacher giving students' grade information to a third party? I was under the impression the law (in US) required a parent's release. Is it possible for your admins to view grade data?
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by greatreorx 14y ago
"Thiel was ranked #365 on the Forbes 400 in 2010, with a net worth of US$1.5 billion....However, this number now underestimates his wealth as his Facebook share alone, at a 2010 valuation, is worth US$1.7bn." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P
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by greatreorx 14y ago
I'm confused then. Where are you getting $972M? If you are doing total revenue (advertising + payments and other), it's $872M + $186M = $1,058M And also, page 56 of the pdf lists $1,058M as total revenue for 1Q 2012.
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by greatreorx 14y ago
Agreed, he should clarify 1Q 2012. And it looks like he has it wrong.... The filing says $872M not $972M (page 51 of pdf).
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by greatreorx 15y ago
I read both links but only 4 abstracts of the referenced articles (which on their face seemed legit but I did not have access to the full articles. His analysis of the last 37 years of American diets seemed accurate based on http://www.er
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by greatreorx 15y ago
The parent posted a link to a 1,500 word argumentative essay backed up with inline references to 19 peer reviewed journal papers and included the words "check it out here and make up your own minds". Instead of making any comment on the con
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by greatreorx 15y ago
"getting tired at how many actions it takes to enter directions in Maps on iPhone." I've never thought this was a pain point. Were you using map bookmarks? It's 5-10 seconds of clicks that I'm regularly comfortable doing while driving.
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by greatreorx 15y ago
It's not a bug. The problem is that most people don't know that MMS messages can be one-to-many AND that iOS 5 turned Group Messaging on by default (which causes group messages to be MMS instead of SMS). The Group Messaging setting only aff
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by greatreorx 15y ago
"But both doesn't mean time discounting is something irrational." It's over-discounting that's irrational. If I have a school paper due in a month, the probability that I won't have to do the paper is certainly non-zero (I could die, my pro
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by greatreorx 15y ago
Note that this is a Non-Final action - which I believe means that Lodsys has not had a chance to respond. In general reexaminations take a long time... "Based on our calculations, it takes more than 3 ½ years (43.5 months) for the average c
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by greatreorx 15y ago
US Patent 6714559 is one they sued several hotels over. It was filed in 2001 but was a string of 6 continuations of a patent filed November, 1991.
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by greatreorx 15y ago
Here is the complaint that lists the patent numbers. http://www.scribd.com/doc/60587096/11-07-21-Lodsys-Amended-C...
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by greatreorx 15y ago
The amended complaint clearly shows what patents Lodsys is accusing Rovio of infringing. "On May 22, 2007, U.S. Patent No. 7,222,078 (the "'078 patent") was duly and legally issued for "Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Uni
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by greatreorx 15y ago
I'm sure you have better things to do, but blog.onswipe.com is basically unusable on (my) iphone on safari. or atleast holding it horizontally, and vertically is not much better.
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by greatreorx 15y ago
It seems like by doing the following, they get priority for any obviousness and prior art arguments back to 1992, but a filing date of 2003. "This application is a continuation application of and claims priority to U.S. application Ser. No.
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by greatreorx 15y ago
I think the original article from ScienceInsider realized they had it wrong and have corrected it... "According to a probabilistic model they created, there was an 88.9% chance that bin Laden was hiding out in a city less than 300 km from h
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by greatreorx 15y ago
Anyone know how they were planning on getting revenue? I know that can sometimes be a snarky question, but this seems like a good idea and I'm genuinely curious... especially because it looks like they launched as a free service. Were they
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by greatreorx 16y ago
You can buy orange safety glasses that are kind of like flux for the whole world... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000USRG90 I bought them because I had forgotten about flux and I also tend to use my iPhone late at night. I had no ide
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by greatreorx 16y ago
I thought this too at first, but now I think A.T.M.'s is okay in some editorial circles as a plural non-possessive. It's used in many other NYT articles - as is non-possessive G.I.'s. "...some writers still pluralize initialisms in this wa
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by greatreorx 16y ago
"(eMarketer estimates Facebook took in) $740 million coming from major marketers like Coke, P&G or Match.com... Interestingly, Google itself was the fifth-biggest advertiser for the same period, as it was looking to market its Chrome we

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