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by hamax 13y ago
> "well it's a great way to finance chemotherapies" That's not how it works. Cigarette tax doesn't go directly to the healthcare budget. At least in most countries. > Smoking is a luxury. And a very strong add
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Sifting through the bullshit - How the digital ad business is perfect as it is.(medium.com)
2 points by hamax 13y ago|0 comments
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by hamax 13y ago
With your suggestion only the largest companies would be able to apply for patents. For Apple, Google or MS a couple of million dollars means nothing for a patent. But it infeasible for a startup or smaller research groups.
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by hamax 13y ago
Ljubljana-SI: 8 EUR ~ 11 USD
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by hamax 13y ago
As a counterpoint, nobody I know experienced any problems with gmail yesterday. Including coworkers.
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by hamax 13y ago
This is so backwards I'm embarrassed to be reading it on HN.
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by hamax 13y ago
> I'm not sure why they absolutely need to sell only a 128 GB version. I'm just guessing here but it might be more expensive to make smaller batches with different models the to just make one.
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Mark Shuttleworth Reddit AMA today(indiegogo.com)
74 points by hamax 13y ago|27 comments
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by hamax 13y ago
Since the chart isn't live, here is my hack: http://ownu.net/rate.txt (Nobody wants to see the code behind this :)
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by hamax 13y ago
Founding rate: http://ownu.net/rate.txt
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by hamax 13y ago
Where is the irony?
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by hamax 13y ago
Same experience here. This is why we always have more servers up than we need to. One time it took us almost a week of mailing before they replaced a broken hard drive. But they have to save money somewhere. I'm strongly advising again
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Streams—the most arrogant of interfaces(rokpregelj.com)
1 points by hamax 13y ago|0 comments
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In Which I Fix My GF’s Grandparents’ WiFi and Am Hailed as a Conquering Hero.(mcsweeneys.net)
8 points by hamax 13y ago|0 comments
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by hamax 13y ago
Seems like a sensible acqui-hire. The only surprising thing for me is the amount of attention those small acquisitions by Yahoo get around here.
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by hamax 13y ago
I use it all the time. Mostly for notifications, music controls and checking the time. It's also very coworker friendly since I can have my phone on mute all the time. Overall it's a nice toy, not a life changer.
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by hamax 13y ago
Same here. The first 3 days were bad, but nothing special. But now, after almost a year, I'm still fighting with the desire to smoke. In combination with external factors (like stress) I can totally see why people are returning to addi
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by hamax 13y ago
You're trying to shift the burden here. Consent is not opt-out it's opt-in.
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by hamax 13y ago
Bot of your citations are totally irrelevant to the issue of power imbalance in private settings.
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by hamax 13y ago
Not even a bit.
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by hamax 13y ago
It's probably the new Galaxy S4 Nexus edition. I mean, it's photoshoped, but that's what they were aiming for.
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by hamax 13y ago
It doesn't.
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by hamax 13y ago
You're wrong on almost every point. "Don't Be Evil" is not Google's motto, XMPP chat still works fine for my hangouts account and no, they couldn't do it without breaking the XMPP. I just hope they'll keep XMPP running for the chat. I'll st
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by hamax 13y ago
I really like Flask but I still go with Django when I need the admin.
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by hamax 13y ago
Or to the restaurant around the corner that just happens to be on the same path.
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by hamax 13y ago
But being in the same building doesn't mean he was already there. When I'm at work I still want a reminder for a meeting.
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by hamax 14y ago
This is the second most upvoted comment in this thread? Wow. I had to double check I'm not reading Reddit.
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by hamax 14y ago
Added java to the list. It's still faster then go.
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by hamax 14y ago
My results with newer versions of gcc and go: gcc 4.7.2 o3 0.765s java openjdk 7 1.066s java openjdk 6 1.118s go 1.1b 1.653s rust 0.6 opt 3 1.659s go 1.0.2 2.127s dart 0.4.4.4 2.384s pypy PyPy 1.9.0 5.094s pypy PyPy 2.0b 5.319s (I
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by hamax 14y ago
Similar here, but I haven't used Google Reader for more then 2 years. After all the buzz I thought I'd give rss readers another try. (It didn't last long.)

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