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by quink 10y ago
> Got to say: I can't really think of a better way to solve trust problems in a peer-to-peer lending platform between strangers. You've got to consider the people who just don't care about nude pics being sent to work mate
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by quink 10y ago
Name another way of invisibly embedding a JSON object in HTML in every browser without requiring CSS.
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by quink 10y ago
Alright, I guess I can only buy six or eight lightly used Core i7, 256GB SSD, 8GB upgradeable RAM ThinkPads for the cost of a MacBook Pro instead of 10. And you're calling a laptop with a Core i5 with integrated graphics "top-of-t
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by quink 10y ago
A$266 for two complete power supplies. I just hopped on eBay and surprisingly lightly used T- or X-series ThinkPads i5 and some i7 for under that price, shipped. Sure, they hold no candle to the MacBook's display. But when you could bu
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by quink 10y ago
> Wouldn't darkening the skies raise albedo? Ideally we want more of the planet covered in snow, or, if that's not possible, deserts. I probably should have said "reduce the amount of sunlight reaching us", i.e. make
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by quink 10y ago
Two complete power supplies for a MacBook Pro cost more than the ThinkPad my dad is running Creative Cloud and Visual Studio and whatever else on. With huge financial jump in the barrier of entry with these MacBook Pros, and with my Mac Min
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by quink 10y ago
I don't think it is the greatest filter, I have no idea what that might be. But I absolutely agree that civilisations boiling or suffocating themselves out of existence, most likely through carbon dioxide, is a much greater filter than
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by quink 10y ago
Even if the glue failed, the cards inside may still be worth something, especially from that early. But highly dependent on the set. Check here for the expected value in cost to buy of the cards inside each pack, opened, but in very good co
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by quink 10y ago
> There a $50 budget deck can readily beat a $2000 deck. For more info on that, including what percentage each archetype makes up of the total Commander metagame and what each costs: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/metagame&#
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by quink 10y ago
Planechase is getting an Anthology release and the Commander decks are having their yearly release, both this month. The latest block set introduced a new mechanic that substantially expands the design space and the set just before that, Co
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by quink 10y ago
The guy's also a sovereign citizen nutter. Here's a letter he wrote to the prime minister at the time, Julia Gillard. Or rather, The Woman Julia Eileen: Gillard., acting as The Honourable JULIA EILEEN GILLARD. > http:/&#x
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by quink 11y ago
I created the above image. Just to give you an idea of how important it is to make sure that the message is easy to absorb, a few years ago this made it into the WCIT leaks: http://files.wcitleaks.org/public/WCIT12%20-%
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by quink 11y ago
And when that CDN has a hiccup dozens of iOS developers go elsewhere. Also, this is by no means an Xcode problem only. It potentially affects every piece of software and even code rehosted from github. Does that copy of that library develop
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by quink 11y ago
What can Apple reliably do without exposing the source code and attribution (with signig) of every file used to generate the app, run inside a signed environment on a locked down computer? Please. This is the GFW.
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by quink 11y ago
(In the first line, I forgot about the less ubiquitous Johnston as a slow cooking predecessor to Gill Sans, sorry)
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by quink 11y ago
Gill Sans and Zapf's Optima were the first big humanist fonts, but they are really best used sparsely. Zapf died earlier this year, by the way. But with Adrian Frutiger's Frutiger the whole world was blown open. Helvetica had a pr
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by quink 11y ago
Somewhat related: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/03/the-mi... > Because of the strange distortions of copyright protection, there are twice as many newly published books available
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by quink 11y ago
Despite having a different proposition and use-case, FE-Schrift seems have ended up with a similar yet much more aesthetically pleasing outcome. It doesn't have lower-case, which is a deal breaker for programming at least though.
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by quink 11y ago
NAT being the big reason. Ironically now more than ever before is the time for NAT to disappear as IPv6 is deployed.
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by quink 11y ago
Let's see what'll happen to the LOC-supported BIBFRAME. And whether it or something IFLA-supported FRBR/FRAD/FRSAD/FRBRoo/PRESSoo will win out. We might even have the answer to that by the time the next Librari
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by quink 11y ago
https://github.com/polegone/gonix/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=re... Goodbye, memory.
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by quink 12y ago
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/nicodv/bgg/blob/master/BG... Spoiler: Twilight Struggle still #1.
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by quink 12y ago
And Daala is not fixed yet, so there's a good chance of further improvements a-coming. And it's likely to be relatively clean of patents and may enable a cross-everything royalty free implementation. But time will tell how MPEG LA
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by quink 12y ago
> 3) They claim they have nothing to do with the Sony hack, although they approve it. Nope, they just say that the US shouldn't jump to conclusions, that they've never performed a "cyber-attack" on "south Korea&q
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by quink 12y ago
Basically, DPRK is claiming that they didn't do it and that they don't know who or where the GOP is. Here are the only two statements that could be assumed to be a denial based on the broken English present in this: > though it
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by quink 12y ago
First thing I thought: It's one better than IMAP and meant to replace it. I++ == J. JMAP.
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by quink 12y ago
With a few minutes of Googling, not even per capita or anything: Visa PayWave transactions in Australia, in July 2014: 58 million All contactless transactions in the UK, in September 2014: 32 million And with ING Direct offering 2% cashback
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by quink 12y ago
1. Pervasive cashless transactions, years ahead of the US or even the UK means that the need for ATMs is minute. I have withdrawn a total of $290 in 2014 (so far, but we're in December now). $1750 in 2012, $510 in 2013 and now $290. Ev
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by quink 12y ago
> There's an occasional call to "end the double taxation of dividends". Taxing interest paid and stock buybacks at the same rate would be equally effective. This would be a good time to do that economically, because intere
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by quink 12y ago
Mine too. Although when you've got [0-3] and [^2O13] in the other, it's not too difficult to figure out that contradiction fairly quickly.

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