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by rdancer 11y ago
The comments are even more interesting than the article.
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by rdancer 11y ago
It would still be fraud, but at least it would not be copyright & publicity rights infringement.
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by rdancer 11y ago
No links to the land records of the allegedly unmortgaged properties? Ditto for the other allegations? I fully expected the mudslinging to begin in earnest, but this seems lazy.
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by rdancer 11y ago
The single best software product since GMail, and they've shuttered it. It's a sad day for our industry.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Network file systems are hard . There are 30+ years of posts in various places of the Internet, hundreds of books, and dozens of implementations' source listings that you can read. Dropbox have exceptional engineering talent, and a ma
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by rdancer 11y ago
If you put a few in the back of someone's head, technically they're not going anywhere either.
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by rdancer 11y ago
"My friends call me Steven. You will address me as Mr Seagal." One of the advantages of this restriction on speech is that it forces you to think about relationships between things. In this case, what does it mean to have a name
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by rdancer 11y ago
Hip hop is mostly white folks listening to millionaires pretending to be gangsta, no? For real, hip hop is a great example. Have you noticed how the denser parts are always spoken, and the sung parts are always repetitive and don't say
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by rdancer 11y ago
Why would you think he wasn't? Many anecdotes mention him micromanaging minute details, and many of the things he mentions in keynotes are highly technical as well as low-level.
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by rdancer 11y ago
"[R]esearchers say" this, "researchers say" that... Why not do real reporting, and write a real article, which has verified facts, and doesn't need weasel phrases?
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by rdancer 11y ago
Is this a very roundabout way to do a wrapper shell script (the target audience being people who cannot write shell scripts)? $ cat > secrets && chmod 600 secrets export SECRET_1='Jerry is a mushroom' expo
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by rdancer 11y ago
I wanted to get a reproduction of "Hip hip hurra!" by Peder Severin Krøyer, few months ago. This is the original[1], and this is what China, in all seriousness, offfers[2]. Is it possible to get excellent quality reproductions, li
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by rdancer 11y ago
Therein lies the problem. Poetry set to music seldom works, because it is too dense. When it is done, the music must be very plain, or only a short sections of the text are used, or the text is chopped up and spliced without regard to meani
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by rdancer 11y ago
Artists tend to have mountain-sized egos. Few of the singers-songwriters admit even to themselves that songwriting is a craft, not fine art, and when they speak, it can be hard not to feel slightly bemused. When you look at nice songs the s
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by rdancer 11y ago
The paintings are bad. Really, really bad. If you take for example the football photography turned into a painting, from the article[1], you can see even at that level of detail, that the painting is amateurish, lacks detail, and looks wors
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by rdancer 11y ago
Go for it!
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by rdancer 11y ago
Not sure what you mean by "these type of devices", but you will be overjoyed that on Raspbian, updating the system is as easy as `apt-get udate && apt-get -y upgrade`, the kernel is currently v4.1.13 [1], and the rest of y
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by rdancer 11y ago
I can't really see that — neither the circuit board header nor the cables are proprietary.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Absolutely. My two semesters of a what was an extremely gentle intro to theology allowed me to appreciate that there are intellectual pursuits outside STEM that are worthwhile and challenging.
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by rdancer 11y ago
While I agree with what the article is saying, I would go a bit further. The main aim of the news is to disseminate today's propaganda, and to shape the public mind so it is ready to receive the propaganda of tomorrow. That it also can
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by rdancer 11y ago
It indicates that both the governments and the industry have dropped the ball on enforcing the law against small companies. When you look at what this guy is doing with the Apple-compatible power supplies and cables, or the Google reviews o
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by rdancer 11y ago
The force that should prevent customer-hostile behaviour is brand reputation, and risk of lawsuits. Unfortunately, the unit profit from the sale of a Dell or a Lenovo laptop is at or below zero, while the fixed costs remain incredibly high.
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by rdancer 11y ago
I have been wondering whether this is a prank or a con, so I have looked into the people behind this. The whois record shows the domain registered to one Nissan Bahar of Keepod Ltd, London, UK. You may remember Keepod, the $7 personal compu
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by rdancer 11y ago
It's a prank on the verge of becoming a con :-)
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by rdancer 11y ago
This is very funny. I'm sure their very advanced security measures will prevent me from creating a nice passive income, earning mint while my smartphone lays motionless on the couch next to me.
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by rdancer 11y ago
From the 1st paragraph of the fine article: "She [...] cut her family’s water use nearly in half, to just 178 gallons per person each day." [emphasis mine]. I agree with your analysis wholeheartedly.
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by rdancer 11y ago
Advertising leads to increased profit, on average. Groupon did not. Their whole proposition was bogus, and they knew it from the beginning. Their business model required a constant supply of small business owners who'd make the wrong d
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by rdancer 11y ago
She used 178 gallons (674 litres) per day ? And that wasn't enough to take a shower every day?! A bathtub is ~80l, and a showering consumes less than that. A washing machine cycle is another ~80l. A dishwasher ~20l/cycle. Cooking
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by rdancer 11y ago
The main expense of building an artificial island is the massive amount of material that is needed to be laid beneath the habitable patch of land, all the way down to the sea floor. Seeing that if you are already level with (or only slightl
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by rdancer 11y ago
For example in Estonia, every citizen has an ID card, and every ID card is an ISO-7816 smartcard. So they can have this nationwide. Then again, that's a country of 1.3M, and you only get the card when you're 15yo. Foreign visitors

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