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by ryusage 13y ago
Very strange to me as an American. So would you actually get in legal trouble if you took a picture at a public event?
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by ryusage 13y ago
> And train yourself to rely less on your smartphone, while you’re at it. This pretty much sums up this "review" for me. It's not a hands-on article so much as a reaction to her husband's device usage habits. May as well be about cell p
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by ryusage 13y ago
Interesting. Is there some objective way of determining if the words are cognates or not? In particular, in the audio section, the Inuit-Yupik example for "thou" sounds very out of place.
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by ryusage 13y ago
I don't think the author was saying not to put effort into anything, and certainly wasn't saying not to take advantage of opportunities. I think it just has more to do with your mindset. Are you doing things simply because you want to be "g
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by ryusage 13y ago
You sure? I could swear a friend of mine had something at least a year ago that allowed him to play just about anything he wanted on it. Maybe that was the older DS?
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by ryusage 13y ago
That is a great example. Some code just absolutely needs extra documentation around it. IMO, this is mostly true with more complicated or non-obvious algorithms like your example. There aren't really much more intelligible names you can g
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by ryusage 13y ago
Those are minute details. If he accepted money from a studio, there would be people telling him he needed to add whole scenes, even if they made no sense with what he was trying to do.
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by ryusage 13y ago
This case is really pretty interesting, whether the movies were actually plagiarized or not, but man, this article is so bad. I can't get over how bad it really is. Why would you want to post this here? Over-the-top tone, broken links and
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by ryusage 13y ago
No, you would think that, but actually if you read the comment referenced above, what they actually found is that outages seem to have little effect on revenues. That's why it's so surprising, really. The implication seems to be that their
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by ryusage 13y ago
> It doesn’t matter where the income I receive comes from, whatever the after tax sum is for each year, the investor will see 10 percent of it. They would still get a piece of that pie. Edit: added quote from the article
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by ryusage 13y ago
Okay, so you're suggesting this seems to set a dangerous legal precedent with slippery slope potential? I still say it's just a loan. To your argument here, can her parents legally take out loans in her name? I don't actually know the law t
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by ryusage 13y ago
If all you want are backups, then no, I don't imagine this is very compelling. The idea is to actually access these files regularly from more than one computer. Hence the web interface and the emphasis on mobile devices. It could also serve
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by ryusage 13y ago
Maybe they like gambling?
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by ryusage 13y ago
That seems a little over dramatic... If anything, this is a decent-sized loan, with a very safe, variable repayment amount that is defined to always be a small amount of her income, and the collateral is a company that may or may not succee
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by ryusage 13y ago
One thing that I haven't really seen addressed in these discussions is how we're actually measuring the value of bitcoins. The focus is entirely on the USD/BTC exchange rate, but is that really the proper measure of value to use when discus
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by ryusage 13y ago
Nah, that should be a non-issue. US Dollars are anonymous, after all.
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by ryusage 13y ago
Not completely, no, but it could certainly be stunted. The first question anyone asks about bitcoin is "What can you actually buy with it?" If it becomes illegal for American or European companies to accept bitcoin payments, that would cert
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by ryusage 14y ago
> how are you meant to do business in a place where an item costing one unit of currency is worth $10 one day and $20 the next I think this is only really a problem if you need to convert between the two very frequently, no? If bitcoin
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by ryusage 14y ago
IIRC, when I got a bank account at 15 or so, my parents had to go with me to the bank and they had to also have their names on the account.
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by ryusage 14y ago
Where about do you think it ought to be valued? Personally, as a completely casual observer, the current valuation seems incredibly high and unsustainable, but I'll admit that's an uninformed gut reaction.
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by ryusage 14y ago
...I can't imagine a financial company would ever actually take down their main site and claim to have been compromised just as a joke. For one thing, it's not even funny, so where's the joke? And second, it's obviously really bad for busin
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by ryusage 14y ago
As a note, at first glance, this comment seems to be saying that they could not have been upper class because they weren't horribly condescending and close-minded, and that this is the entire definition of upper class. Looking at the book d
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by ryusage 14y ago
I agree. Someone already in that situation will not be less depressed or more satisfied just by getting married. If anything, that's likely to make it worse in most cases.
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by ryusage 14y ago
I don't know, there's a huge difference between self-service, in which I do something for myself instead of relying on an employee, and the idea presented here: doing something for someone else which normally would be performed by a paid
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by ryusage 14y ago
As far as I know, the US has not publicly admitted it created Stuxnet. But at this point both security researchers and journalists have concluded that it was created by the US and Israel, so it's essentially a well known non-secret.
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by ryusage 14y ago
The culture thing to me has never meant doing things outside work. Is that a startup thing I'm not aware of? Even in the OP, I don't think that's quite what was meant. It's more a matter of shared interests and compatible personalities. May
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by ryusage 14y ago
Unfortunately, once the thing can be made, it will be, somewhere. If it's not legal, but people want it, then it will be made in secret.
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by ryusage 14y ago
I'd say the studios "need" Netflix largely because people want all of their content accessible in one place, and Netflix has established itself as one of the major places people like to get it. You're right, though, it's a very competitive
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by ryusage 14y ago
As another data point: I just clicked that link in Chrome, and I get the robots.txt with * Disallow like others are saying. Weird that some people are getting a 404.
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by ryusage 14y ago
Ah, thank you. That makes infinitely more sense.

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