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by olefoo 12y ago
The power of celebrity endorsement at work. This isn't to say that had this app been built without any connection to Tom Hanks it wouldn't have found an audience, but this way it starts with a much bigger audience than it would ha
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by olefoo 12y ago
Yes. Think of it this way at $2000 USD an hour ( cheap for a top law firm with the relevant expertise ) $600K USD is only 300 hours of representation. Figure roughly 10 hours a week and suddenly 6 months of negotiations looks damn near impo
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by olefoo 12y ago
One striking thing about this and many other accounts of police misconduct is the refusal of law enforcement officers to identify themselves. """He was denied information about the names and badge numbers of those who arreste
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by olefoo 12y ago
But SA/V isn't the important ratio here. The important ratio is weight to volume. Surface area only matters in terms of how much pressure the system needs to resist, and using compression members means you have some room to play w
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by olefoo 12y ago
The major weakness of a vacuum airship is that a breach of the pressure hull will compromise the vacuum and thus the buoyancy. So any truly useful solution will require a number of independent vacuum cells. The strongest shape made of compr
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by olefoo 12y ago
Irritating author Mckenzie Wark rips off a culture he does not understand and does not participate in; produces lots of verbiage and attempts to colonize cyberspace with a sad mixture of rehashed postmodernist philosophy and tragic dreams o
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by olefoo 12y ago
"Those who do not remember history are doomed to repeat it." -Santayana This is yet another iteration of American labor politics. That it involves workers with greater skills than in previous iterations is not germane. The reason
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Js.js sandboxing third party scripts(sns.cs.princeton.edu)
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by olefoo 12y ago
Here are some practical elements that mean that seasteading is not going to work the way it's current proponents want it to. 1. Seasteads will require enormous amounts of hard, barely rewarding work to be even marginally functional at
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by olefoo 12y ago
That is a very nice website. What distinguishes this software from puppet? If someone isn't running SLES what would push them toward this solution?
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by olefoo 12y ago
I think it's telling that they list the cost of a static IP on their home page. My local provider doesn't even list it as a service; and if you find a rep who can sell it to you it's a "business-only" service AND co
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by olefoo 12y ago
It shows a lack of care and craftsmanship. If someone can't be arsed to borrow a .gitignore ( and github will give you a fairly complete one for python ) what other corners will they cut.
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by olefoo 12y ago
I don't know about you all; but I don't know if I trust a project that check .pyc files into version control.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Actually you wouldn't be able to show any such thing. The license is a grant of one set of rights ( to use the software, make copies, resell it, incorporate it into products, etc. ) but the Patents would be the enforcement of another s
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by olefoo 12y ago
The stubborn refusal of humans to act as though they were identical frictionless spherical humanoids of uniform density and heat transfer characteristics. And their stubborn insistence on acting like self-interested jerks who put their own
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by olefoo 12y ago
> I think that the internet is key to making the most dominant systems irrelevant That has been the rhetoric, but the practical application seems to be centralizing to one or two dominant players in a given market. From an economic persp
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by olefoo 12y ago
How can you predict the value of a dollar? It's not pegged to anything either. Although in fact the decline of the value of the dollar is relatively predictable because of the Federal Reserve's policy goal of keeping inflation rel
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by olefoo 12y ago
You are assuming that the patent-holding organization is the same as the open-sourcing organization; they could be legally separate and controlled by the parent corporation. In this case; you would be worried about software that was widely
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by olefoo 12y ago
Therefore; work is evil and it is morally imperative that we create a society where it is unnecessary. Money is an artifact of scarcity. From each according their desires, to each according to an equitable resource distribution heuristic pr
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by olefoo 12y ago
http://cir.ca/ tries to solve that. Although they are hobbled by their insistence on being a "mobile-first" play. It does a decent job of pushing updates to news stories. I do wish they'd set their website up
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by olefoo 12y ago
Not really. You have to factor in the cognitive load of dealing with bitcoin and all that it entails, currency risk, regulatory headaches, banks and other financial institutions reacting negatively to your bitcoin exposure; not to mention t
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by olefoo 12y ago
I use `!:p` to the same effect. Which has the benefit that you can insert a history number between the bang! and the colon: ( set PS1 to include the command number if you do this a lot ).
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by olefoo 12y ago
> considering many people call significant others very bad things when they are breaking up, I've been around the block a few times and had a few past relationships go sour; but I've never felt the need to call an ex-lover a sl
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by olefoo 12y ago
Why bother asking HN. Just leave. Life is too short to deal with people like that.
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by olefoo 12y ago
> Patents still play a very key role is spurring innovation and allowing innovative players to profit off of their development and creation of new products. What is your evidence for this statement?
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by olefoo 12y ago
I saw a demo awhile back of an app that would try to estimate calories based on pictures of food. It was wildly inaccurate. For people who are determined to make it work, counting calories requires an obsessive mindset that will weigh a han
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by olefoo 12y ago
Not to mention a culture that encourages people to spend money on things that allow them to live a sedentary lifestyle. If you drive to work, take the elevator, sit in front of a computer all day and then watch television to relax... then;
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by olefoo 12y ago
I was actually being quite intentionally sarcastic. And I'm not 19 and haven't been for quite some time. I basically treat HN the way Jenn Schiffer treats Medium, as a venue for satirical performance art.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Just a question for those of you here who've been around the block a few times; have you ever run across a company that acted like a cult? That espoused a messianic vision? That fostered an aura of infallibility around its leaders? Jus
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by olefoo 12y ago
Journalism is publishing the truth that someone does not want told; all else is stenography and marketing. We, the people formerly known as the audience recognize this. We can tell when we are being lied to. We can tell when the truth is be

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