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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'm betting that it can be evidence against anyone not informed enough to call them on it. And let's not forget that IP address evidence assumes, probably among other things, 1) No Tor 2) No Proxy (chains) 3) No one else under the same NAT
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I think if the article actually contained anything like 'Mr. Moot can you please verify that this hentai tentacle rape scene is in line with the 4chan rules', it would have been, while still not particularly relevant HN material, actually e
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I was about to ask why this is on HN, but really why is it anywhere except at the bottom of a stack of court proceedings? I have a hard time imagining anyone reading through this and not wanting those 10 minutes back.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I think the crowning irony may be "PCs do what you want: they just work."
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I haven't tried it, but the first thing that comes to mind is that your skepticism is likely to have a causal influence on it's efficacy.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The exact nature of a hypnotic state is widely debated. But hypnosis being hogwash and hypnosis working for some are not mutually exclusive hypotheses. The test shows that there were differences of some kind between hypnotized and non hypno
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Seems like spammers have done this (convincingly enough for at least some users). I don't have some foolproof method from telling a spambot from a spammer using copy/paste everywhere, but I certainly wouldn't be surprised.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
The point is sort of that they're taking ideas from languages like Java and actually using them for OS/system code. You're right, it's all old hat for programming languages, but using it for the OS itself (usually done in C or assembler) is
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Really though, the math is pretty unsurprising isn't it? Optimum sleep time is usually considered 7 or 8 hours, we'll say 7. If you sleep 4 hours a night for 5 nights, you wind up 15 hours short. Why would one expect to make up for that wit
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Can you elaborate? Why would this present a problem in particular for doctors?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'm a developer who sometimes gets stuck with design work for websites. Having no design training whatsoever, I find that minimalism is the form in which I will embarrass myself the least, and the one which requires the least amount of phot
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by powrtoch 16y ago
And what if the advice is "Here, drink this"? You're correct that if we know with high certainty whether the info is true, the source becomes irrelevant (and the higher the certainty, the less weight the source's credibility carries). But i
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Really? You would say it's irrational for me to be less skeptical of the WSJ than of timecube.com? I have to doubt my father's advice equally as much as I would doubt that of a psychopath? I'd just say be willing to update your skepticism a
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It's sort of however you want to look at it. The post is suggesting it's "because of" not "despite" the ugliness. I take the above comment to mean that these sites could perhaps be even more successful if designed more aesthetically. Dunno
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I've often wondered just how many people have ever used the "add to home screen" button, or even really noticed it. I assumed for a long time that the "+" icon just added a bookmark to mobile Safari. Note that HN is clearly not a good sampl
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by powrtoch 16y ago
He should avoid using words like "urgently". Causes me to expect they're going to rush it out prematurely and embarass themselves.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Again, no t=0. It never was "infinitely" dense, it just approaches this limit.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Smugness doesn't constitute an argument. For any statement you make, I can respond "Ha, I knew you'd say that, how naive and predictable!" I can also add "I perfectly understand your position" despite giving no one any reason to believe thi
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I have seen TV shows that were quite consistent. That doesn't make them fact rather than fiction.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I would really emphasize "incomplete" here. Newton's laws fully accounted for the phenomena they sought to account for, and gravity really does work like Newton said it would work on the level that Newton was talking about it. The idea that
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I think the "continuum" part of this term is not generally understood. I would expect most people think of the relation between space and time to be like the relation of X and Y on a planar graph: two distinct continuous dimensions, with no
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by powrtoch 16y ago
lp0 on fire.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't stop Apple from refusing to service your jailbroken iPhone does it? Big news and all, but it seems to me the issue was that Apple would make a fuss and void your warranty, not that people were getti
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by powrtoch 16y ago
That's really interesting, I appreciate the link! To clarify though, my ideas are geared towards actually generating the tunes to begin with, not analyzing them afterward. It's too bad this thing isn't open-source and is stuck behind a payw
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by powrtoch 16y ago
While the article makes lots of interesting points, I'm uncomfortable about how the case for the very existence of a "Value Apex" is accomplished through some brief hand-waiving and vague truisms. The idea that the talented people get less
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Really, the FrontPage one is infinitely better than all the actual FrontPage sites I remember from the era.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I spend a lot of time thinking about what makes songs catchy. It's trickier than you might think (if you don't take the bottom of the barrel approach of endless repetition). One day I plan to have an algorithm for this. Most of these ideas
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by powrtoch 16y ago
According to Steve (and others) you get a similar phenomenon with earlier iPhones, it's just that the "do not touch" zone is in a different place. So a case would help any of these phones.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
What about it can you "not take anymore"? If the money's good and you're miserable anyway,the money isn't doing what it promised. Move to SF and join a startup sounds like a good way to inject some excitement. But that goes back to my origi
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Another thought: if someone already believes that mp3s can get you high, you can probably make some serious money selling them "top shelf" FLACs.

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