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by jambo 16y ago
HN readers might be interested to know that this site, The Point, is the basis for Groupon. http://www.groupon.com/about
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by jambo 16y ago
I saw it too. My first thought was that this was the creepiest case of pareidolia ever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia I'm glad you saw it and that others have indicated it's not my mind playing tricks on me.
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by jambo 16y ago
It's a great idea for a founder who isn't a U.S. citizen or national. Sadly: The IRS requires barter value to be reported as income: http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html and barter exchanges have to send out 1099s: http://www.irs.gov
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by jambo 16y ago
Please don't tell me Safari 5 is deprecated and ask me to "upgrade" to Firefox.
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by jambo 16y ago
You're welcome. Great idea by the way. I could see myself using it after watching your intro video.
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by jambo 16y ago
Nice post. A lot of people get this wrong, but the right word where you used 'stocks' is 'shares'. You own shares in a company, not stocks—when you hear people talk about "their stocks" they're talking about their shareholdings in multiple
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by jambo 16y ago
If you have a group of people that all follow the same user, you can get semi-private group messaging by just @reply-ing that user. Others can see it if they go look for it, but it doesn't pollute the timelines of users who wouldn't care ab
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by jambo 16y ago
Discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1901152
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by jambo 16y ago
What if bit.ly and other shorteners supplant DNS for affected sites, e.g. http://bit.ly/xAwIp redirects to thepiratebay.org's address, 194.71.107.15. Will bit.ly have to start breaking every previously shortened URL that redirects to the
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by jambo 16y ago
I'm guessing you were voted down[1] because the Supreme Court recognizes administrative searches as not being Constitutionally prohibited. However, top officials—including Mr. Pistole at the TSA who, as FBI Deputy Director swore to protect
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by jambo 16y ago
I'm not arguing for them. I'm arguing for arguing well.
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by jambo 16y ago
I agree that having to choose between flying and getting groped/strip-scanned or not flying is ridiculous, and I'm happy that he and others were able to circumvent this. But he says they were using Millimeter Wave Scanners, which as far as
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by jambo 16y ago
Heads up in case you can't see it in your browser: it's a Java applet.
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by jambo 16y ago
I think this is outside the realm of possibility for many current TSOs.
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by jambo 16y ago
If you read the NYT article, selling filters and selling you to advertisers are business models being considered right now. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/15/technology/15photo.html?pa...
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by jambo 16y ago
Pro pornographers everywhere are insulted! At least what they do involves consenting adults. Germans call them "Nacktscanner", naked scanners or, better, strip scanners, which really gets the point across. The other thing we have to prepare
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by jambo 16y ago
howud u complish tht? [That was a serious question with an illuminating response. How would you know whether those who downvoted me were doing so because of my comprehensible but poor writing style, or out of disagreement?]
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by jambo 16y ago
And that would probably be outlawed, like "structuring" currency transactions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuring#United_States
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by jambo 16y ago
Some people probably thought the same about Rosa Parks. I'm not saying you're racist, just that you're wrong. It is his right to speak. "Instigating trouble" is one way to change things, and the front-line TSOs _are_ implementing this polic
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by jambo 16y ago
You have to click on the comment's permalink to see the flag link. It doesn't show up on the main comments page.
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by jambo 16y ago
And that no security measure at the airport will prevent a threat before the security checkpoint. With or without people opting out of the body scanners, security checkpoints are bottlenecks (something that the scanners have, in fact, exace
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by jambo 16y ago
The TSA is now calling National Opt-Out Day "irresponsible." John Pistole, TSA Administrator: "On the eve of a major national holiday and less than one year after al Qaida's failed attack last Christmas Day, it is irresponsible for a group
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by jambo 16y ago
How Kafkaesque[1]. To fly, you must "choose" either naked x-ray photography or molestation by agents of the government. Don't say flying is a privilege. Where else should I have to sacrifice one right to exercise another? The 1st amendment
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by jambo 16y ago
I had the exact same thought. "Because this device can scan a human in a few seconds, the X-ray beam is very intense. Any glitch in power at any point in the hardware (or more importantly in software) that stops the device could cause an i
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by jambo 16y ago
Speaking of interest rates, I'm not sure how Groupon's model works, but it's possible that their payment terms let them generate interest income on all of the revenue. If they continually generate 30+ days of float, that's potentially inter
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by jambo 16y ago
clickable: http://data.worldbank.org/developers
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by jambo 16y ago
Please enlighten us. Are they on TOR hidden services? Links? [edited to sound less snarky. genuinely curious]
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by jambo 16y ago
Also, if you have root, don't use .htacess files in production and you'll get a performance boost. Set 'AllowOveride none' in the main config & put your .htaccess in a <directory> block included in the main config at launch.
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And caning!
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by jambo 16y ago
Thanks. I probably just missed it. Here's the relevant info from FINA: FR 2.3 Depth - A minimum depth of 1.35 metes, extending from 1.0 metre to at least 6.0 metres from the end wall is required for pools with starting blocks. A minimum dep

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