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by mahranch 13y ago
I actually think it IS a function of age. For example, while you personally have more time in your 30s, it's not true for the majority. An average person in their 30s will have experienced more "life" than someone in their 20
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by mahranch 13y ago
Am I the only one who would like to hear the other side of the story? We're only hearing her side. Stories like this are beyond useless because they don't present all the facts. It's a sensationalist one-sided narrative of wh
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by mahranch 13y ago
It used too, but they've had a lot of problems. Apparently there were a lot of scammers from India so they (temporarily?) ceased allowing new accounts from outside the US.
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by mahranch 13y ago
The masters qualification is handed out to the top tier workers. It's for people who basically use mturk for a full time job and 'usually' output extremely high quality work. The masters qualification is supposed to open up t
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by mahranch 13y ago
It says "Order granting default judgement", does that mean that the guy didn't show up or have an attorney present to represent him? That sounds like he didn't try fighting the suit and Pinterest won by default (same thi
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by mahranch 13y ago
> BTC can be used in electronic black markets - not many currencies can be used for that, and that fact gives BTC huge value to many people. I think it should be noted that if the silk road were to get shut down or disappear, bitcoin&#x2
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by mahranch 13y ago
I always liked the analogy from here: http://zidbits.com/2011/04/why-cant-anything-go-faster-than-... The speed of light can be thought of as infinite speed in that context. Since time slows as you get closer and
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by mahranch 13y ago
I can't find anything about the Tivo case being settled. On the wikipedia page for commercial skipping, the only court case is one with ReplayTV, which didn't finish due to the company going bankrupt.
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by mahranch 13y ago
> the HN homepage is just links. Since that triggers Panda To be more specific, Panda is triggered by low quality/duplicate content. 'Penguin' is triggered by spammy/bad backlinks. I'm not saying you're wron