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by mayneack 14y ago
I wonder how complex it would be to have a physics engine that allows for arbitrary changes in fundamental constants.
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by mayneack 14y ago
I believe you can also sell electronics TO Amazon. Probably at a reduced price, but I got several hundred dollars in amazon credit (equal to cash for my personal use) for an iPhone once. It was absurdly easy.
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by mayneack 14y ago
I would imagine a way to address this is to snap a picture every time it gets turned on (or some other period) to see who's using it when they're doing each thing.
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TwiThinks: Twitter Mentions of Obama and Romney(twithinks.mit.edu)
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by mayneack 14y ago
They'll get a private fleet of black Ospreys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey
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by mayneack 14y ago
I'll bet you could get each state's official SOS results relatively easily. However, "calling" the election depends on more than just the official SOS reports. CNN will call things when their exit polls show one thing and then the early rou
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by mayneack 14y ago
Nate Silver (probably in response to some of these things) also has a blog about the limits of his (and other) models: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/oct-23-t...
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by mayneack 14y ago
Get rid of the DRM first. They'd be useless without an amazon account otherwise.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Apparently yes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4681215
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by mayneack 14y ago
They were at the beginning, but got shut out within a few hours. I made a few mailing lists for some friends who graduated and missed the window.
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by mayneack 14y ago
It's worth noting that MIT is still at 15gb even while in first place.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Luckily, they made the point target for MIT >> population, so it's irrelevant.
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by mayneack 14y ago
As noted below, MIT had a significantly higher target than any other school. The jump from 15 to 25 for MIT was ~50k points while NUS (26k students) got to 25 around 25k total points. Remember that by "not cheating" there are only ~10,000 M
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by mayneack 14y ago
What about TYT [1] ? It's not exactly what you're describing, but it's close. They have a live Free broadcast every day, then put clips on YouTube and offer no-drm downloads of the video or just audio for a monthly subscription fee. They've
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by mayneack 14y ago
No problems here with lenovo t500.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Really wish I could sign up and then hold my free month until after the Android app comes out. Guess I'll just keep checking back (or assume that when it happens, it will be mentioned here)
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by mayneack 14y ago
Just got out of an Uber cab in Boston (due to the free cab promotion for this week). So far so good. The driver did get yelled at by another driver because he was a Boston cab picking up in Cambridge, but I'll bet people will get over that.
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by mayneack 14y ago
I may be misinterpreting your comment, but the massive amounts of data associated with torrents don't actually go through the trackers. The trackers just manage peers while the data goes directly from one user to another. (or at least that'
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by mayneack 14y ago
That's not universally true. I got my parents to use it and through that, my entire extended family uses it as our primary mode of photo-sharing. There are a few people in that group over 70 with paying subscriptions that know how to use dr
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by mayneack 14y ago
Dropbox t-shirts are prime MIT fashion and the dropbox events at the career fair last week were way over capacity. People here are really enthusiastic.
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by mayneack 14y ago
That's what I use on ubuntu 12.04 and it is great. Only problem is that if your directories overlap inside dropbox, they count twice. I'm rarely above 50gb though, so doubling a random directory (like linking my camera uploads to photos) is
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by mayneack 14y ago
They also take advantage of a ton of redundant data.
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by mayneack 14y ago
For those of us not used to reading something like this, can you explain? Is the RIAA somewhere in here: "Selling/General/Admin. Expenses, Total"?
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The Internet association has already devolved to memes(internetassociation.tumblr.com)
1 points by mayneack 14y ago|0 comments
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by mayneack 14y ago
I'm gonna guess that the fine print was more along the lines of "we're not responsible for what happened before this" than "we're not responsible for leftover meth byproducts." Sure, you could say that these people should hire someone to te
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by mayneack 14y ago
Does the driver have to be awake? Sleeping and driving can become the new texting and driving.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Anything related to a gas station. No need to go with the car to fill up.
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by mayneack 14y ago
I'd personally vote for a tour of the trails in national parks.
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by mayneack 14y ago
How does apple expect to beat this now?
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by mayneack 14y ago
Although every time I've attempted to use it in the last 48 hours, they've all been full. I think it's because they're offering $25 in taxi credit (presumably to encourage taxi drivers to join up).

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