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721.
by roc 14y ago
Only if we assume that absent ethanol, that farmland would be used to grow corn for food/HFCS. Which isn't true. We also subsidize not farming. So much of the land used for ethanol would be otherwise left fallow.
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by roc 14y ago
It's not a problem that can be 'hacked'. Much like hunger in the third world: it's a political problem. Practical solutions have long since been developed and proved in other places. The problems persist where they do, because there's no p
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by roc 14y ago
The payment looks most like a barrier to spam. Thus anything that made it possible to create more groups and/or larger groups would require an increasingly higher price to break the economics of using this to spam people.
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by roc 14y ago
I think the point is that your mom wouldn't have to do anything . One person -- presumably the one who is good at email but frustrated that everyone else isn't , e.g. You -- sets it up and pays and just sends their very next email to 'the
725.
by roc 14y ago
Even with HD, it's worth noting how little 1080 content is consumed. It's worth considering that a good chunk of HDTV market penetration may well have been due to other factors: size/weight/power -- and the price quickly reached a point whe
726.
by roc 14y ago
The PRWire article [1] is somewhat vague on that point, but it does clearly claim that Xi3 received funding from Valve, and that Valve would have a unit at their CES booth as well. [2] [1] http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/xi3-and-va
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by roc 14y ago
I seem to recall gabeN posting to the effect that the average Mac running Steam was better-equipped than the average PC running Steam. If that's true, the non-upgradability might not have entered into it. As to this "piston" thing here - I
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by roc 14y ago
At a certain point, it's up to the users to show up. I think that's what sinks OS X support. [1] And that's the big, recurring question-mark with gaming on Linux. The vocal subgroup asks and cajoles and begs. But those devs who make the e
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by roc 14y ago
I think it's more simply just an extension of the old note that no-one really hand-codes assembly anymore. You can . And those who are really good can still see performance gains. But most people who try spend a lot of time and effort to
730.
by roc 14y ago
If you get to the point that things are scanning each other silently and automatically, QR codes are a fine solution. It would be much easier for a hypothetical 'smart' refrigerator to read a QR code on an item being placed inside than tr
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by roc 14y ago
Nothing that can happen to a corporation is like human death for the humans making the decision, nor for the humans who stand to lose money for having invested in that company, nor for the humans who are employees at the corporation. It jus
732.
by roc 14y ago
Except that bankruptcy (particularly corporate bankruptcy) is hardly as permanent as death. And no-one making decisions at AIG was personally on the hook for remotely that level of responsibility. Conflating their position with calamitous
733.
by roc 14y ago
Inasmuch as plus has actually caused Google to better-integrate some of its services [1] it can be quite convenient. Unfortunately, that convenience is often paired with bad default privacy options and seemingly-impossible-to-stop annoyance
734.
by roc 14y ago
Until you're suddenly participating in a social network under the default (public) privacy setting without realizing or intending it. As what happened when Buzz was (c)rudely integrated into the rest of Google+. One minute you're sharing li
735.
by roc 14y ago
Exactly the second point. Bugs persist for the same reason 'bad' code/coders persist: even flawed software is generally worth far, far more money than no software and very few projects have an ROI that doesn't taper off very quickly after a
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by roc 14y ago
If they can make Airplay-style beaming of android games to living-room screens performant-enough for twitch gaming, that's a much bigger deal than the portable device itself.
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by roc 14y ago
It's my understanding there's already a "tegra" store for Android games. And it basically is the market for 'console-quality' Android gaming. So they've seemingly got a leg up in developer interest and would have an existing library to l
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by roc 14y ago
Out of convenience. They're temporarily out of cash, but it's a cyclical business and they're going to have a very different balance sheet shortly. The bankruptcy angle is being played up as the decision-makers are trying to ram a sweethear
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by roc 14y ago
If that were true then why is every DRM play not designed around cutting down piracy, but on limiting the rights of legal purchasers? Why hasn't there ever been key-transfer features to facilitate sales/trades/loans? Why are there always p
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by roc 14y ago
> "A fix may be as simple as changing the two greys" You're drawn to 1. the contrast between the colors and 2. the visually-emphasized smaller box pulled 'on top' of the larger box of text. Wwapping the greys would do nothing for the
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by roc 14y ago
At this point it's pretty clear that video DRM and digital purchase pricing exists as they do because they'd rather you didn't buy movies, but rented them when you wanted to watch them, or (preferably) rented the capability to watch them.
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by roc 14y ago
Apple's DNA is wired to produce singular, curated experiences. That's damn-near antithetical to writing software that's explicitly inclusive of other input and needs to cater to the broadest audiences possible, to hit the network effect.
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by roc 14y ago
No, it just means that any chef serving Fugu can cut it wrong. So when someone offers to do something inherently dangerous on your behalf, you should be incredibly deliberate. There's no shortage of frameworks, platforms and libraries that
744.
by roc 14y ago
Good luck enumerating all the edge-case tests for date functions every single time you need a date.
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by roc 14y ago
And yet whenever any one of your "friends" sees or references your identity, it's displayed and interacted with as simply "John McDowall" or, more likely, "John". Is that situation, in which merely a URL doesn't precisely map to your stated
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by roc 14y ago
> "Future generations are going to find it impossible to register themselves on social networks with their actual birth names, because older generations have used them all." Only if we presume: 1. Registering people with the same name
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by roc 14y ago
> "Many turn the republican party because they are the closest they can get to their economic beliefs." So did you choose the word "Beliefs" intentionally to evoke an evidence-light position? Because Republican Party economic realit
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by roc 14y ago
The distinction is in the type of work being accommodated. The article is particularly referring to trivial tasks. The person who does trivial stuff, no matter how impressive their demeanor, is going to be known as the person to whom y
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by roc 14y ago
The rule requires that Verizon not block phones or apps. It doesn't say anything about Apple blocking apps for its own reasons, or Google blocking apps because Verizon is leaning on it on the sly.
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by roc 14y ago
> "what IV is almost certainly worried about is that, if the extent of its activities were known, there would be more fodder for real and necessary reform against trolling" I think they're more worried about the situation where, if th

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