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by mcbits 8y ago
Not a bad idea in general, but very risky as an independent business because web hosts can just offer it as a freebie or add-on the moment it starts catching steam with customers. They often already do, although they don't say so or co
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by mcbits 8y ago
For anyone who, like me, has never heard of these projects, RPCS3 is a Sony Playstation 3 emulator. Dolphin is an emulator for the Nintendo GameCube and Wii.
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by mcbits 8y ago
I could imagine playing the Chinese whisper/telephone game starting with "active components" and getting to "moving parts" pretty quickly.
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by mcbits 8y ago
A lot of celebrities do, apparently.
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by mcbits 8y ago
It doesn't work at all for me. Just a bunch of errors related to an IPFS gateway.
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by mcbits 8y ago
They don't eat the plastic. They look at it, read it out loud for a laugh, buy the product being advertised, and then say they don't mind the plastic card because they can just ignore it and it's better than having no burger
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by mcbits 8y ago
Old analog cell phones used about three times as much power, but the frequencies were lower and the antennas were held farther from the head. The old tower transmitters used more power but were much less densely distributed than today and
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by mcbits 8y ago
They sell an Arduino-class device ( technically a computer) called the HiFive1 for $59, and there was a crowdfunded SBC called the HiFive Unleashed that was a limited run for $999. Both are about 5-10x too expensive for poor me, but I&#x27
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by mcbits 8y ago
The history went something like this: jk </sarcasm> <sarcasm>...</sarcasm> </sarcasm> /sarcasm /sarc /s \s
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by mcbits 8y ago
They could probably say "Tesla is gonna be a normal company-here's why" and everyone would still click by reflex.
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by mcbits 8y ago
For me, !g just redirects to a normal Google search.
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by mcbits 8y ago
Problem: Buying something with a credit card exposes the customer to unauthorized charges. Weak political solution: Thou shalt not make unauthorized charges to other people's credit cards. Technical solution: Replace the whole concept
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by mcbits 8y ago
I don't know why so many DDG users use '!g' unless they're using Edge or just aren't aware that Chromium and Firefox both let you create an arbitrary keyword like 'g' for a search provider, which is a lot
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by mcbits 8y ago
But would a lawyer ever advise against forming an LLC for a side project that might have liabilities, or just advise on the best language and jurisdiction? To me there is a big difference between "if you really screw up, they could try
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by mcbits 8y ago
The rovers we've sent to Mars weren't designed to travel great distances. Autonomous rovers built for maximum travel distance would be pretty easy except for supplying them with enough energy and protecting their delicate parts fr
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by mcbits 8y ago
> Meritocracies fundamentally excuse bad behavior This may often (?) be true in practice if you remove "fundamentally", but not always and it doesn't have to be. In an environment where people work together to produce an o
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by mcbits 8y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24411797
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by mcbits 8y ago
Although fake positive reviews are surely much more common, I'd also keep a skeptical eye on the negative reviews, especially if the product is politically controversial. A couple years ago, there was a book critical of Internet servic
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by mcbits 8y ago
You're in such a rush to shoot down the idea that you haven't taken 3 seconds to realize how trivial it is to create a podcast site/app with thousands of podcasts but no users. Users are the chicken and the egg, just as they
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by mcbits 8y ago
I've made exactly one contact with FT8 using a low power radio and crappy antenna. I played the generated tones from tinny computer speakers to the mic, just messing around. Someone responded! (Probably semi-automatically...) I thought
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by mcbits 8y ago
It's not a chicken-and-egg problem. Clearly, building the audience is the harder problem and the priority. When you have an audience, podcasters pay to reach that audience, which is usually done by pestering people with web ads until t
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by mcbits 8y ago
That would be a really counterproductive way to game the system. :)
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by mcbits 8y ago
You don't have to sign up for any podcasts. You just sign up and start receiving recommendations. At first, recommendations are free or virtually free for the podcaster, since there is no data about your interests. You start accepting
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by mcbits 8y ago
Sure, kind of like direct mail marketing except the victim gets the money (minus a bit) instead of the post office. It wouldn't be very profitable because non-activity would show up in the metrics and podcasters would not distribute to
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by mcbits 8y ago
"Scammer" here is someone who signs up and then never listens to anything? Don't send them anything. Scammer and spammer problems solved.
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by mcbits 8y ago
Startup idea for anyone so inclined: Create a podcast distribution service where podcasters pay the current cost of a postage stamp per listener to push podcasts onto devices. If the recipient listens to the podcast, the money is refunded t
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by mcbits 8y ago
Maybe it makes sense logically in the abstract, but I'm going to miss buying electronics components and building things.
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by mcbits 8y ago
Conversely, a particle on the surface of an object compressed to near its Schwarzschild radius should experience an extreme blue shift and time contraction. Imagine absorbing in one instant a billion years of microwave background radiation
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by mcbits 8y ago
We should definitely recognize that marijuana can be harmful along with many other unhealthy and addictive substances wrongly perceived as "harmless", such as Coca-Cola and Hostess cakes. None of those substances should be sold or
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by mcbits 8y ago
Ranting makes people seem unbalanced. Especially ranting on Twitter.

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