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by plorg 11y ago
I spent a long time Googling before finding this, only to see that it had already been posted. When I was in college I went on a tour of the Netherlands with my school's choir. We sang in a number of Protestant and Reformed churches an
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by plorg 11y ago
I was born in a community of mostly second- and third-generation-removed descendents of Dutch immigrants in the United States. As with most of my friends and classmates, my parents can trace all or almost all of their ancestors back to the
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by plorg 11y ago
The goal is obviously to convert free tier users to paid tier users. If you can do that, then eventually this stunt might pay off, at least for the record companies and artists who last enough to absorb 3 months of missing revenue. But if y
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by plorg 11y ago
I'm honestly surprised it's that low. I know the difference is supposed to be that Apple Music accounts will all be 'paying'. But if they're only paying out low-single-digit higher rates than Spotify, I don't s
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by plorg 11y ago
I rarely have trouble constructing or understanding RegExes, but I do have an awful time getting quoting correct and remembering which special characters have to be escaped in any one particular language.
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by plorg 11y ago
Perhaps not, but to me this seems similar-enough to the Apple Books/Amazon suit that, if substantiated, it may well cause trouble for the company. E.g. if Apple went to the labels and said, "we would like you to sign on to our sub
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by plorg 11y ago
Here's the Boston Globe source article for the Time piece. * http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2012... And a couple of investigative pieces the Globe had run previously: * htt
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by plorg 11y ago
In my (rural, midwestern) hometown, Google Earth credits the USDA for imagery in most places. Some places may not offer much value for commercial satellite overflights.
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by plorg 11y ago
While we're playing games of semantics, we might as well have fun. "A message we are unable to deliver is NOT 0xa89adf8d9a9c9a96899a9bdf9edfb19e8b9690919e93dfac9a9c8a8d968b86dfb39a8b8b9a8ddf8d9a8e8a9a8c8b969198..."
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by plorg 11y ago
Pretty much everyone in this comment thread besides you seems to think that I am suggesting replacing a car's main battery with a lithium battery. I do not believe I ever suggested that. While I respect that you seem to have read a mor
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by plorg 11y ago
Oh, I'm aware of what value a lead-acid battery has in cars. But after considering it for a short bit I'm not so surprised that you could jump start a car with a smaller lithium battery (as opposed to the bulky equipment that most
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by plorg 11y ago
Only partially related, but I have a friend who carries around a comically-large 14000 mAh battery[0]. Comically large as in about the size of three or four iPhone 6s's stacked on top of each other - he wore it on a belt clip. My other
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by plorg 11y ago
uBlock in 'Advanced User' mode[0] allows for significant, granular script and iframe blocking. 3rd-party default-deny mode, even in the absence of the EasyPrivacy list will give you a significant amount of control over external en
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by plorg 11y ago
While it has certainly turned out that way, considering the process of dissemination, both Snowden and Manning dumped a pile of documents on a third party. It's that third party that, in the case of Manning's files (WikiLeaks), wa
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by plorg 11y ago
[2012] Previously on HN: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8566582 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3884607 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3964867
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by plorg 11y ago
Other than a front page macro, is there a new feature? Obviously the Android Device Manager has been around for a long time, but could you always use it to ring your phone? I could have sworn I saw the 'ring' option on the trackin
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by plorg 12y ago
Even with a blurred watermark, the mark itself could be enough to pinpoint a source. At least if the watermark disappears and reappears several times in a video you could use the timestamps of its appearance and disappearance to indicate wh
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by plorg 12y ago
I noticed this a couple of weeks ago when visiting my (local) bank's website (I'm in Chrome beta, v42 at that point) - the landing page had a red slash through the https. The e-banking site is operated by a third party on a diffe
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by plorg 12y ago
I've had apt-related troubles in the past, but they almost always were caused by the use of custom repositories/PPAs. Further, it might seem arcane to have to type "apt-get install -f" to install dependencies for an auto
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by plorg 12y ago
For one, this issue seems to be one which he is personally taking on himself. Part of it seems to be his identity as a gay man. He also takes pains to frame the issue with regards to a faith which is deeply personal to him. I don't kno
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by plorg 12y ago
Isn't it installed on OS X by default?
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by plorg 12y ago
This also assumes that the balance of venues playing indie/alternative music versus those playing "mainstream" music tilts further than the balance of individual users doing the same. I have a limited set of datapoints, but m
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by plorg 12y ago
At a certain level it actually does matter. The sustainability of a power resource is measured in many ways, even if CO_2 emissions is the most widely touted. Measures like water use, construction cost/emissions, and land use are signi
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by plorg 12y ago
Reports (e.g. [1], linked from the volcano/island's Wikipedia) suggest that the island will probably erode away quickly, as it is composed mainly of volcanic ash. If it does not, what you suggest would indeed be interesting to obs
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by plorg 12y ago
If I'm reading this[1] correctly, these might be proxied DMCA submissions. Total Wipes Music Group sells software: Total Wipes Anti Piracy is a complete anti-piracy system that allows to you complete control to view, automate
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by plorg 12y ago
I was just browsing some pages on the Lenovo forums where users were complaining about SuperFish (some from January, one updated complaint from today). I refreshed a page and received a message stating that the forums are down for maintenan
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by plorg 12y ago
This is a big story about cyberespionage. It comes out of Kaspersky Labs, a Russian company and hardly a front for the NSA. It would be surprising if the story _didn't_ make the front page, and it would be surprising to me if in a foru
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by plorg 12y ago
I'd have to look back at the article, but I believe the mail interception took place during the Bush-era warrant-less wiretapping. The FISA courts were created to remedy the warrant-less part of that, though they don't really seem
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by plorg 12y ago
I do not have a Twitter account, and even had I one my browser clears cookies every session. The current setup presents a page takeover login/register prompt on pretty much every inbound link (e.g. if one clicks on a link to an individ
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by plorg 12y ago
To play another devil's advocate, shouldn't that also imply that IE10 users sending Do Not Track are in fact explicitly representing their desire not to be tracked? I mean by that same argument the user, by using Windows/IE10

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