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by retox 9y ago
As a thought experiment, imagine if this mutually beneficial behaviour went on for hundreds/thousands of years to the point that the animals lost their insincts for hunting/finding food independently. It would be a disaster if sud
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by retox 9y ago
Can someone explain why it should matter where you bought the product when there is only one manufacturer? Can't understand it at all.
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by retox 9y ago
Damn, I was browsing rotten only a few weeks ago. Related and more (though only slightly) on-topic was bonsai kitten. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonsai_Kitten
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by retox 9y ago
Final Fantasy 7 on the PlayStation had a Chocobo breeding mini-game. Chocobo were a type of flightless bird and by breeding there was a chance to get birds with different characteristics, denoted by different colored feathers, which granted
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by retox 9y ago
Finally, the killer app for blockchain tech. I knew it would be porn or cats.
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by retox 9y ago
I'm intersted in knowing how the revocation of access to data at a later time could be possible. Also it seems likely that any organization you gave access to could simple store and sell the data. The biggest problem I can see from the
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by retox 9y ago
Let us see the ads. This witchhunt has to end.
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by retox 9y ago
My understanding is that a blockchain is a distributed, immutable database. There must be some serious dollaroos floating around in consultancy fees for such a simple idea to be cropping up constantly and as a solution to almost every probl
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by retox 9y ago
Your eyes are horizontally aligned, so is your monitor (most likely).
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by retox 9y ago
I've brought this up on HN before and no one else seemed to use landscape, to me it's much more natural. There are so many sites which are completely broken that I have started taking screenshots of the worst offenders. The single
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by retox 9y ago
Other people's servers.
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by retox 9y ago
>The Gmail messages of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman, were famously hacked last year No, he was phished.
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by retox 9y ago
Is hiphop terms HAM means Hard As a Motherfucker. As in "I go HAM"
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by retox 9y ago
I'm still undecided whether the root of those kinds of beliefs are the echo-chamber effect of social media, or because of the education system.
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by retox 9y ago
The amount of resources required to load a blob of json, some images and do a shitty js callback matroska dance is relatively well understood and accepted as a necessary evil by those that don't/can't block such things. Yes t
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by retox 9y ago
No information about RAM or CPU speed/cores?
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by retox 9y ago
>you can [activate bluetooth] when the phone is locked Is there any way to disable that 'feature'? Seems like an unnecessary risk.
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by retox 9y ago
I've heard this argument a lot, does anyone have any good sources to confirm it?
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by retox 9y ago
I don't know the red or orange books you mentioned, my first thought was that it was a play on 'little black book', a book of dirty secrets and hidden knowledge.
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by retox 9y ago
Probably a bad idea to let ad companies serve from your domain. It would give them access to cookies and local context javascript.
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by retox 9y ago
The Express site itself has a similar list of security considerations. https://expressjs.com/en/advanced/best-practice-security.htm...
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by retox 9y ago
Is there an option to disable this auto-collapsing?
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by retox 9y ago
Only on HN would targeting 100 million devices for a preview be seen as small fry.
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by retox 9y ago
Philip K. Dick famously ate horse meat prepared as pet food at various times in his life. Whether this was out of necessity or because of preference is open for debate.
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by retox 9y ago
Interesting fact, thank you. I didn't know anything about the use of animal blood in medicine. Good to know we can find uses for most things to reduce waste. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_bovine_serum
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by retox 9y ago
The change is to allow addons marked as malware to be installed. So you are opening yourself up to real harm if you do that.
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by retox 9y ago
setr already outlined it but allow me to simplify; Suspension of disbelief, aka fake it til you make it.
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by retox 9y ago
(2006)
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by retox 9y ago
If you want to be taken seriously by these troublemaking outrage addicts as a while male, you need to get a weird haircut and to dye your hair a few different colors. Chunky glasses are a plus.
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by retox 9y ago
That just leaves another 7.8 billion of us...

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