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by redacted 13y ago
On one side: people as literal property, with no rights. They and their children are treated no better than intelligent cattle, and their continued survival is a function of their current economic worth. On the other hand: a private company
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by redacted 13y ago
Put very well by Iain M. Banks in The Hydrogen Sonata, “Most problems, even seemingly really tricky ones, could be handled by simulations which happily modelled slippery concepts like public opinion or the likely reactions of alien societie
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by redacted 13y ago
"Rob is a Y Combinator alumnus with professional experience in electrical engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship. Lacking the means to produce cheap energy, he invented a form of fusion as a more efficient approach to power
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A brief history of Apple's iWatch - Anil Dash(dashes.com)
1 points by redacted 13y ago|1 comments
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by redacted 13y ago
Interestingly, the toxic nature of political debate was what lead to the creation of subreddits - r/politics was the first!
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by redacted 13y ago
NEVER underestimate the perversity of developers of restaurant sites.
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by redacted 13y ago
This right here, this is the argument I simply cannot understand. A business is offering a service in exchange for advertising to visitors. You do not like the terms of that deal. The _only correct_ action after this is: Do Not Use The Serv
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by redacted 13y ago
In Dublin, the operators of our light tram system (the Luas) were forced to add bells after several collisions and near misses with drivers and pedestrians. Cars are smaller than trains.
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by redacted 13y ago
The Nexus One had removable storage. You connected it, Android unmounted the SD card, and the desktop mounted it - boom no worries. The Nexus 4 cannot unmount its internal storage, so something like MTP is required.
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by redacted 13y ago
Shameless self-promotion https://github.com/redacted/XKCD-password-generator
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Hacking E.T. for the Atari 2600 using a hex editor(neocomputer.org)
15 points by redacted 14y ago|1 comments
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by redacted 14y ago
-------> the joke 0 /|\ you / \
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by redacted 14y ago
Dave: thanks for taking the time to write this up, and being open about your approach and the issues you foresee. I am really rooting for Parley here (along with many other HN readers I assume). Moving towards secure communication methods,
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by redacted 14y ago
If you are on a Mac, try LaTeXiT [0] + Keynote. Type in your equations/math, hit render, drag the PDF (or many other image formats) to your slide. LaTeXiT gives you the best of both worlds; wonderful rendering of math, with the bonus of usi
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With downgraded credit, Nokia sells and leases back HQ to raise cash(arstechnica.com)
4 points by redacted 14y ago|1 comments
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by redacted 14y ago
So, your solution to the problem (carefully stated and with recompense offered) is: "Have a time machine"? I guess it is a good solution, but it would require a lot of fundamental physics work so it might not match the time-frame he needs.
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by redacted 14y ago
"Staggeringly ignorant" Did you really need to phrase the criticism this way? It seems unnecessarily confrontational, and serves only to detract from the rest of your (well-considered) points. Why not "The author appears to be unaware of th
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Casual users need as good a computer as possible, proficient users can make do(ignco.de)
90 points by redacted 14y ago|61 comments
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Windows 8 - Hands on with your next OS | The Verge(theverge.com)
6 points by redacted 14y ago|0 comments
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by redacted 14y ago
Can you expand on the 'Backblaze plays tricks' comment? I am current user and am curious.
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by redacted 14y ago
Multiple backups. Redundancy is the name of the game (redundancy and paranoia)! 1) Backblaze - fire-and-forget cloud backup, running in the background [constant] 2) Time Machine drive - what if I have no network access and need to recover w
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by redacted 14y ago
I wrote a small script to generate passwords after reading that comic [1]. Using a good wordlist one can easily produce memorable and secure passwords. Unfortunately, many sites enforce rules that preclude this password style (e.g., must co
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by redacted 14y ago
"Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word 'no'" [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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by redacted 15y ago
I believe this is the bug report in question http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3434 Note that this issue has been open for more than 2.5 years
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by redacted 15y ago
The first time I went to a NHL game and sat behind the goal it was a revelation - the positioning, the tactics, everything becomes so clear when you see the entire rink isometrically.
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by redacted 15y ago
https://github.com/edu
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by redacted 15y ago
Similar functionality already exists in OS X, in case anyone is curious: http://ihnatko.com/2011/07/22/making-desktop-webapps-in-lion...
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by redacted 15y ago
http://code.google.com/p/cdto/
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by redacted 15y ago
It updates only those plugins that are installed as git submodules yes. Most recent bundles have git repos, but if they don't https://github.com/vim-scripts mirrors all plugins hosted on vim.org as clonable repos.
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by redacted 15y ago
Not arguing with his main points, but updating submodules for pathogen is easier than he says. To update submodules do (in the "main dir" of the git repo): git submodule foreach git pull

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