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by rudyfink 17y ago
I'd love to be able to bring in my goodreads or librarything entries. The idea of sitting there and entering all that data in again just makes my laziness ascend.
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise. Apple running out of a new product on release just seems to be a given at this point.
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by rudyfink 17y ago
That was the first question I had, "whoa, is GeoIP that accurate?" Sadly the best I could quickly find was this ( http://www.maxmind.com/app/city_accuracy ) which says that, as of 11.19.2008, GeoIP correctly resolves to 25 miles of the a
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by rudyfink 17y ago
My recollection is that the Coast Guard tried quite a few different methods (paint, directed charges, etc) to break up small ice bergs before they entered the shipping lanes in the late 50's early 60's. The ice bergs proved to be exceeding
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by rudyfink 17y ago
If this chart ( http://www.creditloan.com/infographics/corporate-campaigning... ) is to be believed, ATT was the largest donor in the 2010 election cycle.
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by rudyfink 17y ago
Scarcity and uniqueness or at least the illusion of thereof is probably the big difference between wine and water. With water you can advertise purity and maybe some minerals or additives. You might advertise the uniqueness of the source,
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by rudyfink 17y ago
The amount of effort that would need to go into creating that video and the facts that the article asserts is just impressive: -figuring out the group of people -how everyone entered the country -all of their phone communication while they
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by rudyfink 17y ago
Microsoft does already have Live Mesh ( http://www.mesh.com/ ) which is a very similar product/service. Live Mesh does per folder synching and you can invite other users to share or read only on an individual folder basis.
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by rudyfink 17y ago
For those also having trouble with the link, the actual address contains a period at the end. I assume HN believes the period was punctuation and is removing it when it converts to the link.
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by rudyfink 17y ago
In case you are curious, the "case in the 1980s" referred to in the article is almost certainly Moore v. Regents of the University of California ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_v._Regents_of_the_Univers... ).
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by rudyfink 17y ago
Criminal usage of sharing services is potentially an enormous problem. He got off lightly with realizing his disclosure risks only through stalking. Using only a few services a criminal could potentially have access to personal information
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I'm amazed it was an actual choice and not a write in. I didn't expect to put a big pink check mark next to "computer engineer" when I woke up today.
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by rudyfink 17y ago
Especially after Sousaphone Hero had sluggish sales ( http://www.theonion.com/content/news/activision_reports_slug... )
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by rudyfink 17y ago
The more catchy title at Hack-a-Day was "robot will hand you your ass at beer pong." That said this video is worth watching. Think of it like a positioning arm for spherical (ping pong ball, orange, onion) or ellipsoid shapes (water bottle
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I'm suspicious. It has a salary profile for both a "hitman" http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=hitman&l1=San+Francisco%... and "God" http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=God+&l1=San+Francisco%2C... .
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by rudyfink 17y ago
That does not seem to be strictly foreclosed by the rules ( http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/rules.aspx ), but there is this nice catch all clause which I suspect would come into play ("DARPA reserves the right to disqualify a participan
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I disagree. I would argue that the MMO industry (World of Warcraft, et al.) essentially makes its living selling scare virtual goods. The game is a marketing adventure for the scare virtual goods. Customers are elated when they manage t
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by rudyfink 17y ago
Here is a sortable table of caffeine amounts in products. The numbers are quite striking. http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database For example (mg caff / oz): Red Bull = 80 / 8.46 Rockstar = 160 / 16 Coca Cola = 35 / 12 Fixx Ener
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by rudyfink 17y ago
Hmm, how about this for craftsmanship then? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAA8ht4hbhA (sculptor who works on the scale of the top of a pin or the eye of a needle).
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by rudyfink 17y ago
A) I'm pleased there is a Neural Correlate Society. B) Here is the current contest ( http://illusioncontest.neuralcorrelate.com/ ) if you were also curious
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by rudyfink 17y ago
This seems to be the source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/14/txts_r_v_pricey/comm...
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I was hoping for some of my other favorites: -Placed end to end a line of one dollar bills would stretch from the earth to the sun -You could could more than cover I-10 from coast to coast in hundred dollar bills (six fifteen foot wide lane
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by rudyfink 17y ago
> I don't see the point in 5 or 10 teams joining forces to improve the results for a tiny percentage and win the prize. I think the point is who gets the million dollars. It makes sense that people would group up, probably into as few
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I'm not sure if you'll check back on your post, but if you do I think you might really enjoy http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/Euclid/byrne.ht... (it's an illustrated version of Euclid's "The Elements").
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by rudyfink 17y ago
Cabinet maker or mechanic specializing in restoration, bar tender, chef, teacher, politician, or counselor. I don't have the chops for it but "golf pro" would be a job that might combine all of the above in a good way.
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by rudyfink 17y ago
In 2003 the St. Louis Federal reserve did an analysis of the Big Mac Index that found it to be pretty solid for PPP. http://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/review/03/11/pak... (PDF)
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by rudyfink 17y ago
> The hardware has caught up, it's the telecoms that have not. That statement is absolutely true. We have the technology. What we do not have is the belief/permission of those holding various monopolies (or effective ones) that openin
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I think it's about the primal fascination with ways you might be killed. I think it this is a primal response to a category of information and the news essentially exploits it. I think some part of the brain perks up at "new danger" and i
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by rudyfink 17y ago
I think this is more a consequence of the "lot to lose" side of being empowered rather than the existing benefits of being empowered. What I mean is that those who are empowered are probably not at all opposed to becoming more empowered.
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by rudyfink 17y ago
This is the modern equivalent of the quarter fed arcade game. Instead of games designed to kill me off not matter what I'm now going to see games designed to limit my progress no matter what? I can't say I'm looking forward to this bold n

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