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You are a Marxist – but don't worry(philosophersmail.com)
138 points by retroafroman 13y ago|210 comments
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by retroafroman 13y ago
The cash value of Bitcoin declined since last fall, meaning the hacker is making less 'real' money now, if they try to trade the Bitcoin for cash. By hardcoding the asking amount of 0.4 Bitcoin, they are susceptible to the many up
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by retroafroman 13y ago
The FAA also created a new license class called 'Sport Pilot' about 10 years ago that only takes 20 hours of flight training, which makes it much easier and cheaper to get into flying [1]. However, this comes with limitations like
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by retroafroman 13y ago
I don't think he's saying 'be happy with the outcome', he's saying 'save your own skin and scramble, given the chance'. While us taxpayers have plenty of rights to be angry at being poorly treated by civil
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Going to "My Followed Threads" doesn't list the threads the I clicked Follow on, logged in, or not. Also, after successfully signing up, the server response is sent back in raw text and that's all you see.
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Works now on my phone.
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by retroafroman 13y ago
I press the send button but nothing happens. Should it? Edit: Chrome and Firefox on Linux 32bit
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by retroafroman 13y ago
For something critical like landing gear, or say car suspension components, I would highly doubt the use of 3D printed parts, at least in the near term with current production methods. Right now, most parts like this will be forged rather t
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by retroafroman 13y ago
The answer is 'it depends'. There are a variety of processes and materials that are called 3D printing. For plastic fused deposition modeling (like the Makerbot), objects can be comparable to say, injection molded parts, which is
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Consumer level 3D printing fits the description. The type of plastic fused deposition modeling machines (Makerbot, etc) that are common now all largely hail back to 2-3 open source designs, which they then tweaked and improved on. Hobbyists
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by retroafroman 13y ago
It makes some sense. If there are bitcoin wallet apps, there will be attacks that try to steal the bitcoins in the wallet. It increases the incentive to find ways to do this.
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by retroafroman 13y ago
I uninstalled the app and put a bookmark to the mobile site on my homescreen instead (like the old days before app stores). It's slightly slower, but on a Nexus 4, it's still fast enough I don't mind. They've improved th
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by retroafroman 13y ago
This will probably be the google doc I have going to track maintenance. Signed up. When are you going to start adding people from the wait list?
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by retroafroman 13y ago
No, I got a prepaid SIM in Germany by walking into a shop and plunking down 10 Euros. You can buy traveler SIMs that work with all sorts of carriers abroad, but it will be more expensive. If you can wait till you get there, it's not a
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by retroafroman 13y ago
See this discussion and linked article from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6889027 It has to do with the different architecture allowing more 32-bit operations per second.
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Interesting project. Nothing that can't be done without a 3D printer though. Motherjones had an article[0] where the author built his own rifle using a similar method, without the fancy Makerbot. Also, his point about 3D printers being
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Congratulations! I like to watch your blog[1] for interesting tidbits. I always pick up something I didn't know how to do. [1] http://www.catonmat.net/
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Do you have a demo account we can use to login, or is sign up necessary?
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by retroafroman 13y ago
If I: -Have my own hardware -Know I want to run virtual servers Then I feel like there's a good chance I would just do the virtualization myself. Yes, it can be a pain to set up, but my experience is that they shouldn't need a lot
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by retroafroman 13y ago
The Buy Now and social buttons at the bottom don't seem to be working.
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Of course not, and neither is Pierre, I'm guessing, which is why I assume they're bankrolling others to do the writing. Paul's 'twitter fight me' attitude is a turn off, but at least he very rarely writes anything.
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by retroafroman 13y ago
You may want to check http://www.nsfwcorp.com if you haven't already. Paul Carr of old techcrunch fame is the editor, and the writers include a lot of the old eXile staff, along with others. They don't cover all topics
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Seems like a pretty cool idea. Hope it works out.
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Was it ever known if that was a marketing stunt for Zynga/Words with Friends? The articles I read about the incident pointed out the app specifically, which lead to some speculation.
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by retroafroman 13y ago
This is what I've always kind of wondered about when reading his books. I think he has interesting ideas, but I have an extremely hard time following the math he uses to back it up. I can't help by think that it may be a put on to
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by retroafroman 13y ago
In season 1, episode 6 of Vice on HBO, they also went to the ghost cities of China. http://hbo.vice.com/episode-six
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by retroafroman 13y ago
When I was working there 5ish years ago the government claimed the whole country had fiber connections, but in reality they had just terminated the fiber connection at each village post office and left actually connecting the last mile up t
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by retroafroman 13y ago
Enkhmunkh, the principal, was also the main driver behind bringing the OLPC project to a few of the schools in Mongolia. He also pretty much singlehandedly did the localization for the largest project on it, eToys. He's definitely cont
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by retroafroman 13y ago
I've thought of putting together a "Netflix for tools" where you order a tool, it gets sent to you with a returnable box and label and you send it back when you're done. A drill is a bad example though. I wouldn't s
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The companion article he previously wrote (linked at the bottom) is also worth a read. I found them both interesting and thought provoking.

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