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by rhplus 13y ago
But I can't help feeling disappointed that we have yet another disposable thing, instead of a better handle for double blades. The problem that Gillette was looking at (expensive reusable blades and handles) is solved for a lot on lo
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by rhplus 13y ago
If your business feeds a global commodities market, then you're probably going to want some advanced telecoms to keep up with pricing, supply chains, and all those mines and processing plants in far flung corners of the globe.
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by rhplus 13y ago
I assume that the top "Google RN" link refers to "RealNames", which was a cross between AOL keywords and an alternate domain name system. It surprising to see that there, because canonical registries (i.e. Yahoo, RealNam
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by rhplus 13y ago
#9 is incredibly specious. Why would retired people sell? Where are they going to live? If a person is physically able, then a smart option is to move to a small apartment in a location close to services and shops. Downsizing reduces unne
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by rhplus 13y ago
I thought this was going to be a post about anonymity and internet privacy. It's pretty fair to say that the combination of content, scripts and headers for almost any page you see on the internet has been uniquely crafted for you an
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by rhplus 13y ago
The UK postcode system is accurate enough that a lot of online retailers will ask you first for the postcode (5 - 7 character) and then they'll offer the short selection list of valid addresses (mostly just house numbers) for that code
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by rhplus 13y ago
You'd need some pretty hefty antennas to trigger NFC tags at the range of watch-to-phone or watch-to-computer (say 1 to 2 metres max). Most NFC readers operate around a couple cm, maybe 10cm max. Your computer would lock every time you sipp
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by rhplus 13y ago
Correct. "Why do two buses always come at once?" is explained by "bus bunching": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_bunching
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by rhplus 13y ago
TL;DR: Bing doesn't support SSL on www.bing.com and has never publicized it as a supported feature. The submitter had to manually type https://www.bing.com into the address bar to generate this 'error'. Bing does support SSL on ssl.bing.c
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by rhplus 13y ago
The original Microsoft Surface team (the table-top one) released a video of their huge gantry driven stress testing robot a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OTp_DjdjVE
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by rhplus 14y ago
I think for buyers, agents make a lot of sense. Largely, because of how the system works, they're free to buyers, as the seller's pay the agent fees. Are they really free for the buyer, though? Isn't some of the commission fee being built
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by rhplus 14y ago
My guess is that the raw exposure is a big deal. Trees on hillsides or mountainsides only have one side fully exposed, so there's a dominant direction they could brace against. They would also benefit from having other trees (and a mountain
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by rhplus 14y ago
Did the Google version definitely come first? Looking through Google Reader blog, all I'm seeing is the textual "Google Reader Labs" logo with the chemistry beaker, until the 3D one appears in a desktop widget in May 2009. The OP's Flicker
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by rhplus 14y ago
The source of the $167 number seems to be a Guardian article linked below. Assuming it's talking about the UK system, then the artist almost certain does get paid for radio plays (which might not be the case in the American system, I'm not
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by rhplus 14y ago
A million plays sounds like a lot when the payment is only $167, but compared to the old method of listening (radio at its peak ) the rate is not massively far off the mark, assuming you can adjust per listener. The article below attempts
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by rhplus 14y ago
The LifeHacker article only mentions how to disable on Chrome and Firefox. Instructions for Internet Explorer and Safari are listed here: http://www.java.com/en/download/help/disable_browser.xml
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by rhplus 14y ago
The 'cage' appears to be so that resident can lock their belongings inside when they aren't there (you can see padlocks hanging on the doors of some). I can't really offer much of a useful statement on the realities of being chronically hom
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by rhplus 14y ago
People are happy to pay for things that are good. Don’t be afraid to charge for your services. "would pay", 5,200 results https://www.google.com/search?q=%22would+pay%22+site:news.yc... "wouldn't pay", 38,000 results https://www.google
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by rhplus 14y ago
I'm skeptical about the real usefulness of this service, simply because I just don't think it could match the timeliness or efficiency of the current distributions model. Right now you can buy these products in literally every convenience s
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by rhplus 14y ago
My guess it that PBS still needs to control distribution of their content because it is still a valuable source of fund-raising revenue . Revenue from DVD box sets [1] and international licensing deals goes back into producing new shows. S
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by rhplus 14y ago
The PBS geo-blocking is reasonable to understand. Video streaming can get expensive and international delivery almost certainly isn't in the foundation's stated mission at this point. Things also get complicated when you consider that PBS
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by rhplus 14y ago
The "real world A/B test" I mentioned was part of ongoing performance test for a global top 20 site. I'm talking about millions of hits across all browser variants, OSes, markets, networks, etc. I can't cite the data directly because it's n
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by rhplus 14y ago
I'm interested to see what's said for "poor cache-ability". It's an area where the assumption of "more caching is better" can be wrong. I've seen real-world A/B test results that indicate client-side caching can often be slower than re-
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by rhplus 14y ago
The mobile broadband and metered connection experiences are details with screenshots in this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/20/engineering-wi...
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by rhplus 14y ago
Okay, I went back and dug through the old Windows 3.0 source code to answer this question. It took me about four hours to study it all, try to understand what the code was doing, and then distill the conclusions into this article. Writing
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by rhplus 14y ago
The Examiner reporters have their math wrong. They've taken the numbers in the FedBid solicitations and multiplied them incorrectly because the description describes both the unit size and the total quantity requested. For example: De
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by rhplus 14y ago
The general theory is that circumcision causes a change in the membrane and "microbiomes" around that part of the penis. I still struggle, however, to believe that a truly controlled study could ever be conducted and I wonder if the money w
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by rhplus 14y ago
See also formal versus notional agreement. British English tends to favor notional, prime example being sports commentary: "Liverpool are playing well" versus "Boston is playing well". Wikipedia highlights some other good examples: "The sta
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by rhplus 14y ago
The average price per gram chart is interesting, as it shows price fluctuated quite wildly 1980-1995 and then smoothing out to a much more stable curve 1996 onwards. http://therealityprose.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/priceperg... I have s
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by rhplus 14y ago
I'm curious to know where the highest density of Starbucks is in the world. My obvious guess is downtown Seattle or maybe Manhattan or central London. I'd love to see someone compute the metric, perhaps the highest number of Starbucks with

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