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by mayneack 14y ago
Filtered for the past year: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ageocities.c...
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by mayneack 14y ago
This guy has a working widget to weather underground with today's weather. http://photographic-exploration.com/
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by mayneack 14y ago
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by mayneack 14y ago
oops
725.
by mayneack 14y ago
If it's only 10 cm taller, that sounds like within the margin of error of where you measure. Not that I have any idea what the standard "building height" measurement entails.
726.
by mayneack 14y ago
Although it's not the most efficient way to go about getting things done, the internet pitchforks appear to be fairly effective when it comes to business. Next on the agenda is politics.
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Newegg Still Telling Customers That Installing New OS Violates Return Policy(consumerist.com)
171 points by mayneack 14y ago|75 comments
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America's Reasonably Effective System of Higher Education Finance(slate.com)
1 points by mayneack 14y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why don't mobile sites automatically redirect to desktop versions?
1 points by mayneack 14y ago|1 comments
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by mayneack 14y ago
Doesn't appear to be up and running yet: http://www.reddit.com/r/junk001/ Has recent links to all 4 announced bans.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Interestingly enough, this did not get caught by reddit's theatlantic.com filter. http://www.reddit.com/r/junk001/comments/v122m/test1/?alread... http://www.dailydot.com/news/reddit-ban-the-atlantic-phsyorg...
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FCC plans to free up spectrum to goose mobile health innovation(fiercemobilegovernment.com)
1 points by mayneack 14y ago|0 comments
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by mayneack 14y ago
Anyone here know enough about UK politics to know how likely it is that this will pass?
734.
by mayneack 14y ago
Most common (in the US) is just a minimum credit card purchase.
735.
by mayneack 14y ago
In the US. My bad.
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by mayneack 14y ago
There was a top post today about a power user getting sort of banned for making a post about HN (I think it was along the lines of editing post titles). Both the post today and the one he was referring to were taken down.
737.
by mayneack 14y ago
That's illegal in most states/violates all credit card agreements for the vendor. (but still a valid comparison)
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by mayneack 14y ago
Many government offices now have firefox too. Not sure about the ones with higher security concerns, but I know the normal security places have FF.
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The Mining Boom Is Making Australians Dumber(businessinsider.com)
2 points by mayneack 14y ago|0 comments
740.
by mayneack 14y ago
Don't get me wrong, there's certainly a >0% chance that he'll be VP, but I don't think this will help at all. He doesn't have to worry about going against the platform enough. If he really wants VP he has to worry about going too far ou
741.
by mayneack 14y ago
I guess this will make the "big mac index" go up an insane amount this year instead of "slowly" over several years.
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by mayneack 14y ago
The reason (I think) is that these places are doing it intentionally from the top down instead of just some random person within their organization or pushing an agenda. If they can successfully identify when domains are coordinating this a
743.
by mayneack 14y ago
If he's angling for VP, he shouldn't be going against the party line so hard this close to the election. If he's going for 2016, this seems like a fine idea.
744.
by mayneack 14y ago
Do mirrors still work? Like posting the google cache instead of the original article.
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by mayneack 14y ago
It seems to me that if a publication really wants to beat the system, banning users can only work to a certain degree. If you really want to stop them from trying, banning a whole domain seems like a good way to persuade them as long as t
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by mayneack 14y ago
They also have gotten pretty bad publicity in the past for their bandwidth restrictions to torrent users. Might be affecting the bottom line (more than piracy is affecting NBC).
747.
by mayneack 14y ago
Looks like this approach is useful for more than just "google disabled my account that runs my legitimate business" cases.
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Newegg: No, We'll Totally Take Returns After You Install Linux(consumerist.com)
192 points by mayneack 14y ago|101 comments
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by mayneack 14y ago
Looks like they've fixed this specific problem. http://consumerist.com/2012/06/newegg-no-well-totally-take-r...
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by mayneack 14y ago
iTunes apps are manually approved by apple. I don't think that's a reasonable security measure for the web.

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