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by jambo 15y ago
I also agree with your take on Asset Forfeiture. In any case, I wasn't being snarky when I said "misremembered". I had, in fact, misremembered parts of the video, though the sense of recipients not being fully in on it remains.
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by jambo 15y ago
Even "it's 20 dollars in silver" is iffy. To most, dollar means USD, and there's no constant dollars-silver ratio any more. This is the video that I was misremembering (works in newest VLC): http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20050206004912/
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by jambo 15y ago
Are you referring to the Liberty Dollar? I remember being very interested in this (and in alternative currencies) a few years back but was put off by a video promoted on their official website which showed someone successfully passing a Lib
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by jambo 16y ago
You see the touch functionality at the start of the video. It looks like it doesn't drive the onboard display and the TV at the same time, which explains the need for another input method (though emulating a trackpad on the screen, if possi
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by jambo 16y ago
I'm getting "Please try using a standards compliant browser." in Safari 5 & Chromium 12. [edit: fix confirmed]
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by jambo 16y ago
It looks like they're only using PayPal to pay money out to sellers. If PayPal shuts that down, they can probably find a way around it (in the worst case, send checks).
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by jambo 16y ago
I understand where you're coming from because I didn't get Blogger. Around that time, I had my own example.net/~jambo homepage that I updated with stories, probably using Pagemill & FTP. What made Blogger a big deal is that they (eventu
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by jambo 16y ago
Unless that is your M.O. and it has consistently worked for you.
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by jambo 16y ago
Thanks. I missed that.
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by jambo 16y ago
If that's the case, I'd bet it's for license reasons. An AmazonMP3 purchase made after Cloud Drive is launched could be described as having been copied for personal use, at the time of purchase, to your Cloud Drive. Allowing previously purc
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by jambo 16y ago
You agree not to do that, and Amazon has your real name if you've ever made a purchase &| uploaded >5gigs of music. Most people I know use their Amazon account for other purchases and won't risk their account being closed for violat
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by jambo 16y ago
Can anyone see AmazonMP3 tracks in their library? I've purchased tons of music from AmazonMP3, and Cloud Player shows an empty library & 0 purchased songs. It seems like a big miss to launch this way. Hopefully it's just a bug.
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by jambo 16y ago
That lyric, in isolation, isn't anti-intellectual. But it's followed by "and I don't wanna talk to a scientist, y'all motherfuckers lyin' and givin' me shit".
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by jambo 16y ago
I think "winning" was a call out to the Charlie Sheen meme.
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by jambo 16y ago
A friend of mine built this app to sync RunKeeper runs with DailyMile. DailyMile has an API, tweeted about it (they've since deleted that tweet), and was generally cool about it. RunKeeper on the other hand didn't like it and asked him to t
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Tell HN: Friend builds cool app, Runkeeper says Not So Fast(rkdm.heroku.com)
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by jambo 16y ago
Facebook could (and probably does) collect the data necessary to track people around the web, whether or not they click on 'like buttons'. Whether other sites, like Google, can do this too, is immaterial. When people are logged into Faceboo
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by jambo 16y ago
Great article. I couldn't help but think while reading it, "I see what you did there," being hn-famous & writing a great post on their site.
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by jambo 16y ago
Colin Percival is working on it. http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2010-12-20-FreeBSD-on-EC2-FA...
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by jambo 16y ago
I would've guessed that you were going for 'buckup' with a latin v (pronounced u). Akin to SVPPLY.
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by jambo 16y ago
The "first day pop" is largely unavailable to the average person. You're right that underwriters price the IPO for this phenomenon, but it is to entice their clients to buy. The pop is from outsiders (you) buying from insiders. If you're no
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by jambo 16y ago
There was sadly never a 12" Macbook Pro, but assuming you mean the Powerbook, and that it worked after a 2 meter drop, that's surprising & impressive.
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by jambo 16y ago
This one really bugged me: "Three airlines, British Airways, Qantas and Air New Zealand, have attracted criticism for controversial seating policies which discriminate against adult male passengers on the basis of their gender." Fortunately
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by jambo 16y ago
Also, The Vim Outliner http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=517
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by jambo 16y ago
I have used self-hosted Darwin Calendar Server & more recently, Google Apps for a client that needs iCal syncing. Somehow we seem to have more problems with CalDAV syncing (e.g. timeouts during sync, unavailability) with Google Calendar
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by jambo 16y ago
Interesting. Just went and looked and was surprised to find that only one company is valued more than Apple in the US markets. Exxon Mobil (382B) > Apple (307B).
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by jambo 16y ago
No mention of "You're in Control" from MIT Media Lab, the clear intellectual predecessor. http://web.media.mit.edu/~hayes/mas863/urinecontrol.html
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by jambo 16y ago
I'm using CyanogenMod based on Android 1.6, but I have noticed this too. When this (rarely) happens in the call log, a press on one contact at the top of the list visually highlights another several contacts down.
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by jambo 16y ago
Likewise with your company blog. Put a prominent, descriptive link to the main site at the top. It's too common that I have to go to the address bar and remove "blog." to get to the main page. Most people won't do this.
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by jambo 16y ago
I'm very happy to see Google offering the ngram counts for free download ( http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets ), which I wasn't expecting, given their earlier web corpus data release on DVDs. Maybe we'll see an update on that front, too.

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