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by nwatson 13y ago
Maybe those with a lot of accumulated bitcoin from drug dealing are now afraid to spend it. A portion of the bitcoin inventory is offline, boosting prices for the rest.
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by nwatson 13y ago
Bill believes Africa needs malaria treatment and other health and social issues addressed above all. Perhaps so but Google's Loon project will bring 3G to those needing access to better education and a better connection to markets eve
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Bill Gates sceptical of Google's high altitude 3G network covering Africa +(venturebeat.com)
2 points by nwatson 13y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 13y ago
Here might be something similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Licenses_colored_by_licens... ... look at the section "Key" for further explanation.
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by nwatson 13y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20110715133348/http://www.sensage... ... the company that may have supplied software to store Call Data Records for AT&T (see customer list). They certainly did for severa
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by nwatson 13y ago
Contrast with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768570 . This US $60 billion program with wide bipartisan support gives poorer folks extra cash after making at least some income ... many use the extra capital to support or establish t
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Extra cash for work - US Earned Income Tax Credit(npr.org)
1 points by nwatson 13y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 13y ago
The quasi-Baptist Church http://www.highway.org has been heavily involved with the sponsoring institution Bayshore Christian Ministries in the past and I believe they still are. Along with other efforts such as the wells-for-African-vil
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by nwatson 13y ago
And for the HN-censored Gawker link: http://gawker.com/massive-bitcoin-business-partnership-devol...
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CoinLab sues Bitcoin exchange MtGox(coinlab.com)
1 points by nwatson 13y ago|2 comments
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by nwatson 14y ago
The very premise that the value of a "fuel" is in its energy content alone is wrong. We'd be quick to lower the value of a "dirty Joule" (eg coal) compared to a "clean Joule" (hydrogen). Also, some fuels are inherently much cheaper to ext
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by nwatson 14y ago
Garbage is a Mafia standard: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/feds_charge_32_alle...
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by nwatson 14y ago
Mapping the pitch of notes to special symbols (to distinguish, eg, 'B' from 'C' or 'la' from 'ti') has been done before. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape_note and the accompanying images. Introduced in year 1801.
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by nwatson 14y ago
So if I shock a turd with a thousand dollars worth of electricity from my electric utility company, can I sell it for $1,000? Or add some non-intrinsic worth by calling it "art" and sell it for $2,000? Actually, make those figures $1,010
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by nwatson 14y ago
I think he's actually saying: "Poor people actually do indeed have a lot of clutter. Not because they don't see how they could live simply and how that would improve their outlook -- but because they have to have the clutter (the junk the
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by nwatson 14y ago
Make sure you have GNU versions installed and in your PATH. Write to those.
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by nwatson 14y ago
Thanks for the pointer! Looking at Cloudera's jobs board, most tech-heavy work is in SF or Palo Alto. I live in San Mateo, convenient to both of those, but ... I'm likely leaving for the North Carolina RTP area soon.
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by nwatson 14y ago
I worked on a columnar database engine deployed on commodity Linux clusters in 2001, initial release 2002. This was at Sensage. We built a very fast DB engine that could store log data with 40x compression over traditional RDBMSs and ran
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by nwatson 14y ago
http://obacon.wordpress.com/2011/04/26/mother-memory-celloph... In an NPR interview someone mentioned that right after the words 'mother' and 'memory', in 1940 "the American public voted 'cellophane' as the third most beautiful word in th
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by nwatson 14y ago
Other companies have a more comprehensive cross-platform solution already. E.g., http://www.zenprise.com/solutions/mobile-application-managem... -- not only does this let you deploy apps selectively to iOS and Android devices belonging t
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by nwatson 14y ago
Eclipse has pretty good code-formatting control for Java, quite customizable. It's very nice in that: * you can elect to turn off formatting for sections of your code * you can save/export your formatting convention in an XML file th
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by nwatson 14y ago
New York City is considering licensing more taxi medallions. But critics argue more taxis would slow down taxi service for everyone, and of course also increase congestion and travel time for all other vehicles too. Unofficial taxi servic
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Adding more taxis in New York City would slow service for everyone(npr.org)
1 points by nwatson 14y ago|1 comments
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by nwatson 14y ago
The 'confidential feedback' boilerplate language would especially apply to projects with potential security implications. Your 'confidential feedback' might be disclosure of a security vulnerability and they'd want to choose to patch or no
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by nwatson 14y ago
I think more Microsoft-influenced. The move to the clean typography of "Metro"/"Modern" Windows 8 interface is propagating elsewhere.
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by nwatson 14y ago
Alberto Santos-Dumont flew his own personal dirigible balloon around Paris circa 1900 (see new post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4317490 ). He was the only person to experience unrestricted personal urban airflight and is certainly
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by nwatson 14y ago
In reading a recent Hacker News post "The year 2000 illustrated in 1900" (links to http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/30/france-in-the-year-... ) I was reminded of the Brazilian Alberto Santos-Dumont, a flight pioneer who lived in Paris
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Flight pioneer Santos-Dumont circa 1900 in Paris(pbs.org)
2 points by nwatson 14y ago|2 comments
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by nwatson 14y ago
Europe eventually will move beyond the clay + iron phase of the last few hundred years and become the big thing. Powers that be will 'force everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on
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by nwatson 15y ago
Go straight to scale with http://www.sensage.com . Used by governments, health records and insurance companies, telcos, etc. When commodity solutions like Splunk no longer work for you take it to the only other level you need.

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