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by polshaw 13y ago
dial :)
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by polshaw 13y ago
On viewing the video your description is a little generous. He did hear it and put his hand out, but it would have fallen without help. Not really like the cane echo distancing.
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by polshaw 13y ago
Google doesn't sell searches, it sells advertising. They do much of that sales process for UK advertisers (effectively all of it according to one whistle-blower) in the UK, and 'close' them (and declare them) in Ireland. Nobody is suggestin
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by polshaw 13y ago
>managers and higher ranking people are paid by the day, so their hours are not counted Do you have any more info on this? Are you basically saying that the law is ignored? Because AFAICT the French and EU (working time directive) are b
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by polshaw 13y ago
The raspberry pi is absolutely not the cool thing about this set up[1]. The cool thing is that in 12 months you can switch out your SOC for a better one. 1. The pi is good because it has a large community and GPIO pins, it's a terrible choi
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by polshaw 13y ago
I have the 'lapdock' used here; with a phone (the original use case) IIRC it was quoted for 9 hours.. and that must have included powering the phone too, because it would keep the phone battery full. So, possible, i think.
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by polshaw 13y ago
Not really a great feature of opera mobile 14.. the last version was available for android 2.1+, and Firefox mobile (IMO the best mobile browser) is available for 2.2+. Sucks for my nook stuck on 2.1, no more updated browser. (I do understa
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by polshaw 13y ago
updated and beaten: http://www.datapointed.net/2010/02/more-steeps-of-san-franci...
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by polshaw 13y ago
I find urban China absolutely fascinating, a feeling of relentless unbounded growth and development like London in the mid 1800s or New York in the 19?0s. To think how quickly these mega cities pop up out of nothing.. I have a feeling we wi
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by polshaw 13y ago
Haswell's iGPU will support 4K resolutions. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6926/intel-iris-iris-pro-graph...
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by polshaw 13y ago
To be clear this covers all creative works, not just images. Orphaned works will not become free, they will require a paid licence. I'm not sure what to think of it. Bill documents — Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013: http://servic
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by polshaw 13y ago
Watermarks are often removed, via cropping or photoshop. The only solid option of protecting your work is to add it to a copyright registry, which isn't likely to be free.
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by polshaw 13y ago
I don't see why people think google are going to struggle to get this out for $200. It is essentially galaxy nexus hardware without cell phone modem, a much smaller battery, and a small LCOS display instead of the large 720p AMOLED one. Yes
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by polshaw 14y ago
Sadly, can't even use it for cross-platform packaged apps (min requirement: chromium, iOS browser, android browser) because the android removed support after 2.1.
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by polshaw 14y ago
They could well have been responsible for some of them, but there are certainly a lot of us who feel that way reasonably strongly.
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by polshaw 14y ago
I absolutely agree, it got much more interesting as I started fleshing out my thought process. As for the motives, for a simulation to be helpful, it would have to run at greater than real time, no? Which.. is surely impossible, at least fo
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by polshaw 14y ago
If we are to say it is a perfect or near perfect simulation ('copy') then I don't see how, as stated in my first post. It's interesting to consider if we were a different simulation. But it would still have the same limits (that the sum of
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by polshaw 14y ago
What I would like to discuss is what purpose would simulating a universe have for the advanced civilisation? As the civilisation becomes closer to being capable of creating a perfectly simulated universe, they get less benefit from having o
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by polshaw 14y ago
Cubans have no trouble getting into the US across the sea, nor do Mexicans have any trouble getting in over land. The idea that the US is a impenetrable fortress is just not true.
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by polshaw 14y ago
(FWIW) The UK govt seized much more power in the years following 9/11 than related to the IRA period.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Very interested in this space; for a screenless device it seems to me that 'act as hotspot' and 'usb to pc' are the only real sensible options, although they are not exactly ideal.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Because most people are risk averse (and past performance is not an indicator of future results), 'lazy' and dislike complexity. If I were European and wanted to buy some stuff from China later in the year, the rational thing to do (given a
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by polshaw 14y ago
The value of BTC just doubled from 60 to 120 in 40 minutes.. wtf is going on there? (looking at btce/USD) (disclaimer: i'm not trying to hype, I expect it will come back down again shortly, it just seems weird to change that much that quick
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by polshaw 14y ago
What evidence do you have that each of these sites weren't going down just because of real high traffic? I don't think it's at all unreasonable to think that each of those sites would have naturally seen their greatest traffic surge with th
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by polshaw 14y ago
I kind of agree with you (being an 'average Joe'?), but surely Go offers some advantages over C even for a C programmer; faster to write and compile, more readable code, concurrency, memory safety.
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by polshaw 14y ago
> What question to ask so the obvious answer would be "Use Go?" I basically see it as a midpoint between C and python, that offers most advantages of both. From C: Low memory use, fast execution, type safety/ compiled. From python: Eas
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by polshaw 14y ago
I cannot ----ing believe it. I thought there would be a bump when it hit $100, but not this much. It's just insane, I was calling it a bubble since $30, and it's doubled again and again.. I wonder how low the crash will go? I'm guessing it
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by polshaw 14y ago
Sorry for OT but.. FFS! Now not even 'business journalists' can tell the difference between than and then.
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by polshaw 14y ago
It seems to me there would be no benefit to them in allowing it. If you want to get into YC and are smart, determined and all the other qualities they want-- you will come up with something . It may not be right, but PG et al can still dec
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by polshaw 14y ago
I take it this works by comparing the signal strength from multiple routers, and that they haven't found some magic to do this from a single router?

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