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by greenpresident 12y ago
This may prove popular internationally though. An issue of The New Yorker is more than 10€ per week, it gets you a magazine full of 'Going out in New York' and 'Talk of the town'. I know several people who would gladly p
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by greenpresident 12y ago
There have been a few apps with tilt scrolling such as instapaper, kindle, etc. Mostly reading apps. If found them impractical as I tend to read at a pretty small area of the screen, constantly adjusting the text so my reading area is at th
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by greenpresident 12y ago
I don't know the meaning churrasco has in the US but it quite literally means barbecue. So you can have a churrasco, you can go to a churrascaria, etc but it has nothing to do with beef jerky.
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by greenpresident 12y ago
Most of the energy is spent reducing the bauxite, an ore of aluminum that is the world's main source of aluminum. Once that's done, you don't have to spend it again.
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by greenpresident 12y ago
There are no roaming charges for incoming SMS in the EU.
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by greenpresident 12y ago
Impressions create brand awareness. Those Amazon tracking ads, showing you stuff you have looked at, might not make you click them but they serve as a reminder that you might want to reconsider buying that roomba. There is also a distinct d
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by greenpresident 12y ago
The whole "back then, stuff lasted forever" thing always seemed very susceptible to survivorship bias to me: you get the impression that stuff lasted forever because the old things that are still in use today must have lasted to s
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by greenpresident 13y ago
I means your connection to the server is encrypted and that your browser trusts their certificate, preventing stuff like sniffing and mim attacks. It does not mean that emails on the server are encrypted, which is what this is article is ab
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by greenpresident 13y ago
Just in case it wasn't clear: It's this phenomenon that made the sunflower an international icon of the anti-nuclear movement.
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by greenpresident 13y ago
Storage is completely decentralized and happens on a per user basis. Content is curated by every user themselves. It's really what makes soulseek so great to me: Once you find a network of people who have a similar taste in music, you
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by greenpresident 13y ago
I suspect he meant to say that the analogy accurately depicts something that really happens. An assessment that, incidentally, is pretty politically incorrect in itself.
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by greenpresident 13y ago
It's phone number based, so it's disconnected from your social media presence. You don't have to add anyone or allow them access to whatever you might share with your circle of friends. In my experience it also handles group
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by greenpresident 13y ago
The Blackberry 8800 fits this description.