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by relix 14y ago
It's not, but I'm pretty sure it's also illegal to disable your brakes and then drive your car on a public road.
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by relix 14y ago
Actually, I think there's a legal case for not having root on a car. It could mean you can disable safety measures - especially with regards to the battery, i.e. overcharging, temperature, ... - that might endanger you or others on the road
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by relix 14y ago
Working with code without syntax highlighting would be aweful. Also, text right now is rendered with subpixel precision, e.g. Microsoft's ClearType [0]. Because only the horizontal resolution would be tripled, you would have a distinction
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by relix 14y ago
Why wouldn't you be able to just go to an exchange office and buy CHF or USD? If you have access to your money, which I'm assuming you do, else you can't buy bitcoins anyway, there's really no reason why you wouldn't be able to exchange it
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by relix 14y ago
That doesn't make sense. If the only reason is to get away from the Euro, why buy bitcoins, a very volatile, cutting-edge currency, when you can just as easily (or more easily actually) buy any other currency such as dollars, or swiss franc
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by relix 14y ago
I noticed Bitcoin's most fervent supporters are far removed from reality. They think the regular person in the street cares that "the man" can track his purchases in the supermarket, or the beer he bought in a bar. They don't want to pay ta
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by relix 14y ago
The point is moot though. I understand why people pirate content - it's easier to get something for free than to pay for it - it doesn't mean it's right. You're doing the right thing by not installing adblock, but really you should vote wit
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by relix 14y ago
The site is setup to require that you watch ads, that's why they're there. Regardless of the technical meaning of blocking an ad ("not downloading it"), the intent behind it is clear: not viewing the ads. Yes, the same argument can be made
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by relix 14y ago
By running AdBlock, you're the one doing the exploiting. It's no different than pirating stuff, you don't have the moral high ground here.
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by relix 14y ago
This is at least 4 years old and is obviously faked.
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by relix 14y ago
Thanks Matt, that's good to know.
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by relix 14y ago
If this would happen to a less popular site, what chances does a site-owner have of getting attention to this problem, and getting it fixed?
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by relix 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_North_Korea
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by relix 14y ago
On the highways, every 60km a ChaDeMo quickcharger. €18.000 credit if your car is 100% EV. I just wish Tesla sold some here.
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by relix 14y ago
It looks like it's basically Bitcoin but without the mining. An interesting concept for sure. If I understand it correctly: By paying a gateway, you get "ripples" in the form of an IOU (The gateway owes you). This IOU can be exchanged at an
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by relix 14y ago
There are dozens of possible ways to implement this in a distributed, atomic or near-atomic, low-impact way. * One way is to have a list in Redis, just pop a dyno off it (atomic so each dyno is popped off exactly once), send the request to
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by relix 14y ago
You missed the point of my comment. It makes more sense to single out the US if they are the only one with much lower prices than everything else, instead of talking about every country where it is more expensive - in this case, most if not
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by relix 14y ago
These articles take the wrong perspective - it's not that Australia is much more expensive in tech matters, it's that the US is much more cheap. I don't know where the recent Australia-specific articles are coming from, but it's been like t
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by relix 14y ago
If I interpret what I read correctly - that because of the new design there's no turning moment, and that hence there's no point at which the boat would capsize, and all energy is thus put into forward motion, that you can just put a bigger
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by relix 14y ago
No regret. I tried out AdBrite once and when I wanted to cash out the $130 I had earned back when I was a student, they told me they couldn't pay me out because they hadn't received the money yet, and that was that. Nothing I could do. This
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by relix 14y ago
Since there were bots the poker sites have started detecting bots. If a player played every day exactly 800 tables (or exactly e.g. 8 hours), it would be instantly banned for being a bot. Bots have a lot of randomization now to make it appe
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by relix 14y ago
Signatures aren't a way to authenticate yourself securely. They're just a more definite version of a checkbox that says "I agree". They're not supposed to be secure, they are and always have been easy to forge. When was the last time someon
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by relix 14y ago
This might theoretically be copyright infringement. Since Aaron didn't specify any license (like CC) for his blog, reproducing his content without his estate's permission is technically illegal.
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by relix 14y ago
They don't necessarily know who has pirated and who hasn't. They might just see that there are e.g. 100K people registered on their servers, and they only had 10K sales.
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by relix 14y ago
Very good points. Thanks for the insights!
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by relix 14y ago
Slightly offtopic tangent: So by now we're all aware that these are already ubiquitous in Europe. The question I have is why it took so long to reach the US? Why didn't the main shipping companies there like FedEx and UPS step up and use th
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by relix 14y ago
My opinion: You should be less transparant about the costs/profit, and you'll probably get less resistance for the fact that you're making some profit on it. If you would just say "$10 of every sale goes to Wikipedia" people wouldn't know,
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by relix 14y ago
They're actually (much) more expensive than Namecheap, a generally trusted vendor: http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates.aspx
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by relix 14y ago
Of course, but I wasn't talking about SpaceX specifically, just refuting the point put forward by robbiep.
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by relix 14y ago
We don't need to solve the gravitation issue. People are spending long term time in the ISS and with proper training it's not bad.

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