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by jamhan 13y ago
Wow, downvoted for simply posting a report on a dissenting opinion from a former IPCC review panel member. WTF?
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by jamhan 13y ago
The other side: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/27/un-climate-a...
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by jamhan 13y ago
For me, "speak out" implies mostly unsolicited statements of opinion. Negative or positive does not play a role. Replying to a solicited survey does not constitute speaking out. Representing the results of a survey as a mass &qu
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by jamhan 13y ago
Can someone please moderate the title? The actual blog article title is "Java 8 Survey Results". The given HN title of "More than 2800 developers speak out about Java 8" is misleading, if not an outright lie.
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by jamhan 13y ago
There seems to be little comment about actual "choice". A lot of comments on this site and the original news site seem to be either "I hate SD cards because..." or "I love SD cards because...". The question to
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by jamhan 13y ago
Ease of getting started is one reason. Bootstrap: 1. <link rel="stylesheet" href="<bootstrap-cdn>"> 2. Use it Susy: 1. Install Ruby 2. Install Compass 3. Install Sass 4. Install Susy 5. U
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by jamhan 13y ago
Err, bread can't be delivered via SMS. Perhaps you should write: "Order by SMS and have it delivered to your door"
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by jamhan 13y ago
I wish Microsoft would stop using language like "he saw how clearly Microsoft empowers people to do magical things". It makes it sound like Microsoft people are still off in la-la land, continuing to create interfaces like Metro f
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by jamhan 13y ago
Perhaps consider changing that font (Tuffy) to something that renders half-decently on Windows. It's just an eyesore in Firefox and Chrome. It does look OK on Linux though.
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by jamhan 13y ago
Contrary to what people may think, this is not Reddit.
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by jamhan 13y ago
That much is already clear. I'm more interested in comments from those who appear to think Bitcoin/Zerocoin is an "infinite good": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6806395
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by jamhan 13y ago
Playing the devil's advocate here: In 30 years time, you consider retiring, and you have a significant portion of your savings in Zerocoin. Someone, somehow, manages to fraudulently acquire your Zerocoin savings, perhaps through a flaw
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by jamhan 13y ago
This seems to me to be more a problem of rampant abuse of forfeiture laws rather than a failure of structuring laws. The many stories I have read recently of "forfeiture corridors" in the USA would seem to reinforce that.
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by jamhan 13y ago
That is not what structuring is at all. Structuring is conducting transactions in a way that will avoid triggering reporting requirements. If the legislation in your country requires financial services providers to report any cash transacti
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by jamhan 13y ago
As I understood it, Snowden saw excessive (and illegal?) spying by the NSA on American citizens. He then spent time collecting information on these activities which he intended to leak. I find it interesting that somehow slides disclosing A
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by jamhan 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_%28programming_language%29
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by jamhan 13y ago
Here's a link to the article (in German) on Der Spiegel website (not magazine): http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/britischer-gchq-n... Here's an English version: http://www.spiegel.de
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by jamhan 13y ago
It would be nice if more of these chart libraries implemented box-plots: http://informationandvisualization.de/blog/box-plot
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by jamhan 13y ago
Why not link to the original article, instead of some weird half-Greek aggregator blog? http://www.dlr.de/dlr/en/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-10081/151...
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by jamhan 13y ago
This is "news.ycombinator.com", not "www.reddit.com". Far too many of these posts lately.
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by jamhan 13y ago
IMHO this a far, far better design than Apple's. The saturated colors in Apple's design are just too garish. Some of the app and icon designs are really messed up, as the OP notes. (e.g. Notes, Calendar). How did Apple's Game
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by jamhan 13y ago
It's not April 1st but I laughed out loud anyway when I read about "fold to unlock".
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by jamhan 13y ago
Link? OK, found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression_ratio Which includes this section on "Usage of the term": "There is some confusion about the term 'compression ratio', particularly outside academia and commerce. In part
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by jamhan 13y ago
If you read in any other article something like the following: "Taking Product X as having a baseline compression ratio of 1, Product Y had a compression ratio of 0.5 and Product Z had a compression ratio of 0.3", I'm pretty sure 99.9999% o
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by jamhan 13y ago
Is it just me or is "Compression Ratio" a poor label for the graph in that article? Normally, when one uses "Compression Ratio", it is the opposite of those numbers, i.e. EXT3 storage would be 1:1, ZFS-LZJB would be 2:1 (not 0.5), and ZFS-g
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by jamhan 14y ago
That is probably the worst book "review" I have ever read: "Every page uses up almost the entire page and contains charts, tables and text in generous amounts." W.T.F.! Completely and utterly worthless.
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by jamhan 14y ago
If there ever was a blog design that discouraged you from engaging the designers, this is it.
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by jamhan 14y ago
In that case, I think you mean "irony", not "sarcasm"
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by jamhan 14y ago
Ewan McGregor is Scottish, so it is really no surprise that he can do a convincing Scottish accent.
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by jamhan 14y ago
There's a better PDF here: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/05/Bitcoi...

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