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by krrrh 8y ago
Amazon could generate unique per unit tokens for vendors to sticker next to the SKU stickers they already require. Totally traceable to a vendor if there is a problem, and not easy to counterfeit. This is a beginner programming exercise. Th
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by krrrh 8y ago
It is getting bad though. Less piracy means it’s much harder to find long tail films. The number of seedless torrents on private trackers is much higher now than it used to be.
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by krrrh 8y ago
I miss it too, but I expect that the vast majority of people only rated films they watched as 5 stars, 1 stars, or no rating (meh, or the same as 3 stars). Most things I watch still don’t get a rating, so it’s really a reduction of 5 levels
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by krrrh 8y ago
https://onetimesecret.com/
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by krrrh 8y ago
There are doctors around the US that do Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy for much lower prices. There is a big study about to be published looking at hundreds of successfully treated cases. Keep looking, and good luck. The J+J spray is a s
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by krrrh 8y ago
You have no idea how important you are. If you’re reading this, you are the resistance.
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You don’t see these in Canada but I am always flabberghasted by them while in the US. I noticed that holding my finger over the tiny speaker hole greatly reduced the volume, and I resolved to carry a roll of duct tape with me so I could do
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You can also setup filters which are easy to do in gmail and work better than autocategorization.
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> But there are other advantages too, such as local storage, meaning that YouPorn can store information such as a user’s favorite videos locally on the device so that this information is not sent to YouPorn’s servers. This is a pretty in
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by krrrh 8y ago
If demand is so high it seems like they could achieve profitability just by raising the price.
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I’m sad they didn’t get what the expected, but happy that there are still groups of people getting on the internet for the first time.
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Then there are those people whose entire brand is based on their inactivity on social media. https://twitter.com/calnewport
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by krrrh 8y ago
The Coddling of the American Mind which he co-wrote with Greg Lukianoff is an important book about problems faced by the current college-age generation and the effects that social media, helicopter parenting, and certain ideologies have h
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by krrrh 8y ago
Assuming you’re on Android. Using Firefox Focus on iOS I had the same issue, but the browser icon shows Safari. Still not sure whether they are being deceptive or incompetent.
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by krrrh 8y ago
CN spun reddit off as independent company in 2012, though afaik CN’s parent company is still the majority shareholder. They have Sam Altman, Marc Andersen, Peter Theil, Jared Leto and Snoop Dogg as investors (the usual suspects basically).
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by krrrh 8y ago
What you're proposing would institute CL as a de facto utility in perpetuity with an API that innovated at the rate of the old Ma Bell. It may be true that craigslist dominates "classified ads" in a lot of markets, but ther
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by krrrh 8y ago
> I wonder how much economic stimulus to existing businesses would be created by dropping $15k into everyone’s pocket. Probably not as much as just leaving $15k in everyone's pocket in the first place. It's really insane to thi
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by krrrh 8y ago
They were called gifts. I thought it was a kind of clever way of displaying status and demonstrating that you were thinking of someone, just like real gifts or cards. I definitely would prefer a social network with modest ambitions that cov
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TablePlus.
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That doesn’t change my point. Regardless of how serious of an issue Y2K actually was, the level of alarmism from armchair observers was still ridiculous, as was the notion that the problems wouldn’t get addressed. OP literally predicted cor
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by krrrh 8y ago
These comments read like some of the best Y2K and peak oil fanfic. > What do you think “chaos at the border” means? Probably not the UK self-imposing a famine on its people in favour of establishing a permit Raj. It sounds a lot more lik
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by krrrh 8y ago
It’s really worth mentioning here that Disney CEO Bob Iger has been on Apple’s board of directors since 2011. Also that when Disney acquired Pixar under Iger, Steve Jobs became the single largest shareholder of the Walt Disney Company.
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Another salient point is that when an entity buys all the shares of a company they pay a premium over the current share price indicating that the company is perceived by the market to be more valuable with a single shareholder than with wid
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by krrrh 8y ago
Let’s not forget this gem which with a straight face placed blockchain at the same level as the PC or the entire internet: http://blog.pmarca.com/2014/01/22/why-bitcoin-matters/ Obviously he played a big
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by krrrh 8y ago
I often take short videos with narration after removing parts, especially noting where they came from and where they were placed.
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I really doubt that “woke” speeches do much to drive sales, but I’d wager his speech to the privacy commissioners had a larger effect than the ADL one. https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/24/18017842/tim-coo
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It’s usually not good form to put a typo in the headline. They must mean an increase from 77.8 to 78.9. And still the journalist can tell that this is all highly scientific and worth reporting on because of the decimal precision. A better a
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by krrrh 8y ago
It would be great to see this sort of treatment for Mahir Cagri whose page followed a similar trajectory at the time.
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It’s an open question how the value of the infrastructure for doing this would be determined. Ideally the infrastructure would approach zero in cost and the value would be preserved for the participants in any transaction, not the rent-seek
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Preston Byrne pointed out since there is no pyramid, this can’t be called a Ponzi scheme. It deserves a new name, the “Nakamoto scheme”: https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/12/08/bitcoin_ponzi/

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