philhippus

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by philhippus 13y ago
With that sentence you are either a rather prodigious 6 year old or a grammatically challenged adult.
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by philhippus 13y ago
There are several points at which the link can be changed from when it loads to after it is clicked. Did you compare every scenario?
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by philhippus 13y ago
Top Gun pilots can withstand 9G for quite a few seconds without a G-suit IIRC from documentaries on the topic.
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by philhippus 13y ago
Somewhat related; if you accelerate at a constant 9G it would take around 3 months to reach the speed of light.
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by philhippus 13y ago
>if you spend $0, the artist gets nothing, right? not necessarily. I'm quite happy to be shown ads while I stream that generate revenue for the artist.
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by philhippus 13y ago
I would be happy to look at a couple of extra ads in exchange for the service.
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by philhippus 13y ago
How much did you get off? If you got anything over $1000 then that 4 hours was time well spent. There's a good chance you don't make $250 per hour at your normal job, you're the exception if you do.
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by philhippus 13y ago
Not long from now, a quantum computer will solve each new block within a femtosecond before getting back to its main task of high freq trading and playing out millions of tactical nuclear war simulations.
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by philhippus 13y ago
The free market is running its course. If someone were to create a facebook that pays its users for every bit of info that they upload about themselves, would it reach the same level of popularity? That would depend on social factors and ho
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by philhippus 13y ago
I understand the aversion to haggling but, consider that it is one of the most economic uses of your time. If you haggle for 10 minutes and get $50 off, you are working at a rate of $300 per hour for the duration of the haggle. Not money to
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by philhippus 13y ago
The radiolab podcast is well worth a listen for a bit of layman's insight into HFT. The conclusion at the end makes it clear what the implications are.
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by philhippus 13y ago
Exactly. Machines should do all the "hard work" that I do not want to do at any given time, allowing me to spend my life cruising. We don't innovate to continue "working hard", we do so to make life easier in some way.
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by philhippus 13y ago
Hi there [enter your mark's name here] old friend...is what I refer to as 'sleazy'. A strong term I admit, but if you are going to send me an auto response, don't pretend like we're close buddies. I would respect more something like 'You ar
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by philhippus 13y ago
Enough with this nonsense. Take the plunge and start using Bitcoin. Whatever risks and uncertainty Bitcoin may have for vendors is miniscule compared to the daily fleecing handed down by the likes of Paypal.
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by philhippus 13y ago
I agree that where possible one should be as personal as possible in email correspondence, but this does not scale well. If you start getting 15 (that's fifteen, not fifteen thousand)or more signups per day, being personal approaches a full
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by philhippus 13y ago
Well, India has a millionaire population the same size as the entire United Kingdom. But that still leaves over a billion in poverty.
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by philhippus 14y ago
Because some will still buy the old at the inflated price.
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by philhippus 14y ago
The fact is BTC is a currency and is currently operating as such. There will be price corrections of course but it is already established and its primary trend is up. As a currency trader of ten years I see this energy-backed means of e
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by philhippus 14y ago
I would have thought that would be "good" for brands to be so firmly entrenched into society that the brandname becomes a verb. "Google it with Bing!" would lead to the thought: "No, I'll use the real thing ." Imagine the benefits to Bing
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by philhippus 14y ago
You just pressed a key on your keyboard. Simple, isn't it? What just actually happened? The electromagnetic forces comprising the atomic structure of your fingertip repelled against those of the plastic polymer forming the key with which yo
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by philhippus 14y ago
ACME kitchen knives: great for chopping onions and murder sprees. Yes that is tongue-in-cheek but there is an equivalence here in that the consumer decides how the product will be used. I do agree that advertising use for illegal activity s
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by philhippus 14y ago
*RSPB
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by philhippus 14y ago
Water and nutrients from the poop may need to be recycled, certainly for deep space missions. Using it as a rad-shield would help to keep it sterile while in storage.
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by philhippus 14y ago
>Car salesmen are sitting and solving logical problems? If they aren't then they will be unsuccessful as car salesmen. Apart from "how can I sell more cars?" there is "what is the optimal number of cars I can fit in my showroom?", "how
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by philhippus 14y ago
For this community, I would have thought this is a bit like seeing a link to Google.com on the HN front page. Beej's guide is staple internet fodder.
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by philhippus 14y ago
So Donald Knuth was trying to get out of understanding computers, got it.
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by philhippus 14y ago
You would need to read your country's law books, which may differ depending n whether you are from South Africa, Japan, Romania or anywhere else where you can use Paypal.
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by philhippus 14y ago
This is an embarrassing and desperate stunt from the Iranian establishment. They are clearly aiming this at an uneducated voter base who outnumber those who know the reality.
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by philhippus 14y ago
Probably about as easy to learn as brainfuck for Western progammers. Interestingly shows the extra hurdle to be overcome for programmers who do not natively use the romanic alphabet, with the more mainstream languages.
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by philhippus 14y ago
It's up to the HN owners what colour scheme they put on their website and why. I don't mean to sound callous at all, but if HN black barred every deserving death, it would be a permanent black bar. I had never heard of Aaron Swartz until he

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