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by mcbits 10y ago
Highlight the address bar and press enter. It will request again without the referral from HN.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Nah, nobody's using Brutal anymore. That was last week.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Another way to approach the question is to compare the energy density of LNG to Lithium-ion batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density You'd need about 10-20x more shipments of the same volume or 50-1
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by mcbits 10y ago
A second is enough time to consciously register an ad. To prove it, they could run a bit where someone shouts "50 percent?!" with a picture of an iPad and "Tap! 50% off". I'll bet people start tapping by the second
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by mcbits 10y ago
They could sell one-second blipverts, offering the option of two seconds to advertisers with a history of positive engagement.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Yes, Google can direct its own users to the cache, and others can also link to the cache. But if you or someone else link directly to the page, it is not served from Google's cache. Google would not be able to track those visits except
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by mcbits 10y ago
cpp html: http://imgur.com/gV3dMI9 It's going to take significant momentum to displace "CPP" in the appropriate computing contexts.
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by mcbits 10y ago
AMP pages are served from the publisher's server as usual, but Google can easily direct their users to their cache instead of the official site. Every AMP page also includes JavaScript hosted by Google, so Google gets pinged every time
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by mcbits 10y ago
It's an argument for any policy that would reduce harm to drug users without causing additional, worse harm of its own. Decriminalization, as it's usually conceived, still sends billions of dollars flowing into underground markets
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by mcbits 10y ago
Right now a percentage of otherwise law-abiding people have had their lives destroyed by the justice system because they got a little too curious about drugs, and still more by all the crime and conflict that's fueled by prohibition an
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by mcbits 10y ago
I'm happy to play the naivete card when it comes to downloading. (If the producers didn't want me watching this CAM footage of a new release on YouTube, they wouldn't have uploaded it, wink wink.) I'm a bit more cautious
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by mcbits 10y ago
I wouldn't sue anyone. But I can watch music videos on YouTube without contacting all of the the relevant rights holders to ensure both the uploader and YouTube have permission to show me the video. On a distributed file share lacking
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by mcbits 10y ago
Since it's impossible to know who owns, claims to own, or has licensed any particular content, #1 is a fatal flaw unless users can officially receive immunity (which seems doubtful). Otherwise we'll have a situation like speeding
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by mcbits 10y ago
Suppose I'm poking around IPFS and unintentionally download some unauthorized copyrighted content. Is my computer going to automatically start sharing this content, exposing me and my ISP to legal action? Or if there is a way to preven
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by mcbits 10y ago
When one paints the bike shed hot pink with pea-green accents and puts the bike rack itself on the roof, some discussion of it is to be expected.
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by mcbits 10y ago
> For non-technical users, ... routers ... packets ... UPnP ... SSH ... tcpdump ... wireshark ... protocol ... telnet ... IRC ... plain text commands ... I think you unintentionally helped to cement GP's point. There is a huge oppor
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by mcbits 10y ago
I've met and worked with people like that, whether it's from a cult upbringing, a personal traumatic history, mental illness, or whatever. I doubt they hang out on HN, but they probably have Facebook accounts like everyone else.
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by mcbits 10y ago
They do censor pictures of beheadings, even in "private" messages between consenting adults. Or at least they did several years ago.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Even the dumbest thief has a smartphone and knows it can contain information at least as valuable as the phone itself, and maybe even nudie pics.
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by mcbits 10y ago
Anyone suppressing a work based on ethical judgments is practicing censorship. They could be acting on the authority of a state or religious institution, they could be removing immodest young adult fiction from the shelves at a children&#x2
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by mcbits 10y ago
Maybe I'm underestimating the field, but I suspect there is still a lot to learn about chemistry in extreme environments (ultra hot, dense, etc), which would be most of the universe. Some experimentation is possible on Earth, but how m
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by mcbits 10y ago
If you put 2 male mice in a box with 2 female mice and wait a while, you may find 5 or more mice in the box. Or if you put 2 clouds in a box and later put 2 clouds in the box, you probably won't find 4 or 5 clouds in the box. The act
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by mcbits 10y ago
My rule of thumb is, "would I rather be in a room full of people on X (a variable, not the drug) or a room full of people on beer?" If the answer is X, which it almost always is, then I would rather make X more legally and sociall
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by mcbits 10y ago
I've run across several of your videos and was surprised by how few views they had, considering the high production quality and engaging style. I guess these things take time. Keep it up and I have no doubt you'll reach critical
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by mcbits 10y ago
If I ran Google, I would just send unsolicited offers for a three-month trial contract to people who fit the profile of a talented software engineer with a friendly personality and who recently started searching for jobs. Yes, I know, &quot
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by mcbits 10y ago
I believe the threshold is whether it's large enough to have collapsed into a spheroid. Vesta is about the same size as they're estimating, and it's still too lumpy.
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by mcbits 10y ago
IE6 wasn't so bad. It could do everything in 2001 that practically every site needs today, and pretty intuitively if you didn't also support other browsers. But dealing with emerging "standards compliant" browser bugs al
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by mcbits 10y ago
He is being "relieved of his duties as CEO" according to the report. Saying he's "stepping down" is IMHO like saying a fugitive "turned himself in" when police arrived at his house with an arrest warrant.
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by mcbits 10y ago
I don't have an example from a published academic paper, but from the linked article: > the odds are this will stoke real hostility for those who are already dubious about what has been termed 'bullying' and so on by peopl
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by mcbits 10y ago
There are plausible solutions for both of those, or at least a clear direction to look for solutions. Unfortunately, there tends to be a critical mass that decentralized systems need to reach in terms of adoption before they become truly fe

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