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by pen2l 11y ago
That's true. Truer than people would think. The funny thing is, I've seen the very people who were passionately against these things join these organizations, because they pay well. I don't entirely fault them -- gotta put fo
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by pen2l 11y ago
Woah, I had no clue about this. I really hope they end up with something good and this gets big.
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by pen2l 11y ago
I don't see it taking off. I think, and hope, someone will make a better product that's not owned by VCs.
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by pen2l 11y ago
Don't do that, that's a cop-out. Please answer the question directly. And, it's really not clear if everyone "knows better than that". Clearly state what is the "better" explanation (seriously, I'd lo
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by pen2l 11y ago
Why do you think Google is on your side, and will pull it from the results? Precedents [1] would indicate that it will appease moneyed interests, and dish out penalties in unequal terms. [1] http://genius.com/Genius-founders
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Alliance for Open Media(aomedia.org)
2 points by pen2l 11y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 11y ago
What's wrong with Calibre? Works fine for me. Sure the UI is a little much, but once you figure out a routine, it just works. It could be better, but right now it does pretty much anything I could want to do with eBooks. And, sorry, I
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by pen2l 11y ago
> Many great scientists (Einstein amongst them) get into trouble when they veer into Economics. Einstein predicted social unrest from massive unemployment due to productivity improvements. Productivity improvements help people in aggrega
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by pen2l 11y ago
I used to go outside and sit my laptop on the snow when it used to get too hot. It... sort of worked. It cooled the laptop. Performance was discernibly better. Until one day water (melted snow) got in and laptop stopped working. Totally ser
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Apple is reportedly planning to make its own movies and TV shows(theverge.com)
2 points by pen2l 11y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 11y ago
http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/sites/default/files/images/s... Wow, is it just me, or is that design just needlessly complicated. I'm trying very hard to think of a good reason why they did that, b
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by pen2l 11y ago
> People on HN aren't quick to ban accounts, because only moderators can do that and we only do it in egregious cases. But that's just not true though is it. :( In the past, rankbans have been given out rather spontaneously it
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by pen2l 11y ago
To turn the conversation to a slightly different direction: this is a great case study of the kind of effects branding can have. Dejavu sans mono, an otherwise boring and established font, especially for those using Linux, somehow just seem
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by pen2l 11y ago
In my circle of friends at least, PhDs working on various technologies had their names on patents. When big companies bought these patents, they actually received good money. Not retirement money of course, but a few good tens of thousands.
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by pen2l 11y ago
How does the dupe detector work anyway. First I thought one could resubmit after a certain amount of time... but no, I submitted this only a day or two ago. Maybe links can be modified (add a ?resubmit at the end, for instance), but nope, I
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by pen2l 11y ago
Not to mention, it's probably less useful. I am actually okay with the privacy I give up when using Google Now, for example, because being passively informed about things I'm getting shipped to my house, about traffic conditions t
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by pen2l 11y ago
The first thing I thought after seeing that example is FB is the new Yelp. Restaurants will have to pay FB for visibility and recognition... Same thing as Yelp, just a lot scarier.
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by pen2l 11y ago
Science is hard, making these drugs is hard. It's after years and years, decades even, of research that we determine what might work as a drug... whether it is safe or not, double-checking, triple-checking its efficacy after it has bee
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Demonstration of Acceleration Inside the International Space Station(youtube.com)
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IBM’s School Could Fix Education and Tech’s Diversity Gap(wired.com)
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The ‘Unicorn’ Club, Now Admitting New Members(nytimes.com)
3 points by pen2l 11y ago|1 comments
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by pen2l 11y ago
CUDA is probably the way to go, since especially if you're having to use a gpu, might as well get one of the new nvidia gpu's
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by pen2l 11y ago
> It was fun, but drawing those graphs is so slower than just writing code in text... Especially, if you made a mistake somewhere and have to rearrange parts. No-one has yet made an effort to parse code and programmatically create these
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What Did Cavemen Think About Lust?(npr.org)
1 points by pen2l 11y ago|0 comments
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by pen2l 11y ago
Why didn't you hire people to empty the trash? Would save your time, and another soul out there who is struggling to find a job get something. Personally, I love the fella who empties our trash. He's become a close friend of ours,
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by pen2l 11y ago
You'll do your snooping work to find this stuff out, because you can. Sadly, others can't do this to HN. Because HN software becomes increasingly opaque by the day. Users are forced to take you at your word, all the while comment
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by pen2l 11y ago
> And there are no real barriers to entry There are barriers to entry. Children taught with care, with consistent discipline, attention, etc. will do better. When mom and dad are out working and unavailable to lend a hand with homework,
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by pen2l 11y ago
> since to run HN that way would be stupid and the whole thing would have fallen apart years ago. That's just not true though. Huge governments have survived through propaganda, brainwashing, etc. (not necessarily accusing YC of doi
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by pen2l 11y ago
> I'm beginning to become annoyed with you for insinuating the same cheap falsehood every time one of these stories comes up. Every time? That's very much an exaggeration! Secondly, if you read my comment you'll see I did
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by pen2l 11y ago
greycat's writing are the best thing for bash, in my opinion. The submitted article is his 'bash pitfalls'... his formal bash guide is here: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide greycat is a guy who idles in

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