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by ljd 13y ago
It seems obvious to me that Bezos took this one public so early to garner public support so that the FAA can't just sit on it forever. All of Amazon's other initiatives didn't need some federal regulator to OK it before the
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by ljd 13y ago
I actually think the decentralized nature of bitcoin is what gives it all it's value. The fact that no bank can control it, inherently holds value. Currency manipulation is a really big problem right now, and knowing that you can bu
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by ljd 13y ago
I cut the Time Warner Cable cord in Q3 as well. We have an Apple TV which plays Netflix, Hulu, PBS, Rented Movies, Music and YouTube. After 2-3 months of us never switching off of the Apple TV HDMI port, I told the kids I was going to cance
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by ljd 13y ago
Coinbase is down. It probably isn't helping the situation. Wow, as I'm typing this now the market is massively recovering. I just saw it go from 600 to 700 in probably 30 seconds. There are a lot of people doing algo trading w
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by ljd 13y ago
Liquidity is the most important thing. The thing that holds back bitcoin is that I can't buy my groceries with it. Once a currency can be used it is more valuable. To overcome this, a company like Amazon would need to accept bitcoin
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by ljd 13y ago
I've used it and it is pretty mediocre or at times just inaccurate. I get so many false alerts from Google about the site being down that I've turned it off. As another comment puts it, it's just the wrong tool for the job.
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by ljd 13y ago
"I'm old, I can recall a late 60s moral panic about LSD - it supposedly made you have babies with lobster claws, if you survived the mandatory dive out of a 2nd floor window. There was an early 70s panic over heroin, and then the
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by ljd 13y ago
Maybe a crowd sourced blocker would be ideal for identifying divs in a site. It would be a plugin that allows you to mark a spot on a page that is an ad and the plugin will record the very specific CSS path and hide it permanently for you a
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by ljd 13y ago
The investment pitch is interesting and while I own my own startup I don't think I have the knowledge it takes to take a page of text and determine if I should invest, even if the sum is small. Regarding Shyp, it would be great to imag
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by ljd 13y ago
The US or the Internet?
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by ljd 13y ago
I just read the Method section of this study and it seems really slanted to produce a correlation. It asks 5 questions daily, 4 were about how well the participant felt and the last one was a direct question asking how long the user was on
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by ljd 13y ago
I don't know anything about military strategy or missile technology but I'm having a hard time seeing how a missile making a turn that slow would really be effective at evading any kind of supersonic defensive weapon. Also, missil
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by ljd 13y ago
Back when facebook apps first started I wanted to write an app that allowed a user enter in all their books and allow a library like checkout system where your pool of possible books to checkout were the collection of all your friends books
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by ljd 13y ago
You own a .org so if the US Government wanted to seize your assets it would be difficult but if they wanted to paste their ugly MS paint logo up when people hit neocities.org they are more than welcome to.
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by ljd 13y ago
I want to emphasize how big the gap is between $3/mo hosting and free. I started programming when I was 12 and I learned I could submit a "website" instead of a very large history project. This was a very long time ago and
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by ljd 13y ago
This is a very important distinction to remember when you hear people trying to find little technicalities around the law. This solution may subvert the letter of the law but it does not give you immunity from the spirit of the law (which
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Ask HN: Have you ever helped a company build a back-door?
36 points by ljd 13y ago|6 comments
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by ljd 13y ago
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001M2D9D0
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by ljd 13y ago
What you might not be considering are the details between the lines. You might not post private information to Facebook but when and how often you post can tell someone more than you would casually share with a stranger like what your sleep
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by ljd 13y ago
Is there something special about this page that you've done to it that I'm not seeing or is this really just a coupon for the hackernews audience?
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by ljd 13y ago
I used to work at CAA and there are a few agents aware of a bleak future for the agency model but to be honest no one wants to face the music over there. Their investment arm is for tech and entertainment startups, I doubt they would use
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by ljd 13y ago
Out of all the names on that list William Morris Endeavor is the most surprising. The agency model in Hollywood will eventually fade away because middle men don't offer as much utility as they once did when information wasn't so readily ava
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by ljd 13y ago
I hear and understand a lot of the comments on this thread mention that regex saves the user from a typo and such. So I want to vouch for a github project called mailcheck[0] by the Kicksend team that's great. At Ventata, we used to have th
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by ljd 13y ago
I would love to see someone do a sort of trade deficit analysis to see how many products one of these companies uses versus how many other companies use them on this site. Obviously everyone will have far more export than import but perha
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by ljd 13y ago
Herodotus or shorten it to Herodo GetHerodotus.com and GetHerodo.com are both open
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by ljd 13y ago
i used to work at Creative Artist Agency and agents there used to say that about making movies.
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by ljd 13y ago
You can forge the referrer by putting it in the header of an HTTP request. It's a rather simple procedure.
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by ljd 13y ago
I know from personal experience much of the last 5 years worth of work for me (software / algorithm design) has been building automation. Helping companies that were struggling push forward by replacing human workers with software. Perhap
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by ljd 13y ago
I find these profiles amusing because it doesn't matter which way the results turn out, you'll be happy. Psychopath's don't care what the world calls them. They see it as an advantage. So if you tell a non-psychopath that he isn't a psyc
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Price with Demand by the Hour(ventata.com)
1 points by ljd 13y ago|0 comments

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