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by objclxt 13y ago
TechCrunch are reporting $2 billion, of which $400 million was cash: http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/25/facebook-to-buy-oculus-vr-m...
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I know privacy advocates hate this, but it seems like a net win to me As far as I know, many privacy advocacy groups are in favor of police body cameras (I know the ACLU is, if they're accompanied with a suitable framework and p
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by objclxt 13y ago
> The few times where I would have benefited from using such devices I know the other people would have really really hated me using it [...] I don't care about breaking surveillance laws It seems to me that those two statements a
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by objclxt 13y ago
It's not outrageous for a decent loaf of sourdough in SF. It seems like a really niche market though...doesn't really feel like a business to me. I don't think SF is short of places to get bread - there's a local bakery
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by objclxt 13y ago
Now it works the other way round (the 10 pence is pretty much the same size as a US quarter). Not much of a saving (25¢ is around 15p), but I used to use them from time to time in college while I was doing my laundry.
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by objclxt 13y ago
You're illustrating my point about how people without experience in the field are severely underestimating the harshness of the environment. > a battery powered satellite link Battery powered? Batteries are big fire risks (ask Boe
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by objclxt 13y ago
I'll bite. > Why does my iPhone - $850 retail - have capabilities that far surpass those of a $250 million modern passenger jet? It is not unheard of, or unknown, for iPhones to crash, have unrecoverable data loss, or suffer from
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by objclxt 13y ago
I would be amazed and/or shocked if it had a 3G radio in. It surely has to be paired with a phone for data access. The power requirements alone would result in a watch that had a 2 hour battery! I suppose it could use WiFi, but that
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by objclxt 13y ago
There is a now classic Steve Yegge blog post that gives a recommendations and advice (a lot of Google recruiters actually point candidates towards it to prepare). Although it's over six years old now it's still pretty much on poin
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by objclxt 13y ago
It is not as simple as federal law 'trumping' state law - congress enacting a law specifically to override a state would be problematic, even if constitutionally solid. You are not considering the implications of congress interfer
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by objclxt 13y ago
They're not equally quaint. There is a big difference between laws that regulate taxis and laws requiring cars to be sold only be third-party dealers. Taxi laws in many cities exist to both protect consumers (with criminal background c
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by objclxt 13y ago
Yeah, this all falls apart when you're driving in a city like San Francisco or Los Angeles, where many of the street names are in spanish. British Siri just mangles them! That said, I'm a Brit myself so I can just stick with the U
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by objclxt 13y ago
> a status report every two minutes or so would be technically feasible and not terribly expensive? ...but also not very useful. Two minutes is a long time when you're traveling at 570 MPH - in the event of a catastrophic explosio
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by objclxt 13y ago
I pointed this out somewhere else, but satellites aren't particularly helpful because you won't be able to transmit to them when you most need it , which is when there are problems with the plane. It's still highly likely th
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by objclxt 13y ago
Yeah, it reverse bills the SMS. Android can only block your device from sending premium rate SMS, not receiving them (how could it? It's up to your network operator to handle that side of things). The original idea with reverse-billi
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by objclxt 13y ago
Compare this with the world of advertising, where you have three major holding companies controlling most of the market, but each company runs dozens - if not hundreds - of independent agencies.
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by objclxt 13y ago
I think there's some cross-browser optimizations to be done here, because it completely destroyed Safari for me, and that's on a pretty serious machine (2.7 i7, 16GB RAM).
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by objclxt 13y ago
I know here in the US many brick-and-mortar stores have a 'no tag, no return' policy - although I'm not sure it's rigorously enforced, it's more there to stop obviously worn garments from being returned (I just retu
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by objclxt 13y ago
I hope the FTC doesn't come knocking, because I'm pretty sure it's illegal to not accept returns in the case of defective merchandise. I suppose you don't technically need to accept returns, you just need to refund buyer
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Thousands of screws and if one goes missing the aircraft could fall apart at critical moment This is not true. Sometimes aircraft have mechanical problems - pitot tubes icing over, for example. There An aircraft is severely over engi
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by objclxt 13y ago
Because transmissions are unreliable. If you're over the ocean there is no ground to send your transmission to. Black boxes store considerable amounts of data - telemetrics, voice recordings for the past two hours...stuff that to be us
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by objclxt 13y ago
...there really aren't satellites 'just taking photos' of the ocean. You might have a spy satellite taking pictures of a naval exercise. I think you are underestimating a) how vastly big the ocean is, and b) satellite capacit
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by objclxt 13y ago
Yeah, no. Does that site support credit/debit card transactions? Nope. ACH / bank transfer payments are a non-starter for many people and sites, and conversion rates are much lower. I'm pretty sure the OP was referring to c
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by objclxt 13y ago
Tesla already has a leasing program in the US, and in fact I suspect they would prefer all their customers to lease the vehicles (certainly if you go to their website you won't see a sticker price on the front page for the Model S -
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by objclxt 13y ago
E-mails and passwords are one thing, credit card numbers are quite another. Firstly, you're going to get sued. Some law-firm is going to figure out you're a decent target, find someone aggrieved enough to be a lead plaintiff, and
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by objclxt 13y ago
It's important to distinguish between NIBs (or XIBs, if you prefer) and storyboards. NIBs can be used in even extremely complex and large applications to make tasks easier. For example, iPhoto on iPad uses NIBs to load in UI interface
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by objclxt 13y ago
> how sure can I be it'll not be used by a third party to spy on me? Boeing's promise? It's not really aimed at you , it's aimed at the US government....
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I also wouldn't be surprised if there were some DirectX specific stuff Shouldn't be, Portal 2 was released for OS X the same day as the PC release.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> a single human cell contains 3.2Gb of data in its DNA DNA is actually closer to 750MB (2.9 billion base pairs, 2 bits to one DNA sequence, so one byte to four sequences). Of course, a cell has other things going on in it (mitochondri
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by objclxt 13y ago
I think it is absolutely illegal, it's just very hard to trace it. Oddly enough one of the plot points on the latest season of House of Cards is around foreign money being channeled illegally into Super PACs.

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