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by jimmyjim 17y ago
However , as I tried pointing out (in a seemingly dead thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1200091 ), identity management is something that only the technically savvy can pull off. And even they are likely to stumble apart at some
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
I thought google ignored dashes (as well are all other punctuation characters), how did you deal with that?
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Ask HN to Discuss: Privacy in the new modern world
7 points by jimmyjim 17y ago|1 comments
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
To really think about it now, it's truly remarkable that such a powerful entity can exist in such a material world, free of spam, ads, etc. I don't think we cherish this great resource as much as we should.
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
Looks like a pretty generic layout. And it's not as if there are limitless practical possibilities to the sorts of layouts you could have, so there are bound to be many that look eerily similar.
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
You know, amidst the ad-block debate today, I actually see an opportunity ripe for a start-up. A system that lets willing participants opt out of ad-viewship for direct micropayments. Wait a second, I think what I'm describing is close to t
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
I'm sorry, I don't think I'm following. Are you calling brand advertisements evil? Or perhaps in the premise that the McDonald's ad was annoying/intrusive (because they usually are)?
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
> Except I haven't clicked on an ad in 9 years anyways. Shit, I guess I'm just a perpetual thief. Revenue isn't always on per-click basis, it's often on simply per-view basis. For branding purposes, or something altogether else. E.g., a
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
Sounds like a very small phase in a cat-and-mouse chase. The people who use AdBlock are pretty technically savvy, they'll jump on another plug-in that bypasses the hack you've just mentioned in no time. And the hack doesn't work anyway for
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
Wow, so I'm not the only one. I recall being bombarded by their ads via snailmail about 5 years ago, and developing the perception that Netflix was some money-hungry scamming company. It is for that reason so uncanny now to hear my trusted
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
The one-package container deal to pack it all sounds very interesting and nice. Could you perhaps have the lyrics be in a Matroska audio container? I think there's lots of potential for file browsers that can work off on metadata enclosed i
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
The comprehensiveness IS one of the things on which Wikipedia has all other encyclopedias beat. Why in the name of hell would you want to take that away from it?
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
I imagine the reason why progress on this model has been slow is how very extremely challenging the task is. It would require a sturdy knowledge of linguistics, physics, computer programming, etc. The sampling model in contrast is a piece o
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
I am very annoyed by the current brute-force, heuristic approaches to human-sound acoustics. I wish the sounds were dynamically computerized by way of mechanical simulations of the anatomical parts involved in human speech articulation.
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
>First, private capital is seeing space as a good investment, willing to fund individuals who are passionate about exploring space, for adventure as well as profit. What was once affordable only by nations can now be lucrative, public-p
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
> "Now computer literacy is widespread enough, and basic programming tools have gotten easy enough to use, that the ability "to write a program" is no longer in short supply, and with the Internet at our fingertips we all have the combi
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
My brother-in-law says St. Petersburg is much safer than Moscow. (But even St. Petersburg isn't safe enough -- he's a Jew, and eventually had to flee because he was getting harassed very often. Basically, all of Russia is unsafe for anyone
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
> ...and with the addition of a few proprietary fonts (which come with Adobe Acrobat Reader) Can you elaborate on this please? Edit: I mean, what is your method of acquiring them, and having your system use them?
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
There was a healthy discussion on this issue just two days ago on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/b1n8h/i_remember...
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
I don't think the two situations are entirely comparable. The decision to purchase music is squarely on an individual, whereas in colleges I think there's plenty of politics involved in bribing committees to keep on using the newest edition
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
Sorry if it isn't HN-worthy. I personally found it to be so humorous and clever that I thought you guys would get a kick out of it. :)
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
He mentions in the video that he filed a patent for it not so long ago. I suppose there might prove to be a few problems there that may ultimately end up delaying its release, or worse, killing it altogether.
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
Thanks! And if anyone wishes to see the changes: paste both texts into http://www.quickdiff.com/index.php and hit 'Compare' Okay, if any of you actually went through the exercise of pasting it onto quickdiff.com, you probably noticed how
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
>I only spotted a few small errors that matter Just out of curiosity, can you point out these errors?
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
For a bookreader, I think having an electronic paper display that Kindle has is pretty crucial.
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
> Under the covers, though, this major product was built by a team of people taking a radical new approach to online publishing: Buzz is all about open, standardized user data. If transparency and openness is what furthers Google's mono
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
I should still point out that in some of your examples, there is a choice . E.g., if a Muslim really holds a non-Muslim to be 'inferior', he'll no longer be inferior if he converts. It seems that there's no such hope or opportunity in the
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
The examples you cite are not comparable to the caste system. The caste system explicitly implies inherent inferiority/superiority in one human being over another.
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
Fair enough (and I had to google Cory Doctorow). I think it's possible then that some clips were specifically recorded for this, and others just caught from other videos.
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by jimmyjim 17y ago
I don't think the cast willingly participated. I think they're just clips taken from interviews and so on that just happen to fit.

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