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by quandrum 15y ago
I would like to see a copyright that expired quickly, but had unlimited renewals for ever increasing fees. This would allow the top % of copyright works that remain profitable to be held by their creators, while the vast majority of work wo
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by quandrum 15y ago
Remember, they have to be able to beat the cost of printing at home with printing + shipping + retailing, and any other middle-man involved. And they also have to beat the cost of instant gratification vs shopping/ordering and the time that
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by quandrum 15y ago
It's because the it generates .0123456789(10), which in base 10 is actually .0123456790
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by quandrum 15y ago
> who fixes your robot? Who fixes humans? Robots will do this eventually. > Who builds your house? Robots here too. Just because they can't do it today doesn't mean you shouldn't plan on them being able to do it.
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by quandrum 15y ago
This page consumed all the resources on my Late 2010 MBA pretty quickly. Not that the real minecraft runs well, but it's far more playable than this version. Whether that's WebGL or the programming is something I don't know.
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by quandrum 15y ago
They cheated. The page says all code will be rerun with different input at the end of the week to determine the true winner, so all the hardcoded answers will drop out at that point. Though it seems this problem has an obvious fastest solut
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by quandrum 15y ago
whoosh He's implying that would be the result of the Apple Kindle.
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by quandrum 15y ago
How is this different than Apple's iOS5 compatibility list? Well, besides how much easier it will be for third parties to add ICS to Nexus One.
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by quandrum 15y ago
It's the first phone with a major new release of the best-selling mobile operating system. While the phone itself won't sell as many copies as the 4S, Ice Cream Sandwich will have a larger install base than iOS5. There's a lot of people int
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by quandrum 15y ago
What is interesting to me is how quickly this narrative infected the media. The only think reported about OWS is clashes with the Police, or the lack of clear message. The narrative "OWS has no message" was started by media pundits. It's un
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by quandrum 15y ago
here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575
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by quandrum 15y ago
But I bet you need another adjustment sooner than later. That's the deal with Chiropractors. Make you feel good enough they know you'll come back and pay them again.
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by quandrum 15y ago
Here's the deal with Chiropractors. They heal symptoms. It seems to work great. You walk out feeling better without having to put in significant effort. They know your symptoms will keep returning and you'll end up paying them every week or
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by quandrum 15y ago
After reading this, it struck me as this is how intents could (and sometimes) work on android. It's not perfect. You can't string together a bunch of apps. But it's nice when I click on a youtube video, the youtube app seamlessly takes ove
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by quandrum 15y ago
> California comprises about 12% of the US population. The assumption is invalid, because 14% is greater than 12% I'm not sure that it's that far fetched that a tech oriented culture like California would buy on average more goods from
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by quandrum 15y ago
Incorrect, exaggerated title. They have 95% confidence that it's not in the 145-466 GeV range. They haven't searched the 114-145 GeV range. There's still plenty of work to be done, and sensationalist headlines only serve to mis-inform.
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by quandrum 15y ago
Why would you cut Social Security? It's in no danger. And frankly, medicare wouldn't be if we killed the payroll tax cap. I never understood why it's ok for payroll taxes to be regressive.
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by quandrum 15y ago
I don't think this line of thinking works. Criminals aren't your customers. If you respond to incidents with non-customers in mind, you're going to create a negative response in current and potential customers. This was an opportunity for A
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by quandrum 15y ago
Is that even the rate of putting something on the F5 key on the webpage and letting the browser refresh?
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by quandrum 15y ago
Their costs have reportedly increased by ~11x http://money.cnn.com/2011/07/08/technology/netflix_starz_con...
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by quandrum 15y ago
For everyone complaining in this thread, I will remind them of the article from several days ago indicating studios have increased their streaming licensing costs from ~180 million to ~1.98 Billion . If they think this price increase is eno
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by quandrum 15y ago
>We've been eliminating jobs with labor-saving devices for centuries. In the past they've always created as many jobs as they destroyed This seems dubious. The avg. work week has been decreasing for a long time. It was only a century ag
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by quandrum 15y ago
It's hard to see an author so defensive about their work. There will always be naysayers. Ender's game has persisted for so long in a way that so many of it's peers hasn't. We have to remember that negative experiences effect our users more
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by quandrum 15y ago
While I agree with your sentiment that cooperatives would be better, reality for many of these places are that management has no desire or will to cooperate. Sadly, in the modern world, sometimes it seem labor is a throwaway commodity, and
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by quandrum 15y ago
So what you're say is, you didn't read the article?
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by quandrum 15y ago
Be careful. This was the exact comment I would see on reddit a year or two ago. (replacing HN with reddit and reddit with Digg)
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by quandrum 15y ago
I almost want to pirate this just to see if his "nagging pirates to buy the book" section has been stripped out. I always think these things are funny, because the only people who tend to see them are paying customers.
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by quandrum 16y ago
I think the telling thing in this article is the author doesn't mentioned how he chose that flight. From his narrative, it seems he only learned about the DirecTV as he boarded. If he went to a travel site and chose the cheapest one, then h
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by quandrum 16y ago
What I really fear for this kind of store is, what percentage of their books were bought new at Borders? If the new book supply goes away in favor of eBooks, used book stores are in a tough spot.