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by grkvlt 10y ago
That's interesting; they really don't have the brand recognition they deserve then. I would consider myself as reasonably well-informed as the next HN reader, and I certainly hadn't heard of them. Of course I don't work
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, the problem isn't the language it's the name - they should name it the "Splendid Interplanetary Explorer" in Hindi, or something.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Who? They're not even in the same ballpark. RH has 10k employees and USD 1bn in revenue with a market cap of ~15bn, these guys just seem to be a ~500 person WordPress shop.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
From their FAQ: > Q: Can I provide my own wood? A: In most cases we can handle your wood. I'm finding it hard to decide how intentional this is...?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I'm sure he means something to do with caches; I had it on the tip of my tongue a moment ago, but the doorbell rang.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Maybe, maybe , maybe ... in the loosest, most hand-wavingly vague, almost, kind of sense, yes, IF - you s/spirit/concept/ then yes, that could be said to be true. But one could use the same argument about God, surely? In t
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I wonder, are these subs blocked for users from e.g. Germany and Austria, where the swastika is still banned?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I think 'pg agrees with you [0] on graffiti, at least of the 'tagging' kind: > Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I was brought up not to believe in Santa (and apparently got into trouble at school for upsetting other children by telling them he didn't exist) and find it amazing that other parents are happy to lie to their children like this - set
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Santa Claus.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Remember, though, that 50% is the marginal tax rate. I don't know the tax brackets in Norway, but only income over X amount will be taxed at that rate, the first X will have a different (series of) lower rates, and generally the firs
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I don't think that was around in 1997 though...
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by grkvlt 10y ago
So, I just looked up 'Tibetan singing bowl alarm clocks', 'alternate nostril breathing', 'gratitude journaling', 'bulletproof coffee' and 'intermittent fasting'; and they are all apparently
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Not really; there are differences between the two - a price differential is something that could possibly be checked, reasonably objective fact that inferences can be drawn from. Someone's weekly supermarket choices are not fixed lik
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by grkvlt 10y ago
No, it's twelve-sided, therefore cannot be.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
The logic analyser just uses a single board, but they support 8 different STM32 development kit boards.
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Starbucks IoT button(ryanpickren.com)
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by grkvlt 10y ago
For more in-depth information see the CERN press release "LHCb observes an exceptionally large group of particles" at https://home.cern/about/updates/2017/03/lhcb-observes-except... Or, the pap
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I think you mean something different by 'mid Atlantic' to me; probably not the middle of a cold, northern ocean...?
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by grkvlt 10y ago
How does one tend a lawn in the 'mid-Atlantic'?
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Operation of ancient biological clock uncovered(uu.nl)
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Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries(longreads.com)
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I had always assumed ELO was an acronym of some kind, turns out it's the surname of the system's inventor; Arpad Elo. [0] And, according to Wikipedia, 1500 would be a mid-level player, so not really good, but certainly not begi
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by grkvlt 10y ago
> offensively simplistic No, it's exactly right. There are two classes of people seeking pain medication: those who need it, and those who do not need it. Now, we can argue over who exactly needs the medication, but it is not righ
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Surely not? The point of pressure is that it's constant per area, so no matter how much is covered, the pressure felt is still 5 psi.
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand this. The point of the reverse engineering is to simulate (exactly) requests from the app, using your script, thus making it impossible for them to detect. And the data collected in the app has no bearing on
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by grkvlt 10y ago
I searched for "How long does it take to caramelize onions?", and Google returned an infobox with "35 to 40 minutes" highlighted (from this article) along with three other results in the top ten explaining how most artic
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Ooh, awesome - then we can persuade all those sites we keep hearing about to mark up their fake news using these microformats, and the world's information problems will be solved!
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by grkvlt 10y ago
Because it helps the comprehension of all the machines , belonging to giant corporations or otherwise. And if they understand the site, they can use that information to help us, the users, by presenting relevant search results about carame
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The CIA uses board games to train officers(arstechnica.com)
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