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by lbearl 12y ago
>> Helion hasn't yet built a commercial fusion reactor I agree with your point, but at the same time it is somewhat amazing that we live in a world where a company can get VC funding to even make an attempt on something as ambiti
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by lbearl 12y ago
It isn't about concealing the information, it is about concealing the ultimate origin of the request. If you have an SSL session without going through a VPN or other proxy there is a direct relationship between you (the originator of t
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by lbearl 12y ago
Looks like someone didn't merge successfully (judging by the <<<<<< HEAD)
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by lbearl 12y ago
Well, it might be better to have an adult that can actively prevent the kids from "killing and eating each other" instead of the current state where one person has to contend with traffic, possibly inclement weather, and dozens of
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by lbearl 12y ago
It comes up as an "Executable File" for me. Guess they are making tweaks still.
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by lbearl 12y ago
Groovy is a JVM language which is dynamically typed (a la python and ruby). It never really took off, partly because you had to understand java (and the JVM) pretty well in order to do anything other than trivial scripts with it. The point
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by lbearl 12y ago
Apparently 2003, my mother and I decided to start a website. I found it on the internet archive, it is terrible. Granted I was only a teenager and had no idea what I was doing. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/2003112406
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by lbearl 12y ago
From the sound of it, Michigan does it very well with their 10 cent deposit, and allowing most people to claim their deposit back right at the grocery store. California (with 5 cent CRV) is miserable with the places where we are supposed t
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by lbearl 12y ago
IAANAL but I'm pretty sure the way it works in the US is that donations go to the organization and can be used for any purpose, even if they were originally solicited for a specific purpose.
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by lbearl 12y ago
Its not really a black box, you still conceivably own the network it is running on. Last I checked Wireshark was pretty good at capturing network traffic. Even if the connection is encrypted, if the device isn't sending oodles of data
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by lbearl 12y ago
Isn't that basically what smartphones are morphing into, especially as HID continually improves?
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by lbearl 12y ago
That is a good point, I majored in Computer Engineering, so my experience is a little bit different (kind of hard to cross compile to various embedded platforms without using a command line).
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by lbearl 12y ago
The bad thing here is that it sounds like these are graduate students, not undergrads. Grad students should understand how to wrangle the command line (if not, how did they get through undergrad?).
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by lbearl 12y ago
It is basically a more nuanced version of the phylobinary tree [0] that was posted here a few days ago [0] http://www.scott-a-s.com/phylobinary-trees/
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by lbearl 12y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but "cache evacuation" really ought to be "cache eviction." (But at least I'm not complaining about the back button not working).
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by lbearl 12y ago
I think the idea being presented is to physically own both devices, and simply swap the SIM card from device to device as needed.
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by lbearl 12y ago
Ah, I did not know that. I just assumed with a .co domain, and mostly targeting American social media companies the main focus would be on US English.
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by lbearl 12y ago
Just an FYI, but under the blurbs about the founders, a little bit of proof reading would go a long way to ensuring legitimacy: "...other large corporates in..." I understand typos, but when it is for someone who wants to run a se
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by lbearl 12y ago
Lobbying. Its how you get a congressperson to actually listen to you, have lots of jobs and then you can throw your weight around.
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by lbearl 12y ago
The fact that the author is trying to make the argument that (I'm exaggerating here) "All Americans must be poor, because the walls in YouTube videos are white" doesn't make any sense. The author even alludes to this bri
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by lbearl 12y ago
Remember, ISPs aren't utilities. Instead, they are supposed to provide more than just internet access(in theory at least).
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by lbearl 12y ago
It is sometimes amazing how words of wisdom from 100 years ago still resonate today. Thanks for that quote, I've never before seen it.
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by lbearl 13y ago
I actually switched from Verizon to T-Mo about two years ago, and while it isn't better than Verizon, it isn't substantially worse. If you live in a fairly well populated area (cities of over 5000 people or so), or along major ro
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by lbearl 13y ago
Thanks for organizing this, I added one in.
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by lbearl 13y ago
Yeah, a few of my friends in Milwaukee put together a product called Tappr[1] which did this, except with credit cards (and it was super convenient). Unfortunately I moved out West, so I haven't been able to use it in a while. [1] ht
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by lbearl 13y ago
I might be somewhat of a special case, but even though the train takes longer, since I'm 6'5" tall, the extra leg room is very worth it, especially if I'm not in a huge hurry to get wherever I happen to be going.
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by lbearl 13y ago
Its good Spotify is finally going to get to do this (to bad licensing negotiations took an entire year to iron out though). I'll be looking forward to hearing exactly how similar this is to the service Pandora already offers (although
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by lbearl 13y ago
If you don't want to sell anything (an app), and you don't want people to pay you for your skills (a job), I see two possible routes: a) have very high quality content on your blog behind a paywall, b) have very high quality conte
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by lbearl 13y ago
It would be nice if we could live in a world where Amtrak didn't cost as much or more than flying in a plane (source: travelling between Minneapolis and Milwaukee from 2007-2012).
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by lbearl 13y ago
Any place we can get notified when this drops for Android?

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