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by roc 13y ago
'queue' was referring to chromecast's touted ability for, say, me to be able to send a video to the chromecast and then you to send one for it to play 'next'. And 'download' was to make explicit the chrome
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by roc 13y ago
Maybe you want Airplay to be more the focus of Apple TV, but that state of affairs doesn't sound at all like Chromecast. Chromecast seems to be a method for driving-devices to send pointers to internet video streams or web pages, for t
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by roc 13y ago
"Streams from the internet" isn't inherently superior. There are things about it that are nice and things about it that are not so nice. 1. it requires the dongle to have equivalent internet access as the 'controlling&#
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by roc 13y ago
> "We need a lot of people in the streets protesting to get meaningful legislation to pass restricting the mass spying activities of the US intelligence system. " That didn't seem to work so well for getting meaningful l
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by roc 13y ago
That's only true of Google traffic as of late 2011. So historical SSL data captured anywhere between, say 2002 - 2011, could still be decrypted with these keys, right?
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by roc 13y ago
> "How to reconcile these things?" 1. 'urban lead' is a studied off-shoot of the lead hypothesis. Detroit's lead situation is a studied and known problem. So lingering crime in Detroit is actually expected und
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by roc 13y ago
I think computerization, more generally, is a very powerful factor. More electronic transactions, less cash. More surveillance. More cameras. Traceable goods/tracked shipments. Better crime data analysis and police patrol routing. C
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by roc 13y ago
> "If an artist pictured grass as if it reflected radio waves and not visible light waves, we'd have a interesting/weird picture but one without much value." It wouldn't even be necessarily interesting or weird
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by roc 13y ago
As I recently discovered, having a youtube account is synonymous with having a youtube 'channel'. And if you use the 'favorites' feature of the youtube mobile apps while logged in (thinking, perhaps innocently: "ho
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by roc 13y ago
Luckily for Google, the city's operating under the Emergency Management law. So they would have to buy significantly fewer politicians than one might expect. Unluckily for Google, the cash-strapped state of the city is not indicative
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by roc 13y ago
That's the part that's particularly laughable. The auto industry operates largely, if not almost entirely, outside the city limits these days. Further, why would Google even need their help, let alone pay $20bn to attempt to stro
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by roc 13y ago
He seems to be suggesting Google could garner significant local influence by 'bailing out' the city of its unfunded liabilities. Not, strictly speaking, as insane as intimating that you could own the City of Detroit for $20bn.
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by roc 13y ago
> "as I get the impression has happened in the US." Yeah, you don't need to worry about the qualifiers. http://billingsgazette.com/news/opinion/editorial/gazette-op... Maybe it's just
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by roc 13y ago
You may have to worry about the incentives, but you don't have to worry about any cost in tax dollars of rejecting applications. Unless somehow they began rejecting so many applications, and those rejections all cost more than the fe
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by roc 13y ago
As the Patent office generates net revenue for the US Government, you don't have to worry about that.
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by roc 13y ago
> "the main causes of drug deaths in the UK are" Does the UK not have the prescription drug abuse we see in the US?
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by roc 13y ago
It's not about the efficiency itself. It's about the constitutional questions that were punted, back when inefficiency made them implausible and thus unnecessary to consider. So it's not the increased efficiency itself, it&#
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by roc 13y ago
> " their first break may have been a fluke, (albeit one attained by hard work and persistence), but their continued success was due to talent rather than to some winner takes all effect." As regularly and repeatedly demonstr
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by roc 13y ago
> "Almost makes me wonder what else is going on that's not in the news so much right now?" Given that the other big story in the media is somehow a slightly-more-than-pedestrian summer heatwave in the US and UK, it seems
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by roc 13y ago
Complication is not an issue. It would be pretty easy to have a one-per-profile option to specify "I'd like original aspect ratio whenever possible". There's already a video quality preference; it could even piggy-back o
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by roc 13y ago
> "Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be better with real centrally planned drug production" Or we could simply subsidize the modest overproduction of such critical, low-profit generics, selling or donating any surplus [1
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by roc 13y ago
> "The American citizenry tends to be OK with this kind of thing as long as it happens far away from us." The LAPD destroyed a home and burned a suspect alive, while having no good reason to suspect he was even alone. And not
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by roc 13y ago
> "I can't conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance." I think, logically, we're down to only a few options: 1. "he's lying": His stated opinions/positions don&
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by roc 13y ago
I thought that was more about making people aware of the bystander effect and urging them to err on the side of being the fifth person to report a strange bag, rather than assume someone else will get it? Notably "if you see something,
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by roc 13y ago
> "knowingly handing your vehicle to someone who acts as an agent of the government in performing a search" That's the part I really don't understand about this: [1] Is the TSA hiring and managing valet attendants n
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by roc 13y ago
I get "Edward Snowden" as the first suggestion after typing as little as "edw". edit: I'm in the US; My browsers aren't configured to use google for address bar/search box searching. I may have explicitly
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by roc 13y ago
What about astronomical objects that are distorted by gravitational lensing? Even if the mass of everything is increasing, couldn't we still note any otherwise-anomalous universal change in the presentation of many such systems?
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by roc 13y ago
But who would buy them for $3500 ? If the price of a black market iPhone is higher than that of the legal-market iPhone, with any regularity, it suggests that $920 isn't a problem, let alone the import tax portion of that: supply mu
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by roc 13y ago
But if you can buy it from the carriers more cheaply than the black market, who would pay more than triple that to the black market? They're not carrier-locked, when purchased direct from Apple for $920, are they? And if they're s
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by roc 13y ago
If the iPhone is considered "expensive" due "high import taxes" at $920, how is it selling on the black market for $3500?

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