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   by rorrr 14y ago

   $200,000 to research, develop, design and manufacture something like that is VERY VERY low.
2. 542.▲
   by rorrr 14y ago

   1) Many senators shift to the left side (more conservative) as time goes by 2) It's especially true about republicans
3. 543.▲
   by rorrr 14y ago

   Yes, it worked
4. 544.▲
   by rorrr 14y ago

   Kudos to Amazon for refunding the guy. I don't think any other hosting company would just take the bullet for the customer.
5. 545.▲
   by rorrr 14y ago

   Plus two hours getting to and waiting at the airport.
6. 546.▲
   by rorrr 15y ago

   Also the current design makes the headlines the most contrast (black), which really is the main information on the page. In his "design" he has all kind of visual and distracting garbage, like the orange numbers (why, why???). And yeah, ins
7. 547.▲
   by rorrr 15y ago

   It really depends on the size of the logs, the number of users, and the deal you can negotiate. We paid around $60K/year, but we had quite a lot of logs.
8. 548.▲
   by rorrr 15y ago

   And expensive And with lots of innocent casualties And corrupt And supported by morons
9. 549.▲
   by rorrr 15y ago

   It's much more than that. It lest you query logs, and queries can be very complex, which then gives you a real time result with charts and all. I've used it in production, and it's was the best damn tool to debug production problems. The li
10. 550.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    I hope Elon Musk gets all the "man of the year" awards. The man is brilliant, and there's so much resistance to what he's doing, it's insane.
11. 551.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    I don't think they x-ray every single package, that's just impossible, and who would look at all the x-rays. So even if they do it, 1) your chances of getting caught are extremely low 2) i don't think you're liable for receiving a package (
12. 552.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    > Drugs and things sent through the mail would be fairly easy to track to a consumer Yeah, how?
13. 553.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    My theory is that only idiots get caught. If you read the article, it was a tiny operation considering the global illegal drug market. They only sold $1M worth of drugs in three years, that's silly. They didn't catch some big fish criminals
14. 554.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    There are many materials that are stronger than steel and lighter than water. It's all about costs, not about technology.
15. 555.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    Did you read that link yourself? The word "lossless" isn't even on that page. I tried setting the highest quality, but that just produces huge files.
16. 556.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    I did, and it produced a huge .webp file, 6.7 times larger than the original PNG.
17. 557.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    So I downloaded libwebp-0.1.3-windows-x86.zip, there is cwebp.exe inside. I can't figure out how to compress PNGs losslessly into WebP. These are the options it gives: Usage: cwebp [-preset <...>] [options] in_file [-o ou
18. 558.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    It still looks like somebody threw up design blocks and poked the pile of vomit with a stick trying to make it look nice. It has a shit ton of random blocks that 99.99% of the visitors don't care about and will not bother to read. The title
19. 559.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    $50/hr is a low end for somebody with 5 years of experience, especially if it's 1099 and not W2-hourly.
20. 560.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    Take them to a small claims court for damages (money, plus wasted hours dealing with it at your hourly rate). They will probably send some clueless legal intern without any proof.
21. 561.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    Tax IDs and SSN numbers are.
22. 562.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    This is a joke. What's the point of saving up $1M while living in a shitty cheap area, cheap shitty house, no going out, no fun hobbies. Even if you do make six figures (and most people don't), it will take you decades to get $1M, and by th
23. 563.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    I can't believe this dumb and trivial thing was upvoted so much. HN, you're better than that.
24. 564.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    It's still not clear how he did it. According to the full article at theatlantic.com, his odds were close to 50/50, but still against him. It's pretty lucky that he won so much in 3 separate cases.
25. 565.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    Not yet. There's a feature request from a year ago: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84510
26. 566.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    I just tried it, and it quoted me double of what I'm paying.
27. 567.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    It's not wrong. If you have only a few slices, they will load in parallel in most browsers.
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    by rorrr 15y ago

    What a about something like this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yD8EzRoZItM/TuWQwWlZNyI/AAAAAAAABc... Every woman I've talked to LOVES this kinds of photos. I've never ever hear anybody protesting this (except maybe some prude religious idiot
29. 569.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    This is not Iran. Women are allowed to dance around in underwear. And get paid for it. It was that model's choice. She was OK with it. If she's OK with, I'm OK with it.
30. 570.▲
    by rorrr 15y ago

    You could just slice it into multiple JPGs. It's probably even better for parallel download.