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by qopp 12y ago
The rent it forward strategy can be completely resolved through just completely selling the items each time. This resolves the issue of value depreciation and items getting worn out by using the free market. For low cost items (i.e. the ite
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by qopp 12y ago
Apple wants this to work with anyone with a Mac and an internet connection. Directly connecting might have NAT issues, or you might turn your host computer off (or close your macbook without having power sleep on) preventing connection. The
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by qopp 12y ago
They could have used an escrow service 15 years ago and the challenge terms could have been defined as a Python program since Python is 24 years old.
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by qopp 12y ago
The exception to what I said in the other post is sometimes lower branches of government hold on to their cash for various purposes and spend it however the lower branch wants to essentially. For example, in Michigan cops used drug money to
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by qopp 12y ago
Government money/budgets isn't that precise, income from taxes are variable, for example. Also most countries spend more then they make anyway (deficit). It's accounted for as revenue via fines and spent according to the norm
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by qopp 12y ago
I think it would actually be "harder" to encrypt since it wouldn't be as compressible as normal video (if you lower the resolution to match). Note you can tunnel arbitrary ports in ssh for data if that's what you're
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by qopp 12y ago
As others have said, you can machine print cars, laptops, and phones, but you can't machine print desirable land. The price you pay for rent is the price to keep everyone else off of that land for some period of time (or 1000x that to
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by qopp 12y ago
You don't necessarily need a split cache. Just serve some extra javascript to all users that only performs the extra work if there is presence of a cookie. (Also make sure the javascript sets a cookie so that wikipedia can fall back to
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by qopp 12y ago
It's hard to know with certainly exactly what the photographer was thinking (without asking them). I personally think it's a good point that a lot of pictures that are famous/considered visually interesting are of grandiose l
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by qopp 12y ago
The whole process makes seems to make some people feel like it's asking someone out or trying out for a play (i.e. the video interview, etc) so I can see why people can take it so harshly. Your application/video/product could
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by qopp 12y ago
Another way to to read betteridge's law of headlines is to say "this article won't answer that question". Which it didn't back in 1999.
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by qopp 12y ago
Most of the world (with some countries excepted) can donate they just have to do an extra step of acquiring Bitcoins. It this worth it to maintain anonymity? Convenience over security isn't really in the spirit of tor..
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by qopp 12y ago
This isn't a perfect analogy for this situation because Notch is already wealthy enough to retire. He's worked hard, and made something people love. It would be like the fisherman worked 2 years can captured a solid gold fish. It&
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by qopp 12y ago
Lego had the lego creator video game long before Minecraft. Minecraft is something a bit more special.
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by qopp 12y ago
Another interesting take on this in my opinion is that no one recognized the places that she went to. Perhaps people don't realize that interesting destinations exist in their home towns.